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British Vietnamese International School HanoiHanoi, Vietnam
Where does the water go when a puddle dries? Use a Primary water-cycle task to help learners connect scientific vocabulary with an explanation. Bring your year group and language choices to PLAI™, then shape and review the draft for your class.
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BVIS Hanoi brings the National Curriculum for England into Primary learning in English and Vietnamese, with language-rich lessons that connect subjects. Use that bilingual context to explore evaporation and condensation: ask learners to explain what changes, then choose the vocabulary support that helps them express their understanding.
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School context
British Vietnamese International School Hanoi
Curriculum British curriculum; bilingual Primary; IGCSEs and A-levels
Topic focus explaining evaporation and condensation in the water cycle
What are you preparing next?
Ask where the water goes, then follow the explanation.
Start with a picture of a drying puddle. Ask learners where the water has gone and why. Connect their ideas to evaporation and condensation on a shared diagram, then use a fresh situation to check what they can explain independently.
Your lesson prompt
Help me plan a Primary lesson on evaporation and condensation in the water cycle. Ask for my year group, learning objective, programme, language of instruction and approved diagram. Start with a picture of a drying puddle and the question “Where has the water gone?” Build a shared explanation of the changes, then an independent check in a new situation. Offer a vocabulary bank in the language I choose. Use pictures and discussion; include teacher-check notes without inventing school assessment criteria.
Give each step a reason.
Inspect the water-cycle and frog-cycle flowcharts, then use the space for a process of your own. For this page’s task, prepare the material around explaining evaporation and condensation in the water cycle.
Open the worksheet prompt
Help me prepare an original task about explaining evaporation and condensation in the water cycle for my confirmed class. I will supply the source content. Use Process flowchart organiser as a model for the teaching structure. Ask for my year group, goal and prior learning. Check the new subject content and age suitability, offer optional support and leave an independent explanation. Keep source facts distinct from this new task and do not infer school criteria.
Refine the worksheet
Review the new explaining evaporation and condensation in the water cycle task for my confirmed class. Check the subject content, reading load and response space. Add optional support while keeping an independent explanation. Use checked steps from the current class topic. Show a return arrow only for a real cycle; keep a non-cyclic process as a sequence.
Use the source as a teaching model, then review the new task for your confirmed class.
Check the next explanation.
For explaining evaporation and condensation in the water cycle, decide what pupils must explain independently. Use checked steps from the current class topic. Show a return arrow only for a real cycle; keep a non-cyclic process as a sequence.
Keep the conversation going
A useful draft.
A better fit.
Tell PLAI™ what you want to change. Try one of these follow-ups with your draft, then check the result for your class.
Adjust the support
Add an optional vocabulary box and a sentence starter. Keep the main reasoning task and final independent question.
Go one step further
Add a follow-up question that asks learners to explain their reasoning in a new situation.
Questions about using PLAI™ at British Vietnamese International School Hanoi
Should learners answer in English, Vietnamese or both?
Use the language of instruction and response agreed for your class. Specify that choice in your prompt. If you request bilingual vocabulary, check the translations and keep the scientific meaning consistent.
How can I tell whether learners understand the process?
Ask why the change happens and how it connects to the next stage. Follow the diagram task with a fresh situation, using your own criteria to check the explanation. Correct labels alone give you less to assess.
Can I use the same approach for another Primary topic?
Yes. Bring a process learners need to explain, the year-group objective and the vocabulary they need. Keep the sequence: notice a change, explain it with support, then explain a new example independently.
Are the recordings specific to BVIS Hanoi?
The recordings show general PLAI™ worksheet workflows. They do not show this water-cycle task or work from BVIS Hanoi. The prompts here are suggested starting points to adapt and review for your class.
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Bring the next idea your class needs to explain.
Start with the water cycle or another Primary topic. Tell PLAI™ what learners should understand and how they will express it, then review the draft before using it.
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