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Teaching the Galapagos in the Spanish Classroom
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Background resources (books, photos, information):

  • BookAtlas de Galápagos, Ecuador - Especies Nativas e Invasores. This digital Flipsnack book from the WWF and the Charles Darwin Foundation contains detailed information in Spanish along with photos and maps to help teach about the endemic and invasive species of the islands.
  • Book: Galápagos Big 15. This virtual book provides info and photos of the 15 most emblematic animals of the Galápagos Islands. Great maps, photos, and information in Spanish.
  • Book: La historia del Solitario George. From the Galapagos Conservancy, this tells the story of Lonesome George, including his life, death, and conservation efforts (in Spanish).
  • Blog: Descubriendo Galápagos. This blog from the Galapagos Conservation Trust and the Royal Geographical Society contains lots of information about the geography (both human and natural) of the islands, along with details about conservation efforts.
  • Article¿Cuánto cuesta vivir en las Islas Galápagos? - an interesting article from BBC Mundo with information about the costs of living and socioeconomic issues in the islands.
  • Images: A Pinterest board with photos, infographics, illustrations and more visual images of the Galápagos Islands, including the animals, conservation, geography, maps and more.
  • Photos: A Flickr Album with tons of photos depicting scenes of Baltra Island, Santa Cruz and San Cristóbal including images animals, and other useful photos for use in teaching (downloadable and free for use in educational settings and projects).
  • Videos: A YouTube playlist with videos depicting scenery, children's cartoons, documentaries, home-made movies, and other video resources.
  • 360 Video: Four different VR/360 scenes - some with Galapagos animals, to accompany the Punta Pitt picturebook; and a video depicting use of the scenes (what the teacher sees, what the student sees).

   

Lesson plans, thematic units, and teaching materials:

  • Resource Guide: A Teachers Resource Guide to the Galapagos. This booklet created by the National Science Teachers Association is in English, but contains tons of useful project ideas and science experiments to do with your students.
  • Books: An incredible collection of activity books from the Darwin Foundation, including graphic novels and comics, picturebooks and other great didactic resources for teaching about Darwin, conservation, Galapagos animals and more.
  • Lesson: Google Expeditions - The Galapagos Islands. From TES (requires an email sign up), this lesson plan is in English, but it contains some useful information and activity ideas for a virtual reality visit.
  • Mini-poster: Thematic unit essential question - "How do the actions of humans affect the ecosystems of the Galapagos?"
  • Activity: Animals, Adaptation, and the Galápagos Islands: A Science Explorations Activity. From Scholastic, this audio-visual interactive tool is in English, but could provide some nice support material and resources for connecting a Spanish unit to the Science curriculum in your school.
  • Activity SheetsWhat are the Galapagos? - a collection in English from Big Green Rabbit and a blue-footed booby trading card (!) that could be adapted into Spanish language materials.
  • Animal Cards: Galapagos Animals 3-part Cards from the Blog In Our Pond. These cards are meant for use along with the Safari Limited Galapagos Animals Toob collection. 
  • Puppet Resources: PuppetED. Carmen Campos' resources, photos and ideas for using puppets in the World Language classroom.

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Environmental connections: