Author names: Cristina Arroyo, Alexandra Delgado, Mireia Moncayo, Raffaella Scheck and Anna Tello

Target Group: A1 level. A group of 20 students.  

How this fits into a larger lesson or unit:

Throughout the last lessons, we covered the main rooms of a house as well as vocabulary for some common household objects. Students have already practiced naming and describing different rooms and some everyday household objects in their homes. Moreover, they know how to identify them. In the last session, students were introduced to the topic of healthy habits, they put in common what they thought they were and what were some of the healthy habits we carried out in our daily lives or at least, what healthy habits we should consider introducing in our daily routines. 

Once the vocabulary has been learned, through the presented activity the students will practice the actions that can be carried out within the rooms of a house. The teacher will make groups of 4 or 5 students. Each group will have to enter the Immerse me app and will receive two pairs of headsets and one To-Do List. Therefore each group has two people who will experience the virtual areas and the others will be in charge of the list. In the group, they will of course be able to exchange positions if they want to. The students with the headset will have to keep the others updated about in which room they are and about what actions they are performing, while the others' job is to tick the finished To-Dos on the list. Through communication and collaboration, they will be able to finish them all. At the end of the To-Do-List, there will be space for activities that have not been mentioned yet. Students have the possibility to add new actions to their list, which they can show to the rest of the class afterwards. 

After experiencing the virtual world, students will have to write the correct habits within the hotspots of the correct room, which will be 360 images that will be taken by the teacher.

Main Learning Objectives:

• Students will be able to identify healthy habits in an immersed world.

• Students will be able to collaborate in order to give instructions and perform them. 

• Students will be able to connect the vocabulary of the different rooms of a house with the healthy habits. 

Materials Needed:

• Headsets

• Virtual reality webpage: https://immerse.io/

• Video that we will put on the TV in the living room: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxnEuj1c0sw&ab_channel=WONKYFilms

• Roundme 360º images

  • https://roundme.com/tour/927978/view/2915802/ (living room)

  • https://roundme.com/tour/926479/view/2911373/ (bedroom)

  • https://roundme.com/tour/940935/view/2950260 (kitchen)

  • https://roundme.com/tour/941973/view/2953212 (bathroom)

Activity Instructions: 

Pre-instructions: 

In order to know the vocabulary for the virtual reality session, in the previous lessons, students had gone through the 360º pictures shown in the materials' section. To learn about the different rooms of the house, the teacher will have taken 360º pictures of the rooms in their house and in the class, they added different hotspots with the names of the furniture and objects in each room. In the previous session, the topic of healthy habits was introduced, the students talked about which healthy habits they have in their daily routines and  learned new ones that they do not normally do. 

During the session:

In this session, students will be split into 5 groups, each group will have two VR glasses. Then, the different groups will access to the app Immerse Me and they will go to the house space, each group is going to be in different rooms to start the activity. 

Two kids will put on the VR glasses, while the other pupils will receive the scaffolding to give the instructions. The students with the glasses will keep the others updated about in which room they are. The others have to create the activities with both languages supports (objects and actions) and create To-Do-List of actions as they tick the ones which have been done by the students with the glasses. At the end of the To-Do-List there will be space for activities that have not been mentioned yet. Students will have the possibility to write down more activities after communicating with the students wearing the glasses.

Post-instruction

Once the activity is finished, students will go back to their 360 images that they had for working on the rooms' vocabulary. They will add hotspots regarding the actions and healthy habits that they can do in each room and that they have experienced in the Immerse Me app. 

ASSESSMENT IDEAS: 

The teacher will ask the students to do another post-activity. Students will have to record a video at their homes acting and orally producing the different actions worked. Then, this will be sent through a google form to the teacher and added under the actions hotspots.

To sum up, students will co-assess the videos done by the others filling out a checklist of different healthy habits and marking with a tick the actions that are presented.