My CLIL Science Corner

  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, ...

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"...

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...