Environmental Health - Student Portal

Today I want to write about a very useful website for those interested in Environmental Health.

Here, you will find interesting materials on climate change to work with your students. The materials are organized in four major categories:

• Air Pollution.
• Chemicals.
• Climate Change.
• Water Pollution. 

As you can see, not only the layout, but also the language is student-friendly, so it will be very easy to use in your classroom.

For each topic you will find easy and clear explanations with links to websites with higher level of the language, videos, games and even experiments that you could carry out with your classes.

I hope you enjoy it. 

KIDDLE - the new child-friendly search engine

Today I want to present a new search engine especially designed for kids.

It offers a safe search, which is very important, as well a very simple interface. It is a visual search engine, so the results it provides are more appropriate for kids. This is for example what you are shown when you search the word "Africa".

     

According to Kiddle policy, the first three results provided have been chosen by the Kiddle team, the following 4 results are children friendly and provide simple and positive explanations, the rest -that is, from the 8th result onwards- are offered by the safe search of Google. 

Kiddle omits some words or chain of words that may be sensitive. For example, this is what you get if you look ut the word "penis", even though we know they study it at Primary school. 

In other cases, it offers a considerably different kind of results, if we compare it what the results Google offers. This is what your kids would get, if they look up "breast" on kiddle. As you can see, totally different from what you had got in Google. 

            

This may be an interesting suggestion to use only with younger students because it may be too limited due to censorship. If you like this kind of children friendly search engines you can also have a try with these other two chil-friendly search engines. 

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY

March is Women's History Month and we will also celebrate the International Women's Day on March 8th. Thus, it is a great opportunity to explore women's contributions and achievements throughout history.

I want to present you some interesting websites that I am sure will give you some ideas to use in your classes.

On this website yu will find different materials; not only learning materials and lesson plans, but you will also find quizzes to check your knowledge about the topic.

National Women's History Museum. On this website, you will be able to view different exhibits that give an insight to women's history. There you will also find a section called "education and resources" where you will find several lesson plans. 

Some more lesson plans can be found on the website of the Library of Congress. 

Science Netlinks is a website where you will be able to find the importance of women in science and many different lesson plans. 

On My Hero, you will find lesson plans and lots of stories about women's contribution to different aspects and disciplines. 

To finish this collection of lesson plans and ideas to celebrate the International Women's day you can have a look at his interesting website. 

I hope you will find something interesting and useful to work with your students. 

Anyway, It is true that there is a lot to celebrate but there is still a long way to go in order to get gender parity!!

Website with resources for all levels

I want to present this website to all of you. After checking some of the material, I think it can be useful, especially for primary and CLIL teachers.

The first thing you will probably notice is that the website asks you to register and after doing it you will access for free a great amount of materials: games, worksheets, activities and lesson plans.

The materials on this website are organized by level and subject, the main categories being: maths, social studies, science, reading, writing and ESL. You will also find some interesting science projects designed for students ranging form kindergarten to high school students.

In the MORE section you will find some very intuitive tools to create your own worksheets and puzzles very easily. After creating them you can downloaded and print them or you can save them in pdf format. To see an example you can click HERE. 

If you take your time surfing this website, I am sure you will find interesting and useful materials.

USBORNE QUICKLINKS

Today I want to tell you about USBORNE QUICKLINKS, which are links for Internet-linked books.

Usborne publishing company offers a wide variety of books covering different topics specially designed for young students. Although some of the books are very good, especially for those teachers using CLIL (Content AND LANGUAGE INTEGRATED LEARNING), today I want to focus on the huge list of Internet liks those books provide. 

But let me give you a couple of examples of the links we can easily find when going through these books. 

This is the first link you come accross when having a look at a book about "The Solar System".

 

You will also find books about geography, art and history, encyclopedias, dictionaries, music, nature, religion, cooking and dinosaurs among others. Let me show you another interesting link taken from a book called "Complete book of the human body"

The brain and senses is just another example of the kind of activities for different levels you will find if you take the time to explore the hundreds of links in these series of books.

I hope you will enjoy them.