PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SECTOR IN SPAIN (Unit 11 - Science Y5)

During the last lesson we had a quick view about ECONOMY, talking about what all the sectors are and they main thing they work on. Today we are going to focus our attention on the Primary and Secondary Sector in our country Spain. 

Let's watch this video about a man from Palencia. At the end of the video we want you to answer this video:

• What are the best and the worst things for him as a crop farmer?

THE ACTIVE POPULATION. 

Nowadays the active population in Spain is around 23 million of people. And because of the crisis 16,5 million are employed and around 6 million are unemployed people. 

The active population is divided in:

• 4.4 % work in the primary sector.
• 20.6 % work in the secondary sector.
• 75 % work in the service sector. 

THE PRIMARY SECTOR. 

The main sector activities are agriculture, livestock farming and fishing.

Agriculture: 

• On the plains.
• Wheat, barley, olives, grapes, potatoes, vegetables, fruit.

Livestock farming:

• Sheeps and poultry on the plains.
• Cattle on the mountain areas.

Fishing:

• On the coast areas.

Other important activities mining and forestry.

SECONDARY SECTOR.

Main industries are near the big city. Important industries are: 

Metal industry

Chemical industry

Food industry

Telecommunications industry

Textile industry

Car industry.

The construction was important in the past but nowadays has decreased a lot. 

THE ECONOMY (Unit 11-Science Y5)

Let's start this new topic with a new THINKING ROUTINE. The name of it is  QUICK WRITE / QUICK VIEW. In the following graphic organizer you have two do to things a picture about what come to your mind if you think about the new topic: ECONOMY and in the other part you will write short sentences and a few ideas about the same thing. You will have four minutes to finish it. Then we will share ideas with the whole class.

Let's have a look to the next video as an introduction of the topic. Maybe you will need to review what is RAW MATERIAL. After watching the video I want you to answer these questions. 

• What's the process for raw material from Primary to Tertiary Sector?
• Could you tell me one operation of each sector?

WORK

It refers to the many productive activities which people do, usually for money.

We can have:

• Active population: includes all the people who can work. The ones who are working and the ones who are unemployed.

• Inactive population: The people who can't work: Children, retired people or disabled people.

PRIMARY SECTOR.

Raw material is obtained in the Primary Sector.

SECONDARY SECTOR: 

Natural resources are transformed into products.

• Manufacturing industries: they transform raw material into products.

• Consumer industries: manufacture products such frozen vegetables. 

SERVICE SECTOR: 

All the bussinesses that provide servicies like schools or tourism. 

• Private services: They are controlled privately.
• Public servicies: they are controlled by the state or the local goverment. 

LET'S PLAY AND PRACTICE WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNT

VIDEOS ABOUT UNIT 11 THE ECONOMY

Tengo el placer de presentaros los post publicados por los alumnos de 5ºA en la asignatura de Science.

Estos posts han sido publicados en el blog de aula:

Los alumnos han utilizado la herramienta de la web 2.0 http://popplet.com/ para hacer sus propios diagramas o mapas conceptuales sobre la unidad 11 THE ECONOMY. 

Después han utilizado sus propios mapas conceptuales para construir un vídeo utilizando la web tool http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/. Ese vídeo es "upload" por ellos mismos a su propio canal de youtube para terminar con todo ello, en su propio blog, construyendo un post dedicado a resumir y entender mejor la unidad.

Más tarde lo han enviado a una asignación por EDMODO nuestra red social.

Aquí os dejo con cada post hecho por cada alumno.

Alejandro´s post
Angy´s post
Angela´s post
Javier´s post
Inés´ post
Héctor´s post
Jesus´ post
Jose Luis´ post
Aroa´s post
Alaitz´s post
Paula´s post
Lucia Guerra´s post
Samuel´s post
Adrián´s post
Ángel´s post
Alba´s post
Judit´s post
Belen´s post
Marco´s post
Rodrigo´s post