Technology Interactive Websites November 14, 2007

 

1. This is an interesting game for simple machines:

 

2. This is another game for compound machines:

 

 3. Glossary with the terms used in both games

Physical education websites September 13, 2007

PHYSICAL EDUCATION WEBSITES

Powerpoints for PE: excellent

1.http://www.physicaleducation.co.uk/POWERPOINTPRESENTATIONS/powerpoint_presentations.htm 

2. http://www.pppst.com/pe.html

Other activities

1. BBC: Physical education: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/pe/fitness/

2.    Olympic games: http://www.olympic.org/uk/sports/index_uk.asp

3.       Winter sports: rules and equipment: http://www.usolympicteam.com/kids/learn/rat_index.shtml

4.       Winter sports games: http://www.usolympicteam.com/kids/games/index.shtml#

5.       Fitness  terminology: http://www.farmington.k12.mn.us/fms/pe/outlines/8fitterms/8fitterms.html 

http://www.farmington.k12.mn.us/fms/pe/meier/meier.html

http://www.farmington.k12.mn.us/fms/pe/powerpoint/fitnessterms/fitnessterms_files/frame.htm 

http://www.farmington.k12.mn.us/fms/pe/powerpoint/nutrition/nutrition_files/frame.htm

6.       Aerobics: excellent with videos: http://www.cardiokidz.co.uk/aerobic_moves.php

7.       No smoking: interdisciplinary activities against smoking: http://www.wv-hsta.org/TeacherInfo/NIH_Modules/time_for_a_change/module/graftonhsB2.htm

8.       Smoking aerobic: activity to show how smoking affects your daily routines: http://www.pecentral.org/lessonideas/ViewLesson.asp?ID=930

9.       Soccer and baseball: equipment and rules: http://www.freewebs.com/11sports11/theequipment.htm  

10.       How to be active: http://www.education.gov.ab.ca/physicaleducationonline/  in French too.

11.    Different activities: http://tms.ecol.net/fitness/actindex.htm

12.     Jump rope skills: http://library.thinkquest.org/5407/skills.html

13.    Printable activities: http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=3003419

14.    Links to the body: http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/web/humanbo.html

15.    How my body works: great with videos: http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/closet/movies/how_the_body_works_interim.html

16.    Body parts: great with sound: http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/schools/4_11/tykids/

17.    BBC website: interactive body: muscles: http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/

18.    Teaching physical education in English:      http://www.eduweb.vic.gov.au/curriculumatwork/esl/es_hpe.htm

19.    Healthy food: http://www.vitaminix.tv/eng/foods.html 

20.    My body: excellent interactive explanations in Spanish and English: http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/body/mybody_SW.html

21.   Animations: http://www.sportunterricht.de/animation/laani.html

22.    Clipart sport images: http://www.topendsports.com/clipart/

23.   It´s up to you: good listenings: http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/schools/4_11/uptoyou/healthy/foodfitness.shtml

24.   Food and activities: http://www.galaxy-h.gov.uk/new_mainmenu.html

25.   Health: http://wñ.74w.childrenfirst.nhs.uk/kids/health/

26.   Health: http://www.bam.gov/sub_yourbody/yourbody_insidescoop.html26.   Food white board: great lesson plans: http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/healthy_eating/eng/Introduction/default.htm

27.   Keeping healthy: run/sleep/walk a science clip with a quiz: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/9_10/keeping_healthy_fs.shtml

28.   The heart: http://www.platolearning.co.uk/demos/mss/demo_mss.php

29.    Exercise and health: whiteboard: http://www.lgfl.net/dbmaterial/web/learning%20objects/ls/Year%205%20Science%20Healthy%20Living/menu/?backto&verb=view

30.   Characteristics of animals: great for English: http://www.schooltrain.info/science/animals/groups/group_menu2.htm

31.    Health and physical activities: http://www.bam.gov/sub_physicalactivity/index.html

32.   Interactive body: http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/

33.   Body parts: white board: http://www.crickweb.co.uk/assets/resources/flash.php?&file=bodyparthtm  

34. Excellent website with vocabulary in Spanish and English about the most common sports: http://www.ctspanish.com/sports/sports.htm

35. Great website with interactives: http://www.education.gov.ab.ca/PhysicalEducationOnline/TeacherResources/ToolBox/interact.asp

36. It´s up to you!: website with an activity calendar on-line: http://www.bam.gov/sub_physicalactivity/index.html

37. Great website for young students: physical activities with gifs: http://www.lifebytes.gov.uk/phys/phys_try_circuit.html#pac

38. Excellent website about the body in English and Spanish:  with narrations: http://www.medtropolis.com/VBody.asp

Let’s organize things and make science! September 4, 2007

What is Science? 

