By Jara María Fernández
By Alejandro Gil
I perform this activity when the energy theme arrives. It works very well with the groups of the first years of ESO.
It consists of making a solar kitchen (or solar oven) with recycled materials: one or two cardboard boxes, sheets of newspaper for thermal insulation, some aluminum foil and some plastic film to let the sun's rays go through.
We dedicate two or three classes to make them and one for them to make a report with the materials used and the steps they have followed.
Finally we use them! When recess is over they put in a pizza or a sandwich and I prepare some fruit sticks with melted chocolate... delicious!!!
By Javier Magdaleno
I share with you this link with YouTube art Channels
https://www.educatorstechnology.com/2022/03/best-youtube-art-channels-for-teachers.html?m=
By Esperanza Oraa
1. An offline resource may be the traditional game JENGA. You can use it to practise vocabulary, grammar, reading comprehension, reviewing before an exam,....
Write a number in every wooden piece. This number correspond to a question you have previously written in a table, list,... They have to give answer the question when they take the wooden piece.
2. An online resource may be the Wheel of the Names.
Create your own wheel to practice any item in your lessons. For example: You can write different adjectives on the wheel, and they have to make sentences using its comparative or its superlative forms.
By Verónica González
A web page where you will find lots of articles and resources about different subjects, methodological approaches, activities... there is also a blog with hundreds of usual entries for teachers.
https://www.agorabierta.com/blogm/
By Leyre Estébanez
LyricsTraining can be particularly useful to teachers looking for a fun and entertaining way to teach new words and help students improve their listening skills. Although it's most appropriate for older kids, teachers could potentially use it with younger English-language learners, provided that they carefully curate age-appropriate titles. It's easy to use this site's print options to curate cloze-reading passages using students' favorite songs.
This app is very motivating. It can be downloaded in the phone or tablet or you can use it on the Internet. It has different levels and languages. You have to choose a song and the activity (multiple choice or karaoke) and play! Great fun specially for teenagers while they practice their listening.
By Jara María Fernández
FIND THE FICTION:
This is a Cooperative Learning structure suggested by Kagan. It is mainly a problem-solving task. It is fun because students need to search for the truth so that they can guess the fib. The teacher starts giving three statements about his personal issues to the class. Two of the statements are true, and one is false. Taking turns around the team, one student at a time reads their three statements as if they are all true. The other students on the team can talk to each other about which statement they think is the FIB.
What kind of person do you think I am? What have I done in my life or where have I been to?
Here there are three statements about myself. Two statements are true and one of them is false. What sentence is false according to you?
I can speak Swedish.
I have been to New York.
I’m from Barcelona.
Online resources:
I use this resource for flipped classroom activities. Students are assigned to watch a video and answer the questions at their own pace. Students can also be tracked by the teacher if the teacher sends them a class code. As a teacher, you can also create your own activities with authentic material (ted talks, songs, etc) and this material can be adapted based on the difficulty of questions related to the video.
