Learning goals:

• To understand the difference between weather and climate and identify different kinds of climate and climate zones.

• To know the main characteristics of the Indian culture  (food, clothes, markets…).
• To recognize the main flowering plants in India. To know that lotus is the national flower of India.

Competences:

• DC – Digital skills  
• LL – Learning to learn  
• SCC – Social and civic skills  
• SIE – Sense of initiative and entrepreneurship.
• CAE – Cultural awareness and expression

Welcome to The Learning Missions Heroes

Here you have the instructions to follow for the first learning mission, please read them carefully and ask the teacher whenever you come up with doubts. Enjoy the mission !

1. Once you team up, you are going to open the envelope you have on the desk. This envelope contains the name of the country you are in charge of.

2. Once you know your country, you are going to click on this link: http://dice.virtuworld.net/?sides=4.

3. Immediately, each one of you is going to roll the dice.

4.  Depending on the number you get, you will acquire a specific super role:
5. If you get a number 1, you are going to be a…a writer
6. If you get a number 2, you are going to be a…a builder
7. If you get a number 3, you are going to be a...presenter
8. If you get a number 4, you are going to be a ...supply specialist

9. Once you know you number, you are going to click on this link https://docs.google.com/document/d/18ii1sN3cKO6iIp_eW3UOhVT92yafeZcIgnStz6hVjX0/edit

10. Once you have your online document open, you are going to fill in it, by writing:

1. The name of the country you are in charge of.
2. The names and surnames of each member of the group.
3. The role of each member (writer, builder, presenter, specialist)

When you complete the document, it is time to start working on your mission ! Next, you have the task that each member of the group has to do:

11. The supply specialist has to look for information about:

1. The name of climate zone in which the country is located.
2. A couple of characteristics of the main climate of the country.
3. One important feature of the country (for example, the typical meal, the flag, a monument, etc)
4. The name of a typical plant and a brief description of it.
5. A 3-sentence forecast about the weather India had yesterday, the weather India has today and the weather India will have tomorrow.

12. The builder has to:

6.  Click on this link: http://www.storyboardthat.com/es and access it, by using the e-mail and the password provided by the teacher.
7. Watch a tutorial about how to use this tool, by clicking here:
8. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsDryTkqdrY
9. Go back to StoryThat and add 3 cells, so that there are six squares.
10. Take into account this organization of the cells:

1. The cell number 1 is going to be the introduction.
2. The cell number 2 is going to be about the characteristic of the country.
3. The cell number 3 is going to be about the climate of the country.
4. The cell number 4 is going to be about the typical plant.
5. The cell number 5 is going to be about the weather forecast.
6. The cell number 6 is going to be the end.

11. Talk to the supply specialist about the information gathered.
12. Design the scenes by choosing the backgrounds, the characters, and the pictures he or she wants to include, depending on the information given by the supply specialist.

13.  The writer has to:

1. Take into account the information that is going to be in each cell of the comic.
2. Create the speech bubbles of each cell of the comic.
3. Summarize each piece of information provided by the supply specialist in one or two sentences.
4. Write in each speech bubble, the sentence/s.

14. The presenter has to

5. Review the content to see it contains the information needed.
6. Present the comic to the class by saying:

1. The members of the group.
2. The country they have.

7. Read the comic to the class. He or she can create a draft clicking here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lF5jB_Cqt9srV2GERFxcbaQuMJeIswEIPxWzDH8yjzA/edit