What is Boxing Day?

More information on;

https://www.diainternacionalde.com/ficha/boxing-day 

https://pocketpassport.com/blog/esl-boxing-day-learn-english-esl-worksheets/

Rural Observatory

The Rural Observatory supports the knowledge production and aims at improving data collection and dissemination related to EU rural areas. It offers relevant statistics, 

indicators and analyses based on data from multiple sources and at the most appropriate territorial granularity, covering the economic, social and environmental dimensions.

Visit:

https://observatory.rural-vision.europa.eu/?lng=en&ctx=RUROBS 

Surviving Winter

PBS Learning Media online activity for elementary school and middle school students. In this blended lesson supporting literacy skills, students learn how animals survive the change in conditions that occurs each winter.

Students develop their literacy skills as they explore a science focus on varied physical and behavioral adaptations.

Find it on:

https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/midlit10.sci.splwinter/surviving-winter/

Teachers' guide:

https://static.pbslearningmedia.org/media/assets/wgbh/midlit10/midlit10_doc_splwintertg/midlit10_doc_splwintertg.pdf

Met Éireann’s Primary School Resources page

Resources for parents, teachers and children that have been designed for use in primary schools. They aim to provide a basic introduction to the weather and weather-related topics for primary school students. 

The resources, presented as fact sheets, quizzes, lesson plans and experiments, are designed to encourage primary students to engage in active learning though an exploration and investigation of basic meteorological principles.

They are grouped together under these categories.

• Younger Primary Students: this section offers simple descriptions of common weather facts, e.g. sunshine, rainfall, wind, temperature.
• Older Primary Students: this section provides more in-depth information on weather-related topics and introduces more specific skills such as reading weather charts and cloud recognition.
• Lessons Plans: this section is designed primarily for use by teachers and the lesson plans can be adapted to suit either younger or older primary school students.

https://www.met.ie/education/school-resources

Playlist for Life

Founded in 2013 by Sally Magnusson, the vision of Playlist for Life is that every person with dementia should have access to a unique personalised playlist and everyone who loves and cares for them should know how to use it to make living with the condition easier and happier. 

Their resources page is full of free materials to help people at each stage of their playlist journey, whether they are making a personalised playlist for themselves or helping someone to make theirs.

Playlist for Life can also be a useful resource from an English language learning point of view for sharing experiences and tastes in music and developing conversations around them. 

You can find it on:

https://www.playlistforlife.org.uk/

Comprehensive English Language Development (ELD)

Padlet with resources created by the California Regional English Learner Specialists.

https://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/el/t3/coeleadscontactlist13.asp

#FightRacism

Racism and racial discrimination take many forms and impact all aspects of life. Racism harms not just the lives of those who endure it but also society as a whole.

This UN campaign is a global call for concrete action against racism, xenophobia and related intolerance. Through it you can find a lot of materials about these discriminations and its social impact. Education is a fundamental tool to prevent them and to make them visible to new generations.

Find this campaign on:

https://www.un.org/en/fight-racism

International Day of Persons with Disabilities

The annual observance of the International Day of Disabled Persons was proclaimed in 1992, by the United Nations General Assembly resolution 47/3. 

The observance of the Day aims to promote an understanding of disability issues and mobilize support for the dignity, rights and well-being of persons with disabilities. It also seeks to increase awareness of gains to be derived from the integration of persons with disabilities in every aspect of political, social, economic and cultural life.

In this blog post I would like to present a resource from the Smithsonian in which, through the cases of some people with disabilities, their contributions throughout history are made visible.

The EveryBody: An Artifact History of Disability website is dedicated to raising awareness and sensitivity about disability through a look at the history of disability in the United States

https://everybody.si.edu/ 

California Practitioners’ Guide for Educating English Learners with Disabilities

The California Practitioners’ Guide for Educating English Learners with Disabilities was developed by the California Department of  Education (CDE), Special Education Division and the English Learner Support Division through a contract with WestEd, to provide information on identifying, assessing, supporting, and reclassifying English learners who may qualify for special education services and pupils with disabilities who may be classified as English learners.

