World Population

Today´s new lesson is about the World Population, so let´s make a quizz ...

World population is growing and growing and so on: World Clock & World Population

World Population History: click here

Some interesting facts about this topic:

Extra video for my bilingual students, very funny and interesting:

One more video from this unique scientist:

Grecia: Historia y Arte

Para repasar un poco de la Historia de Grecia os propongo este test; para trabajar el Arte: uno de arquitectura y otro de escultura.
Bilingual challenge: build your own greek temple in this site!
Los ejercicios los haceis en el cuaderno de clase.

Suerte y a disfrutar de lo Clásico.
Y además, este práctico video sobre arquitectura griega:

 No olvideis realizar un dibujo esquemático sobre los tres tipos de órdenes.

Mesopotamia y Egipto

En esta entrada vamos a ver algunos enlaces de actividades de repaso asi como algún puzzle y otros juegos online (in english!!).

Enlaces:

1. Actividades de repaso

2. Actividades de repaso (II)

3. Puzzle relieve mesopotámico

4. Ancient Egypt (British Museum)

5. Mesopotamia (British Museum)

6. Mapa interactivo de Egipto y Mesopotamia
Para poder realizar el puzzle: aquí 

Ziggurats in Ancient Mesopotamia. The Ziggurat of Ur

A beautiful sumerian temple from the Ancient Mesopotamia:

- A Ziggurat quiz test
- The Ziggurat of Ur

Ancient Egypt: Hieroglyphics and Number System

New activities from the Ancient Egypt:

1. Hieroglyphic Typewriter

2. The Egyptian Number System
3. Maths Problems

Blood in your Mobile

Today´s lesson is about Conflict Minerals: the 3Ts
We are going to watch this interesting Tedtalk by Bandi Mbubi from Congo talking about cell phones and fair trade

If you are still interested in this topic then watch this heart breaking documentary: click here

La Prehistoria

Una nueva entrada sobre el Proceso de Hominización y la Prehistoria.

Enlaces:
- Presentación Principales Etapas de la Prehistoria.
- Cuestionario Prehistoria.
- Actividades.
- Completar Paleolítico y Neolítico.
- Arte Rupestre.
- Pintar como un Prehistórico.

Además, os dejo el interesantísimo video sobre los dolmenes de Antequera que hemos visto en clase

Y la recreación de un ritual funerario en este mágico lugar

 Y para finalizar, os dejo un enlace donde encontrareis las dos fichas de inglés de este tema.

Sweatshop: Moda barata de la Muerte (Story of Stuff)

Recientemente la televisión noruega realizó un curioso reality: un pequeño grupo de jóvenes ha vivido y compartido experiencias con trabajadoras camboyanas del sector textil. Es muy ilustrativo en lo que se refiere a las condiciones laborales y personales de estas empleadas.
Aquí os dejo el enlace: Sweatshop 2ª temporada (con subtítulos en español)./ O en inglés.
(enlace Sweatshop 1ª temporada)

Otro documento muy interesante, del programa de TVE El escarabajo verde, sobre el consumismo y propuestas de vida alternativa a este: Sin compras no hay paraiso.

Esta entrada está relacionada con el proyecto de bilingüe, Story of Stuff.

European Union

Here you have some useful resources for the EU lesson:
. The EU & Me Quiz
. EU puzzle
. Match the Flags

All the information required above comes from these links:
. EU and Me
. EU Facts and Figures

And finally here are the EU activities (in case you miss the worksheet)

Extra: schemes about the EU institutions

Classroom Vocabulary

Hi,
Here is the Classroom Vocabulary list in case you need it!!
Hope it is useful for you all.

By the way, we all are going to have a great year!!!!

How to make a teepee/prehistoric shelter

Hi, here is some information about how to make a prehistoric tent/shelter:

              diccionario de imágenes

              diccionario de símbolos I

              diccionario de símbolos II

              cómo hacer un tipi de papel I

              cómo hacer un tipi de papel II

              tutorial de cómo hacer un tipi (video)

              juego construcción tipi online

              decoración de tipi

             

  . How to make a teepee link
. Classroom activity sheet

              

Introduction to Ancient Greece

Hi, here we are again with .... Ancient Greece!!!!
Today we are going to watch some interesting videos about Greece in the Ancient Times!!!

10 Amazing Facts about Ancient Greece

A brief Timelime of Ancient Greece

And just in case you lost the worksheet ....click here to download it

The Weather Report Lesson

Para el trabajo de este tema, Weather and Climate, vamos a elaborar una presentación con un mapa del tiempo.
Aquí os dejo el enlace donde encontrareis los mapas que os he asignado en clase:
Weather Forecast Maps

Hope you learn a lot!

Some useful links for the project:
1. Listen to audio weather reports
2. The Weather song
3. A Weather forecast (BBC)
4. Phrases about the Weather
5. Talking about the Weather in English

Prehistory (BBC Bitesize)

Here is a very useful link about Prehistory from BBC education website: Prehistoric Britain.

Hope you find it interesting!!!

Another interesting link: Human Evolution by The Smithsonian Museum.

Brexit: things we need to know about it

EU referendum Your guide to the UK's biggest political decision of the century

Britain is facing a huge decision on 23 June. Here are the answers to all your questions. 
(source: theguardian.co.uk)

Creating a World War II Propaganda Poster

During times of war, governments often resort to propaganda. For this new lesson we are going to analyse one of these posters and design your own propaganda poster.

A very interesting story about one of the most famous posters:

First make groups of two (you will work in pairs).
Steps:
1. Choose the poster you are going to analyse and print it.
2. Considering the poster chosen, answer the following questions (write down the answers at the back of the poster):

• Who is the creator of these images?
• Why were they created?
• Who is the target audience?
• What biases are they portraying?
• What is the perspective of the creators of the posters?
• How effective are the posters in persuading someone to think, believe, or act in a certain way about something?

3. Now create your own propaganda poster ( and answer the questions above as well, once again at the back of it).
4. Review your classmates' posts.
5. Thoughtfully respond to your classmates about whether you agree or disagree with their responses to the propaganda posters.


Poster possible topics:
· Enlistment and recruitment (any branch of the armed forces)
· Financing of the war (war bonds/liberty bonds)
· The role of women
· Rationing during the war
· The home front (war production, changes in people’s everyday lives)
· Possible negative effects of Axis victory in the war
· Aiding our allies
· The evils of fascism
· Why we need to fight our enemies

The poster must be drawn on an A-4 sheet of paper and will be graded on your use of color, imagery, and word/phrases included in your poster. Neatness will also factor into your final grade.

What is the European Union?

Two interesting videos about the EU:

And from the BBC Newsbeat: What is the EU?

Two useful links about the EU:
1. The EU in slides
2. Learneurope

3. The last but not the least: Europe Map Quiz

Furthermore, here is the map and capitals activity:

And finally, the rubric for the Oral Presentation:

Cold War: Fallout Can Be Fun

Heres is an useful link for your Bomb Shelter project with detail information:
. Underground Bomb Shelter

Germany and the WWII: maps

Here is a link with several maps related to Germany, the Holocaust and War Victims.(from the Diktat to the Nuremberg Trials).

Imperialismo y Colonialismo S. XIX

En el nuevo tema que vamos a trabajar comenzaremos con el Imperialismo. Aquí teneis algunos enlaces de repaso así como las fichas y esquemas que trabajaremos en clase.
Para repasar esta parte del tema os dejo unos ejercicios:
- El reparto europeo de África .
- Metropolis y Colonias

Además hay que realizar un mapa del mundo donde aparezcan las metrópolis y sus colonias (empleando los colores que se os indica), podeis tomar como referencia este mapa o el que aparece a continuación:

Para la parte bilingüe veremos los siguientes videos:

Y no podía faltar una parodia de los Monty Python, esta ocasión en La Vida de Brian: