2021 online course:

VIDEOS: YOUTUBE CHANNELS

Shared by Miryan Hernando:

Videos are a great tool to introduce and prepare content language and instruction for teaching practice according to your aims: anticipation, deduction, agreement, disagreement, possibility, probability, conclusion...

This is a list of YouTube Channels that I like for my lessons and that you can use for this activity.

- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCE9mrcoX-oE-2f1BL-iPPoQ World Bank has many videos very useful for Geography

- https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/becoming-modern/romanticism/romanticism-in-france/v/g-ricault-raft-of-the-medusa-1818-19?modal=1 Great videos analysing works of art from KHAN Academy.

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDQ1Lf3N1hk Some humour for the French Revolution

- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXVCgDuD_QCkI7gTKU7-tpg/featured National geography for kids

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHQZErtwA3E Why not mixing History and Halloween? From History channel.

- https://www.youtube.com/user/TEDEducation/videos A lot of stuff on TED education videos

- https://www.youtube.com/user/historyteachers/videos History teachers videos with famous songs…It is a MUST!

BREAK OUTS and ESCAPE ROOMS

Break outs are a great source of inspiration. Perhaps -when and if - you have some time you can adapt it or create a similar one for your students according to their level.

These pages have some of them for free and useful advise when designing them:

- https://www.activehistory.co.uk/escape_room/

- https://sites.google.com/view/escapinginsocialstudies/home

- https://www.brainyapples.com/2018/07/09/social-studies-escape-rooms/

Shared by Miryan Hernando

Escape rooms and break outs are a good resources for the last days of the term, even though there is more than just "playing the game" behind them, I leave you here some "experiences" already designed:

LA DAMA escape room from the "Archivos de Castilla y León"
EL ORO DE MOSCÚ by Juanjo Nervión

I've tried "El oro de Moscú" last year during the lockdown. My class was set in two groups who were competing one against the other, but I have to say that class level was very high, I had a couple of students (one in each team) of "Altas Capacidades" and I prepared some material for the teams in advance, to make the challenges easier for them.

This year, by the end of this term I've tried this one QUIQUE CASTILLO with my 3º ESO students, and it was easy and fine for them. The idea is to work on the third term with my English and Spanish literacy teachers to crete one, combining the content of cities from 3º ESO.

And if you are more about paper... Here you have your choice in Spanish

INTERACTIVE MAPS:

https://mapasinteractivos.didactalia.net/en/community/mapasflashinteractivos/resource/capital-cities-of-europe/747aa5c4-1168-4968-bdaf-0e00bdd801e5

European Union learning materials:

https://europa.eu/learning-corner/learning-materials_en?keyword=&topic=All&age_group%5B%5D=84&=Envoyer

CELEBRATE EUROPE DAY: https://www.celebrateeuropeday.net/

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KoTZWMBj84hZAUgiQ_em_nvoQWuzV0Gs/view?usp=sharing

RosaLiarte: https://leccionesdehistoria.com/

-profesora de Geografía e Historia

-Experta en TICs aplicada a la educación

-Formadora

Shared by Miryam Hernández:

practicalhistories: 

@practicalhisto1 

"Practical Hisotries is a free history magazine providing passionalte advice and tips to all history teachers".

Ángel S. García has created this blog http://ccssbilingue.blogspot.com/ which has many activities and resources tagged by Year and Content.

Shared by Sonia Cuevas:

In this vocabulary activity students "identify the concepts during the unit, both in Enlish and Spanish, and explain them to their classmates.

Flippity helps you to create games: to play bingo, design crosswords and more.

Shared by Miryan Hernando:

SPICE UP YOUR ENGLISH CLASS WITH LITERARY TEXTS

A blog by CFPI with some nice ideas on how to introduce literary texts and interesting links to the resources

Google Arts & culture

A bunch or resources where you and your students always find something you like.

Nice You Tube channel from Alberto Fraile Vicente

with a wide and good selection of videos.

2020 online course:

Free Social Studies Worksheets

Isabel Gejo comparte este recurso:

You can find an important number of worksheets and projects for different levels and contents in this website. https://www.edhelper.com/Social_Studies.htm

Document Based Activities

Document Based Activities

World Problems and Issues

World Problems and Issues

Social Studies Mixed Review Practice
     First grade social studies questions
     Second grade social studies questions
     Third grade social studies questions
     Fourth grade social studies questions
     Fifth grade social studies questions
     Sixth grade social studies questions

Social Studies Theme Units

		Grades 2-3 Social Studies Wendy's World Series

		American Government

		United States History and Theme Units

		Canadian Theme Unit

		Country Theme Units

		Economics

		Famous Educators

		Geography

		History of Mathematics

		How Can I Help?

