The first issue of Prácticas en educación bilingüe/plurilingüe magazine contains a variety of school practice examples and resource recommendations related to CLIL.

Furthermore, Bilingual Education Platform - BEP Ning site pays special attention to teachers' exchange, resource organisation, news, etc... focused on CLIL as well as some other issues related to the teaching of second languages.

Free Rice

I read in this post from Palabras Tendidas blog about Free Rice, a non-profit website run by the United Nations World Food Program together with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.

You can choose a topic from a selection of subjects (Geograhy, Art, English, Spanish, etc...) and try to answer questions in a quiz. For every right answer, ten grains of rice are donated by the UN World Food Program to help fight hunger in the world.

ESL Young Learners

"ESL Young Learners offers free fun materials for English language learners. These include:
- Original stories and simplified versions of classic texts
- Full PDF print-friendly short stories streamed via Scribd
- Short texts ideal for classroom use
- Glossary & activities to accompany texts
- All texts simplified and graded according to level
- Fun listening and watching materials"

Crickweb: Interactive primary activities

I learn from a message in Anglès 365 distribution list about Crickweb. This site contains a good collection of primary online activities based on the British curriculum. They are classified according levels and subjects. It is worth browsing through them because many can be useful in the CLIL classroom or in other methodological approaches just to reinforce a topic from the textbook. To get an idea of the type of resources you can find there, try these two simple activities about sound recognition and instrument classification or this one, useful to practise the names of some vegetables. The range of activities is wide; some of them are open-ended, like this one where the students have to write dialogues in a story.

Maths

Math is Fun website offers a well-organised selection of maths activities that can be useful in the English classroom in different ways. Thus, it provides many activities with instructions and puzzles which require thorough reading, as in this game, or online exercises such as this money master, useful to reinforce skills learned in the maths lessons. Furthermore, a visual dictionary of mathematical terms is also included.

A Bilingual Project

The web site of IES Sierra Morena Secondary School allows us to get to know some of the materials they use in their bilingual project. Although these online resources are addressed to compulsary secondary students, some activities can also be very useful for primary pupils working in a CLIL approach. This page gives access to several sequences of activities around diffent topics.

BBC Schools

BBC Schools is a web intended to provide practice and reinforcement of school contents from the Primary and Seondary curricula in the UK. Many of its resources can be also used by students of English as a foreign language, especially in classrooms working in a CLIL approach or at home as a kind of 'voluntary homework'.

This is a selection of four activities which combine content with oral or written comprehension skills practice:

Weather Report

The Recycling Game

Plants and Animals in the Local Environment

Moving and Growing

VII Jornadas Nacionales sobre Secciones Bilingües

Thanks to Fernando Trujillo via his blog De Estranjis, I've been following the contents of a Congress on Bilingual Schools that is being held these days in Santander. These are the links to a series of posts on this event: Post 1, Post 2, Post 3, Post 4, Post 5, Post 6, Post 7, Post 8.

Comic Book Creator

EduComics Project is a European Comenius activity which will deal with the use of e-comics in education. They intend to use the following software for creating the classroom materials:

Comic Book Creator is a tool that allows the creation of dynamic web comic books. An author can create an e-comic book by combining images of characters, pictures, background, text in balloons which can be placed in the frames of the pages of the book in that way and style desired. The produced dynamic web comic books are highly interactive flash based books that provide a great page flipping animation control opportunity as well as features like zooming, printing and easy navigation.

Research on L2 oracy

I read in this post of De Estranjis blog about a doctoral thesis on the emergence of L2 oracy in bilingual education. A short summary highlights the main advantages of teaching school subjects in a second language within a CLIL approach.

Slide presentations related to music

Bulletin Boards for the Music Classroom website contains a large set of PPT files related to songs in its Downloads section.

Some of them contain lyrics, e.g. "Don't Worry, be Happy", and some other just show a sequence of pictures to help follow the song, such as this one: "I Know an Old Lady"

CLIL Practice: Perspectives from the Field

CLIL Practices: Perspectives from the Field is a publication prepared by the CLIL Cascade Network (CCN), which gives an overview of CLIL developments and of the methodological approaches teachers are experimenting with in Europe.

It includes a set of 24 articles organised in three sections: Regional Features of Practice, Classroom Features of Practice, Supporting Practice through Teacher Education, and Reflection on Practice.