The Home Lab Project

Here are some examples that you can use for your home lab project

Class Project: Animal Comics

Objective

In this project. You will create a comic about an endangered animal. You can perform this project alone or in pairs.

Procedure

1. Go to the website code activation page

2. Enter the code given by the teacher in class

3. Write your name and password. (Remember to use your real name for assessment)

4. Complete your avatar

5. Perform the task "Endangered Animals" in a full page comic.

Deadline

You must deliver this topic before Friday the 23th of December

Assessment

Your task will be assessed using the following Rubric

Tell a Tale

OBJECTIVES

The purpose of this project is to create a tale and present it both in written and orally using a digital tool.

The task shall be handed before tuesday the 31st of May

CONTENTS

A story told in grous of four. You can use Shakespeare's material or create your own story. The story must include a written narration, a video and a image sequence. You create the video using tellagami and mix it using Viva Video

PROCEDURE

- Team up with your partners
- Create a story with a proper beginning, body, and end.
- Illustrate your story.
- Each member of the group must record his or her part using a tellagami cut and a illustration.
- Mix the four video excerpts to create a single long video
-Upload the video to youtube
-Paste the link in the following padlet board
-Handle the written version of the tale to your teacher
-Complete the self assessment

RESOURCES

- Download the tellagami app. You can find it here for android systems or just search for it on the Apple Store
- You can also use Vivavideo to mix your video parts


ASSESSMENT

Your work shall be assessed using the following rubric

  

Shakespeare Lives! A review in character

Objectives

Create a short summary about a character from one of Shakespeare's famous plays.  Take them from the following list:
-Romeo

- Juliet

- Otello

- Macbeth

- Lady Macbeth

- Lear

- Ofelia

- Hamlet

- Brutus

- Iago

- Prospero

- Falfstaff

- Titania

Contents
In your summary you should include the following information
- Who is the character?
- Where does he appear?
- What is its role in the plot? is he evil or bad?
- Why is it important in the play?
- Do you like this character? Why?
Be concise. You have 30 seconds to record your answer
Resources
- You should handle a handwritten copy of your presentation
- Go to the following page on your tablet or smartphone to download the app tellagami, you will need it for this exercise.

Assessment
Your task will be assessed using the following chart

CLIL Project. Shakespeare and Chemistry

Objectives

The purpose of this task is to create an oral presentation and poster about Chemistry in Shakespeare. Analyzing some strange curiosities and myths about it

The task will have two final products, an oral presentation and a poster, both of them will be delivered the same day.

Development

Work in groups of 4

Pick one of the topics proposed by the teacher

Look for the information requested and create a poster to expose your idea.

Create an oral presentation (around 5 minutes) Use your poster for it. You can also add some videos or audiovisual content if you want (just in English)

Fill in the Self Assessment form

Contents

Topic 1. Love Potions

• Context: Midsummer Night’s Dream
• Fiction: what are love potions? What importance does it have in the Play?
• Fact: It’s possible a love potion? Definitions and properties of the Viola Tricola.

Topic 2. Poison

• Context: Hamlet
• Fiction: What type of poison is used? What importance does it have in the play?
• Fact: The Henbane. Definitions and properties.

Topic 3. Sleeping Draught

• Context: Romeo and Juliet
• Fiction: What kind of draught is used? What importance does it have in the play?
• Fact: The Nightshade and the Monkshood. Definitions and properties

Topic 4. Snakes!

• Context: Antony and Cleopatra
• Fiction: What is the function of the snake? What importance does it have in the play?
• Fact: Snakes. Definition and properties. What are the most dangerous snakes in the world?