		Explorers

		Biographies

		Crime and Terrorism

		Ancient America

		Ancient China

		Ancient Egypt

		Ancient Greece

		Ancient India

		Ancient Mesopotamia

		Ancient Rome

		World Religion

		Middle Ages

		Renaissance

		European History: 1600s-1800s

		Inventors and Inventions

		World War I

		World War II

		History of Books and Writing

		World Wonders

Life Skills

Life Skills

Time Lines

Create your own time lines!

Geography numeracy and literacy mats.

Miryam Hernando shares two word mats that could help when promoting communicative skills from the website of This is geography

Numeracy mat for Geography

Literacy mat for Geography

GEOGRAPHY IMAGES

Over 20 clearly-labelled, colour images for CLIL geography lessons. These versatile geography images and diagrams can be used to supplement secondary CLIL geography lessons.

Each image comes in two versions: one with text labels completed and one with labels left blank for students to write in. You can use the images in information-gap speaking activities, display them on classroom walls, create flashcards or project the images to the class online.

Inside Geography images

RECYCLING ACTIVITY

Shared by Fernando Martín:

"My activity was about recycling Arts, and I think this activity could be very interesting to develop with other subjects too.

This is the link for the process:

https://www.weareteachers.com/recycle-drop-game/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_campaign=PepsiCoRecy_1712_Art4Kerplunk&utm_content=1541799257&utm_medium=social
Kids love this Recycle drop game:"

ONLINE TEACHING AND LEARNING

Miriam Hernando shares about online teaching: two helpful and meaningful
infographics.

https://twitter.com/GmedranoTIC/status/1240240856893923328/photo/1

https://www.educarex.es/pub/cont/com/0064/documentos/10_consejos_clasesencasa.pdf

I strongly recommend David Ruiz's blog http://www.elblogdelsrruiz.com/ with many tools organized according to your needs and briefly and wonderfully explained:

http://www.elblogdelsrruiz.com/p/web-20.html

PLAYING WITH MAPS

By Miryam Hernando:

I love maps and I hace recently discovered this website where you could play a little bit with maps. i tried with students and they loved it!!
http://hanshack.com/figuregrounder/

This is the image for the area where my school is

MEMES IN HISTORY

By Miryam Hernando:

Last week I came across with these "memes" and decided to use them as starters for the Russian Revolution or as a review for checking understanding.

Amalia Ugarte: Last term I prepared a challenge with my students: they had to create memes connected with the Middle Ages. It was really funny!

STARTERS

Starters are a good tool either to begin or as final reflection on the lesson. This Power Point gives you plenty of ideas to use them.

Resource provided by Miryam Hernando.

Click on the image.

This web page has plenty of lessons for your subject and you can also share it with your colleagues. https://cutt.ly/Zr461d6

TEACHER WELLBEING

Buenos días
Comparto estos recursos de teachitenglish.co.uk en estos últimos días de curso.
Nuestro bienestar como profesores es fundamental para una escuela saludable y para la salud mental de los alumnos.
This is a summary and a sample, but you have the whote document uploaded:

10 golden rules of mental health wellbeing

Andy Sammons, Head of Department and author of 'The Compassionate Teacher' @compassionteach, shares 10 rules you should follow to help you handle the demands of teacher workload and limit your chances of reaching burnout.

Paying attention to your mental health

By the time I worked it out, it was too late. It took about six months, but by the time depression descended on me, there was no going back. Even now, feeling better about life, I look back on that time in horror – horror at the place I went to mentally, and horror at what I put my family through.

Two things are clear to me now. Firstly, although humans are remarkable, our brains are faulty in the sense that unless we pay attention to them, there will be payback in terms of mental health. Secondly, notwithstanding this, our current educational context makes teachers extremely vulnerable to mental health issues.

The way I see it, anxiety and depression are two sides of the same coin – one fuels the other. Once you get your head around that relationship, you can begin to understand and be wary about the warning signs. Anxiety is an evolutionary mechanism designed to help us stay out of danger; the only problem is that problems we now perceive in the modern day are of a different nature to those we evolved to survive.

The physiological consequences for too much anxiety and stress are long term. Over a long period of time, too much of it leads us to feel differently about the world, and there is an evolutionary basis for depression too.

