Task 17: Create a Glogster

I have created this poster with Glogster as a model for students of 1º ESO. Students should do a poster similar to that as an important task inside the CLIL unit. This poster shows with different pictures how the rock cycle works. Besides, it could be also used by teacher to support explanations. 

I hope you like it and find it useful!

Here you can see my Rocks Cycle Glogster: 

Task 16: Create an ESL Video

In this post  I will share the ESL Video that I have created by using ESL website. This is a website that allows us to choose a video from Youtube and use it to create different quizzes for our students. The only thing we need to do is to make questions about the video and provide students with different options so that they can choose the correct one. When students finish the quizz, they can check how they did. 

In this case I have created an ESL video about Rock Minerals, because I want to continue with the same topic I chose for the CLIL didactic unit. I have prepared some listening comprehension questions that students should answer after watching the video. 

You can try the quiz now! 

Task 15: Create a Webquest

In this task I have created a Webquest which consists of 6 activities related to the previous posts about Minerals and Rocks. 

What students need to do to complete this webquest is to look for specific informations using the webpages that are given. They need to surf the Internet in order to make a little research to gather information for answering specific questions. Finally, they will play a game in order to check what they have learnt. 

Here you have the webquest: 

Rocks and Minerals WebQuest

Task:

You must complete the following tasks:

• Complete the webquest to learn about rocks and minerals.
• Discuss the webquest in the classroom.

Activity 1: The Rock Cycle: Read the information of the following websites and answer the following questions.

http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/msese/earthsysflr/rock.html

http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/collect1/collectgip.html

http://www.windows2universe.org/earth/geology/rocks_intro.html&edu=mid

You also need to watch the following video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7YQ5vwaL98

Questions

1. What are the three main types of rocks?
2. How does a sedimentary turn into a metamorphic rock?
3. How does an igneos rock turn into a metamorphic rock?
4. How do metamorphic rocks turn into sedimentary rocks?
5. How do igneous rocks turn into sedimentary rocks?

Activity 2: Igneous Rocks: Go to this website http://www.learner.org/interactives/rockcycle/ and answer the following questions.

1. What kinds of rocks are formed by volcanic eruptions?

Then, visit http://www.minsocam.org/msa/collectors_corner/id/rock_key.htm#Igneous and answer the following questions:

1. Which types of igneous rocks are formed underground by magma?
2. Which types of igneous rock are formeda above ground, by lava?

Activity 3: Sedimentary rocks: Visit the following website and name two sedimentary rocks. http://www.minsocam.org/msa/collectors_corner/id/rock_key.htm#types

Activity 4: Minerals: Go to http://www.mineralogy4kids.org/ click on 'Minerals in your house' and name three minerals that you find in your house. Besides, name the specific product where it is used.

Minerals	Utility

Activity 5: Visit http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/geology/grocha/mineral/streak.html and answer the following question.

1. Sometimes the color and streak of a mineral are very different. Which example shows the greatest difference?

Activity 6: Let's play!

Go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/7_8/rocks_soils_fs.shtmlFirstly, complete the activity to check the characteristics of rocks and minerals and then check your knowledge by means of a quiz.

Task 14: Publication of materials in ISSUU.

This is the CLIL didactic unit I have created for students of 1º ESO. This unit is about Minerals and Rocks and it consits of three sessions. The first sessions is devoted to the Rocks Cycle, the secon sessions is about minerals and the last sessions is devoted to evaluate what students have learnt.

I hope you like it! 

Task 13: Create a CLIL Template

In this task I have created a CLIL template based on the template proposed by Isabel Pérez Torres in 2009. In my case, I have chosen a natural science unit from the curriculum of 1º ESO. This CLIL template is about Minerals and Rocks. 

To create this template I have followed the contents provided by Centro de la Innovación y el Desarrollo de la Educación a Distancia, which is found in the Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte webpage. 

The template specifies the objectives, the main contents, the language content, the contextual elements, the cognitive processes, the different tasks and their organization, the key competences involved and the evaluation criterio, so that we can have an overall idea of the whole unit. 

To download the template you can click here: 

Minerals and Rocks

1. Learning outcomes/Evaluation criteria	To know the differences between minerals and rocks. To know the traits in order to differentiate and identify minerals. To know the characteristics, origin and utility of minerals. To be able to identify the different types of rocks. To know the Rock Cycle. To be able to identify the different utilities of rocks.
2. Subject Content	Minerals: characteristics, classification, utility. Rocks: cycle, classification, utility.
3. Language Content/Communication
Vocabulary	Nouns: sand, surface, hardness, lustre/luster, stream, transparency, shells, stone, pressure, purity, impurities, - Minerals: borax, copper, feldspar, graphite, fluorite, hematite, quartz, sulfur, talc, iron, zinc, calcium, potassium, phosphorus, magnesium - Rocks: basalt, granite, marble, sandstone Verbs: carry, shape, scratch, make up, made of, glow, shine, melt, squeeze, spread-out, disintegrate Adjectives: solid, inorganic, magnetic, abundant, rare, valuable, hard/soft, clear, white, yellow, blue, purple, green, metallic, non-metallic, dull, greasy, opaque, soapy, vetreous, sturdy, thick, sedimentary, metamorphic, igneous.
Linguistic structures	Identifying different types of minerals and rocks There is... There are... Describing rocks and minerals It is... It has... It is made of... It is used for... Grammar: Present tense: Present Simple Conjunctions: because, so, as, in order to, so that, etc.
Language skills/Discourse types	Reading: students will read texts describing minerals and rocks. Speaking: students will debate in the classroom and they will identify rocks and minerals orally. In addition, in the final task students are supposed to choose one of the minerals or rocks of the unit and they will perform a presentation including description, characteristics and utilities. Listening: Students will develop listening skills by means of documentaries. For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F11-GE7YWuc Writing: Students will write about rocks and minerals answering questions or creating compositions. Type of discouse: Expositive discourse.
4. Contextual (cultural) elmenent	To establish relationships between rocks and minerals and students' environment. To be aware of the benefits of rocks and minerals.
5. Cognitive processes	To be aware of taking care of the environment. To be able to recognize that rocks and minerals are part of students' everyday life.
6. (a) Task	Performance of an oral presentation with the help of a power point presentation including texts, images or videos as supportive material.
6. (b) Activities	Reading: different fragments about rocks and minerals. See documentaries at the classroom. Identify the different types of minerals and rocks. Writing: different worsheet with questions and exercises. Speaking: class debates and discussion about minerals and rocks. Final task: oral presentation + power point
7. Organization and class distribution/timing	1st session: Introduction to the topic/Reading 2nd session: Listening and documentary. Identification of minerals and rocks. 3rd session: Discussion and debate. 4th session: Worksheet and writing activities. 5th session: Oral presentation.
8. Key competences	Communicative competence. Cultural and artistic competence. Learn to learn. Autonomy and personal initiative. Information processing and digital competence. Social and civic competence. Mathematical competence.
9. Evaluation	Active participation in class. Daily work. Final task.

Task 12: Create a web page

In this task I have created a web page about learning English. In this site I have included useful materials and resources that teachers can use for students or people can use at home. This is a good tool that provides teachers with a wide variety of resources (images, exerces, videos, games, etc) in order to make students to learn English in a more dynamic and funny way. 

For creating my we page I have used Weebly, which is an easy site that offers us the opportunity of creating a web page in an easy way. 

You can find my web page here. 

I hope you find it useful! 

Task 11: Hot Potatoes: Things I'll never say Crossword

You have here a wide variety of exercises created with Hotpotatoes program. These exercises are addressed to 1º ESO students and provide them with different ways of practising the present continuous tense using the song of "Things I'll never say" by the singer Avril Lavigne. Hope you find them useful and enjoy the song :) 

Here you have your potatoes exercises:

Things I'll never say

Crossword

Complete the crossword, then click on "Check" to check your answer. If you are stuck, you can click on "Hint" to get a free letter. Click on a number in the grid to see the clue or clues for that number.

			1									2
		3						4		5
	6
7						8
					9	10
				11
			12

Across: 3. very uneasy or fearful 5. a movable organ in the floor of the mouth, used for tasting, eating, and speaking. 7. the part in a conscious bein that reasons, thinks, feels, wills, perceives, judges, etc. 8. to walk or go unsteadily 9. either side of the face below the eye and above the jaw. 12. to take (someone) as a husband or wife.

Down: 1. the upper part of the body, containing the skull with mouth, eyes, nose and brain. 2. the joint of the human leg between the thigh and the lower leg. 4. to speak with the rhythm interrupted by repetitions, blocks, or spasms or prolongations of sounds or syllables. 6. closely, securely 10. locks, fur 11. to use up or spend to no profit.

Task 11: Hot potatoes: Things I'll never say Mix

You have here a wide variety of exercises created with Hotpotatoes program. These exercises are addressed to 1º ESO students and provide them with different ways of practising the present continuous tense using the song of "Things I'll never say" by the singer Avril Lavigne. Hope you find them useful and enjoy the song :) 

Here you have your potatoes exercises: 

Things I'll never say Mix

Mixed-up sentence exercise

Put the parts in order to form a sentence. When you think your answer is correct, click on "Check" to check your answer. If you get stuck, click on "Hint" to find out the next correct part.