Topic 5. Magic

• Context: Macbeth
• Fiction: The three witches and the Magic Cauldron. What importance does it have in the play?
• Fact: Effects of Boiling on matter. Hemlock and Yew. Definition and properties

Assessment

Descriptor	1	2	3
Use of English	Mistakes make comprehension impossible	Proper use of vocabulary and grammar, with minor mistakes	Excellent use of grammar and vocabulary
Oral Presentation	Students read all the information from the text, or there are severe pronunciation mistakes that make comprehension impossible	There are some pronunciation mistakes or the student reads long passages	proper pronunciation of structures
Visual Presentation	Just text and some minor pictures are used	Text, pictures, drawings, videos and basic handcraft	Specially elaborate handcraft, videos, or activities for the partners are presented

Peer Assessment Sheet

Complete the assessment sheet to get the final point

Mark of Distinction

The Teacher of Natural Sciences will award a Mark of Distinction (Extra Points) to the best presentations in the class.

Basic Resources

Shakespeare lives website

Deadline

Wednesday, the 20th of April

CLIL Project. Food Memories from Al Andalus

OBJECTIVES

• The purpose of this task is to create a presentation for the Subjects of Social Sciences and a instructional video for the subject of English
• In this video, students prepare a dish of Andalusian origin, and explain, in English, the elaboration process
• The students will be able to bring their products as part of the celebration for the day of the Autonomous Community

DEVELOPMENT

• Students will work in groups. These groups could be as small as 2 or as big as 4.
• Students will have to choose ONE of the recipes presented by the teachers. Both the oral presentation and the instructional video will have the chosen recipe as main theme. You can download the recipes HERE
• The Oral presentation will be performed in the subject of Social Sciences. The video will be uploaded to youtube and embedded into the padlet board created by the teacher
• Granted permission by the School Administration, students will be allowed to share their preparations.

ASSESSMENT

• Assessment is divided into English (40%), Social Sciences (40%) and Self Assessment (20%)
• Asessment criteria and grading scheme for the subject of English will be as follows:

You will also handle this peer assessment sheet the day of the presentation. This will be used to grade yourself and your partners

DEADLINE

First Week of March (from 29/2 to 4/3).

Story Bird Class Project

OBJECTIVES

The purpose of this activity is to create a simple love story in English using a digital tool called Storybird.

PROCEDURE

-       

            Complete the registration with the username and password provided by your teacher

-          Get into the virtual class

-          Read the assignment and check the example

-          Create your own story and sent it

ASSESSMENT

In this task you will be evaluated according to three factors

-          Grammar

        Design,

        Lenght 

-          Originality

DEADLINE

The deadline of this project is Sunday, the 31st of January

Good Luck!

CLASS PROJECT: FAMOUS CELEBRITIES IN HISTORY

OBJECTIVES

The objective of this project is to create the biography of a relevant personality or  personalities; this person should be important in the areas of Language, Literature, Music, Science or Arts.

CONTENTS AND PROCEDURE

1. Choose a relevant personality. You can either choose your own (please talk to your teacher) or choose one for the following list

 A. Language and Literature:
      Willian Shakespeare, William Defoe, The Brönte Sisters, Jane Austen, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,  John Tolkien, CS Lewis, JK Rowling, Beatrix Potter, Herman Melville, Edgard Allan Poe, Raymond Chandler.


B. Science
     Archimedes of Syracuse, Pithagoras, Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, Sir Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Ada Lovelace, Jane Goodall, Florence Nightingale, the Wright Brothers, Nikola Tesla

C. Music
    The Supremes, The Beatles, Queen, Elvis Presley, Johny Cash, Billie Holliday, Michael Jackson, Amy Whinehouse, Madonna

2. Create a written biography of the character. Your biography must include the following elements
  a. Birth Information?
  b. Why is this person important?
  c. What are his accomplishments?
  d. Personal Information
  e. Important events in his/her life
  f. A quote

3. Presentation
 Make a brief presentation of your character. You should include any audiovisual element or props to make your presentation more interesting.

4. The Great personality Quizz Game
Make your contribution to the great quiz in learning apps. Please ask your teacher to get your access code

ASSESSMENT
The assessment chart is individual for each student. You must comply with the following elements

DUE DATE
All the information must be handed to your teacher the next 30th of November.

My life timeline

Objective
In this project, students learn to use the Simple past by analyzing important events from their life. For this, they use the learning apps website

Task
Create a timeline with significant elements of your life. Choose your favourite memories and order them in the line. Then make sentences about them in your notebook. Use the past simple

I was born in 2000

I learnt to walk in 2002

My first day of school was in 2004

I played football for the first time in 2006

I went to the beach for the first time in 2008

I entered High School in 2012

I started Third Year of ESO in 2015

You can add up to 10 events



Assessment
Add at least 5 elements
Make correct sentences in the past simple
Watch out presentation and pronunciation

Due Date: 1st of June

BILINGUAL PROJECT ASSIGNMENT: CINEMA DUBBING

OBJECTIVES

The purpose of this activity is to dub a scene (or a group of scenes) of a Spanish film in English. For this purpose, you will use Edpuzzle

TASK
1st. Create Groups (up to 4 people)
2nd. Choose a movie from the list provided, and watch it if possible,
3rd. Pick a scene that you considered representative of the ideas presented in the film or interesting.
4th Dub the scene in English. Try to stick to the original text

ASSESSMENT

 This Task will be assessed using the following rubric:

Remember to use Audiodescription to describe the scenes where the characters are, as in the following examples.

English:

Spanish:

CLIL Project Assignment Newspaper Article

Purpose

The objective of this project is to create a newspaper article in groups for our Madmagz online magazine


Procedure

- Make groups of three
- Choose a specific topic (it must be interesting for your partners)
- Each of the members of the group must choose one of the following body parts

      Introduction
      Body
      Conclusion

- Each part should have the extension of around 80 - 150 words

-You can include your own images

-You must use a consistent design and page numeration for the article

Assessment 

We shall use the following rubic system

CLASS PROJECT: LOVE NETWORK PROFILE

Objectives

Create a simple profile for a fake dating site

Contents

Your profile must include the following information:

- A fake picture (or cartoon) of the person

- Name

- Age

- Job

-Body Type (Athletic, slim, fat, skinny, average)

- Hair Colour

- Nationality

- Searching in: (city you are searching a date in)

- Smoking (Yes or No)

- About me: Here you include information about your hobbies, things you like to do, hobbies and interests

- What I'm looking for: Here you include information about the type of person that you want for you, and what do you expect from a relationship

Assessment

Here I include the class rubric we use to assess projects

Working Model

If you want to see the activity model click this LINK

Unit 4 Project Assignment. Amazing Places

Purpose

The objective of this project is to make a presentation in groups about a place that you and your groups consider amazing.

Structure

The Presentation will include the following parts

1. Name of the Place

2. What is it? (A Desert, A Cathedral, a Ruin, a Coastline, etc)

3. Where is it (include information about Climate, Frontiers, and a map)

4. What can you do there? (Sports and places to visit. Remember to include Photos and video samples)

5. Natural life (Endemic plants and animals)

Note: Alternatively, you can talk about gastronomy in this point if the place you are presenting has no specific wildlife

6. Why do we like it? (Explain why you consider the place interesting and why should people visit it)

Assessment 

Rememeber to take into consideration the Assesment Guidelines of our Class Rubric. Specially important are the following guidelines

- Don't Read the Presentation
- Don't Saturate the presentation with text
- Presenter must remain in the pitch area of the Class, and talk CLEARLY.
- Be original and engaging. You can bring photos or suovenirs from your travels if you like it.

Model Presentation

Here is my model presentation. You can use it to create your own

Once you create your presentation remember to post it in the proyect Padlet HERE

Places around the town

Good Morning! In this new topic we learn about different places around the city. Do you recognize any of them?

Jesus Del Valle de Slidely by Slidely Slideshow

Life is Beautiful Around the World

Good Morning Guys! Hope you have enjoyed your holidays!

Today we start a new topic about Amazing Places around the world. Do you now some of the places in this presentation?





Jesus Del Valle de Slidely by Slidely Slideshow

Christmas Cards Using Recycled Materials

Creating Christmas cards doesn’t have to be expensive or complicated. It is possible to make cards in a simple and ecological way!

And here are some Christmas cards made from construction paper, paint, newspaper, an old Christmas card, a cardboard box, raffia, and a button:

We are going to make Christmas cards recycling and reusing materials that we can find around the house. During next week, take a box and throw in anything that can be useful: paper scraps, fabric scraps, food packaging, envelopes, calendars, old Christmas cards, advertisement leaflets, magazines, newspapers and so on. Be creative!

What to use for the card part of the card:

• Paper supermarket bags
• Used file folders
• Thin boxes (such as cereal boxes, some mailing boxes, thick envelopes)
• Construction paper

What to use to decorate the card:

Look around your house and you will find some useful materials hiding in there!

• Scrap paper
• Scrap fabric
• Old clothing that can be cut up
• Wool
• Buttons (we all have a collection of them somewhere!)
• Magazines and newspapers – cut shapes from colourful pages. Cut strips and glue onto card or cardboard for background.

Information adapted from: http://www.keeperofthehome.org/2010/11/holiday-card-making-with-kids-using-recycled-and-re-purposed-materials.html
Here is a video with more ideas. Be creative!!!

 DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT
You have to create a Christmas card to send to a classmate. You must include:

1. The card decorated using recycled materials.
2. A Christmas message
3. Write the sender and receiver’s address on an envelope in Spanish. Put an envelope and send it to your classmate.

WISHES FOR CHRISTMAS

Creating and sending card with a Christmas wish is the ideal way to share your feelings and happiness with a classmate. Here are some beautiful wishes you can use for your card.