“Science is organized knowledge” Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) English philosopher.

“Science is the systematic classification of experience” George Henry Lewes (1817-78) English writer and critic.

Natural sciences websites

•  Great website with games and white boards: http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks2science.html

• Human body and health: great: http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/body/brain_SW.html

• BBC: science games: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/revisewise/science/gamezone/index.shtml 

• Ecosystems: http://www.mbgnet.net/sets/grasslnd/index.htm 

• Graphics: http://www.k111.k12.il.us/lafayette/fourblocks/graphic_organizers.htm

• Mind maps :  http://www.nhcs.k12.nc.us/htree/Curriculum/ThinkingMaps.html#CM

• Nutrition food groups:  http://www.nutritionexplorations.com/kids/activities/arianna.asp 

• Science games: http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/revision/Science/living.htm 

• Powerpoint presentation:       http://www.graves.k12.ky.us/powerpoints/elementary/

• Science Webquests: weather, solar system: http://www.nelliemuller.com/elementary_school.htm 

• Nutrition and physical activities: A computer game:   http://mypyramid.gov/kids/kids_game.html# 

• Animal flashcard and activities: http://bogglesworldesl.com/cards.htm

• Anatomy: great: http://www.innerbody.com/image/skelfov.html 

• Nutrition:http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/schools/4_11/uptoyou/healthy/findnutrients.shtml 

• Human body: great with sounds: http://www.iknowthat.com/com/L3?Area=Science%20Lab

• Nutrition: http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/schools/4_11/uptoyou/healthy/fuelbox.shtml 

•  Volcanoes: game on the creation of volcanoes: www.internenes.com/programas/juego.php3?i=269 

• Animation about the animal cell and the plant cell: www.cellalive.com/cells/cell_model.html 

• Human body game: http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/schools/4_11/tykids/index.shtml 

• Body: www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/body/interactives/3djigsaw_02/index.shtml?organs 

• Bones: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/podsmission/bones/annie02.shtml 

•  Natural Habitats: http://www.iknowthat.com/com/L3?Area=Habitats 

• Sciences clip plant growth:www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/5_6/growing_plants.shtml 

• Natural Sciences links:http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/revision/Science/living.htm#3 

• Human body project by kids: http://www.apples4theteacher.com/elibrary/bodybook.html 

• Physics:www.zephyrus.co.uk/welcometophysics.html 

• BBC explanations: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/revisewise/science/living/ 

• Animals:A-Z: http://www.kbears.com/ks1.html 

• Nutrition: http://www.nutritionexplorations.org/kids/nutrition-pyramid.asp 

• Kidsbiology: biología para niños, teoría: http://www.kidsbiology.com/biology_basics/index.php

• Great videos: subscription: http://www.brainpop.com/

• Animal cell and a plant cell: great http://www.cellsalive.com/cells/cell_model.htm 

• Habitats: animals and photos: http://ngfl.northumberland.gov.uk/ict/AAA/desert.htm 

• 3D simulations activities: http://www.forgefx.com/casestudies/prenticehall/

• Stories about animals for the English class: http://www.sebastianswan.org.uk/index.html 

• Great whiteboard activities:http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Interactive.aspx?s=science&a=ks2

• Living things: http://www.fi.edu/tfi/units/life/index.html 

• Collection of biology links: http://naturalsciences.sdsu.edu/links.html#anchor39831 

• A walk in the wood: excellent listening exercises. http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/woods/59.html 

• Recycle city: http://www.epa.gov/recyclecity/dumptown.htm 

• A virtual voyage to the Universe: http://library.thinkquest.org/28327/ 

• Materials: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/science/materials.shtml 

• Solar system: http://www.solarsystem.org.uk/planet10/ you can build your own planet

