EDUCATIONAL CLIP: Discovering Girona: Ask and you will find!

The following clip is about 2 tourist arriving on holiday to Girona. The educational purpose is to teach when you go abroad how to ask directions, accommodation and order food, it also shows that if you ask politely, people will help and recommend you.
We thought that the 3 main scene's of the video where common situations that tourists always find themselves when they go on holiday, so they needed useful expressions:
In the first scene you can see the 2 toursits arriving at the airport and asking how can they get to Girona city.
The second scene show's the couple at the welcome desk of the hotel asking for their booked room.
Finally, the last scene is about the couple ordering food.
We hope you enjoy it!!
Group members: Carme, Mar & Fiona

ACTIVITY 6: XTEC. INTERNET AT CLASS

Internet at class is a production of the Education Department and Society of Information Secretary which aim is the creation of curricular materials based on Internet. In this application you can find a huge variety of didactic units corresponding to different areas and levels. There are a lot of activities, materials and web quests to learn based on internet.

We have particularly chosen a didactic unit destinate to primary mid level named “The rivers of Catalonia”. We think this didactic unit will be interesting for students because it includes interactive activities to learn concepts related to the rivers in general and to identify the rivers of Catalonia in the map.

Click in the link below for more info about his site:
http://www.xtec.cat/aulanet/ud/socials/rius/index.htm

YAKKO'S NATIONS OF THE WORLD SONG

This video is linked with the kid pix activity. Once the presentation is finished and after the geography activities, this fun song summarises our proposal.

ACTIVITY 8: SCAVENGER HUNT - A TRIP THROUGH OUR SOLAR SYSTEM

The main reasons for which we have chosen this hunt are:

• It is designed for use by elementary mid level students in conjunction with their study of the solar system.

• The objective is for students to increase their knowledge of the solar system by visiting a variety of internet sites. Students will understand and apply scientific concepts, principles, and theories pertaining to the physical setting and living environment and recognize the historical development of ideas in science.

Lesson
1. Students should have some familiarity with the planets of the solar system prior to starting the hunt.
2. Each student should have a printed copy of the worksheet on which to record his/her answers.
The Big Question: after completing the questions for each planet, the students should review their answers to see what was learned about the environment on each planet. The students are then asked to select a favorite planet to return to. They should use their new knowledge to explain their choice.

Click in the link below more info about this site:

http://www.nisk.k12.ny.us/birchwood/links/scavengerhunts/solarsystem_thirdgradenew.html

ACTIVITY 9: ESA, EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY WEB SITE

The European Space Agency, ESA, has a very interesting and attractive web site, for kids aged between 6 and 12. ESA has a huge resources of facts, space news, information, games, animations, figures, fun and photos on space, Earth seen from space, and downloads.

We hardly recommend this site because we think that it is a well designed site for Kids to learn about space, planets and this kind of thinks, interacting at the time they have fun. Therefore, this site can be also used at school. It offers a lot of different activities related to space, universe, earth and much more that can be proposed to do in Natural, Social and science class.

ACTIVITY 7: EDU365

Edu365.cat is a educational web site from the Education Department of “la Generalitat of Catalonia”. It is orientated and developed specifically for pupils and families, and it is based on the infrastructures and services of the Telematic Educational Net of Catalonia (XTEC).

In this site you can find news, agenda, chats, channels, and other resources separated by educational levels. Therefore, this site provides teachers a lot of resources and services that can help them in developing their teaching task.

KID PIX ACTIVITY: GEOGRAPHY IS FUN!