Football Welcomes Refugees

This educational resource pack published by Amnesty International UK, primarily for students aged 7 to 14, serves as a teaching tool to spark meaningful classroom discussions about human rights, asylum, and migration by using football as a familiar and engaging entry point. 

The core of the material explores the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, specifically focusing on the rights to life, to seek asylum from persecution, and to enjoy rest and leisure. To make these abstract concepts tangible for young learners, the pack features real-life case studies of professional footballers and community clubs with refugee backgrounds. 

Alongside these inspiring stories, the resource provides a series of reflective discussion prompts and structured curriculum activities ranging from creative drama and geography mapping to research-based journalism projects.

For an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom, this resource is a highly effective asset for Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), allowing students to develop authentic language skills while engaging with a significant global topic. Teachers can utilize the biographical texts for jigsaw reading tasks, where students read different profiles and practice their speaking and listening skills by summarizing their assigned player's life history to their peers. The topic introduces a rich set of vocabulary related to migration, community integration, and emotional resilience. The built-in discussion questions, which ask students to imagine what they would pack if they had to suddenly leave home, serve as an excellent communicative tool to practice conditional structures and build empathy in a highly interactive way. The project-based prompts can be adapted into creative writing assessments, such as formatting a short newspaper report or designing a school welcome poster, which encourages students to synthesize new vocabulary into meaningful, real-world output.

https://media.amnesty.org.uk/documents/HRE20Football20welcomes202022.pdf

Climate Visualized by CartoGuophy

The "Climate Visualized" webpage by CartoGuophy is an interactive, data-driven digital mapping tool designed by Atlas Guo that allows users to explore and analyze global climate patterns. 

By clicking on an interactive map or searching for specific cities and regions, users can instantly access real-time visual charts and graphs detailing a location's overall temperature fluctuations, monthly precipitation levels, and its Köppen Climate Classification. The map employs innovative visual glyphs that cleanly represent climate characteristics directly onto the geographic interface, making complex meteorological data easy to comprehend at a glance.

For teachers in an ESL (English as a Second Language) classroom, this webpage serves as a powerful utility for Task-Based Language Learning (TBLL) and Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL). 

Because the platform presents data through highly accessible, universal visual mediums like bar graphs, scatter plots, and line charts, it reduces the initial cognitive and text-heavy load for language learners, allowing them to focus on acquiring target vocabulary. Teachers can utilize the map to facilitate authentic communication and vocabulary building around specialized topics such as weather, geography, seasons, and environment-related adjectives like arid, humid, temperate, or frigid. For instance, instructors can set up jigsaw activities or comparative speaking tasks where students search for their home countries or dream travel destinations, read the resulting graphs, and practice comparative structures by presenting their findings to the class (e.g., "Tokyo is much wetter in June than Madrid"). 

Additionally, the ability to export charts and maps directly from the site provides teachers with excellent, customized visual prompts for English writing exercises, prompting students to practice descriptive writing and data analysis by translating isual metrics into cohesive English paragraphs.

https://cartoguophy.com/climate-visualized/

Our World in Data

Our World in Data is a website that helps people understand how the world is changing by using reliable data, research, and visual information. The platform collects statistics from many trusted sources and presents them through clear charts, maps, and short explanations so that complex global topics are easier to understand. Instead of reading long academic reports, users can explore interactive graphs that show trends over time and compare information between countries.

The website covers many important global issues, such as poverty, health, education, climate change, food production, energy, and technology. By looking at the data and visualizations, people can see how different aspects of the world have improved or changed over the years. For example, the site can show how life expectancy has increased in many countries, how extreme poverty has declined globally, or how carbon dioxide emissions differ around the world.

The goal of the project is to make scientific research and global data accessible to everyone, including students, teachers, journalists, and the general public. By presenting information in a clear and visual way, the platform helps people better understand the biggest challenges facing humanity and the progress that has been made to solve them. The project was created by researcher Max Roser and is connected to the University of Oxford. Overall, it is an educational resource designed to help people learn about the world through data and evidence.

https://ourworldindata.org/

Invent, impact, inspire (Learning situations)

In these learning situations, from a service-learning approach, participants will think of ways to make a positive impact on the world while mastering English skills through engaging and interactive activities.

Participants will organize a technology fair at school to showcase useful inventions for the community. They will learn to collect information on local needs by participating in a public forum, write a patent application for their invention, and create a tutorial with instructions on how their invention works. The final task is to present the project at the technology fair, explaining the problem it addresses and its relevance to the community.

The study will include vocabulary about social issues, rules of netiquette, use of comparatives and superlatives, expressing logical relations using connectors of purpose and reason, phrases for giving instructions, and the pronunciation of the final -r.

The project includes three missions and a final challenge, involving individual, pair, and group work.

Participants are encouraged to do their best and enjoy the learning process.

https://descargas.intef.es/cedec/proyectoedia/ingles/contenidos/invent_impact_inspire/index.html

Learning Situations for English in 5th Grade Primary (Science-CLIL)

The "Science (CLIL)" series of the EDIA Project offers open educational resources that constitute Learning Situations for the "Science" area for 5th Grade Primary Education. All resources have a series of common points in terms of methodology:

Project Based Learning: All the resources presented are projects in which the contents are acquired through research and creation. They end with a final product.

Learning Diary - Metacognition: Each resource includes, as a proposal, the creation of a learning diary with a series of questions that invite students to reflect as they progress through each project. Different resources for the metacognitive development of the students are also included, such as thinking routines and the metacognition ladder.

Development of the students' digital competence: The products that are proposed in the different projects can be carried out with different digital tools that will help the students to develop their digital competence progressively and adapted to their age.

Shared and formative assessment: Each resource is accompanied by multiple rubrics for the evaluation of the different products. These rubrics will help, on the one hand, the students to understand what is being asked of them and, on the other hand, the teacher to be able to evaluate the students in a more objective way and with the most formative feedback possible. There are also proposals for self-assessment by the students and co-assessment or evaluation of the work team.

All the OER of the EDIA Project promote a competency-based learning where the students have an active role in the classroom, with tasks of different difficulty that mobilize higher level skills and propose a formative and metacognitive evaluation, with instruments provided in the resource itself. They also promote the responsible use of accessible ICT tools that favor the development of the students' digital competence. These OER are in themselves learning situations that prepare our students for the educational challenges of the 21st century.

Visit:

https://cedec.intef.es/situaciones-de-aprendizaje-para-ingles-de-5o-de-primaria-science-clil/

Navigable PDF:

https://cedec.intef.es/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/esquema_science.pdf

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

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/ 

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

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 

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/

Recursos educativos abiertos y redes docentes para Inglés y AICLE

Video emitido en directo el 26 de enero de 2022 que presenta los recursos educativos abiertos (REA) del proyecto EDIA como materiales accesibles de gran utilidad a través de sus propuestas basadas en metodologías activas, referenciadas curricularmente y pautadas y completadas con todos los elementos necesarios para su puesta en marcha y su evaluación en la asignatura de Inglés.

En el webinar toman parte Leo Boix, estimado excompañero en la red de CEFIRE, Domingo Chica, Javier Ramos y Laura Pérez.

Si no lo visteis en su día, podéis acceder a él en:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYQJA_dVJdw 

Teacher’s climate guide

Teacher’s climate guide is an education package for subject teachers that explains climate change in the context of each school subject, and provides exercises and visual material. 

It also contains tips for multidisciplinary climate, tips for integrating climate change in education and activities, and basic information about climate change and climate education.

Find it on:

https://teachers-climate-guide.fi/

Literacy for CLIL

This repository was created as part of the Erasmus Plus project focused on developing literacy skills of students in primary grades when learning English. 

It includes two main parts-the literacy grid template with the explanations and 10 exemplary literacy units with some additional materials such as unit plans, teaching materials, video-taped lesson fragments and commentaries given by students and teachers. 

The initial set of 10 units was created specifically for grades 3, 4, and 5 by international teams of teachers from Poland, Slovenia, and Spain. 

Find it on:

https://repository.lit4clil.uw.edu.pl/# 

Plants. Open Educational Resource by @CeDeC_intef

Open Educational Resource by EDIA Project- Cedec. Its author is Javier Ramos Sancha.

This project is part of a set of some projects designed to  cover all the learning standards of the Natural Science curriculum of Primary Education are published at the BOE (March 1st 2014). With this project you will be able to let your students be autonomous learners and guide them through their learning. 

The project is made  up of six different missions whose main topic is plants. There are activities to do individually, in pairs or in teams.

Visit the project on:

https://cedec.intef.es/proyecto-edia-plants-aprendemos-ciencias-en-ingles-aicle/ 

Mathematics. Glossary of terms

Comprehensive resource containing corresponding English and Welsh terms. It is a useful resource for pupils, parents and teachers in secondary and primary schools. 

Definitions and examples of mathematical vocabulary are  explained in a clear and simplistic manner with pictures and animations in both Welsh and English 

The resource is intended to serve as a point of reference for learners seeking further information about mathematical terms. 

http://geirfaiaith.wjec.co.uk/language/en/

Classics for Kids

Lesson plans and teaching resources that use classical music to help children learn. The materials incorporate various philosophies, including those of Orff, Dalcrose, and Kodaly. Games, composers, effective activities to help teachers teach the basics of music, musical terms, music education methodologies, and much more. 

Find it on: 

https://www.classicsforkids.com/

Scientific work- Research project

Recurso educativo abierto (REA) desarrollado por el profesorado de biología, geología e inglés del IES Antonio de Nebrija de Zalamea de la Serena como proyecto de investigación para el alumnado de Biología y Geología de 4º de ESO de la sección bilingüe en inglés.

El recurso combina el objetivo de familiarizarse con el método científico con el uso de TIC y la utilización del inglés como lengua de trabajo desde un enfoque AICLE (uso de la lengua extranjera como medio de aprendizaje de contenidos de áreas o materias curriculares no lingüísticas.

Podéis ver una descripción del material en el siguiente enlace:

https://enmarchaconlastic.educarex.es/285-proyecto-crea/3327-scientific-work-research-project

Acceso al recurso:

https://enmarchaconlastic.educarex.es/crea/mentorizados/scientificwork/scientificwork/index.html

Culture Street

CultureStreet is an educational resource which introduces young people to contemporary artists, writers, curators and performers and their amazing work. It encourages creativity in the classroom.

This website is full of interactive resources to inspire young people to get started and share their work.

Visit:

https://www.culturestreet.org.uk/

On Twitter
https://twitter.com/CultureStreetUK

On Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/culturestreetuk/

Historiana.eu @Historiana_EU

Historiana is an on-line educational multimedia tool that offers students multi-perspective, cross-border and comparative historical sources to supplement their national history textbooks.

The development of Historiana is coordinated by EUROCLIO, European Association of History Educators.

Historiana offers free historical content, ready to use learning activities, and innovative digital tools made by and for history educators across Europe.

(Source: Historiana)

Visit:

https://historiana.eu/#/

On Twitter:

https://twitter.com/Historiana_EU/

On Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/historiana/

When Elements Were Discovered and Who Discovered Them

The United Nations General Assembly during its 74th Plenary Meeting proclaimed 2019 as the International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements (IYPT 2019) on 20 December 2017.

On this webpage you will find an amazing timeline which maps the history of humanity’s incredible discoveries of the stuff that makes up stuff.

Visit:

https://www.alansfactoryoutlet.com/a-timeline-of-when-elements-were-discovered-and-who-discovered-them