This resource is structured to make valuable information readily available to busy educators. It contains lists of  key questions addressed in each chapter, sample forms, checklists, illustrative scenarios, tables, illustrations, frequently asked questions, links to additional resources, and other visual and organizational elements to improve the accessibility of  the text.

https://padlet.com/carelspecialists/ELD/wish/867873767

Guide for Educating ELS with Disabilities by Lupita Olguin-Rubio @el_swd

 

The #PIRLS 2021 Encyclopedia

The PIRLS 2021 Encyclopedia: Education Policy and Curriculum in Reading presents a profile of reading and language instruction in PIRLS 2021 countries and benchmarking systems.

The PIRLS 2021 Encyclopedia includes two different types of data: exhibits showing results from the PIRLS 2021 curriculum questionnaire, and chapters prepared by individual countries and benchmarking participants.

https://pirls2021.org/encyclopedia/ 

OneLook® Dictionary Search

This web site is a search engine for English words and phrases that shuttles you to the web based dictionaries that define the words for which you'd like a definition. 

More than 19 million words in more than 1000 online dictionaries are indexed by the OneLook® search engine. (Source: OneLook® Dictionary Search) 

https://www.onelook.com/ 

Web resources for English language learners by @OTIS4educators

In this video (aprox. 43 min.), OTIS for Educators looks closely at some specific websites and resources that are geared toward ELLs at the middle and high school levels. These sites help learners of English to develop their pronunciation, vocabulary and writing skills in an interactive way.

Is our life sustainable? #AICLE #CLIL

This resource will help 5th course of Primary Education students to learn about the energy, the different kinds of energy, the sources of energy and how to be more sustainable. They will have some designed task to investigate about energy and it uses.  

All the tasks are designed for them to work autonomously and to reflex about their own process of learning. Also along them we try to foster student's collaboration.

Find it on:

https://descargas.intef.es/cedec/proyectoedia/aicle/contenidos/energy/index.html

NOAA Sea to Sky: Education resource database

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is an American scientific and regulatory agency within the United States Department of Commerce that forecasts weather, monitors oceanic and atmospheric conditions, charts the seas, conducts deep sea exploration, and manages fishing and protection of marine mammals and endangered species in the U.S. exclusive economic zone.

NOAA Sea to Sky is a database of education resources created by NOAA and their partners. You can search by audience, subject, resource type, topic, NGSS-DCI, scpecial categories, and collection name. 

It currently contains 1254 resources that can be used to teach a wide variety of topics in science to your students.

Visit NOAA Sea to Sky on:

https://www.noaa.gov/education/resources 

Ocean Odyssey Educators Guide

This guide includes 8 elementary school level lessons, inspired by topics from the IMAX film Ocean Odyssey, and many NOAA mission critical areas. Watching the film is not required to carry out any of these lessons, but may enhance students’ learning experience of the topics presented in these activities.

These lessons progress for use from younger to older grade bands, but they all contain aspects and resources which may be adapted for all grade bands. 

(Source Ocean Service NOAA)

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/ocean-odyssey/ 

En el IES Azorín no te damos calabazas

Un año más el departamento de inglés del IES Azorín ha convocado su tradicional concurso de calabazas en Halloween. Con este motivo, durante la semana se han expuesto los diversos modelos presentados por nuestro alumnado más joven. 

El viernes 28 el jurado ha seleccionado las tres calabazas ganadoras y ha entregado los premios a sus autores y autoras.

Muchas gracias por vuestra participación.

English in the world today (Free course)

Free course that explores the status of this language and its worldwide diversity. It looks at how social and political factors influence people's attitudes towards it, and at the relationship between one's linguistic heritage and sense of identity. 

Find it on:

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/languages/english-language/english-the-world-today/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab

Wordtune

Wordtune is an AI powered writing tool that rewrites, rephrases, and rewords your writing. 

Wordtune will rewrite and uplevel your writing whether you have a free or Premium account. 

Without a Premium account, you will not have access to key features such as changing the Tone of your writing from Casual to Formal and expanding/ shortening the length of your paper or article. 

Free accounts have a limited amount of rewrites per day. 

(Source WordTune)

https://www.wordtune.com/ 

Old Maps Online

OldMapsOnline began as a collaboration between Klokan Technologies GmbH, Switzerland and The Great Britain Historical GIS Project based at the University of Portsmouth, UK thanks to funding from JISC. 

Since January 2013 is the project improved and maintained by volunteers and the team of Klokan Technologies GmbH in their free time.

OldMapsOnline.org indexes over 400.000 maps.

https://www.oldmapsonline.org/

English Level 1

Libro interactivo para la introducción a la enseñanza de inglés publicado por el Fondo Editorial Pascual Bravo de Medellín (Colombia),

El contenido del libro, al igual que los objetos interactivos se han diseñado de tal forma que se puedan leer en ordenadores y dispositivos móviles sin necesidad de instalar ningún programa. El libro se puede descargar para su uso en local sin dependencia con la red, a excepción de algunos audios incluidos. 

El libro se basa en las historias del personaje ficticio llamado Pascualino y su actividad diaria a través de 11 unidades que lo sitúan en diferentes contextos. En cada una de ellas se ofrece una pequeña evaluación.

https://proyectodescartes.org/iCartesiLibri/materiales_didacticos/LEVEL01-JS/index.html

Houses of Parliament

CNN's virtual tour that explores ten aspects of the Houses of Parliament. You can click on the interactive labels or listen to the narrator description. You can also click and drag to explore the entirety of the 360 degree views of each stop in the tour.

https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2017/04/world/house-of-parliament/ 

The Writer's Workshop

Playlist of twenty-nine TED-Ed video lessons about writing. Correct use of punctuation marks, writing tips, use of irony, style, successful descriptions and narratives, etc. Videos of about five minutes that are very interesting. 

Some of the videos in this playlist are subtitled in Spanish

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJicmE8fK0Eib5y-bh4RVFvg492OIwpg8 

English: skills for learning (free course)

English: skills for learning is a free course which lasts about 8 weeks, with approximately 3 hours' study time each week. 

This course is for anybody who is thinking of studying for a university degree and would like to develop the English reading and writing skills needed to succeed. You'll be introduced to academic reading and effective note-making strategies. You'll develop your essay writing. You'll look at academic style and vocabulary-building strategies. You'll also enhance your understanding of sentence structure and punctuation. You will learn through a range of engaging activities aimed at extending your existing language skills.  

(Source Open Learn. The Open University)

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education-development/english-skills-learning/content-section-overview?active-tab=description-tab

Celebrate the European Day of Languages (also in your English class)

Do you want to work on the importance of learning and using other languages in your classroom? One of the resources offered by the Council of Europe to celebrate the European Day of Languages is a series of posters in English (also available in other languages) that you can share with your students.

The European Day of Languages has been celebrated every year since 2001 on 26 September and promotes plurilingualism in the whole of Europe. Diversity is a tool for achieving greater intercultural understanding and a key element in the rich cultural heritage of Europe.

Download it on:

https://edl.ecml.at/Portals/33/documents/poster/EDL-infographic-languages-2022-EN.pdf 

https://edl.ecml.at/Portals/33/documents/poster/EDL-infographic-languages-EN.pdf 

More resources on:

https://edl.ecml.at/Home/tabid/1455/language/en-GB/Default.aspx 

RP phonemes: pronunciation tips (BBC learning English)

This is a compilation of BBC learning English's well-known pronunciation clips. It includes all the sounds found in 'British English' with a basic explanation.

Grammar and punctuation

University of Bristol's educational resource for academic writing. 

It includes recommendations on punctuation and grammar to improve the quality of writing.

Visit the following link:

https://www.ole.bris.ac.uk/bbcswebdav/courses/Study_Skills/grammar-and-punctuation/index.html

#OER #REA Good Karma

This OER for 3rd and 4th ESO has two objectives: to make students aware of the factors that influence interaction and to consider how the good use of these factors affects the quality of interpersonal relationships. To this end, the following topics are addressed: question structure, short sentences, non-verbal communication and communication styles.

Students will produce a report on their interpersonal profile including feedback from their peers. This is achieved by participating in a Speed Dating activity with people in the class. This OER prepares students to successfully participate in this activity.

You can find this resource from the Junta de Andalucía on:

https://edea.juntadeandalucia.es/bancorecursos/file/d8c5fd25-c3ce-4820-ac77-851c9b331613/1/ING_3ESO_REA_01.v02(2).zip/index.html

#OER #REA Fantastic food truck

Through this OER for the second cycle of Primary School published by the Junta de Andalucía (Andalusian Regional Government), students will be able to:

Identify dishes, ingredients and their origin or nationality.
Interact to order food, ask for the bill, express their tastes.
Create a food truck manually.
Create a menu from different countries.
Research through different internet sources using various digital tools.

As a final task, students will participate in a role-play where they will act out a common dialogue about ordering food in a food truck

https://edea.juntadeandalucia.es/bancorecursos/file/340ef1a1-4fe2-4a20-86b5-3d41197e4d21/1/fantastic_food_truck.zip/crditos.html

Mini Lectures. #Listening skills

Academic English. Listening Practice. Videos, teacher materials and lesson activities. Free ELT materials. 

https://sites.google.com/view/minilectures/home 

Edubilingüe

Website created by Jorge Merino Carmena, a primary school teacher specialising in English and bilingual primary education in a public school in Andalusia.

The aim of this resource is to publish his educational experiences in relation to bilingual teaching and English as a foreign language. You can find bilingual educational resources collected from other websites: online games for activating prior knowledge, downloadable materials and open educational reources.

Find them on:

https://www.edubilingue.com/teaching-resources

Periodic videos

A lesson about every single element on the periodic table. The periodic table on TED-Ed features videos for each element that may be accessed by clicking on the chart. Created by the Periodic Videos team using the TED-Ed platform.

Visit:

https://ed.ted.com/periodic-videos 

Science in Shorts playlist 2022

Science in Shorts is a science communication challenge from Nature Awards. You can tell the world about your research in a 1-minute video and win a prize of €5000 if it is selected as a winner. 

The whole collection is shared with the public, globally on this website.

https://www.nature.com/immersive/scienceinshorts/index.html 

Transum #Mathematics @Transum

Transum is a website designed for teachers (Primary or Secunddary) and upper Secondary/High school students.

It was conceived by John Tranter and it provides a variety of resources on Mathematics. Most of the  resources of this website are offered free.

Visit:

https://www.transum.org/Software/Default.asp 

USA Learns

USA Learns offers free English classes. You can learn English speaking, listening, vocabulary, pronunciation, reading, writing and grammar

https://www.usalearns.org/ 

#Standup4humanrights

Website corresponding to a UN human rights campaign. It includes many resources that can be used in the classroom and relate to this topic. It is also available in French, Spanish, Arabic, Russian, and Chinese.

You can find it at the following link:

https://standup4humanrights.org/en/ 

Territorial inequalities

If you are a teacher of subjects related to Geography and History, Biology, Geology and Natural Sciences in general, the educational resources of the National Geographic Institute (Instituto Geográfico Nacional, IGN) can provide your classes with an extra quality, offering excellent and rigorous materials that have been designed to make geographic knowledge accessible to the general public, and, above all, for use in educational contexts.

This resource offers the student the possibility to acquire an overall understanding from a spatial perspective of many of the features of Spanish society today. The student has the possibility of learning, through maps, about territorial imbalances in which economic, political, social and geographical factors converge

Activity recommended for students of Baccalaureate (16-18 years). Also in Spanish.

https://www.ign.es/recursos-educativos/territorial-inequalities/index.html?&locale=en 

Newspapermap.com

Traigo en la entrada de hoy un recurso que puede resultar útil para la enseñanza y aprendizaje de idiomas, entre ellos, el inglés, a través de textos auténticos de la prensa en muy diversos países,

Newspapermap.com consiste en un mapa interactivo por el que poder navegar de forma totalmente gratuita a través de la geolocalización de medios de todo el mundo. Así, es posible desplazarse sobre el mapa y elegir marcadores de cada medio donde se indica un enlace a este.

https://newspapermap.com/ 

Reactions (by the American Chemical Society)

Created by Adam Dylewski and produced by the American Chemical Society, Reactions is a show that uncovers the hidden chemistry all around us.

https://www.youtube.com/c/ACSReactions/featured

From Hidden to Modern Figures

Resource for teaching by means of biographies, videos and images about the women who made significant contributions to the development of NASA's space program.

https://www.nasa.gov/modernfigures

Free to Use and Reuse Sets @librarycongress

This page features items from the digital collections of the Library of Congress that are free to use and reuse. The Library believes that this content is either in the public domain, has no known copyright, or has been cleared by the copyright owner for public use. 

