ActionBound

TOOL NAME

ActionBound.

SHORT DESCRIPTION

Actionbound is an interactive app designed for creating digital scavenger hunts, quizzes, and location-based adventures. Primarily used in educational and team-building settings, Actionbound allows users to set up customized "bounds" (games or activities) that participants can complete by following prompts, solving puzzles, answering questions, or finding GPS-based locations. 

CONTEXTUALIZATION

This 5th-grade activity, targeting an A2 English level, focuses on vocabulary related to earth pollution. Students will work in groups of four, using a tablet to follow an interactive Actionbound activity that starts and ends in the classroom, with a brief outdoor component. They’ll build on prior knowledge of pollution concepts, learning new vocabulary in an engaging, team-based format. 

LESSON AND AIMS BASED ON CEFR

• Reading comprehension for orientation competence

Justification: students will be expected to understand the main information in short and simple descriptions. 

• Communicative language competence 

Justification: students will be expected to use English as a target language throughout their work in groups. 

SWABTs

1. To recognize and apply the vocabulary related to Earth pollution issues. 

2. To participate in collaborative tasks as a group in order to obtain a common result.

MATERIALS

• 1 tablet every 4 students. 

• Sign in the App.

ACTIVITY DEVELOPMENT

Before starting the activity the students will be divided into groups of 4 and will be given a tablet each. They will scan a QR code that will take them to our tailor-made activity created through ActionBound. 

When the students scan the QR code, they will see a notification on their screens informing them of the current state of the planet earth: animals and plants are in danger due to global warming! However, we can all do something to help. This first notification is about the initial information to be able to start the activity. 

Once you have read this notification, the little protectors will move on to missions, quizzes or find the spot activities that will have to be completed in order to save the earth. Missions such as finding environmentally affected elements in the school and uploading a video. Quizzes on how to find sustainable and unsustainable attitudes in a photograph. Find the spot activities like following gps directions to get to a specific location. 

Once they have completed all these missions, students will have done their bit to save the earth. They will be shown a final closure method notification indicating that what they have done has a meaning and congratulating them on their work. 

*Additional: For our teaching showcase we added a last section inside the activity in which our classmates could give their opinion about the App and about our activity planification in order to enrich ourselves from their feedback.

CLASSROOM PRESENTATION

The link for the power point used for our classroom presentation: 

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1j1nZN37BqfZZ04TuDOOHbd-QSKfMtE_lJRaJ1IZ6wsE/edit?usp=sharing 

AFTER THE PRESENTATION