https://padlet.com/acuellar3/mu0xp2iwafzl Learning Science contents through English. en-us 2019-04-25 08:37:59 UTC 2023-07-26 16:38:08 UTC hello@padlet.com acuellar3 https://padlet.com/acuellar3/mu0xp2iwafzl/wish/354078470 First thing I have to say as a main conclusion, after completing my 2nd course project, is that, as it happenned in the 1st year of the GEP, it's been a very interesting work to do. Not only the contents treated and the advice received have been interesting and very helpful for a good  implementation, but also the interaction with the two teachers has been perfect through all the term. They helped us a lot while preparing the PBL, and also for getting ideas. 
There's been a lot of work to do, and it is still very difficult to combine it with work at school. But, when you are finishing the work, and specially, when you are implementing what you desgned in class, with direct contact and interaction with the pupils, then you realise it has really been worth...
After these two years working on these projects, helping the pupils using and improving their English use in class, I think that for them, the best way to do it is by working in groups most of the time. No matter if in a cooperative group or in a collaborative one. When they work in gorup they loose their fear to fail, and they feel more confident to talk and express their own ideas. They start using English as a communicative tool less afraid of making mistakes. And, when they listen the ones to the others, they really feel they can take the risk, and try. It is always easier to start "talking" in a small group than in front of all the class. 
And, the more the pupils feel confident, the more they try, again and again. 
We can help our pupils feel more comfortable with the use of English by designing activities to be done in groups, and in which they can express their ideas and opinions. If we achieve this objective, we can obtain a better result and, what is more important, they'll be learning English by enjoying it!]]> 2019-04-25 12:41:51 UTC https://padlet.com/acuellar3/mu0xp2iwafzl/wish/354078470 acuellar3 https://padlet.com/acuellar3/mu0xp2iwafzl/wish/354251341 The photos below, as the videos posted above, are also refering to the implementation of the project along the four sessions. They were taken while doing or after finishing several activities in groups. They are posted under the title of each session, and after a short explanation about what it is shown in the photos.]]> 2019-04-25 19:12:03 UTC https://padlet.com/acuellar3/mu0xp2iwafzl/wish/354251341 acuellar3 https://padlet.com/acuellar3/mu0xp2iwafzl/wish/354256677 Click on the link for watching the video
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1WbxT8LEcVFNWtufIoBxHNN1imb4Phkfy

In this second video the pupils are working in groups on a 2nd session activity. They are deciding how to create a poster for showing the water cycle process: where does water come from and where it goes. First, some of them are completing the definitions of the water process. And then, some are drawing 
the different steps of the process. Finally, they proceed to stick the labels with the names and definitions on the poster.]]> 2019-04-25 19:27:42 UTC https://padlet.com/acuellar3/mu0xp2iwafzl/wish/354256677 acuellar3 https://padlet.com/acuellar3/mu0xp2iwafzl/wish/354259584 Click on the link for watching the video
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1IP9eN9L8USJpFLrbjf-5Vtl3l_U3xqnT

In this first video the teacher, with the help of a pupil on the board, explains how to do a dynamic for making groups, before doing another activity of the project. This dynamic consists on doing several maths combined operations to get a number, and with that number, they can join in different groups. After the explanations, we see how the pupils join in groups after solving each operation.]]> 2019-04-25 19:36:35 UTC https://padlet.com/acuellar3/mu0xp2iwafzl/wish/354259584 acuellar3 https://padlet.com/acuellar3/mu0xp2iwafzl/wish/354262224 IMPORTANT NOTE!!!!! Please, don't click on the "worksheets" links when reading the PBL template, to open them. You'll find all the worksheets below the template!!

]]> 2019-04-25 19:44:25 UTC https://padlet.com/acuellar3/mu0xp2iwafzl/wish/354262224 acuellar3 https://padlet.com/acuellar3/mu0xp2iwafzl/wish/354275082 The PBL presentation below is a four session planning about the same topic: water, as maybe the most important resource for human beign survival. For that reason it is titled: "Water…..more than gold". It is a Project designed for being implemented with the pupils in the Final Cycle of Primary Education. 
In each session designed in the PBL template the interest is focused on different aspects about wáter: from the origin of water, making them think about it as a neverending resource, or not. Also working on water problems or disasters caused by water. And ending by making them think about how to save water, how to make a better use of it.

]]> 2019-04-25 20:32:51 UTC https://padlet.com/acuellar3/mu0xp2iwafzl/wish/354275082 acuellar3 https://padlet.com/acuellar3/mu0xp2iwafzl/wish/354280231 Our school is located in what we call a "rural area". And this aspect makes the school different from regular schools, because it is a very small school, placed in a very small village called Lavern. This village is also placed in the Penedès area, included in a bigger municipality called Subirats, also including two other villages called Sant Pau d'Ordal and Ordal. Till this year, the three schools of this municipality have been joined into what the Department calls a "zer", which means "schools in rural areas". And this consists on three schools, with its own personality each one, but sharing many projects and activities all along the term.
Our village, Lavern, has got a population around 200 inhabitants. And, this school year, the numbers of pupils in the school is 90.
So, what makes the main difference when comparing our school to regular schools, is that the class groups are smaller, and joining both levels of a cycle together. ]]> 2019-04-25 20:52:58 UTC https://padlet.com/acuellar3/mu0xp2iwafzl/wish/354280231 acuellar3 https://padlet.com/acuellar3/mu0xp2iwafzl/wish/354284234 Title of the Project:   Water….. more than gold.
Teacher designing and implementing it:  Àurea Cuéllar Calàbria.
School's name:  Subirats school.
School location:  Lavern, Subirats (Alt Penedès).

]]> 2019-04-25 21:14:38 UTC https://padlet.com/acuellar3/mu0xp2iwafzl/wish/354284234 acuellar3 https://padlet.com/acuellar3/mu0xp2iwafzl/wish/354285427 2019-04-25 21:20:57 UTC https://padlet.com/acuellar3/mu0xp2iwafzl/wish/354285427