Interactive Periodic Table of the Elements, in Pictures and Words

Periodic Table of the Elements for elementary, middle, and high schools students on an interactive web page by Keith Enevoldsen. 

It includes the element's name, symbol, and atomic number. Each element box has a drawing of one of the element's main human uses or natural occurrences. The table is color-coded to show the chemical groupings. Small symbols pack in additional information: solid/liquid/gas, color of element, common in the human body, common in the earth's crust, magnetic metals, noble metals, radioactive, and rare or never found in nature. It offers textual descriptions and information about atomic structure, chemical bonding and radioactivity. (source Interactive Periodic Table of the Elements, in Pictures and Words).

Find it on:

https://elements.wlonk.com/ElementsTable.htm 

You can also download a PDF version on:

https://elements.wlonk.com/Elements_Pics+Words_11x17.pdf 

Free School on YouTube

YouTube channel with videos that expose children to famous art, classical music, literature, and natural science in an age-appropriate and kid-accessible way.

Find it on:

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

Here you have an example:

International Women’s Day on Breaking News English

Educational resource for working on International Women's Day. It can be downloaded in different formats (.doc and .pdf)

It includes a text, warm-up questions, pre-reading ideas, reading and discussion activities, homework and solutions to the proposed questions.

Find them here:

https://breakingnewsenglish.com/0503/050309-women.html

International Women's Day 2022 #BreakTheBias videos

International Women's Day (March 8) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating women's equality.

To support this celebration people and groups across the world develop IWD videos that amplify the commitment to helping build a gender equal world.

On this webpage you can check out hundreds of videos from past years and submit one of your own:

https://www.internationalwomensday.com/Videos

YouGlish

YouGlish gives you answers about how English is used by real people and in context. An interesting tool to improve your English pronunciation.

https://es.youglish.com/ 

PlayPhraseMe

PlayPhraseMe allows you to search for specific phrases in a database of video clips from popular films and TV shows, like an online corpus of authentic spoken English.

PlayPhrase can be used as a cool tool to practice listening discrimination or to present new vocabulary while using authentic speech.

Webpage

https://playphrase.me/#/search 

YouTube Channel

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

Mystery Doug

Mystery Doug is a free weekly video series for elementary teachers (grades K-5) based entirely on questions that real students ask. The videos are short, approximately five minutes long.

Some videos provide activity extensions. 

Design Squad @DesignSquad

Design Squad is a video series and website from PBS KIDS. 

It features fun videos that empower middle school kids to solve real-world problems and understand the impact of engineering in a global context. 

YouTube channel: 

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

Webpage: 

https://pbskids.org/designsquad/ 

Map Puzzle

Educational cartographic online puzzles. You can complete maps of the world, countries and regions by dragging them into their proper places on a map. 

You can also share your results on social networks 

Find it on:

http://mappuzzle.xyz/

Valentine’s Day Vocabulary

This lesson on YouTube English Danny is useful for Valentine’s Day vocabulary. Very interesting for ESL students who want to know more about this significant cultural, religious, and commercial celebration.

Groundhog Day

Groundhog Day is observed every year on February 2, having originated in the town of Punxsatawney, Pennsylvania. The annual ritual has roots in pre-Christian traditions and was brougt to the USA by German immigrants. The emergence of a groundhog from its burrow is said to foretell the weather for the following,

The following video explains the origins of the tradition:

Topworksheets

With Topworksheets you will be able to create interactive auto-grading worksheets easely and free. You don’t need to learn any code. 

You can add many different question types: fill the blank, dropdown, join elements, drag & drop. You can also include multimedia content like video, audio or images, assign worksheets as tasks for your students, and receive results directly in your account. 

https://www.topworksheets.com/en/home

School Day of Non-violence and Peace. Martin Luther King

The School Day of Non-violence and Peace (Dia Escolar de la No-violència i la Pau) was founded by the Spanish poet Llorenç Vidal in 1964 as support for a pacifying and non-violent eucation. This day is observed on January 30 every year, on the anniversary of the death of Mahatma Gandhi in schools all over the world. 

To celebrate it in your English class you can use this video about the life of Martin Luther King, a reference of the non-violent struggle for the achievement of human rights.

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 

WikiKahoot #Recursos a través de juegos

Esta página ha servido de vehículo a una proyecto de acompañamiento digital nacido de la iniciativa de los centros educativos de secundaria de Petrer, el IES Azorín, el IES la Canal y el IES Poeta Paco Mollá y muestra el trabajo resultante de la gamificación de contenidos de diferentes etapas educativas por medio de Kahoot. Así mismo, ofrece la posibilidad de colaborar al profesorado, facilitando la creación de nuevos recursos.

La página principal permite acceder a juegos relativos a una gran número de áreas y niveles. 

https://wikikahoot.iespacomolla.es/index.html 

Merece destacarse por su número, la cantidad de juegos en inglés o para el aprendizaje de esta lengua.

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

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

https://wikikahoot.iespacomolla.es/indexmasj.html

Story Starters

Story Starters is a section of the Scholastic.com site consisting of a virtual machine that provides students with randomly selected themes for writing assignments from general fiction to adventure, fantasy, and sicence fiction. 

Find it on:

http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/story-starters/index.html

Youngzine #ClimateScience

Youngzine is an unique news site for young people that focuses on climate science, solutions, and policies to address the myriad effects of global warming. Its mission is to bridge the gap between the classroom and the real world by providing a platform for young people to learn, explore and discover their role as global citizens.

Kids have an opportunity to express their views and literary creativity by submitting poetry or essays.

https://youngzine.org/

Wonderopolis

Created by the National Center for Families Learning (NCFL) in 2010, Wonderopolis has become one of the most popular education sites. 

Every day it posts a new standard-based article exploring intriguing questions, and covering a vast range of topics.

Wonderopolis is a place where curiosity and imagination lead to exploration and discovery in learners of all ages.

Fiind it on:

https://wonderopolis.org/

How many verb tenses are there in English?

Lesson by Anna Ananichuk, directed by Luke Rotzler. 

Anna Ananichuk explains how thanks to something called grammatical aspect, each of these time periods (present, past, and future) actually divides further. 

Full lesson on TEDEd:

https://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-many-verb-tenses-are-there-in-english-anna-ananichuk

All about #bats

This resource has been produced by the Bat Conservation Trust, the leading non-governmental organisation in the United Kingdom solely devoted to the conservation of bats and the landscapes on which they rely. 

This pack consists of a series of themed sheets, tailored to inform students about bats and bat conservation science, and to enrich and expand curricular opportunities. 

It includes additional teacher’s notes and activities relevant to each theme. 

Find it on:

https://www.bats.org.uk/resources/education-outreach-resources/resources-for-teachers-youth-leaders/explore-the-world-of-bat-conservation-through-the-national-curriculum