The students will be given the opportunity to:
- reach a better level of reading and oral interaction in a common, known situation.
- focus on the ability of co-operative working with other learners, working towards a common goal

The purpose of the lesson is to have the students' research, in depth a country in Africa. It is important for the students to know a little about these places so they will develop a better understanding of the world around them. The lesson and unit will focus on major facts about 6 countries in Africa. These facts deal with the history, geography, economy, and interesting things about each country.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
? to define a chemical change
? to recognize a chemical change and distinguish it from a physical one
? to read a chemical equation
? to write chemical equations
? to balance chemical equations
? to classify chemical reactions
? to write formation and combustion reactions for given compounds.
? to recognize the limitant reactant
? to make stoichiometric calculations:
from mass to moles, from moles to mass, yield, masses needed for complete reactions (from a given quantity of a reactant)

Objective of the activity is to determine the quality of water samples of different sources using chemical and microbiological indirect methods. The action has planned activities in the laboratory of Chemistry with the determination of the presence of the organic substance, as an indicator of contamination, through the method of Kubel and in the laboratory of Microbiology with the determination of Total Coliforms with MPN method.

After the introduction, I will guide students through a video which deals with the Holocaust. This will give them a little background information so they will be able to participate in the lecture. This will take 15 minutes. This is an anticipatory set in which a framework for new learning is provided.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Introducing the reading of the novel “I Promessi Sposi” by Alessandro Manzoni through the presentation of the summary of the first chapter.