1. May this time bring a lot of joy and happiness in your life!
2. You are special, you are unique; may your Christmas be also as special and unique as you are! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
3. Here’s wishing you all the joys of the season. Wish you and your family a Merry Christmas!
4. May joy and happiness snow on you, may the bells jingle for you and may Santa be extra good to you! Merry Christmas!
5. Love, Peace and Joy came down on earth on Christmas day to make you happy. May Christmas spread happiness in your lives!
6. May all your days be merry and bright and may your Christmas be white!
7. May your world be filled with warmth and good cheer this Holy season, and throughout the year! Wish your Christmas be filled with peace and love.
8. May the peace and joy of Christmas live in your heart all year long.
9. May the good times and treasures of the present become the golden memories of tomorrow. Wishing you lots of love, joy and happiness. We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
10. Happiness– May your life be filled with joy and happiness and may each new day bring you moments to cherish.
11. Love– On this joyous day, and throughout the new year, may your life be filled with an abundance of love.
12. Fulfillment–Merry Christmas and may you live a long and happy life filled with goodwill and friendship.
13. Peace– May this new year bring you peace and tranquility, and as you walk your path may it bring you contentment.
14. Prosperity–On this joyous day, and throughout the coming year, may your life be filled with good luck and prosperity.
15. Friendship–On this holiday, I hope you know how much I value your friendship and how much it has added to my life. I wish you a very merry Christmas and may we enjoy many more years together as friends.
16. Joy of Giving– May your heart be filled with the joy of giving, as it is the expression of the love in your heart and the kindness in your soul.Blessings–May the light of love shine upon you, and may your life be filled with blessings in this Christmas season.
17. Kindness–On this most blessed day, I wish you love for all your kindness, and I hope the new year will bring you many days of happiness.
18. Merry Christmas, and may this new year bring you joy and laughter. To be happy is the greatest wish in life.
19. A Christmas candle is a lovely thing; It makes no noise at all, But softly gives itself away; While quite unselfish, it grows small.
20. A little smile, A word of cheer, A bit of love from someone near A little gift from one held dear, Best wishes for the coming year, These make a Merry Christmas!
21. A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
22. A silent night, a star above, a blessed gift of hope and love.A blessed Christmas to you!
23. A star has come to earth! Spread the Christmas love and cheer! Merry Christmas!
24. Bells ring and we sing. May you get all the happiness that Christmas brings! Wishing you and your family a very Happy Christmas and a wonderful New Year.
25. Don’t measure the height of your Christmas tree. Measure the abundance of the love present in your heart!
26. Each moment in a day has its own value. Morning brings Hope, Afternoon brings Faith. Evening brings Love, Night brings Rest. Hope you will all of them every day. Happy Christmas and New Year! Faith makes all things possible, Hope makes all things work, Love makes all things beautiful, May you have all the three for this Christmas.
27. For a fresh and bright New Year. Here’s wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
28. Ho! Ho! Ho! It’s Christmas time! May love, success, luck and friendship come knocking at your door throughout this Christmas season. Have a wonderful Christmas.
29. I am dreaming of white Christmas, with every Christmas card I write, May your days be Merry and bright, and May all your Christmases be white. Merry Christmas.
30. We hope life treats you kind, and we hope you have all you ever dream of, we wish you joy, happiness, peace and prosperity but above all this we wish you love this Christmas.
31. Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way, May you be blessed this Christmas with peace and love all day! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
32. Wouldn’t life be worth the living; Wouldn’t dreams be coming true; If we kept the Christmas spirit; All the whole year through?
33. May love be in your life. May hope be in your heart. May peace be in our world.
34. May peace, love and prosperity follow you always.
35. May Santa Claus grant you all that you wish for this Christmas. Here’s wishing you and all your loved ones a very Happy and Joyous Christmas.
36. May the spirit of Christmas bring you peace. The gladness of Christmas give you hope. And The warmth of Christmas grant you love. Happy Christmas.
37. May this Christmas bring your way plenty of reasons to smile. May this Christmas burn away all your sadness and bury the tears so that your life is perpetually filled with happiness and joy.
38. May this Christmas turn out to be better that you ever expected. Merry Christmas to you. Go out and spread the joy!
39. May this year be more promising than the year before! Spread the happiness all around you! It’s Christmas! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and your family!
40. May you and your family cherish the wonderful memories, of love, care and hope. May you live life in joy and peace. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays.
41. May you find more smiles on your face this Christmas than ever before! Wishing you and your family a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Make it grand!
42. May your Christmas sparkle with moments of love, laughter and goodwill. And may the year ahead be full of contentment and joy. Have a Merry Christmas.
43. May your hearts be filled with peace and faith in God. May your days of doubt be replaced with days of hope and cheer. May you and your family get nurtured with lots of love! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and to your loved ones!
44. My special wishes to you and to all those to are close to you. May you have a Christmas that is more special than it has ever been.
45. Peace on earth will come to stay. When we live Christmas every day.
46. Spread the warmth of the Christmas season to all those around you and make this world a beautiful place to live in.
47. The best gifts in life will never be found under a Christmas tree, those gifts are friends, family, children and the one you love.
48. This Christmas may all that you ever dreamt of, turn into reality. Merry Christmas to you my dear and followed by a Happy New Year.
49. This Christmas may Santa Claus get you lots and lots of gifts. May all those gifts be just want you always wanted.
50. May all your wishes, dreams and desires come true this Christmas.

CLIL Advertisement Project

Here we post a summary of our next CLIL Project; Advertisement and Bullying.

OBJECTIVES

-Create an advertiement in groups against Bullying in Secondary School
-Use the English Language as a vehicle for communication in an audiovisual media

TASK SEQUENCE
- 1st  Organize groups to create your filming crew. You should work in groups of four. All of you must cooperate and take a part on the video
- 2nd Create a simple script of your project
- 2nd Create a Storyboard. A storyboard is a draft of your video where you mix script and image. In this way, we can get an idea about how your video will be.
- 3rd Think of an interesting slogan for your video
- 4thThen, record your video, you can use  Windows Movie Maker for this
- 5th Summit your video to the teacher

IMPORTANT RULES
- You can use any format you like, but all of you have to speak in English, whether if you appear on camera or you don't. You have to take a role.

