Infonews n°165 du 20/10/2002
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"In the News" this week, the vote in Ireland and some
information
about the integration of the new countries in the European Union. Then some
sites to find funny pictures, comics, and editorial cartoons for your
classes. For the youngest, some sites for Halloween, with activities,
recipes, masks, pumpkin carving, poems and songs... Three resources for
secondary school: one about Justice in the US, one about Music and some
useful links for career exploration and to reflect about future jobs. For
beginners, a site featuring US and UK currencies, and another one with
interactive games around the planets: both sites can be used in autonomy by
young children. Then two sites about teaching practice in the US, and at
the end, don't forget to go to the "Instant Lessons" site to register for
the world's largest lesson. Like last year, you and your students can take
part in this attempt to break the world record of the greatest number of
students learning the same lesson in the same day, or even at the same
hour. Last year, my students were very proud to take part in a world record!
Have a nice week!
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in the news
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Yes Vote in Ireland
Dossier "Strategic Road"
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Comics
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Some tips to use comics and cartoons in class
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Halloween
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Halloween at Alphabet Soup (from Art for Kids 45-Second Newsletter Issue #33)
Original Pumpkin Carving Patterns (from Art for Kids 45-Second Newsletter
Issue #33)
Pumpkin Seed Snack (from The Classroom Flyer Friday Edition 10/18/02)
Halloween Fun (from Sarah Rapnouil)
No ordinary Pumpkin (from The Classroom Flyer Friday Edition 10/18/02)
Halloween-themed creative writing (from The Classroom Flyer Friday Edition
10/18/02)
Printable halloween masks (from The Classroom Flyer Friday Edition 10/18/02)
Printable Story Planner (The Classroom Flyer Wednesday Edition 10/16/02)
Pumpkin Science (The Classroom Flyer Wednesday Edition 10/16/02)
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Resources for secondary school
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Presumed Guilty: Tales of the Public Defenders (from PBS Teacher Previews:
October 20-27)
New York Philharmonic Kidszone (from PBS Teacher Previews: October 20-27)
Career Exploration
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resources for primary school
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ChangeMaker (The Classroom Flyer Wednesday Edition 10/16/02)
Tiny Planets ( Top 8 Web Sites)
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Teaching Practice
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Learning to Discipline ( from PEN Weekly NewsBlast for October 18)
Motivating students (The Classroom Flyer Wednesday Edition 10/16/02)
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Project
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Take part in Instant Lesson Record
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in the news
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Yes Vote in Ireland
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here are some articles on the subject:
CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/10/20/ireland.eu/
Bloomberg: http://www.bloomberg.com/emu/emu_news1.html?s=APbKEdRV8SXJlbGFu
Ha'aretz:http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=221553&contrassID=1&subContrassID=8&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y
ITV: http://www.itv.com/news/World1167713.html
Financial Times:
http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1033849145998
ABC Australia: http://abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s705957.htm
Dossier Strategic Road
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Strategic Road nous propose des articles sur le sommet de Nice, en français
et en anglais. Un site utile pour en apprendre davantage sur l'Europe des
25 et sa formation.
http://www.strategic-road.com/dossiers/nice2000.htm
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Comics
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Some tips to use comics and cartoons in class
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You can find in Infonews n°153 a teaching unit about cartoons . It goes
with a page of links:
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/infonews/themes/cartoons.htm
here are some other sites found by our colleagues on e-teach, to find funny
pictures, comics and editorial cartoons for your lessons:
http://www.creators.com/ (from
Christine Silvestri )
http://acc.glowport.com/ (from
Christine Silvestri )
http://cagle.slate.msn.com/
(from Annie Gwynn and Olivier Colas)
http://www.ac-nancy-metz.fr/enseign/languesLP/anglais/10imagevideo.htm
(from Josiane Laval )
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Halloween
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Halloween at Alphabet Soup (from Art for Kids 45-Second Newsletter Issue #33)
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Find great online coloring, printable coloring pages, and cool craft ideas
here!
[ for primary school and the youngest in secondary school. You can find
Halloween poems and carols (with the music online), coloring books,
recipes, craft ideas (see how to make a paper lantern).
See also the safety tips:
http://www.alphabet-soup.net/hall/hallo2.html
and very young children saying what costume they want to wear and why (easy
English):
http://www.alphabet-soup.net/hall/costume.html
Original Pumpkin Carving Patterns (from Art for Kids 45-Second Newsletter
Issue #33)
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Move beyond your average Jack O Lantern with these artful creations.
http://www.fabulousfoods.com/holidays/halloween/pumpplans.html
[ These patterns are prefect for crafts sessions for the youngest.
For the most advanced, you will find a full step by step pumpkin carving
lesson:
http://www.fabulousfoods.com/holidays/halloween/jack101.html
for intermediate, some tips:
http://www.fabulousfoods.com/holidays/halloween/jacktips.html
and for beginners the roasted pumpkin seeds recipe:
http://www.fabulousfoods.com/recipes/appetizers/snacks/pumpseeds.html
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Pumpkin Seed Snack (from The Classroom Flyer Friday Edition 10/18/02)
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http://www.teachervision.com/tv/printables/PumpkinSeeds.pdf
Students will make their own healthy snack with the
pumpkin seeds they scoop out of their pumpkins. They
will also answer discussion questions to consider the
life cycle of a pumpkin plant.
[ a ready to use printable lesson for young children.]
Halloween Fun (from Sarah Rapnouil)
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http://www.efl4u.com
there are 3 free fun activities based on Halloween:
Halloween is a great time for parties, visiting haunted houses and listening
to (and/or watching) scary ghost stories. This worksheet offers students the
chance to create their own really scary ghost stories. Pairs of students
create a ghost story using this worksheet to help them organize their
thoughts. It also assists them with how to proceed from simple sentences to
easy paragraphs. Students will be able to improve their storytelling skills
with descriptive adverbs and adjectives.
Also a Halloween maze and word circle for younger pupils.
No ordinary Pumpkin (from The Classroom Flyer Friday Edition 10/18/02)
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http://www.riverdeep.net/current/2001/10/102201t_pumpkins.jhtml
Charlie Brown would surely appreciate the wonders of
these GIANT pumpkin patches--but how can you move a
1000 pound pumpkin to enter it into a great pumpkin
fair in the first place? Measure off the world's lar-
gest pumpkins in this October installment for River-
deep, where pumpkins are a very serious business.
Student activities include estimating weights and
circumferences of your own class pumpkins, and link-
ing to some pretty spectacular designs for carving
jack-o'-lanterns. You may even wish to sponsor your
own school-wide jack-o'-lantern design contest, choos-
ing various categories such as spookiest, silliest,
most creative, etc.
[ a great site about pumpkins, and links to pumpkin carving and the pumpkin
patch to know everything about the subject. For intermediate and advanced
students.]
Halloween-themed creative writing (from The Classroom Flyer Friday Edition
10/18/02)
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http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/YLP/97-98/97-98_units/97-98mini-unit/LCaravia_BookMaking/BookMaking2.html
Elementary students will create their own pumpkin-themed
books (use pumpkin cutouts for the covers and paper).
They will be given the first sentence to help fire up
their imaginations, and try to keep to the task of in-
cluding all story elements, with a focus on the main character.
[ an idea for an activity for secondary school students with an
intermediate level. An occasion to produce a bboklet displaying the
students' writings. They will be so proud of it!
Printable halloween masks (from The Classroom Flyer Friday Edition 10/18/02)
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http://familyeducation.com/printables/package/0,2358,22-9732,00.html
Choose between a lion, a mouse, a pumpkin, a cat, or
a create-your-own eye mask. After printing and cutting,
let your students decorate their masks with glitter,
paint, beads, feathers, etc.
Printable Story Planner (The Classroom Flyer Wednesday Edition 10/16/02)
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http://abcteach.com/Halloween/storyplanner.htm
Print out copies of these story starters to help your
students organize a writing project. They also work
well as pre-writing worksheets for book reports.
Pumpkin Science (The Classroom Flyer Wednesday Edition 10/16/02)
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http://www.monroe2boces.org/shared/esp/pumpk.htm
Several activity suggestions lead students through exploring pumpkins in
new ways--emphasizing scientific observation skills.
[ for a transcurricular project.]
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Resources for secondary school
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Presumed Guilty: Tales of the Public Defenders (from PBS Teacher Previews:
October 20-27)
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Continue your investigation at the companion site. Meet the defenders
and hear their thoughts on their profession, explore the profiled cases
further, access resources related to the criminal justice system and much more.
http://pbs.org/presumedguilty/
[ for advanced students. To reflect about Justice and law in the US.]