• The earth: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/science/activities/earth_sun_moon.shtml 

• Atmosphere: diagram http://earthguide.ucsd.edu/earthguide/diagrams/atmosphere/index.html 

•  Nature explorer: http://www.naturegrid.org.uk/children.html

• Photosyntesis game:http://earthguide.ucsd.edu/earthguide/diagrams/photosynthesis/index.html 

• Greenhouse effect: http://earthguide.ucsd.edu/earthguide/diagrams/greenhouse/index.html 

• Universe: listening exercise: http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/StarChild.html 

• Land features:www.earthkam.ucsd.edu/public/students/activities/landformations/index.shtml 

• Astronomy: http://classroom.jc-schools.net/sci-units/earth.htm#Interactive_ 

• Weather: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/whatisweather/ 

• Water cycle:www.bbc.co.uk/schools/riversandcoasts/water_cycle/rivers/pg_02_flash.shtm 

• A trip to the forest: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/fun/deepjungle_flash.html 

• Scholastic books website: http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/science.jsp 

• The miracle of life: great videos: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/miracle/program.html

• Miracle actvities: http://www.biologycorner.com/worksheets/miracle.html 

• Biology websites: http://www.biologycorner.com/internetlessons.php 

• Videos about nature: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/index.html

• Energy with games: http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/ 

• Soil layers : simulation : http://www.forgefx.com/demos/soil-layers/soil_formation.html 

• Environment: http://www.epa.gov/region5/students/fun.htm 

• The earth: www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/planets_moons_dk_sides/eng/Introduction/default.htm

• Experiments: http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/dynamo/lab/make.shtml 

• Puberty: http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/body/interactives/lifecycle/teenagers/ 

• Atoms: http://www.echalk.co.uk/Science/chemistry/atomicStructure/atomicStructure.html  

• My body: in Spanish and English: http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/body/mybody_SW.html 

•  Cell ·D simulation: http://www.forgefx.com/casestudies/prenticehall/ph/cells/cells.htm 

• Eclipses and moon: http://www.forgefx.com/casestudies/prenticehall/ph/eclipse/eclipses.htm 

• Solar system: www.forgefx.com/casestudies/prenticehall/ph/solar_system/solarsystem.htm 

• Seasons : great white board :www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/seasons/eng/Introduction/default.htm

• Suscription to brainpop: great videos: http://www.brainpop.com  

• 2º E.S.O.Unit 1: Chemistry:

• Chemistry game: http://www.molecularium.com/kidsite.html

• Interactive periodic tables: http://www.touchspin.com/chem/DisplayTable.htmlhttp://www.chemicalelements.com/http://www.chemicool.com/  3.

• A visual periodic table: http://www.chemsoc.org/viselements/pages/periodic_table.html

• Excellent NASA website to build your own periodic table: http://www.genesismission.org/educate/scimodule/cosmic/ptable.html

• Periodic table game: http://www.echalk.co.uk/Science/chemistry/periodicTableGame/periodicTable.html

• A pdf printable periodic table: in colour and black and white http://education.jlab.org/beamsactivity/6thgrade/tableofelements/stu01.l.html

• Crosswords of elements and games: http://education.jlab.org/indexpages/elementgames.php

• Chemistry for kids: excellent easy explanations and images with quizzes: http://www.chem4kids.com/ 

• Chemistry lessons for kids: lesson 1: lab rules: http://www.saskschools.ca/curr_content/science9/chemistry/index.html 

• Pure substances: lesson 6: http://www.saskschools.ca/curr_content/science9/chemistry/lesson6.html

• Solids, liquids and gases: great interactive explanation: characteristics http://www.abpischools.org.uk/resources/solids-liquids-gases/slg2.asp

• Solid, liquids and gases: http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/online/solids4.swf

•  Changes of matter: interactive experiment: http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks3/science/changing_matter/index.htm  

• Liquids and solids: http://www.fossweb.com/modulesK-2/SolidsandLiquids/index.html  

• Atoms: eboard: http://www.echalk.co.uk/Science/chemistry/atomicStructure/atomicStructure.html  

• Chemical reactions and energy : lesson 9      http://www.saskschools.ca/curr_content/science9/chemistry/lesson9.html

