My CLIL Science Corner

  HELLO! HELLO!   How are you doing? It's the countdown!  The end of the school year is always stressful and the temperature isn't helping at all   But... teachers are here to help    Two days ago @teach.and.learn.english shared a post about REVISION GAMES (visit her account to read it) on Instagram and I decided to create a new version of the game called "GIVE ME FIVE"  . Today 3rd graders have played this game and you can't imagine how much they have loved it!  How to play GIVE ME FIVE   I have created a wheel with the topics I wanted my students to revise. I have used the app "Wheel of names" to create the wheel (Click on the image to play "Give me five"  I have divided the students in 5 groups and I have given each group a sheet of paper, a pencil and a rubber  It's time to spin the wheel! They have had 1 minute to write 5 words about that topic. I have used the app online-stopwatch to control the time  The speake...

  Hello! Hello! Today I would like to share with you the CLIL unit  I prepared for my 10-11 year-old students during the third term. Kids love animals whether they are vertebrates or invertebrates, don't they? Since they had already studied the vertebrates in L1, their teachers and I agreed to deal with the INVERTEBRATES .  Invertebrate animals are more present in our lives than we  think; that's why I decided to entitled this unit: WHAT INVERTEBRATES LIVE AROUND US? As usual, I follow the steps described in the post " How I plan a CLIL unit or project ". These are the activities that I planned: 1) DIFFERENCES BETWEEN VERTEBRATES AND INVERTEBRATES.  I  created a presentation with several slides. In slide 1 there were two groups of animals: Group 1 (vertebrates) and Group 2 (invertebrates). The title of this slide was : " What are the differences between these two groups of animals?   Students could already identify the characteristics of vertebrates, ...

  HAPPY WEDNESDAY! 💓 Teachers, how many times have you asked your students to do an investigation and when they search for information on Internet, the web pages they find are too difficult for them to understand? In my case, I teach Science in English and that happens most of the time. However... Look! 👀 KIDDLE is a visual search engine for kids , offering safe kids webs, image and video search. It is in English, so it is perfect for CLIL and English teachers.  How is KIDDLE designed specifically for kids? Have a look at the images below: Did you know about Kiddle?  What do you do to help your students search for appropriate information? Eva💕

Good afternoon teachers! Have you realised it's just four weeks until the end of the school year? This countdown makes me feel stressed, but I had to share with you this tip my 6th graders shared with me two weeks ago. As you may have read in other posts, I use videos in my CLIL Science classes to clarify concepts, to introduce content... (you can also  read a post " Videos and Songs for your CLIL Science Lessons" ). This term my students are learning about "Invertebrate animals". I wanted them to search for their own information and I suggested them watching some videos I had found on Youtube. The content and the language were quite good for my students, but the character spoke too fast. When I arrived in class, I told them about the videos and explained them we were going to watch the videos several times because the character spoke too fast. Some of the students raised their hand and said: "Don't worry, Eva! You can slow down the playback speed"...

  Good evening! How was your day? Mine was great, but now I am exhausted. However, I don't want to go to bed without sharing with this post. How many times have you asked your students to do an investigation and when they search for information on Intenet, the web pages they find are too difficult for them to understand? As you know, I teach Science in English and that happens most of the time. Some months ago I discovered KIDDLE . KIDDLE is a visual search engine for kids, offering safe kids webs, image and video search. It is in English, so it is perfect for CLIL and English teachers. Keep reading to find out how it works: 1. SAFE SEARCH . Sites appearing in KIDDLE search results satisfy family friendly requirements. 2. KIDS-ORIENTED RESULTS . KIDDLE returns the results in the following order: 3. BIG THUMBNAILS . Most KIDDLE results are illustrated with big thumbnails. Thumbnails serve as visual clue and are especifically beneficial to kids as they don't read as fast as ad...

Happy Monday! 💖   Videos and songs are always a wonderful resource for foreign language teaching. Why not using them in your CLIL classes? During all of my years of CLIL teaching I have been using songs and videos to support the contents I was teaching. Both videos and songs have helped clarify Science concepts. During all these years I have been saving them in USB external memories, but I must confess that from time to time I have been struggling to find songs or videos I knew I had, but I didn't know where to find them.  Then I came up with the idea of compiling them in a Google Sites . So, I created one Google Sites: " VIDEOS FOR YOUR CLIL SCIENCE LESSONS " and " S ONGS FOR YOUR CLIL SCIENCE LESSONS ". In both Sites I have classified them by the learning units I am teaching. Click on the photos below to have access to both compilations. If you have liked these two Sites, save the links because I will be uploading new videos and new songs which may be useful...

  HIYA! It's been a long time since I wanted to share with you this article: "Can CLIL make you a better teacher?" Some weeks ago I asked you on Instagram if CLIL could make you a better teacher and most of the teachers answered it could. I strongly think CLIL has allowed me to grow as a teacher and to develop new skills, which I don't know if I would have acquired if I had not enganged in the CLIL adventure in 2009. When I first attended my first CLIL training, the curriculum of Catalonia was changing and it meant that our teaching style had to change too. Yes, it was the beginning of the new curriculum  with the core competences, the key competences,  the domains and a new assessment approach. How has CLIL made me a better teacher? I had the opportunity to be granted with a paid leave by the Department of Education of Catalonia in 2009. Back then, the Department of Education would concede paid leaves to Catalan teachers willing to be trained in CLIL  at the Univers...

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 ...

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💖