Sketch Metademolab AI

Group: Alaia Millat, Paula Molina and Ragnhild Andersen

Activity: "Create your own fantastic animal''

• Short description

Children will use the Sketch Metademolab AI tool to design imaginative animals and describe them using vocabulary and sentence structures. They will present their creations to their older peers (5th graders), focusing on practising the target language.

• Contextualization

  • Target Age: 3rd graders

  • Target Language Level (based on CEFR): A1

  • Location: Classroom

• Lesson Aims

  • • • Production. 

1. Spoken Production. Can produce simple mainly isolated phrases about people and places. p.69

2. Sustained Monologue: Describing Experience. Can describe simple aspects of his/her everyday life in a series of simple sentences, using simple words and basic phrases, provided he/she can prepare in advance. p.70

• • • • Communicative Language Competences (Linguistics, Sociolinguistic, Pragmatic).

        1. General Linguistic Range. Can use some basic structures in one-clause sentences with some omission or reduction of elements. p.131

        2. Vocabulary Range. Has a basic vocabulary repertoire of words and phrases related to particular concrete situations. p.132

• Learning Objectives (SWBATs - Students Will Be Able To):

• • • • Utilize an artificial intelligence tool within a real purpose to create digital sketches.

      • Construct sentences in the present simple tense to describe their fantastic animals, including information on appearance, habitat, and abilities.

• Preparation for the app task cycle (before the lesson), include an estimate of time needed for prep, and whether in-class or before.

BEFORE CLASS: Prepare a model example to introduce the AI to the children, together with a brief description (15 minutes).

IN-CLASS: Open the website and become familiar with it (it's very intuitive, so children can use it after they finish drawing their creations). (5 minutes)

• Materials

  • The link to the IA. https://sketch.metademolab.com/canvas 

  • Handouts (see Carrousel on the bottom of the page)

  • Tablets with access to internet and to Sketch Metademolab.

    • • Projector (optional).

      • White sheets, pencil colours. 

• Brief description of each phase of task cycle (include time estimates for each stage)

  • Pre-task: In this phase, students will learn vocabulary related to animals and places these could live. On top of that, they would have worked and became experts on using the Present Simple tense.

  • Main task: Children will draw a sketch on a white paper and will decide, in group, some features they want the animal to have (regarding size, colour, parts of the body and habitat). Once they have finished their production, they will take a picture with the tablet (if needed, with the help of the teacher) and upload it to Sketch Metademolab. The app will autonomously convert the picture into an animated sketch with a determined action. Then, they will have to think and construct some sentences in order to describe their fantastic animal and present it to their peers.

*In order to ease the description production, the teacher will provide some scaffolding (in the form of mediation questions) when required and a guideline of sentences and vocabulary to be used during the speech (see Carrousel at the bottom of the page).

**In case students finish earlier than other groups, they will be free to practice the presentation among other groups in the classroom. 

• • Post-task: Learners will present in group works their fantastic animals to their older peers (5th graders) as they will be collaborating in some projects in the school. 

• Examples of materials and app in use

  • (See it at the bottom)

REFERENCES

1. Council of Europe (2020). Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, Teaching, Assessment—Companion Volume. Council of Europe Publishing. https://www.coe.int/en/web/common-european-framework-reference-languages