• Unit 2: Physics

• Physics for kids: http://www.physics4kids.com/

• Physics experiments: http://uw.physics.wisc.edu/~wonders/Kids.html

• Identifying forces: great white board: http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/identify_forces/eng/Introduction/default.htm

• Pull and push: http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/push_pull/eng/Introduction/default.htm

• The plant escape game: also in Spanish: http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/gpe/index.html

• Sources of energy: white board activities: http://www.fossweb.com/modulesK-2/SolidsandLiquids/index.html

• Physics clips: motion: http://www.crocodile-clips.com/s6_1.htm

• Rocks and minerals: http://www.rocksforkids.com/RFK/TableofContents.html

• Minerals in your house: game for the English class: http://www.minsocam.org/MSA/K12/uses/uses.html

• Minerals for Kids: http://www.minsocam.org/MSA/K12/K_12.html

• Science and engineering:  http://www.engineeringinteract.org/

•  Changing shapes of materials: pulling and pushing: great white board activities: http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/changing_shape_mat/eng/Introduction/default.htm

• Unit 3: Living things

• The anatomy of breathing:http://teachhealthk-12.uthscsa.edu/studentresources/AnatomyofBreathing3.swf

• Biology of plants: excellent: http://www.mbgnet.net/bioplants/  with pdf printable activities and quicktime videos.

• Life cycles of plants:      http://www2.bgfl.org/bgfl2/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/science/plants_pt2/index.htm

• Plants: http://www.naturegrid.org.uk/plant/index.html

• Parts of a tree: http://www.naturegrid.org.uk/woodland/index.html

• Plants: different flowers and their parts: http://www.schooltrain.info/science/plants/trsciplant.htm

•  Game: sorting organisms: http://www.crickweb.co.uk/assets/resources/flash.php?&file=habitats4b

• Study of plants in English and Spanish: http://www.botanical-online.com/index.html

• Growth of plants: excellent white board activities:  http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/plants_light_water_to_grow/eng/Introduction/default.htm

• Unit 5: Ecosystems

• Different ecosystems: http://www.mbgnet.net/index.html 

• Feeding relationship: whiteboard: http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/Phase3delivery/Wales/Science/Keystage4/Livingthingsand/Feedingrelation/Introduction/default.htm 

•  Food chain: an excellent game: http://www.ecokids.ca/pub/eco_info/topics/frogs/chain_reaction/index.cfm#

• Biomass and food chain simulation: http://puzzling.caret.cam.ac.uk/game.php?game=foodchain

• Food chains in different habitats: http://www.crickweb.co.uk/assets/resources/flash.php?&file=foodchains

• Biomes: http://www.forgefx.com/casestudies/prenticehall/ph/biomes/biomes.htm

• Plant reproduction: whiteboard activities: http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/plant_repro/eng/Introduction/default.htm

• Unit 6

• The planets: http://www.echalk.co.uk/Science/Physics/solarSystem/SolarSystemGames.swf
• The Earth and the Sun: different levels of difficulty and in Spanish too: http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/earth.html  

• Unit 7

• Rivers: water cycle: http://www.naturegrid.org.uk/rivers/index.html   

Using webquests in the CLIL classroom June 13, 2007

 Here you have a collection of Internet projects and activities designed by Carmen Mellado Álvarez for 1st E.S.O. in the Bilingual Program at I.E.S. Aznalcóllar:

Technology

1.  A webquest in Spanish: Ahorro de energía en el hogar

Social Sciences

2.  A mini-webquest in English: Who were the Celts?

  Natural Sciences

3.  A webquest in English: Doñana: a UNESCO Heritage Site

English

4.  A treasure hunt in English: In Quest of famous Britons

5.  A webquest in Spanish: De excursión a Gibraltar

Web Resources for Technology Teachers September 12, 2006

 

•   Inventions: My inventive room.
•     Materials.
•      Materials.
•     Clothes materials.
•      Electrical circuits: games and terminology.
•    A game.
•    Electrical circuits.
•     Electricity.
•      Electrical circuits: BBC.
•  Simple electrical circuit. 
•       BBC: using electricity.
•  Electricity.
•  Electricity.
•  Electricity and magnetism: interactive explanation.
•   Electricity game.
•   Household appliances: a game.
•     A project to make a battery with a lemon.
•  Computers lessons with pdf activities.
•   Powerpoint: tutorial for kids. 
•   Lessons on computers.