During the six months I allude to above, on reflection, there were some fairly recognisable symptoms. And when I map it onto the types of things one might do to keep going and survive, I did something foolish: I turned from a human being into a human doing. In other words, I chased the tick-list. I chased the completion of tasks. I chased getting to the end of a workload that was an impossibility.

How I became a human doing

How did this manifest at home? Anything related to being a human became an inconvenience. I stopped watching my nutrition. I stopped talking with my wife. And I stopped spending time with my family. When my little boy cried in the night, my stomach would lurch and send me into a panic because I’d be terrified of not getting my work done the next day. The thought of spending time with my family became terrifying, not an escape or a welcome distraction. There was simply no escape from my newly crafted mental hell.

All the while, I ramped up the pressure on myself to keep on top of the fight I’d never win. My sleep deteriorated – I’d wake up during the night five or six times to check my ‘to do’ list. Slowly, cracks appeared at work, and I couldn’t keep up. An email could send my heart racing, or a student falling behind would induce me to a breathless panic. Effectively, my brain lost the ability to truly distinguish between credible threats and the things less worth panicking about.

The key? Sweat the small stuff. Notice your emotions, their triggers, and what you can put in place to alleviate the strains.

The resource below includes ten actions you can put in place right now. This resource accompanies Andy's article: 'Anxiety and depression, the terrible twins: what they are and how to spot them'.

Example golden rule

5. Be you. Remember, you are you, and not just a teacher. Give yourself the time and space to be that person outside of the building – the key is to create the space to ‘decompress’ and experience life outside of the cauldron. Having experienced it myself, staying in the cauldron only makes things worse.

Take care of yourselves.

When teaching a subject in English, we are sometimes stressed because we are not really sure if the students have understood a certain topic or exercise.

I want to stress that students also have difficulties with the subjects taught in Spanish, and teachers worry about it too. Rephrasing and asking for clarification using simple sentences are good tools.

Perhaps we could share come of the expressions and vocabulary we use in the classroom. Le me begin with it with a couple of resources:

I. Poster.

Very useful for the students if you place some copies on the classroom walls or you hand out a copy to each of them.
Source: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/6f/bb/eb/6fbbeb7830bc35702f143666fcf499c2.jpg

II.
Checking for Understanding:

Do you understand?

Are you following me?

Do you understand what I mean?

Do you understand what I’m saying?

Any questions?

Got it?

Expressing lack of understanding:

I don’t get it.

Sorry, I didn’t get your point.

What do you mean?

I’m not sure I got your point.

I beg your pardon, but I don’t quite understand.

I don’t quite follow you.

I’m sorry. I don’t understand what you mean.

Sorry, I didn’t quite hear what you said.

Asking for clarification:

Could you clarify that, please?

Could you explain that, please?

What do you mean by that?

Could you say that again, please?

Could you repeat, please?

Could you put it differently, please?

Clarifying:

Sorry, let me explain…

Let me clarify it for you…

To put it differently…

Let me put it in another way…

Showing Understanding:

I see.

I understand.

I got it.

Ok, I got what you mean.

I understand what you mean.

If you want to practice pronuntiation, listen from this is the source: https://basicenglishspeaking.com/checking-understanding-english/

https://nancy-rubin.com/2012/08/18/critical-thinking-skills/

This is a useful poster which gives practical examples of questions that can be used at any stage of the assessment process. It connects Bloom's Taxonomy and Thinking Skills.

In this link you will find a webpage where you could customize your graphic organizers for your lesson (it allows you to personalize the headings and some content elements, you could save to PDF and it provides the graph with default instructions)

https://graphicorganizer.net/index.php?v=&delete=24057760

In your students' opinion, what memory would be worthwhile saving for future generations?

https://en.unesco.org/programme/mow

UNESCO’s Memory of the World Programme promotes the preservation and access to humanity’s documentary heritage.
The main objective of the Programme is to ensure the preservation, by the most appropriate means, of documentary heritage which has world significance and to encourage the preservation of documentary heritage which has national and regional significance.
Another element of the Programme is to raise awareness in the Member States of their documentary heritage, in particular aspects of that heritage which are significant in terms of a common world memory.
The Programme seeks to develop products based on this documentary heritage and make them available for wide distribution, while ensuring that the originals are maintained in the best possible conditions of conservation and security.

This is a very interesting project by UNESCO, but there also some smaller and nice projects to preserve memories.
Here I leave a link https://storycorps.org/about/ to an oral project to preserve memories, it is less offcial but it a nice project that you could use in two ways: