#WorldEnvironmentDay Free Nature Stock

Every year, World Environment Day is observed on June 5. This day is celebrated to encourage awareness and environmental protection. Environment Day coincides with the First United Nations Conference on Human Environment. It was held between 5th to 16th June 1972 in Stockholm, Sweden

On the occasion of this day, we present in this blog post a gallery of Royalty-free CCO nature stock photos and videos about nature created by Adrian Pelletier.

https://freenaturestock.com/?ref=MagazineDuWebdesign 

For more information and resources on this celebration:

UN Website

https://www.un.org/en/observances/environment-day 

Resources: https://www.un.org/en/observances/environment-day/resources

PhET. #STEM simulations

Founded in 2002 by Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman, the PhET Interactive Simulations project at the University of Colorado Boulder creates free interactive research-based science and mathematics simulations.

PhET simulations engage students through an intuitive, game-like environment where they learn through exploration and discovery. (Source: PhET https://phet.colorado.edu/en)

Find them on:

https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/browse 

Earth Overshoot Day. Classroom activities

Earth Overshoot Day (EOD) is the calculated illustrative calendar date on which humanity's resource consumption for the year exceeds Earth’s capacity to regenerate those resources that year. In 2020 the calculated overshoot day fell on August 22 (more than three weeks later than 2019) due to coronavirus induced lockdowns around the world. 

In 2021 Spain exceeds the biocapacity of the planet on May 25th. This means that in less than 5 months, in Spain we have exhausted our ecological budget, from now on we are spending a natural capital that the Planet will not be able to regenerate. 

Find interesting educational activities related to this celebration on:

https://www.overshootday.org/kids-and-teachers-corner/classroom-activities/ 

Wikikahoot Project. English Language

The Petrer Town Council and the town's secondary schools: IES Azorín, La Canal and Paco Mollá have presented a project aimed at students in the second year of Bachillerato so that they can revise content for the university entrance exams in an interactive way. 

Pedro Civera, a teacher at our school, is one of the promoters of this initiative, which has been made possible thanks to the participation of teachers from Petrer schools and with the support of the regional education authority.

Through the following link you can access the contents related to the English language.

https://wikikahoot.iespacomolla.es/bach-ingles.html

International Children’s Digital Library (ICDL)

The ICDL Foundation is a non-profit corporation. Its goal is to build a collection of books that represents outstanding historical and contemporary books from throughout the world. 

The Foundation aspires to have every culture and language represented so that every child can know and appreciate the riches of children's literature from the world community. 

The ICDL Foundation promotes tolerance and respect for diverse cultures by providing access to the best of children's literature from around the world. 

Books are categorized by language, character, genre, format, shape, color… 

Find them on:

http://www.childrenslibrary.org/ 

Books in English:

http://www.childrenslibrary.org/library/lang2.html 

BBC Sound Effects

The BBC Sound Effects Archive is available for personal, educational or research purposes. 

There are over 33,000 clips from across the world from the past 100 years. These include clips made by the BBC Radiophonic workshop, recordings from the Blitz in London, special effects made for BBC TV and Radio productions, as well as 15,000 recordings from the Natural History Unit archive.

As well as browsing and searching through this treasure trove of sounds, you can also make and share your own mixes and soundscapes using the ‘mixer mode’ function.  (Source BBC Sound Effects)  

Find them on:

https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/

English grammar. Web del CFPA Giner de los Ríos

Página web de este centro alicantino en el que podréis encontrar explicaciones sobre gramática y sobre ortografía, ejercicios propuestos, pruebas, vídeos, imágenes y tablas con resúmenes para el estudio y numerosos enlaces clasificados por habilidades distintas.

Podéis encontrarla en:

https://plmontesinos.wixsite.com/grammar/ 

21st-Century Readers. Developing #Literacy Skills in a Digital World

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has just published, with data from PISA 2018, the report 21st Century Readers: Developing Reading Skills in a Digital World, which uncovers relevant information on how 15-16 year-old students are developing reading skills in an increasingly digitised and interconnected world.

https://www.oecd.org/publications/21st-century-readers-a83d84cb-en.htm 

National Geographic Kids

Published by the National Geographic Society this resource offers amazing facts about animals, science, history and geography, along with fun competitions, games and more. 

Nat Geo Kids enables science lovers to explore the world of science. Apps, games, magazines, videos and many other materials are available on this amazing webpage.

Find it on:

https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/

Periodic table of the figures of speech

A figure of speech is a word or phrase that entails an intentional deviation from ordinary language use in order to produce a rhetorical effect. 

Figures of speech are traditionally classified into schemes, which vary the ordinary sequence or pattern of words, and tropes, where words are made to carry a meaning other than what they ordinarily signify. 

This periodic table graphic by Visual Communication Guy groups the 40 different figures of speech into these categories. 

Find it on:

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/periodic-table-figures-of-speech-full.html

English Teaching Forum

English Teaching Forum is a quarterly journal supporting the teaching of English around the world through the publication of innovative, practical ideas. It is published by the U.S. Department of State.

This magazine welcomes submissions from English language teachers around the world. Most of the authors published in English Teaching Forum are classroom teachers.

Find it on:

https://americanenglish.state.gov/forum 

English language resources #WJEC

Born out of a consortium of local education authorities in 1948  the Welsh Joint Education Committee (WJEC) provides trusted bilingual qualifications, straight-forward specialist support, and reliable assessment to schools and colleges across the country 

In the following link you can find the educational resources it offers related to the English language.

https://resources.wjec.co.uk/Pages/ResourceByArgs.aspx?subId=11&lvlId=0 

EduGAINS

This website is a website that houses ministry developed resources to support policies and programs related to improved learning and teaching in the Canadian province of Ontario. 

It offers different resources to support English language learners and teachers.

Find EduGAINS on:

http://www.edugains.ca/newsite/ell/# 

ELA & Maths Guidelines

The English Learners Success Forum (ELSF) is a collaboration of researchers, teachers, district leaders, and funders who are passionate about improving the quality and accessibility of instructional materials for English learners.

You can improve your materials and instruction for English learners with their  free, comprehensive guidelines.

Find them on:

https://www.elsuccessforum.org/guidelines

World Book and Copyright Day

Taking place on 23rd April every year, World Book and Copyright Day promotes reading, publishing and the protection of intellectual property through copyright

Learn about this day on:

https://www.un.org/en/observances/book-and-copyright-day 

https://en.unesco.org/commemorations/worldbookday 

American English (Resources)

American English is a resource center for teaching and learning about American English language and culture. This website provides a variety of engaging materials and resources for teachers' professional development and for students in the classroom. Both teachers and students will find new ways to practice English and learn more about the United States.

The Office of English Language Programs in Washington, D.C. provides academic expertise, advisory and consultative assistance, as well as materials and resources worldwide

(Source: https://americanenglish.state.gov/about-us)

https://americanenglish.state.gov/ 

Verse by Verse

Verse by Verse (a project from Google) is an experimental AI-powered muse that helps you compose poetry inspired by classic American poets.

Each poet will try to offer suggestions that they think would best continue a poem in the style of that given poet. As such, try working with different poets to see whose style best meshes with your own.  Select the poets who inspire you and write your own first line of a poem.

Poems can be downloaded as images. 

https://sites.research.google/versebyverse/ 

Eduardo's Odd Sock Drawer (ESL)

Blog de Eduardo Otsoa con numerosos materiales para la clase de inglés en Educación Secundaria basadas en su trabajo diario en esta materia. 

Propuestas experimentadas que implican en uso de muy diversos recursos.

http://eduardosoddsockdrawer.blogspot.com/?view=timeslide 

Quill

Quill, a nonprofit organization, has adapted research-based writing instruction into a free, open source digital platform. All of their content is free to use for students and teachers.

Their activities help students develop their sentence construction and grammar skills and are designed as supplemental writing exercises that students complete over short, 10 to 15 minute sessions at the beginning or end of a class period.

Quill offers prompts and exercises and delivers instant feedback to help students write, revise, and revise again until they are able to produce succinct, powerful sentences.

(Source Quill https://www.quill.org/about)

Visit Quill on:

https://www.quill.org/

Writing exercises

This site provides free writing prompts and exercises to help you get started with creative writing and break through writing blocks - and some fun anagram vocabulary games. 

You can generate random story ideas, plots, subjects, scenarios, characters, first lines for stories and more 

https://writingexercises.co.uk/index.php