“2 Teach is 2 Touch Lives 4 Ever” September 4, 2006

     

Discover how interesting can the queen of the sciences be working with these interactive websites.

    This is an excellent website which includes a maths dictionary with visual explanations and interactive games at different levels.

   An illustrated Mathematics Dictionary.

      This website deals with basic mathematics including games and a math glossary.

  This is a school website designed for younger students with a lot of fun maths at different levels.

  Visit this educational website to play interesting Math games.

    In this interactive website you can play interesting geometry games.

  “Me and my Math” is a website designed for children to learn about the laws of Arithmetics.

   This is a section in the previous website which includes a good visual explanation about fractions with interactive activities.

  Enter the Woodlands Junior School´s Maths Zone with several fun online interactive activities. These pages are for ages 7-11.

    This is the Mathematics Department´s website at Madras College, which has good mathematical games links.

  This is a website with video maths explanations for young children. It includes a free explanation about whole numbers and place value.      

 This is an excellent website with useful oral explanations and fun interactive activities about patterns, place value and tangrams.

  This is a good website with problem solving video games. 

  Mathematics can be fun. Visit this website designed for younger students, which includes interesting maths games.

    This is a website aimed at older secondary students to make graphs in English.

      Excellent BBC website with several interactive maths explanations and games.

     A BBC school website with explanations and tests. It includes Pytahgora´s Theorem, trigonometry and angles, area and voulme and graphs. There are two Maths levels.

     Another BBC website designed for ages 4-1.

  This is an excellent good oral math glossary for young learners.

  This is a useful website with more links to more interactive maths resources.

   

History: “A Series of Accumulated Imaginative Inventions” September 2, 2006

            

According to Voltaire, history consists of a series of accumulative imaginative inventions. Let´s discover some of these inventions in the following websites.

     Explore The British Museum website, which offers extensive information and pictures about the ancient civilizations. 

     The British museum website where you can study different world civilizations.

      Visit the Bristish Museum website specially designed for schools where you can search differents students´ages and different items of the curriculum, including good games and vitual visit to the museum.

     Meet the Celts during the Iron Age in Wales visiting a funny animated website with stories and games with cartoon characters. 

     In this interesting web game you can find out whether you have the skills to make fire, bake bread and so survive the Iron Age.            

    From the Palaeolithic to the Norman Conquest, explore archaeological sites and treasures from the past, then test yourself on the eras and events in the Ages of Treasure game. Discover the key sites of Britain´s archaeological past, such as Stonehenge.  

    A game about Ancient Egypt: Build your own pyramid. Journey back four and a half thousand years to Egypt’s Old Kingdom, to the Pyramid Age. As the vizier, or head of state, you are about to undertake the most important project of your career – the building of the king’s pyramid.

     Play this game about Egypt, and dare to become a mummy maker.

     Launch this animation about the population history of Great Britain.  

      Travel to the ancient Greece, enjoy the Olimpic Games, visit the city of Athens and the Greek Theatre.

    Visit the city of Rome, know about the Roman army, visit the Roman remains and discover interesting aspects of their culture and civilization.

  Discover the life of the Romans in Scotland.  Visit a Roman fort and the Caledonian village.    

    Launch this excellent animation to see a plan of the Roman Colosseum.

What is the Weather like? September 1, 2006

 

 Internet offers very interesting websites that show the definition of the terms “weather” and “climate”. They are specially designed for English-speaking children, so they are very attractive and easy to understand for our students. Here is a list with these virtual sites.

 

 This is an excellent website with activities about the weather. It includes a glossary of terms.

     This website gives a good definition of  the term “weather” and it includes the section “weather and people”, for ages 4-11.

     Elementary School Webquests about weather and the solar system for ages 9-12.                            

    An excellent website for kids with explanations about climate and weather, the water cycle, including experiments, jokes and games.        

    Current weather images of Europe from Eduspace, including images from the Meteosat:                                        

   Geography for kids: this website has a good definition of the terms “weather” and “climate”: