Presentations and some games to review Baroque art

Here you have the two presentations we used in class to study Baroque art. Use them to prepare your project for next Monday. There are also three games to review the main works of art of this style.

 

These are the games. Click on the images to play them and remember to sign in on the website if you want your score to be registered:

Some links and videos to remember the "discovery" of the Indies

Here you have  two songs about the "discovery":

And this is the song about Magellan's voyage to reach the Indies sailing West:

Two more songs about two of the pre-Columbian peoples (Aztecs and Incas) from Horrible Histories:

 

 And here you have some interactive activities to review and refresh what we studied in 2nd ESO:

2016-2017 projects: Political maps electronic quiz board

This was a joint project with the Technology department. It consisted of an electronic matching game to learn the countries of the world and their capital cities. Thanks to theTechnology teachers Theo and Almudena for their contribution to the technical part of the project.

Two games to review geographic coordinates

These are two more games to review geographic coordinates. you have to locate the points that correspond with the coordinates given. Click on the images to be redirected to the game.

And this is the second one, with more points to locate: 

Some games to review Spain's relief, rivers and climates

Here you have the links to review the contents we have already studied about physical geography of Spain. Please, register and play. This way I will be able to check your progress. To access the games, click on the following images and you will be redirected to the website that hosts the games:

The Napoleonic wars in some maps

This is a collection of interactive maps related to the Napoleonic wars and the Napoleonic Empire. If you want to play them, click on the images. 

- This map comes from the BBC history website and it reproduces the Battle of Trafalgar, the sea battle that confronted the Hispano-French fleet with the British fleet commanded by Admiral Nelson: 

- This maps shows the extension of the Napoleonic Empire, including the allied States and its main enemies. It includes an animation of the Russian Campaign as well: 

- The following website explains all the details of the Russian Campaign (1812): 

- The last two links are two games about the Battle of Waterloo from the BBC and PBS websites. You can learn what happened, playing as Napoleon or the Duke of Wellington.

Yesterday I played the Battle of Waterloo as Napoleon and I won ;)

Some games and links for this summer

Children´s games, Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1560

Source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Children.jpg

Here you have some interesting links to review the last units we have studied this year. Some of them include additional information about some topics we didn´t have time to develop. There are also some games to review art and the conquest and colonization of the Indies:

Here you have some games about the Renaissance: 

http://www.renaissanceconnection.org/index2.cfm

http://www.purposegames.com/game/quattrocento-quiz/info

http://www.purposegames.com/game/cinquecento-paintingdme-quiz/info

The following links refer to the Tudors, the ruling dynasty in England between the Catholic Monarchs, Charles V and Philip II´s reigns: 

- Henry VIII´s six wives: 

http://tudorhistory.org/wives/

- The BBC History site includes a lot of information about the Tudors: 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/tudors/

- Some games about this period: 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/tudors/launch_gms_spying.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/launch_gms_victorian_dress.shtml

- On the following link you can listen to some songs of this historical period and learn more about fashion in Tudor Times: 

http://www.snaithprimary.eril.net/ttss.htm

And this last block  refers to the conquest and exploration of the Indies: 

- This is a PBS website about the conquistadors: it includes a timeline, videos and a lot of information about the explorers of the Indies:


http://www.pbs.org/conquistadors/

- A test about Christopher Columbus: 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/famouspeople/standard/columbus/index.shtml#focus

- The first voyage of Christopher Columbus: 

http://www.purposegames.com/game/first-voyage-of-columbus-quiz/info

- Some other games about the Age of Discovery and the explorers: 

http://www.purposegames.com/game/age-of-discovery-quiz-quiz

http://www.purposegames.com/game/thed-age-of-discoveries-ii-quiz

http://www.mce.k12tn.net/explorers/explorers_start.htm

- A game about the Age of Exploration during Tudors´ time: 

http://www.nmm.ac.uk/TudorExploration/NMMFLASH/index.htm

- A link to learn more about the peoples who lived in the Americas before the European conquest: 

http://www.carlos.emory.edu/ODYSSEY/AA/aaflashfront.htm

Enjoy!

Some more information about outsourcing

Checking the labels of our clothes, we´ve discovered today that many of the textiles sold in Spain have been produced in other countries. Many companies have outsourced their factories to places such as Bangladesh, Indonesia, India, China, Turkey, Thailand, Philippines, Pakistan or Mexico. Here you have some cartoons that show the reality of globalization in industry: 

The first cartoon shows how the theory of capitalism can affect to the same people who are its main supporters: 

This cartoon plays with a very know quote in the USA: it used to be "What´s good for General Motors (the car company) is good for America".

This one shows the dilemma of many Mexican workers: 

The executive of this cartoon justifies outsourcing as a good thing for American citizens: 

This one shows the reality of many companies of the developed countries: their workers live in other countries. 

And the last one is focused on consumers. 

Source of all the images: http://www.davar.net/IT/CARTOONS.HTM

The truth is that the high consumption levels of the most developed countries are only possible because many of the goods we enjoy come from countries where the working conditions and the rights of workers are not respected. If you´re interested in this topic, you can watch the following video about working conditions on the sweatshops in Bangladesh: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Bhodyt4fmU&feature=related

And if you want to take action, this is the link to the Playfair 2012 Campaign. This is an international campaign  whose purpose is to put pressure on the sport companies that produce sportwear in outsourced factories in Asia. You can send an e-mail to the major companies and ask them to respect the rights of their workers: 

http://www.playfair2012.org.uk/

You can also play the game "Unfair factory" and learn how´s a workday in the sweatshops: 

http://www.playfair2012.org.uk/game/

Some resources to study political geography of the continents

Source: http://www.mapsworldwide.com/



Hello everybody!

Here you have some interesting links where you can review the countries of the world and their capital cities:

- Interactive maps: lots of games to learn geography, prepared by Enrique Alonso, a Catalan teacher:

http://www.xtec.cat/~ealonso/flash/flashmaps.htm

- Lizard Point: Test your Geography Knowledge. Lots of map quizzes to test your geographic knowledges:

http://www.lizardpoint.com/fun/geoquiz/

- Geography games: a very interesting link. You can learn the pronunciation of the countries and their capital cities and important information about them:

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/Geography.htm

- Maps.com: More games to review political geography:

http://www.maps.com/funfacts.aspx

- I like 2 learn: map quizzes to review the capital cities of the continents:

http://www.ilike2learn.com/ilike2learn/

- Conquer the continents: a game to review the location of the countries:

http://www.mrnussbaum.com/concon.htm

I hope you learn a lot by playing all these games! Please, write your comments on the games you´ve played and the results you have obtained (right answers, mistakes, the most difficult things for you...).