Each set of content is based on a theme and is first featured on the Library's home page. These sets are just a small sample of the Library's digital collections (https://www.loc.gov/collections/)

https://www.loc.gov/free-to-use/

Get the Math

Get the Math combines video and web interactivity to help middle and high school students develop algebraic thinking skills for solving real-world problems. It features short videos of professionals explaining and showing how mathematics is used in their professions.

https://www.thirteen.org/get-the-math/

A History of #Ireland in 10 Words

The educational resources available on this site are based on the book A History of Ireland in 100 Words (https://www.ria.ie/history-ireland-100-words), which was written by Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh and Gregory Toner, illustrated by Joe McLaren, and published by the Royal Irish Academy in 2019.

These resources are divided into ten units, each headed by an Irish word which acts as a springboard into glimpses of life in Ireland in previous centuries which are often absent from history books.

The topics of the ten units are:

1. ceol ‘music’
2. ráth ‘a ringfort’
3. leabhar ‘a book’
4. dalta ‘a pupil’
5. réalta ‘a star’
6. bróg ‘a shoe’
7. mac tíre ‘a wolf’
8. forc ‘a fork’
9. gruaig ‘hair’
10. bó ‘a cow’

Visit:

https://spreadingthewords.ie/ 

Proyecto EDIA. “What a digital world!”

"What a digital world!" is a project that publishes content for project-based learning across the English curriculum in the second year of ESO.

The common thread of the ten OER (Open Educational Resources) based on PBL will be new technologies and audiovisual media. Internet, applications and games for smartphones or other electronic devices, television or press will be some of the main topics of the contents.

https://cedec.intef.es/proyecto-edia-what-a-digital-world-para-trabajar-en-ingles-2oeso-por-proyectos/ 

English ESL learning games

Free to use games for home and school use from Digital Dialects.

https://www.digitaldialects.com/English.htm

Free Online English Teaching and Learning Materials

ESL resources for beginners and intermediate learners. 

This website started in 1994 at the University of Illinois Urbanan-Champaign with the purpose of sharing English learning materials online. It contains a multitude of English teaching and learning materials, including conversations covering various topics, short essays with numerous vocabulary and grammar exercises designed for learners at different levels, and a series of mobile apps.

https://www.rong-chang.com/

Independence Day

Independence Day is a federal holiday in the United States commemorating the Declaration of Independence, which was ratified by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776. The Fourth of July has been a federal holiday in the United States since 1941.

The following Ted-ed lesson by Kenneth C. Davis and animated by Henry Chung, Mark Storer, Noel Wong, Alexandra Kogl, Mike Field dives into some of the lesser known facts about the process of writing the Declaration of Independence

https://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-you-might-not-know-about-the-declaration-of-independence-kenneth-c-davis

Careers topic by Next Vista for Learning

Next Vista For Learning provides a library of free videos licensed under Creative Commons Attribution made by and for teachers and students everywhere. 

This collection contains more than 100 videos of people talking about their jobs and careers.

https://www.nextvista.org/collection/light-bulbs/careers/

Human Rights Education. Amnesty International

Amnesty International's collection of educational resources in English. You can search for them by country, type of resource or subject matter.

Visit:

https://www.amnesty.org/en/education/ 

AQA #GCSE #Physics by @drdavidboyce

All of GCSE Physics in video format by Dr. David Boyce, a physics teacher at Uppingham School in Rutland, UK. On his channel you will find videos and resources for pupils and teachers to support the teaching of physics.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvPaLx3vVGN5ad1MUVk-Eolr8iRQvJTkP 

An example: Structure of the atom.

Reasons for the Seasons

In 2022, the June solstice occurs on Tuesday, June 21, marking the astronomical first day of summer in the Northern Hemisphere. This TED-Ed lesson explains how the earth's spin axis is tilted with respect to its orbital plane. This is what causes the seasons.

