Are you a Science Breaker? We've got a mission for you!

The Science Breaking team of future CLIL Primary teachers at URJC have been designing various activities to aim at fostering Science and Audivisual skills among Primary CLIL students.

Today they are bringing a new mission that they have presented in the animation below:

For students to be able to accomplish this mission, Breaking Science has everything ready in this full lesson including various worksheets, together with an assessment rubric they have designed using Blendspace. Every part of this mini-project is scheduled step by step so young learners can observe, investigate, analyse, create, draw conclusions and evaluate their own work.

First Graders at CP San Claudio in Asturias are already looking forward to seeing what happens after the experiment, thanks to their CLIL teacher, Graciela.

If you ever carry it out in your lessons, @ScienceBreaking will love to hear your feedback!

Cross-posted from EU Robotics Week Education Spain. Originally viewed at Breaking Science

Comic your subject

Comics are an engaging way to foster reading and writing skills. Kids are usually quite into reading comics, know and admire super heroes and get inspired by their deeds.

So, why not using comics in class to explain your subject and engage learners? Here are some tips to get started:

1. Decide on the topic you would like to explain.
2. Choose a digital tool to design your comic.
3. Draft the comic.
4. Publish it.
5. Use it in your lessons.
6. Disseminate your outcomes and experience.
7. Share with other peers.

Here you are some comics other peers have already designed to accomplish the goal of helping learners to understand content by visualizing it.

Source: Smore & #storytelling_INTEF

Density Experiment - Breaking Science!

The Science Breaking team of future CLIL Primary teachers at URJC have a new experiment they'd like to share with you all!

Ready for the new challenge? Watch their video clip, listen and practise!

If you are a teacher and ever carry it out in your lessons, or at home if you are a student, @ScienceBreaking will love to hear your feedback!

Cross-posted from Breaking Science

QR Storytelling

Billy Joel Ramos, CLIL Primary Teacher and member of the Book ME-Library URJC project, is presenting a collection of English e-stories for young learners.

He has designed them along his Master's Degree at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid, putting into practice what he has learned in his own lessons, with his students at Colegio Villaeuropa, where he has taught them how to enrich storytelling with their own voices.

Here you are their QR code format outcomes, so get ready, scan them and enjoy storytelling!

Fat Cat on a Mat

Big Pig on a Dig

Ted in a Red Bed

Hen's Pens

Shark in The Park

Crossposted from Book ME-Library

The Hare and the Tortoise, revisited

As part of their URJC Master's Degree for Primary Bilingual Education, a team of future CLIL teachers have been designing various CLIL activities to foster digital listening, reading and writing skills among CLIL Primary students within a so called  Heal The World With Stories project.

Their latest outcome is a two-stage assignment based on the traditional children's story 'The Hare and The Tortoise'.
Along the first stage, they explain the three different sections all stories have, and propose kids to mindmap their own story. As an example they have designed a mindmap of 'The Hare and The Tortoise'.

Once done, here comes the next stage: podcasting a new story following the mindmap the kids have designed. And again, they are providing the learners with a recording example. 

What story do you think you are going to hear? Of course, 'The Hare and The Tortoise'

The Heal The World with Stories members are @laugar91, @Maria91bm and @alcalop14. They will all love to hear from you if you ever use their activities in your lessons

Cross-posted from Stop and Learn English. Originally viewed at Heal The World With Stories.

Comic Creation Tools

Have a look at this webmix and start creating awesome comics for your students, or get them design their own!

Two storybirds for children

Storybird is a platform for writers, readers, and artists of all ages. Storybird is one of the world´s largest storytelling communities. This webpage allows your students to have fun reading and creating their own story. It is easy, very easy to write a story or a poem and you can get very nice pictures. Everything is free you have to sign up as a student or as a teacher. Other people can write comments on your story. It is awesome!! 

Here you can see two beautiful examples: "The Mermaid became a fairy" written by Diana Scripcariu and "Christmas Time" by Javier García Pardo, they are students in 4th ESO at IES Jaime Gil de Biedma School in Nava de la Asunción.

We hope you like them!