COMPETITION FOR YOUNG ARTISTS INTERESTED IN SCIENCE AND THE SEA

I want to present you the second edition of a competition SEA OF SCIENCE. It is organized  by institutions that promote the investigation and development of marine sciences and oceanography, and whose ultimate aim is to bring science closer to citizens.

• Who can take part? 
• Primary and Secondary students (6 to 17 years old) 
• How can students take part?
• They can make a drawing, a video or a story.
• Language
• Students can take part in English, Spanish, Basque, Catalan or Galician.
• Deadline to submit thir work
• 10th March

For more details you can check the bases of the competition. 

Good luck 

DRUG AND ALCOHOL FACTS FOR TEENAGERS

NATIONAL DRUG AND ALCOHOL FACTS WEEK. January 23-29, 2017

National Drug and Alcohol Facts Week links students with scientists and other experts to counteract the myths about drugs and alcohol that teens get from the Internet, social media, TV, movies, music or from friends. This experience was launched in 2010 by scientists at the National Institute on Drug Abuse to stimulate educational events in communities so teens can learn what science has taught us about drug use and adiction. 

This is a short promotional video. 

To get all the information you can click on the following image. 

You will find lots of interesting materials to work with your students. You can get from a BINGO GAME with vocabulary and bingo cards ready to play, to many different ACTIVITIES on themes such as: alcohol, tobacco and other kinds of drugs. 

Among other resources you will find VIDEOS on different substances, FREE ONLINE MATERIALS OR BOOKLETS or even an online IQ quiz on the subject. 

You will find more material on Drug Facts by clicking on the following image.

I hope it will be useful.

VIDEO CHANNELS FOR YOUNG STUDENTS

All of us use videos in our classrooms to complement our teaching or practice listening comprehension. They are usually very clear and very entertaining but how long does it take us to find the correct video to use it in our classrooms?

This aim of this entry is to offer you some popular video channels that can be useful to you.

HAPPY LEARNING

This is a new channel wiht educational videos for kids of all ages where you could easily find complementary content to your subject (English or other subject taught through English). 

Here you have some examples of the kind of videos you will find. 

SMART LEARNING FOR ALL

In this video channel you will find from very basic science and maths videos for primary students to a little bit more advanced content for physics, chemistry or biology students. 

MINUTE EARTH

Lot's of interesting and nice videos about our planet for more advanced students. Among other topics you will find videos about animal behaviour, ecology and conservation, geology, anatomy and health and atmospheric science.  

I hope you enjoy them.

Environmental Health - Student Portal

Today I want to write about a very useful website for those interested in Environmental Health.

Here, you will find interesting materials on climate change to work with your students. The materials are organized in four major categories:

• Air Pollution.
• Chemicals.
• Climate Change.
• Water Pollution. 

As you can see, not only the layout, but also the language is student-friendly, so it will be very easy to use in your classroom.

For each topic you will find easy and clear explanations with links to websites with higher level of the language, videos, games and even experiments that you could carry out with your classes.

I hope you enjoy it. 

KIDDLE - the new child-friendly search engine

Today I want to present a new search engine especially designed for kids.

It offers a safe search, which is very important, as well a very simple interface. It is a visual search engine, so the results it provides are more appropriate for kids. This is for example what you are shown when you search the word "Africa".

     

According to Kiddle policy, the first three results provided have been chosen by the Kiddle team, the following 4 results are children friendly and provide simple and positive explanations, the rest -that is, from the 8th result onwards- are offered by the safe search of Google. 

Kiddle omits some words or chain of words that may be sensitive. For example, this is what you get if you look ut the word "penis", even though we know they study it at Primary school. 

In other cases, it offers a considerably different kind of results, if we compare it what the results Google offers. This is what your kids would get, if they look up "breast" on kiddle. As you can see, totally different from what you had got in Google. 

            

This may be an interesting suggestion to use only with younger students because it may be too limited due to censorship. If you like this kind of children friendly search engines you can also have a try with these other two chil-friendly search engines. 

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY

March is Women's History Month and we will also celebrate the International Women's Day on March 8th. Thus, it is a great opportunity to explore women's contributions and achievements throughout history.

I want to present you some interesting websites that I am sure will give you some ideas to use in your classes.

On this website yu will find different materials; not only learning materials and lesson plans, but you will also find quizzes to check your knowledge about the topic.

National Women's History Museum. On this website, you will be able to view different exhibits that give an insight to women's history. There you will also find a section called "education and resources" where you will find several lesson plans. 

Some more lesson plans can be found on the website of the Library of Congress. 

Science Netlinks is a website where you will be able to find the importance of women in science and many different lesson plans. 

On My Hero, you will find lesson plans and lots of stories about women's contribution to different aspects and disciplines. 

To finish this collection of lesson plans and ideas to celebrate the International Women's day you can have a look at his interesting website. 

I hope you will find something interesting and useful to work with your students. 

Anyway, It is true that there is a lot to celebrate but there is still a long way to go in order to get gender parity!!

Website with resources for all levels

I want to present this website to all of you. After checking some of the material, I think it can be useful, especially for primary and CLIL teachers.

The first thing you will probably notice is that the website asks you to register and after doing it you will access for free a great amount of materials: games, worksheets, activities and lesson plans.

The materials on this website are organized by level and subject, the main categories being: maths, social studies, science, reading, writing and ESL. You will also find some interesting science projects designed for students ranging form kindergarten to high school students.

In the MORE section you will find some very intuitive tools to create your own worksheets and puzzles very easily. After creating them you can downloaded and print them or you can save them in pdf format. To see an example you can click HERE. 

If you take your time surfing this website, I am sure you will find interesting and useful materials.