ASSESSMENT
Assessment of the task will be processed through the following rubric. Here you will take an individual and group mark

EXAMPLE VIDEOS

Here are some example videos that you can use to get inspiration

Music Videos:

Flashcards:

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Animation:

Music videos

DATES TO REMEMBER

-November the 28th: Slogan and Storyboard
-December the 5th: Final Date to handle your video presentation

My Web mix de Symbaloo

Symbaloo es una herramienta muy interesante que nos permite, de una manera muy clara y sencilla, crear paneles de apps con nuestros enlaces prefereridos, agrupándolos por categorías. Para poder probar un poco esta herramienta, he creado un webmix muy simple con 10 herramientas que me resultan interesantes para los profesores involucrados en programas CLIL

-El repositorio AGREGA de la Junta de Andalucia, en donde podréis encontrar un montón de actividades diferentes para bachillerato, así como actividades de la asignatura de inglés
--Slide.ly, una herramienta genial para crear presentaciones amenas y divertidas, ideales para introducir un nuevo tema o crear un resumen visual de algún proyecto.
- La suite de juegos FLASH de la NASA, que son útiles para temas específicos de ciencia, y muy visuales, aunque un poco complicados para alumnos muy pequeños.
 -The Children University of Manchester, que tiene muchas actividades divertidas tanto de inglés como de ciencias, intuitivas y muy sencillas.
-La página del British Council: un clásico que no puede faltar para llenar tiempos muertos con actividades divertidas en inglés, para jugar solo o en grupos.
-La página de eurovisión: que puede parecer absurdo, pero es un modo de estimular a los alumnos a conocer otras lenguas extranjeras además del inglés, y también a interesarse un poco por Europa, que a veces dejamos de lado en nuestras clases.
-EL Rhyming Dictionary: un diccionario un poco simple pero útil en los proyectos de poesía, por si en algún momento nos preguntan una rima en inglés y no estamos seguros.
-Linguee: esta herramienta la recomendaría yo en ciclo formativo o formación profesional, ya que podemos buscar textos técnicos de distinto tipo y comparar la terminología y la tipología textual en español y en inglés. Esta compuesto de un corpus bastante extenso de textos jurídicos, periodísticos y técnicos. También es muy útil para traducir.
-IATE: de unevo una herramienta para usuarios avanzados. Es simplemente un diccionario terminológico multilingüe, creado por el cuerpo de traductores de la UE.
-ESL Games: de nuevo, una página típica de juegos en inglés para repasar vocabulario muy sencillo, recomendable para primaria, primeros cursos de la ESO y alumnos que necesiten un refuerzo.

Podéis ver mi panel de Symbaloo aquí! Espero que os resulte útil

Diario AICLE. Entrada 2

En esta segunda entrada nos paramos a reflexionar sobre algunos aspectos clave de la enseñanza del idioma basada en contenidos. De entre todo lo que se podría decir sobre esta metodología tan ampliamente estudiada, me gustaría resaltar los siguientes aspectos:
--La secuenciación debe ser minuciosa, de menos a mal, pero siempre teniendo en cuenta el producto final; ya sea un texto escrito perteneciente a alguna de las tipologías textuales, o una práctica oral.
- Los recursos deben ser variados, y no circunscribirlos a un solo ámbito. lo ideal, como en muchos otros casos,  es una combinación de los medios tradicionales y de nueva generación.

- La innovación debe alcanzar también el trabajo cooperativo entre profesores de distinta especialidad. No se entiende el CLIL sin coordinación y comunicación entre los docentes de áreas distintas. A veces resulta más interesante y provechoso para nuestros alumnos realizar un solo proyecto conjunto (de inglés y ciencias naturales, por ejemplo) que varios proyectos de una sola asignatura, ya que el alcance de las posibilidades de un solo docente en un proyecto global como el CLIL es muy limitado.

- Por último, será necesario tener una mente abierta a nuevas formas de trabajar, y saber ser crítico, sobre todo con uno mismo. No hay que tener miedo de presentar nuestro trabajo a los demás y preguntarles como podemos mejorar.

Oral Presentation Sample: My Dream City

Here I post a nice presentation template that I prepared for my students. It's intended to be used as a model to a "present your favourite city" kind of activity
Enjoy!