Teach Science through simulations

 Teaching Science during pandemic times is a complete new (?) challenge. 

It is well known that Science teachers are very keen on upgrading their teaching creativity to the next level. Phet simulations are the next best thing. 

From Biology to Chemistry, applying the scientific method has never been so easy. Your students do not need extra materials other than their computer, speakers on and their awe factor. 

Here is an example of how fast and easy teaching can be through inquisitive and interactive experimentation online. Check out this fermentation lab experience with your students and enjoy!

English Worksheets

Hello dear teachers.

How are you doing? Is the lockdown increasing your anxiety when planning your lessons?

Today we want to help you by providing a great bank of pdf worksheets for your classes. 

This website offers a large variety of accurate and concise skill building resources geared towards a range of ability levels. It is suitable for every ESL course and for students of all ages. 

Enjoy it by clicking here.

Tube Quizard: learn english with youtube videos

Hello dear teachers. How are you holding up during your quarantine days?

Today we bring you another interesting resource. Tube Quizard is a collection of YouTube videos on a variety of topics with gap-fill quizzes. You can browse in several ways: by level, by language focus, by category, and by accent.

Click on the empty box in the exercise and the video will cue to that time. Fill in the blank and check your answer.

It’s easy to use and your students will love it, watching fun videos as they learn pronunciation. Visit the site and see it for yourself. It is a free resource of course!

English Worksheets Land: a paradise for ESL Primary teachers

    Hello folks! Today we present another subject site with free worksheets. This one has over 5,000 printable worksheets in PDF format. 

    The site was designed as a primary and elementary level free resource. Middle level grade content is being added as well since it is updated monthly. You may find the material classified by grade or topic.

Visit English Worksheets Land and download free material for your lessons by clicking the photo below:

Science Worksheets from Super Teacher

    Once again, we would like to share a worksheet bank site with free Science printable material for teachers. 

 Today we want to recommend Super Teacher Worksheets, a website full of printable science worksheets for teachers. It includes electricity, animal classifications, animal articles, plants and human body. Surf and enjoy!

Click here for free Science Worksheets

Free sample maths worksheets - all grades

   Hello to all english maths teachers out there.

   Lisa has been kind enough to send us these practice tests and problem banks. These are all sample pdf files so some of them may require previous registry. Print them and use them with total freedom. Enjoy!

Maths worksheets by topic

Maths quizzes by grade

Top 5 Reading Comprehension Websites

Hello dear teachers.

Today I bring you five websites with free worksheets that you cannot miss if you want to encourage reading skills on your young learners. Enjoy!

1. Scholastic Printables: With more than 800 reading comprehension worksheets, this is your one-stop-shop for grades Pre-K-8.

2. Worksheet Library: This is one of the most comprehensive worksheet resources you’ll find. You can download and print generic comprehension worksheets or choose from 13 book-specific collections that come with quizzes, open-ended questions, vocabulary reviews and more—all on a book and chapter level.

3. ReadWorks: With a free ReadWorks account, you have access to hundreds of reading comprehension worksheets, all of which are tied to Lexile level, grade level, text type, skill/strategy, and domain—Life Science, U.S. History, etc.

4. Reading Resource: Download these free printable worksheets created by educational professional Allison Fryer. Choose from a handful of “Starfall” worksheets, along with book-movie comparison sheets and metacognition diary templates.

5. English Worksheets Land: This website, with more than 25,000 CCSS-aligned worksheets, offers both free and locked (only accessible with an upgraded account) reading comprehension worksheets.

Review: GrammarBank.com

Hello fellow teachers.

Today I want to review an awesome resource bank for our lessons: grammarbank.com. 

This is a website full of useful resources, from worksheets, to multiple choice tests and reading exercises. It gives you the possibility to download printable pdfs.

All of their online exercises, worksheets and handouts are also available in printable version.Teachers can use use GrammarBank content in classrooms, as homework assignments or as testing material and all of it is for free. Check it out and tell us what you think of the website.

Cambridge PET free resources

Hello dear teachers.

Today I prepared a list of useful links where you will find free resources to use in your PET lessons. 

If you can recommend any other, please send it so we can include it here.

Let's get going with the links:

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In this website you will find some Practice tests (not the listening part), grammar exercises and activities related to vocabulary topics.

Vocabulary PET list

This is a pdf file with all the terms your students will need to manage when sitting for PET.

Free PET worksheets

This is a collaborative website where teachers upload their worksheets and share them with their fellow teachers. It requires registering but it is free. 

Free listening exercises online (PET format)

Listening sample exercises to use in class. It requires wifi and speakers of course.

Online extra practice

Recommended online worksheets to solve in class with a smartboard.

Enjoy!

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Tips to estimulate quick learning on your young students

Sometimes learning english can be hard for young learners because they find it boring, because they spend already too much time among school books and whiteboards, or simply because they have amazing auditive memory instead of reading memory. 

