There are some good craft type activities at DLTK Crafts and also, at a site I am sure many of you already know: Enchanted Learning.
In Google, using some of the techniques we saw for effective searching, I ran a search with the following criteria:
"craft activities" ESL
Below you have some of the results.
MAKE STUFF
ENCHANTED LEARNING CRAFTS
ACTIVITY CUPBOARD
FUN LESSON PLANS
CHRISTMAS LESSON PLANS
When you are searching, remember you can experiment with different combinations. Try some of the following and see what you get:
"seasonal activities" ESL (or ELT or EFL or ESOL)
"handicrafts" +children -books
"make stuff"
"Christmas activities"
You can also refine your search for other seasonal activities such as Valentine's Day, Halloween, Easter, Mothers Day, Fathers Day and so on, applying the same sort of searching techniques.
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Wednesday, 17 March 2010
Downloadable banners
Enjoy a range of Fantastic Banners and Posters designed by a teacher for teachers.
Great range of topics and you can also freely request others. (Free registration required - coming soon)
Art & Graphics
Cavebark, Character Sketches, My Place
English
Alphabet, Fairy Tales, Fishy Stories, Reading for life, Reading Imagination,
Family
Congratulations, Happy Birthday
General Attitude/ Cross Curriculum
Congratulations, Happy Birthday, Birthday Months, Muscle Building, Welcome
Health (See also Values)
Biscuit, Bread, Choices, Don't Smoke, Fresh 'n' Fruity, Myself & Friends, My Place , Respect Yourself, Be Safe, Safety on the Road
I.C.T.
Junior Class
Can Tie Shoe, Pencil Use, Phonics,
Maori
Marare,
Maths
Money
Music
None yet
Social Studies, History (Topics see also Science)
Anzac, Black History, Cultural Diversity, Egypt, Emergency Helpers, Explorers, Farm, Grandparents, Japan, Kiwiana, Leadership, Money, Native American Indians, Refugees, School Secretary, Survival, Tourism, Who Works at the Airport, World War 2,
Science (Topics)
Acids & Gasses, Amazon, Animals & Animalia, Antarctica, Bears, Bush, Cars, Cougar Country, Dinosaurs, Fabric & Fibre, Flight, Floating & Sinking, Forests, Hydroponics, Insects, Inventions & Inventors, Oceans, Rainforest, Sea Life, Water, Weather, Worms
Technology
Technology,
Thinking
Life Long Learner, Life Long Learner 2, Multiple Intelligences, Think Smart
Values
Candle Quote,
Values Programme Posters: Diligence & Excellence, Equal Different, Fairness Winning, Forgiveness, Giving Sharing, Honesty Truthfulness, Honesty, Humility, Inclusiveness, Listening, Loss Grief, Patriotism, Perseverence, Respect, Responsibility, Service, Talents, Thankfulness, Vision
Values Programme Banner Overview: All Values Program Banners (Large File), Values Supporting Resources Activities, Programme Resources
Great range of topics and you can also freely request others. (Free registration required - coming soon)
Art & Graphics
Cavebark, Character Sketches, My Place
English
Alphabet, Fairy Tales, Fishy Stories, Reading for life, Reading Imagination,
Family
Congratulations, Happy Birthday
General Attitude/ Cross Curriculum
Congratulations, Happy Birthday, Birthday Months, Muscle Building, Welcome
Health (See also Values)
Biscuit, Bread, Choices, Don't Smoke, Fresh 'n' Fruity, Myself & Friends, My Place , Respect Yourself, Be Safe, Safety on the Road
I.C.T.
Junior Class
Can Tie Shoe, Pencil Use, Phonics,
Maori
Marare,
Maths
Money
Music
None yet
Social Studies, History (Topics see also Science)
Anzac, Black History, Cultural Diversity, Egypt, Emergency Helpers, Explorers, Farm, Grandparents, Japan, Kiwiana, Leadership, Money, Native American Indians, Refugees, School Secretary, Survival, Tourism, Who Works at the Airport, World War 2,
Science (Topics)
Acids & Gasses, Amazon, Animals & Animalia, Antarctica, Bears, Bush, Cars, Cougar Country, Dinosaurs, Fabric & Fibre, Flight, Floating & Sinking, Forests, Hydroponics, Insects, Inventions & Inventors, Oceans, Rainforest, Sea Life, Water, Weather, Worms
Technology
Technology,
Thinking
Life Long Learner, Life Long Learner 2, Multiple Intelligences, Think Smart
Values
Candle Quote,
Values Programme Posters: Diligence & Excellence, Equal Different, Fairness Winning, Forgiveness, Giving Sharing, Honesty Truthfulness, Honesty, Humility, Inclusiveness, Listening, Loss Grief, Patriotism, Perseverence, Respect, Responsibility, Service, Talents, Thankfulness, Vision
Values Programme Banner Overview: All Values Program Banners (Large File), Values Supporting Resources Activities, Programme Resources
Tuesday, 16 March 2010
Resource banks for project research
Here you have links to some of the best maintained "internet library" sites aimed at young learners.
RESEARCH LINKS
KEWL LINKS
Not forgetting the simple Wikipedia at:
Webquests
Below are some links to information and examples of Webquest activities. All of these links were found via a simple "webquests" search in Google. Refining your search by topic, level or age would lead you to more specific locations for material.
Wednesday, 10 March 2010
Links to online resources
There are some good one stop resource banks of online activities out there, some provided by the MEC, others by individual teachers and/or schools. Check out some of the links below that may be of interest.
Both of the following are MEC initiatives you may or may not know about. They both offer high quality flash-based interaction.
There are a group of sites clustered around Angeles 365 with some good links. Click on the following image for the index.
The link below takes you to the infants section.
The Fantastic Preschool project, created by the English department of Primaria del Colegio Hispania (Cartagena) and led by Maria Jesus Rodriguez Arenas is a growing site with some interesting links for very young learners.
The Colegio Retamar has assembled a compendium of links to activities and resources and arranged them into the three primary cycles: they say "Click on a topic. Find amazing facts, jokes, and links to all your favourite games, quizzes, songs, stories and websites."
Both of the following are MEC initiatives you may or may not know about. They both offer high quality flash-based interaction.
There are a group of sites clustered around Angeles 365 with some good links. Click on the following image for the index.
The link below takes you to the infants section.
The Fantastic Preschool project, created by the English department of Primaria del Colegio Hispania (Cartagena) and led by Maria Jesus Rodriguez Arenas is a growing site with some interesting links for very young learners.
The Colegio Retamar has assembled a compendium of links to activities and resources and arranged them into the three primary cycles: they say "Click on a topic. Find amazing facts, jokes, and links to all your favourite games, quizzes, songs, stories and websites."
Oxford University Press online activities
Here are some links to online activities for primary age learners offered by the Oxford University Press:
Click on the images to visit the sites.
Top class has games and activities for younger learners.
The new 6-level primary course with lessons based around exciting "Surprise" packages to capture students' imagination. Starter to Pre-Intermediate
A versatile and innovative five-level course which encourages children to develop as learners and to use their English in the classroom context. Beginner to Elementary
A six-level course that gives children more vocabulary, more reading, and more lessons than other primary courses. Your pupils will definitely learn more!
Polly, Jack, Quizzy and Ziggy invite your students to take part in a range of practice activities and games.
Ruby, Spike, Tina, Rodney and Otto invite you to take part in a range of practice activities and games.
Bulldog and friends invite you to take part in a wide range of practice activities and games.
Lots of games and activities based around the Galaxy title.
More fun and games for young learners.
All of the OUP student pages are collected here
Click on the images to visit the sites.
Top class has games and activities for younger learners.
The new 6-level primary course with lessons based around exciting "Surprise" packages to capture students' imagination. Starter to Pre-Intermediate
A versatile and innovative five-level course which encourages children to develop as learners and to use their English in the classroom context. Beginner to Elementary
A six-level course that gives children more vocabulary, more reading, and more lessons than other primary courses. Your pupils will definitely learn more!
Polly, Jack, Quizzy and Ziggy invite your students to take part in a range of practice activities and games.
Ruby, Spike, Tina, Rodney and Otto invite you to take part in a range of practice activities and games.
Bulldog and friends invite you to take part in a wide range of practice activities and games.
Lots of games and activities based around the Galaxy title.
More fun and games for young learners.
All of the OUP student pages are collected here
Monday, 1 March 2010
Music Links
Here are a set of links to children's music pages. Most of these sites offer lyrics and music in midi format. Midi uses the computer's music synthesizer to play the songs. In midi format, songs are always "karaoke" - the synthesizer cannot emulate the human voice.
This can work as an advantage rather than a drawback, as the children can sing the song without interference from the original singer.
Unfortunately, Midi files will not play on a CD player if you copy them directly to CD without changing the file format. (You will still need a computer in your classroom to play the music.)
You can, however, change the format. To transfer Midi to CD, you have various options. One is to connect the audio out of your computer to the audio in of your CD player, and record the track in real time. Another option is to convert the midi file to a CD format (wma/wav etc) and then burn the new file to CD.
Many computers nowadays have a recording device, so you can play and record the file simultaneously over the internet.
LINKS
There is some useful methodological advice on using songs at the British Council.
You can use MIDI SEARCH to help you locate song files.
LINK SITES
Many internet sites dedicate a lot of space to links to other sites. These links are often organised and classified in directory style. As we discussed in the session on searching, using this type of site with pre-evaluated links can be useful for busy teachers who do not want to spend time getting Google to work for them.
A few examples are given below.
A few examples are given below.
ABOUT DOT COM
THE HOLIDAY ZONE
INTERNET TESL JOURNAL
ESL HQ
TESOL MAX
ESL CAFE LINKS
RONG CHANG
ESL DESK
USING ENGLISH
Again, tracking down these link compendium sites is a matter of refining and focusing your search skills. For the results above, I used the following search:
"ESL Links" children
You could try a lot of variations:
"EFL links" children
"EFL links" "young learners"
"ESOL links" kids
When you find a good links site, remember to bookmark it, and then bookmark the individual sites you find when navigating from the links site. Very quickly, you will find that you have a good number of high quality, reliable sites available to help you with preparing and supplementing classroom activity.
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