【Ai赋能教学优质公开课】Unit 5 Looking into nature Starting out&Understanding ideas课件 -2025-2026学年外研版英语八年级下册

该初中英语课件围绕“自然探索”主题，以琥珀为核心载体，通过图片观察（沙漠星空、科学家肖像）、视频观看及问答活动导入，结合表格填写、图表梳理、复述提纲等学习支架，帮助学生掌握自然探索相关词汇，构建“现象—发现—意义”的知识脉络。 其亮点在于融合中外科学家案例（李时珍、达尔文等）渗透文化意识，通过问题链（琥珀为何是时间胶囊等）培养思维品质，采用分层任务（基础写作、拓展分享）提升学习能力。多媒体资源与语篇分析结合，既助学生提升语言运用能力和科学探索精神，也为教师提供丰富教学素材。

Unit 5 Looking into nature Starting out &Understanding ideas 2026新外研版八下 1 感知单元主题 nature exploration，掌握科学家、琥珀、自然秘密相关词汇； 能就自然奥秘进行简单问答与小组分享,能略读、寻读获取语篇信息，匹配段落与小标题，完成阅读练习。； 能复述语篇主要内容,能思考并说出了解自然秘密的多种途径，树立科学探索意识。 Look and say. What can you see in the picture? A man is holding a flashlight in a desert at night. I can also see countless stars in the sky. Look at the pictures and answer the questions. 1.What do you know about these people? Li Shizhen Li Shizhen was a famous doctor in the Ming Dynasty. He wrote Bencao Gangmu, a classic book about traditional Chinese medicine. Look at the pictures and answer the questions. 1.What do you know about these people? Charles Darwin Charles Darwin was a famous British biologist. He came up with the theory of evolution and explained how life changes throughout history. Look at the pictures and answer the questions. 1.What do you know about these people? Wang Zhenyi Wang Zhenyi was a well-known female scientist in the Qing Dynasty. She studied maths and astronomy, and she made important contributions. Look at the pictures and answer the questions. 2. What do they have in common? They all studied nature. They taught other people about nature, too. Li Shizhen Charles Darwin Wang Zhenyi Watch the video and answer the questions. Answer the questions. ocean space human beings ... 1.What secrets of nature do you know? The secret of fireflies: They can glow at night to communicate with each other. 2.Which one do you want to explore more? I want to explore more about life among the stars, because I wonder if there are other living things in space. 9 Look and say. It is about things in the past. It can tell us how things have changed over time. 1. What is this? 2. Is amber about things in the past or things in the future? A piece of amber. Enjoy the text video Look and guess. What is the passage about? Skim and check. A. How amber helps scientists unlock the secrets of nature. B. How to make amber and use it in daily life. C. How amber came into being. What is the passage about? √ 13 How many secrets are mentioned in the passage? What are they? Three. The secret about the dinosaur The secret about the flower. The secret about the ants. Read Paragraphs 1–4 and fill in the form. About the dinosaur About the flower About the ants What’s in the amber? Where was it found? What did scientists find through it? What secrets does it tell? A dinosaur tail with feathers. In Southeast Asia. Dinosaurs had feathers. What dinosaurs looked like. A flower. In Northern Europe. The flower grew there 35 million years ago. Life on earth has always changed. 13 ants. In Africa. The ants are a completely new species. Ants did not only come from the northern half of the earth; they also lived in Africa. There are many unknown species for us to discover. About the dinosaur What’s in the amber? Where was it found? What did scientists find through it? What secrets does it tell? A dinosaur tail with feathers. In Southeast Asia. Dinosaurs had feathers. What dinosaurs looked like. Read Paragraphs 1–4 and fill in the form. About the flower What’s in the amber? Where was it found? What did scientists find through it? What secrets does it tell? A flower. In Northern Europe. The flower grew there 35 million years ago. Life on earth has always changed. Read Paragraphs 1–4 and fill in the form. About the ants What’s in the amber? Where was it found? What did scientists find through it? What secrets does it tell? 13 ants. In Africa. The ants are a completely new species. Ants did not only come from the northern half of the earth; they also lived in Africa. There are many unknown species for us to discover. Read Paragraphs 1–4 and fill in the form. Read Paragraph 5 and answer. What does the writer compare amber to? A window on the past and a key to unlock more secrets of nature. Amber shows us what dinosaurs looked like. life on earth has always changed. a window on the past a key to unlock more secrets of nature there are many unknown species for us to discover. Choose where you are most likely to read this passage. a In a popular science magazine about findings in nature. b In a newspaper report on exhibitions about dinosaurs. c In a sci-fi book about travelling 160 million years into the past. √ Option a. In a popular science magazine, we can read about real scientific discoveries in nature. This passage talks about amber and what scientists have discovered, so it is a good match. Complete the diagram with the words and expressions from the passage. 1. secrets 2. Thanks to 3. (always) changed 4. 35 million / thirty-five million 5. unknown 6. ant 7. window 8. nature Complete the diagram with the words and expressions from the passage. 1. secrets 2. Thanks to Complete the diagram with the words and expressions from the passage. 1. secrets 2. Thanks to 3. (always) changed 4. 35 million / thirty-five million 1. secrets 2. Thanks to 3. (always) changed 4. 35 million / thirty-five million 5. unknown 6. ant 7. window 8. nature C层 Complete the diagram with the words and expressions from the passage. Retell the passage. about the dinosaur about the flower about the ants a window on the past a key to unlock more secrets of nature Retell the passage. 1. secrets 2. Thanks to 3. (always) changed 4. 35 million / thirty-five million 5. unknown 6. ant 7. window 8. nature Think and share. Paragraph 1 is exciting and interesting. The writer begins like this to draw readers’ interest and make them want to read more. 1 What do you think of Paragraph 1? Why does the writer begin like this? We can learn about nature’s secrets by , visiting museums, exploring the, doing research or doing . Think and share. 2 What are some other ways for you to learn about nature's secrets? Basic (基础) Write a short passage about how amber helps scientists unlock the secrets of nature. Search for a discovery in nature exploration. Focus on: what the discovery is, who made it and what’s amazing about it. Improving(提升) Extend (拓展) Tell your friends about how amber helps scientists unlock the secrets of nature. 29 Lavf59.14.100 Blues 170880.0 Blues 170880.0 $Secrets caught in time mag dinos in the ancient forest IT is running around looking for its next meal with an angry cry. IT opens its mouth, raises its beautiful feather covered arms and wait fathers on the dinosaur. For hundreds of years, people believe that dinosaurs looked like huge lizard. Just look at all those dinosaurs in books, films and T. V shows. However, thanks to a piece of amer, scientists now know that this idea is wrong. In the number from southeast asia, they found the tale of a dinosaur with fathers. These beautiful golden stones quietly keep pieces of the past. They can tell us whether dinosaurs had fathers, but that's not all. They also help us understand that life on earth has always changed. A piece of Amber from northern neural, for example, hold the flower. This bases no longer growth in this area, but the find proof that I did thirty five million years ago. In the future, Amber may also help us discover if other species have changed over time. Thanks to number末端，three hundred unknown species have been discover in the piece of Amber from africa. Scientists found thirty ends. Research shows that there are completely new species. Scientists used to believe that ends came from the northern half of beer. The discovery of this african species has changed all belief about the history of ants. Who knows whether this piece of Amber will tell us more secret as a window? On the past, Amber has been much study. However, it's still not fully understood. We should put more effort into research, then we can use this key to unlock more secrets of nature.