New York Philharmonic Kidszone (from PBS Teacher Previews: October 20-27)
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Make beautiful music at this fun Web site introducing orchestra basics
to young music enthusiasts. Meet musicians, composers and conductors,
familiarize yourself with philharmonic instruments by family, make your
own instrument and much more.
http://www.nyphilkids.org/
[ for intermediate students interested in music, or for a transcurricular
project in english and music.]
Career Exploration
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http://www.educationworld.com/awards/past/topics/students.shtml#Career%20Exploration
[ a list of websites about career exploration.]
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resources for primary school
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ChangeMaker (The Classroom Flyer Wednesday Edition 10/16/02)
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http://www.funbrain.com/cashreg/index.html
Students practice making change to gain money for their
piggy banks. Choose the level of difficulty, and each
correct question will advance the student to more chal-
lenging questions. This interactive learning game is
now available in international currencies.
[ for the us and the uk, easy or more difficult interactive exercises
combining math and discovering the currency of the country. The students
have to calculate the amount of change they will give back, and thay can
choose the coins or notes they will give back as change. To start the
exercise, you can print the pages with all the currencies.]
Tiny Planets ( Top 8 Web Sites)
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Kids, here's your chance to join Bing and Bong at a special Web site to
learn about light and color, nature and technology. Mix colors, make an
animation and learn about shadows, then discover the seasons and view the
power of the wind. Fun learning puzzles, creature creation tools and other
goodies are just a click away. (The soundtrack is pretty neat, too!)
http://www.tinyplanets.com
[ a very nice interactive site for primary school or crosscurricular
project with art or music in lower secondary school. This site will also
make a good self access site for students working autonomously: lots of
interaction and interactive educative games.]
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Teaching Practice
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Learning to Discipline ( from PEN Weekly NewsBlast for October 18)
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No one is born knowing how to control 125 adolescents for five hours a
day and teach the curriculum at the same time. Learning to discipline takes
years. Mostly, it's trial and error. Nothing works all the time, and
what works well in one class has no effect on another. At the start of her
teaching career, Margaret Metzger confesses, she ricocheted between
being a drill sergeant and Mary Poppins. In this Phi Delta KAPPAN online
article, she shares with new teachers the lessons she's learned along
the way about managing and disciplining young adolescents.
http://www.pdkintl.org/kappan/k0209met.htm
[ A good article for all those who care about what happens in America's
classrooms. ]
Motivating students (The Classroom Flyer Wednesday Edition 10/16/02)
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http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/motiv.htm
Setting and keeping high learning expectations for your students, helping
them both set and achieve goals, supplying concrete techniques for success.
These are a few of the topics covered in this article on motivating your
students.
[ reflexion on motivation and strategies and tips of teacher's behaviour to
help students acquire and keep their motivation.]
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Project
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Take part in Instant Lesson Record
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On 12 November 2002 we are hosting the World's
Largest Lesson! It is our attempt to get as many teachers from around
the globe teaching the same English-To-Go Instant Lesson(tm) within a 24-
hour period.
There are two record attempts. We are trying to break last year's
World's Largest Lesson record and we are also trying to set a new
Guinness World Record for the Largest Simultaneous Lesson! By
registering your intent to participate you automatically become part of
our attempt to break the English-To-Go record; however you must be able
to teach the lesson at a specific time in your country to be eligible
for the Guinness Record.
It is FREE to participate, so tell your fellow teachers, friends and
students! We want to make this year's event bigger and better than the
last! There are great prizes to be won, too.
We invite you to participate in the event. Click below for more
information and to register.
http://www.english-to-go.com/largest/
[ You can take part in two records : the largest taught lesson in the same
day, and at the same time. This year's lesson is like last year's about
landmines. Here is what they say about the lesson
"This year's World's Largest Lesson builds on last year's in continuing to
educate people about landmines. The widespread use of these antipersonnel
landmines has continued, making it even more difficult to eliminate a
weapon that kills or maims thousands of people every year. The lesson is
able to be done by students from Pre-Intermediate to Advanced levels and
has reading, speaking and writing activities. (The lesson covers landmines,
things that endanger people's lives, understanding the main idea,
information gap fill, true or false, multiple choice, and 'still' used as
an adverb.)"
Last Year, although the subject landmine was not very exciting in itself,
the text contained references to Charities and John Lennon, which allowed
us to have intersting discussions from the text. I'll let you know what can
be done with the new text as soon as it will be published.
So don't hesitate to register!]
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