My CLIL Science Corner

Good day! Today I would like to tell you which are my favourite Eric Carle's stories and that I have used with my students. Children love to be told stories, specially if you create a nice atmosphere and if they can be engaged at the same time they are listening to the stories.  I discovered Eric Carle stories loads of years ago, but I still use them with 1st and 2nd graders. I adapt the text for them because English is not their first language. I usually use them at Science lessons to learn about animals and plants, but as you already know there is a lot of vocabulary that we can revise or that they can learn as they are listening to the story. What I like the most about these stories is that there are sentences that are repeated along the story and this makes students participate and learn the structures and the vocabulary. Keep reading and you will find out how I have used these stories in my classes. Here we go! THE VERY HUNGRY CATTERPILLAR " The very hungry catterpilar ...

It's already Wednesday and I would like to share with you this wonderful tool I have used during the lockdown and that I am going to use it  more next year for sure. Edpuzzle lets you edit interactive videos that they stop at the right place you have added a question or a note. Isn't it amazing? And it also records your students progress 😊 The first step is to register. Once you are signed up, you will have to choose your school and you may find out that other teachers of your school are already using Edpuzzle. If their videos are public, you will be able to see the videos they have edited. This app allows you to upload a video from one of the platforms they suggest (Edpuzzle, Khan Academy, National Geographic, ...) or you can upload a video you already have. The next step is to edit the video. As I said before, you can different types of questions: open-ended, multiple choice, notes... You can also cut out your video and make it shorter. Once your video is ready, it's tim...

Happy Saturday! Today I feel like talking about Scaffolding in CLIL, but scaffolding is in fact important when learning any language or any content. I hope you enjoy the article below ↓↓↓. It was written during my stay at the University of Nottingham. EXPLORE THE ROLE OF SCAFFOLDING IN CLIL   The word “scaffolding” used for an educational purpose was first used by Wood, Bruner and Ross in Wood et al. (1976). In an educational context scaffolding refers to giving support to learners so that they can ‘move forward and continue to build new competencies’ (Bigge et al. 1999). An example of scaffolding is the process of learning to write. First, children are asked to write a word below a picture, then a short sentence, then they have to add adjectives until they are asked to write the description of an object. The teacher will probably make the pupils talk about certain characteristics: size, colour, use and so on. Then the pupils will have to think of an object and write the descri...

Hi everyone, Today I would like to show you an activity I designed for my students at the beginning of the lockdown. The 2nd term had just been interrupted when my 5th grade students were about to finish the project of "Light". One of the last activities was to learn about the "Blue light" and its effects on our health. The final activity was to create a leaflet giving advice on how to take care of our eyes and health nowadays that we use so many devices.  After the first days spending so many hours in front of the laptop, I realised my eyes were suffering from being too much time working online or answering messages on the mobile phone... So I decided that I could create a presentation warning about the negative effectes of too much exposure to blue light. This presentation could be useful for both 5th graders who would be able to "finish" the project and to give advice to 4th and 6th graders. And there was Powtoon! I created the video below with Powtoon ...

BREAK OUT EDU During the lockdown I created my first Break Out Edu with  Genial.ly . My students loved it and I received lots of messages saying how much fun they had had with the Break Out Edu. Here you have the Break Out Edu entitled "The vaccine". My students had to discover where the vaccine was. They could revise concepts they had already learned at school. Click on the photo to access the Break Out Edu ↓↓↓ Eva💖

First Friday of my summer holidays and yes, here I am posting 😅 Today I want to share with you my experience as a speaker at "IV Jornada de Cultura Digital", which this year had to held on 18th May online due to the COVID19 crisis. It was my first time participating in this event and I'm very glad to have been able to share with other colleagues my favourite digital tools. I invite you to watch the webinar: Eva💖

Happy Thursday! Today I want to share something I introduce in my CLIL Science lessons a year ago. Do you use BITMOJIS to motivate your students? A couple of years ago, I discovered bitmojis on instagram thanks to Alba Sabuco from  @parentesis.educacion  and I immediately fell in love with them. So I decided to use bitmojis to motivate my students' progress. I selected five bitmojis and I created a template so that my students could be aware of their progress in: ✔️ Participation ✔️ Group Work ✔️ English (if they use English to communicate with the teacher and their classmates) ✔️ Content I turned the bitmojis into stickers photocopying the bitmojis in adhesive paper. Then I cut them and kept them in little boxes (one for each type of bitmoji) . Then I gave a copy of the template to each student. I promise that the involvementt in my classes changed a lot: more students were participating, more students were using English, more students were engaged in group work.... They want...