Resources to Support Ukrainian Students

Free ESL resources for newcomer Ukrainian students to your school. 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1veIXd9osSabU5pt-yF4GaIsscOWgeumXAf871529pBA/edit 

Repasa inglés

Juego de repaso de inglés para alumnado de Primaria desarrollado desde Mundo Primaria y la Junta de Castilla y León. Se elige nivel al principio y, a partir de ahí, se proponen diversos ejercicios que tienen que ver con gramática, deletreo, vocabulario y lectura.

http://www.educa.jcyl.es/educacyl/cm/gallery/Recursos_MundoPrimaria/cyl-2018-ingles/ingles/index.html

Leemos en inglés

Guía interactiva con lecturas que se compone de 26 propuestas de actividades para la enseñanza y educación de inglés en la Educación Primaria. 

Puede navegarse a través de sus contenidos por nivel, área curricular o competencias clave. 

Además, se proporciona una guía de lectura complementaria con una selección de títulos relacionados con la literatura en inglés destinados especialmente a primeros lectores y acompañada de contenidos digitales y propuestas adicionales.

https://leemoseningles.unpuntocurioso.com/ 

Guide for educators How to support multilingual children

Created by Julie Carton and Rita Rosenback, the aim of our guide is to help you create a welcoming atmosphere and a supportiven environment for bilingual and multilingual children in the classroom. 

This guide for educators is one of the outcomes of PEaCH, an Erasmus+ project funded by the European Commission. The acronym PEaCH was derived from the main goal of the project: ‘preserving and promoting Europe’s cultural and linguistic heritage through empowerment of bilingual children and families’.

Find it on:

https://bilingualfamily.eu/Resources/PEaCH%20for%20educators.pdf 

#WorldEnvironmentDay #OnlyOneEarth

World Environment Day (WED) is celebrated every year since 1973 on 5th June to raise global awareness of the need to take positive environmental action.

Facts and figures: 

https://www.worldenvironmentday.global/did-you-know/facts-figures 

Reports and publications:

https://www.worldenvironmentday.global/did-you-know/reports-and-publications 

Take a quiz:

https://www.worldenvironmentday.global/did-you-know/take-quiz 

More information on:

https://www.worldenvironmentday.global/ 

MathPickle.com

MathPickle.com is a free online resource of original mathematical puzzles, games and unsolved problems for K-12 teachers. 

Its puzzles are organized by grade and subject – each designed for a 45-60 minute period.  

MathPickle.com is also a practical resource for teachers. Its puzzles and games engage students in problem solving.

It is supported by the American Institute of Mathematics.

Visit:

http://mathpickle.com/organized-by-grade/

A Maths Dictionary for Kids

A Maths Dictionary for Kids is an online math dictionary for students which explains over 955 common mathematical terms and math words in simple language with definitions, detailed visual examples, and online practice links for some entries. 

http://www.amathsdictionaryforkids.com/ 

It includes 270 free worksheets arranged according to topic (numbers, operations, fractions, decimals, percentages, ratios, algebra, statistics, probability, geometry, measurement, time, money, symbols…)

http://www.amathsdictionaryforkids.com/MathsChartsPDFs/mathschartsPDFs.html 

Date and Weather Interactive Chart

This interactive date and weather chart is designed to be used as part of classroom routines. With this interactive tool students can practice saying the date, days of the week and month. Students can select and say what the weather is like as well as describe the temperature.

This tool was designed to be used in both online classes but can also be used with interactive boards. (source ESL Kids Games vía @elcastorcurioso).

https://www.eslkidsgames.com/date-and-weather-interactive-chart 

Science Friday

Science Friday is a producer of high quality, fact-checked, and trustworthy science news and educational programming. 

They offer educational and entertaining science experiences through videos, podcasts, digital media, live events, citizen science, K-12 education and professional development, and at-home learning activities for families that directly serve hundreds of thousands of educators, parents, citizen scientists, and lifelong learners every year. 

Science Friday also offers lesson plans, that include links to the national science standards addressed in the lesson. 

https://www.sciencefriday.com/