Why CLIL is Education for the 21st century - David Marsh

Symbaloo sobre CLIL

Si seguís habitualmente nuestros blogs, habréis advertido el protagonismo que durante el curso hemos concedido a una herramienta de recopilación de favoritos como Symbaloo, a la hora de presentaros y agruparos algunos enlaces de interés sobre diversos temas.. Aquí tenéis la oportunidad de conocer una parrilla  o webmix donde se agrupan recursos relacionados con CLIL. Os animamos a conocer esta herramienta y a aprovechar sus múltiples posibilidades. ¿Por qué no echarle un vistazo si tenéis tiempo y ganas durante las vacaciones? Seguro que os encanta. Hablamos por experiencia propia.

http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/clilresources

Oferta de cursos sobre didáctica del inglés para el próximo trimestre

Os recordamos que están abiertos a la inscripción, incluso en fechas vacacionales, Internet no cierra, algunos cursos relacionados con la lengua inglesa:

- Curso 14EL51EI027 - Didáctica del inglés en edades tempranas con Juan Rubio como profesor. Qué decir de una nueva edición dirigida al profesorado de infantil sobre metodología en la enseñanza y aprendizaje de inglés en esta etapa. No os la perdáis.

- Curso 14EL51IN084 - An Interactive Course: English Language in classroom. Una oferta original del CEFIRE de Elda con hablantes nativos, principalmente orientado a educación primaria, que os permitirá mejorar el uso del inglés en la interacción en el aula de forma divertida.

Ambos cursos se imparten en inglés.

Podéis consultar detalles e inscribiros en http://mestreacasa.gva.es/web/cefireelda/inscripcio

BodyMaps

Are you interested in helping your students improve their knowledge about the anatomy of human body in a revolutionary new way? We are convinced that you will find this tool extremely useful. 

BodyMaps is an interactive visual search tool that will allow them to explore the human body in 3D. It allows users to mouse over body areas to learn more, look inside different layers of the body and rotate to get a full 360 degree view. It also offers relevant and useful health information. It is indeed a great resource for students, teachers and health educators. 

http://www.healthline.com/human-body-maps/

 

Scientific Animations (Harvard University)

Live Sciences Outreach at Harvard University provides these flash animations based upon storyboards created by participants in a Summer Workshop for High School Teachers.

Topics covered include Biodiversity, Physiology, Microbiology, Regenerative Biology, Evolution, Neurobiology, Immunology and the Biology of Cancer.

http://outreach.mcb.harvard.edu/animations.htm

The Wordsmyth Illustrated Learner’s Dictionary (WILD)

The Wordsmyth Illustrated Learner’sDictionary (WILD) is Wordsmyth’s newest and most exciting and interactive dictionary. It is geared toward children in Grades K to 3 as well as to young English Language Learners. The beta version of WILD is now available for exploration at http://kids.wordsmyth.net/wild/

The Dictionary consists of three sections or environments. All of them are linked with each other so that a user may at any time navigate from one to another:

- The World is made up of places, or "settings," that you can explore. You can find different places. When you move your mouse around a setting, you can see the words that are labeled inside it.

- The Book shows you all of the words in WILD from A to Z, along with part of each word's dictionary entry.

- The Collections include a wide range of categories and subcategories, such as plants, parts of plants, animals, mammals, invertebrates, parts of the human body, actions of the body, foods, colors, and shapes... Included in the Collections is also a collection called Maps through which children can access an interactive map of the world.

Teachers and students will also find WILD's activities (What is it?, Where is it?, Scavenger Hunt and Where can you find these?) very useful. 

UsingEnglish.com

UsingEnglish.com is a general English language site, specialising in ESL (English as a Second Language) .

Since the beginning of 2002 it provides a wide range of resources (quizzes, tests, reference, articles, handouts, lesson plans, forums...) for learners and teachers using different varieties of English.

Their free membership gives members additional on-site content which is unavailable to non-members.

http://www.usingenglish.com/

Computer Lab Favorites (Scholastic)

Quick, compelling one-session activities you need to incorporate interactive learning and technology into your curriculum. 

Each activity requires no prep and can be completed in 15-30 minutes. There are more than 50 activities on Language Arts, Math, Social Studies, Science and Spanish.

You can find them at: 

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/clf/index.htm

ESL Games World

This site is dedicated to helping teachers by providing ESL games for classrooms, PowerPoint games and templates, printable board games, interactive games, games for ESL kids and adults, grammar, vocabulary and reading games...

Their free ESL games include: Snakes and Ladders, Hangman, Spelling games, Wheel of Fortune, TV Games (Betting Game), Mazes, Memory Games, Matching exercises, Sequencing exercises, Picture Quizzes and more.

Three levels of action are proposed:

• Easy. Beginner/ Elementary
• Medium. Pre-intermediate
• High. Intermediate/ Advanced

http://www.eslgamesworld.com/