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/