What can we do with those students? Encourage them to learn through less conventional ways, through movies and songs. Art is a well defined runway of language learning. The key is to find short clips or trailers that can match your lesson plan. Today with Youtube, that is a piece of cake for good teachers.

Here are some tips that can help you plan a lesson for these particular group of students:

1. Choose an interesting movie

2. Select a movie that matches your current English level. 

3. Movies with subtitles (cc in youtube) are always more encouraging for young learners. 

4. Repeat without subtitles after the kids have been familiarized with the vocabulary and the clauses of the dialogues in the scenes. 

6. Download VLC player, it works with most video formats and has a low crash rate and it's free. 

Now be honest with yourself, who wouldn´t love to learn academic abilities while watching a scene from Star Wars or Harry Potter? Huh?...

English Listening Lesson Library Online

Hello my dear fellow teachers!Today I bring you a suggested website full of online audio sketches for you to use in your lessons and practice listening skills with your students. 

This compilation website contains files you can listen to online. Over 2500 free lessons featuring speakers from around the world. All lessons comes with audio or video, a quiz and script.

Visit elllo.org and enjoy it in class!

BBC Bitesize KS3 English Website

Hello dear teachers. I know it has been a while. However, I wanted to share a golden mine that I have been using online to prepare my Grammar, Reading and Listening lessons.

The website that I bring today is oriented to young students from Primary School. It is called BBC Bitesize.  Most of the lessons are oriented to teachers so they can prepare their explanations in advance. 

At the end of each chapter, there is an interactive quiz that you can solve together with your students. It's a great source of theoretical information and tips to use in class so your young learners improve their reading technique and writing skills.

Check it out by clicking here

Recommended Youtube Channels to teach young learners

Hello once again. It has been a very busy month at work. However, I wanted to publish here some awesome youtube channels that I have been using in my lessons with five and six graders. It is incredible how technology can make our explanations so much easier sometimes. This channels offer great support in teacher lots of Grammar such as Reported Speech or Conditionals. Check them out and tell me what do you think.

British Council's LearnEnglishKids (click here)

BBC Active English (click here)

Kids Online English (click here)

Makemegenius (click here)

This last one is a good source for explaining Science and Geography topics through cartoons.

So, did you like them? Are you using any others that you can recommend? Please leave a comment with your suggestions. See you next post! ;)

Listening comprehension activities with rock&pop songs

This website has very nice worksheets with lyrics of top40 songs and youtube videos from the songs attached to each entry. 

Teaching through songs with listening activities is an amazing opportunity to teach your students phrasal verbs, vocabulary terms, reported speech and passive voice rules.

Check the website here and let us know if it was useful :)

Free printable flashcards for young learners

Hello dear followers!

Today I bring an insteresting resource for those teachers who teach Vocabulary to children. This website contains many cartoon flashcards grouped by topic.

There are 100+ sets of free flashcards to print designed for curriculums for children ages 3-9 and 6-10.  These cards are excellent image quality and as such some of the files are quite large (1mb~4mb.)

For free download of the flashcards, click here.

Grammar Bank : Rules and worksheets 4 all

GrammarBank is where you can learn and practice English free online. We offer hundreds of online and printable grammar exercises, EFL ESL quizzes, lessons, reading comprehension worksheets, essay writing, vocabulary practice, great resources for teachers to use in their English classes. Learn the basic grammar rules, test your learning with numerous multiple choice or fill in exercises. All exercises, worksheets and handouts, printable or online, are free to help you learn and practice English or teach if you are a teacher, for you to use in classrooms, as homework assignments or as testing material.

Grammar Bank Printables / pdf

Grammaropolis

Grammaropolis is website designed to help elementary school students learn the parts of speech. Grammaropolis features cartoon characters that represent nouns, verbs, adjectives, and other parts of speech. Students can click on any of the characters to read that character's story. After going through the character stories students can watch videos about the parts of speech and play games about the parts of speech.

Visit this TIC tool for Teaching grammar here

Create A Self Grading Multiple Choice Quiz Using Google Docs

Google Docs is a very powerful tool and can seem a bit overwhelming at first. However, once you begin to fully understand the power of this powerful yet free service you will lean towards using it more and more.
In this activity you will be able to create a self grading, multiple choice quiz using Google Docs.
Go to this link to learn how to do it (the site includes a very clear youtube video to help you step by step)

Teaching ideas - Resources online

Here I recommend another useful website for teachers. Find hundreds of free teaching ideas, lesson plans, and primary / secondary resources which can be used in the classroom. A fantastic resource for primary teachers.

TEACHING IDEAS WEBSITE

Practicing Homophones

English Language teachers know that it is quite hard for young learners to understand Homophones. Here we found a very good lesson plan for teachers and activity worksheets on the subject. Enjoy !

Download the pdf file here