Youtube channels for learning History

Another academic year is almost finished. Here you have then, as usual, several recomendations for learning History while having fun:

 

AcademiaPlay: a “classic” on youtube, in Spanish.

Historias de la Historia & La cuna de Halicarnaso: two Spaniards teachers on your screen

British Pathé: original TV footage, commented

ArqueoDidat: do you like Prehistory? This is your channel!

TEDx Talks: several options with animated videos

Crash Course Black America History: Crash Course is a well-known channel with tons of information. But did you know about this specifical issue?

La moda en la historia: curious stories about fashion & beauty on History.

Enjoy your summer holidays! 

1º British: Shackleton and the exploration of the Antarctica (II_ArtBook)

Breaking news! On March, 2022 a group of scientists discovered into the deep blue the Endurance, the legendary ship that famous British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton lost in his last and tragic expedition, more than a century ago.

As you can imagine by this introduction, your new task this year is to do a work about it but… in a quite special and different way. Are you prepare for a bit of DIY? J

What do you have to do?

Your duty is to CREATE AN ART BOOK. And what is that? An artbook is a special book edition about a topic or concept, generally interactive, portable and easily shared; these special, unique editions are Works of Art by themshelves (not just a conventional book for reading) and can be made from a variety of materials, even become sculptural objects. These photo-collage will show you some inspirational examples:

Your new task (individual or in groups of maximum 4 people) is to create an artbook about the explorations on Antarctica. Of course, proper explanations about the topic will be provided at class and so you them put all that information in an artistical book-shape.

It is not necessary to write by your own all the information (exceptionally, this time you can copy&paste from internet, but  of course it would be necessary to do a previous good selection of the information and a good choice of typography and format!) because this work is about information management, edition technology and creativity, so… enjoy! J

 

Contents that MUST appear on your artbook (of course you MUST include images and maps):

• Phisical map of Antarctica
• Antarctica natural enviroment: climate (do not forget to include a climate graph), landscapes and animals.
• Predecessors: Scott and Amundsen expeditions (brief biographies, portraits, basic info about their expeditions and comparative map)
• Shackleton (short biography, portrait)
• Shackleton’s team
• Shackleton’s ship (Endurance). Photos, itinery and map.
• Antarctica today, a brief summary (Questions that you have to answer here: What is the Treaty of Anstarctica? What are the basic rules for international cooperation there? What are the Spanish projects?)
• Your opinión about the explorers and the activity.
• Colophon (What is a colophon?)

 

Extra ITC’s tip! You can also add web links or… even convert them into QR codes by using free online apps such as monkey or bitly generator! After the conversion, just print and add the QR image into your artbook J

When finish, give handly your artbook to your teacher. As usual, this work is mandatory and you will receive a mark for it; if you do not do it, or do it out of time, your mark will be 0.

 

Ok, now we know what to do but… what about the theory? Read HERE!

1º British: Shackleton and the exploration of the Antarctica (I_Theory)

Let’s start! What do you know about Antarctica? Antarctica is the continent surrounding the South Pole, almost entirely covered by an ice sheet. Here you have a detailed phisical map of it:

 

Antarctica is the coldest, highest, windiest, driest continent on Earth, as you can discover in this link about its environment and it is home of animals such as penguins, seals, whales… as you can watch in this Nationalgeographic video.

Antarctica was always an atractive dream for explorers, adventurers and scientists. Among History, there have been many travels, starting as soon as  the 18th century! On January 1774 James Cook (UK) crossed the Antarctica Polar Sea Circle but could not even see the continente due to the bad weather conditions (he was just 75 miles away from it!).

On November, 1820 Andrés MacFarlane (Chile) was the first person that disembarked in Antarctica (Expedition “Dragón de Valparaíso”).

Nevertheless, the most famous and hazardous Antarctica stories were the explorations of Scott (UK), Amundsen (Norway) and Shackleton (UK), al lof them at the beginning of the 20th century. These are their portraits:

Captain Scott and Roald Amundsen both aimed to be the first to reach the South Pole in 1911. That was nicknamed “The race to the South Pole” (Link to video and map).

Who won? Amundsen! On 14 December, 1911 he reached the center of the continent; When Scott arrived few weeks later, on 17 January 1912, the Norwegian flag was already there…

The journey back (on foot!) was not only sad for Scott and his men, but also terrible due to heavy snow storms and lack of food: they died before reaching back their ship in the coast. A posterior expedition managed to reach their last refugee, buried their bodies and recovered their diaries, that were published when back in London and become best-sellers.

But let’s focus on Shackleton’s last atempt: the Endurance voyage; although the expedition failed and the ship sunked, the adventure of the Endurance was probably one of the most remarckable historical hits in Geographical expeditions. And, spoiler, despite the difficulties all members of the team survived and went back to UK thanks to the determination and effort of the captain, Sir Ernest Shackleton!

Thanks to the NOVAproject website you would find a lot of information and visual resources for your work, such as the timeline and the team. Additionally, you can revise the National Geographic summary.

A real adventure, isn’t it? But what about now a days situation? Currently, Antarctica is a continente for international cooperation in science, where Spain is also collaborating.

Weather and Climate (index for review)

 

To help you prepare your task, here you have the links to the different articles (theory and videos):

Video: Weather vs Climate (BBC)

Elements & Factors affecting Weather (Theory & Videos)

How to do climate graphs

Video: hot climates (BBC)

Video: cold climates (BBC)

Clouds

Climates in UK (maps)

3º British: Globalization - Planet Money makes a T-Shirt

Good news! This is the very last topic/task for this academic year!

What is Globalization?

Globalisation is the process by which the world is becoming increasingly interconnected as a result of massively increased trade and cultural exchange.

Globalisation is not a new phenomena. On the contrary, it has been taking place for hundreds of years thanks to trade, but has speeded up enormously over the last half-century. Globalisation can be both positive or negative (read page 3 on my theoretical topic).

Let’s study a specifical example: Planet Money makes a T-shirt.

Planet Money is a USA radio show to learn the basics of economy, broadcasting by NPR. One year, the Planet Money team decided to do a special T-shirt with its logo... and follow the whole creation process.

The simplest shirt is touched by people and machines all over the planet, from highly paid researchers in seed laboratories to factory workers who earn a few dollars a day. By making our own T-shirt, we figured, we would discover this massive, interconnected, largely hidden world. Follow its journey: http://planetmoney.com/shirt 

Do you know how much water is need to create a simple t-shirt and a pair of jeans? Look at the image:

  

As seen, one of the negative impacts is the huge amount of residues and waste produced. Do you know how to correctly manage YOUR waste? Do you know if we are doing our best in the recycling system? Have a look to this website:

To make sure globalisation will brings more positive to negative things, specially to LEDCs, there are some concept to keep in mind (all of them, again, explained on my theoretical topic):

• Sustanaible development
• Appropiate technology
• Fair trade

Back to the previous example: the creation of that T-shirt is industrial or “fast-fashion”, activity with a huge impact in the environment and, therefore, in human life itself! Recycling fashion (the town turning waste into clothes, BBC 4 minutes video) has become a major need. Recently, a new model appears: Slow-fashion.

Slow-fashion advocates for manufacturing in respect to people, environment and animals. Eg.: There are, nowadays, several alternatives more respectful with the environment, with the animals and much less water-consumer. Have you heard about the "vegan-leather"? Shoes, bags of jackets than with special materials than totally reproduce the visual appearance and texture but vegetable-done. For example, from pineapple or cactus!

As such, contrary to industrial fashion practices, slow fashion involves local artisans and the use of eco-friendly materials, with the goal of preserving crafts and the environment. Some elements of the slow fashion philosophy include: buying vintage clothes, redesigning old clothes, shopping from smaller producers, making clothes and accessories at home and buying garments that last longer.

And when the garments can not be reuse anymore, they can be transformed into something completely different, such as kitchen tiles (1 minute BBC video) or kindergarten pavement! Did you know it? Sure not...

Have you ever try to customize your own clothes? For example, an old pair of jeans. What can you do with them? The usual answer is to cut them into shorts for summer time but, with some sewing skills and a bit of patience (there are a lot of tutorials on internet) you can transform them into a skirt, a backpack or a cushion: 

After watching carefully the videos by Planet Money (they are very short, 3 minutes the longest one!) and reading the topic, answer all the following questions as complete as possible (as usual, send your answers to acarriles@educa.jcyl.es):

  

Task 1: about the videos:

• Video III: People. Why do you think the t-shirts were made in Bangladesh and Colombia and not the USA?
• Video V: You. Identify something else (not a t-shirt) from your daily life that is the result of globalization and explain why you think it is a product of globalization.

Task 2: general synthesis:

• What technological innovations do you think have made globalization possible?
• Identify two positive effects and two negative effects of globalization and explain why each is positive or negative.
• Do the economic benefits of globalization outweigh the costs? Why?
• Do the social and cultural benefits of globalization outweigh the costs? Why?

Task 3: recycling and slow fashion

• What do you think about the concept of slow-fashion and the customize of clothes? Are you in favour or against? Why?
• Look at the image below: it’s a XL man-size shirt. What would to do to customize or transform it? Give at least 2 ideas.

And that's all this year! I promise! :)

Deadlines for third term

Last term of the academic year, here we go!

1º British:

Monthly work nº5 (Maps) _ Friday, 22 April

Exam I (Maps) _ Wednesday, 27 April

Monthly work nº6 (Climates) _ Friday, 6 May

Exam II (Chartography) _ Wednesday, 11 May

Oral (Pop.in extreme weather)_ Friday, 20 May

NEW! Explorations in Antarctica_ Wednesday, 1 June

EXTRA JUNE! Comic life_ Friday, 17 June

2º British:

Monthly work nº5 (Modern Era II) _ Monday, 4 April

Oral (Avila's guided visit) _ Monday, 25 April 

Exam I_ Monday, 9 May

Monthly work nº6 (UK) _ Monday, 16 May

Exam II_ Monday, 23 May

Oral (Female artist in modern era)_ Monday, 30 May

EXTRA JUNE! Thieves in the museum!_ Thursday, 16 June

3º British: 

Monthly work nº4 (Tertiary sector)_ Monday, 25 April

Exam_ Monday 9 and Tuesday 10, May

Oral (Flipped class)_ Friday, 20 May

Monthly work nº5 (maps)_ Monday, 30 May

EXTRA JUNE! Monthly work nº6 (Natural environment)_ Friday, 17 June

4º British:

Monthly work nº6 (Interwar+IIWW)_ Friday, 29 April

Historical ShortFilm_ Friday, 13 May

Exam_ Thursday 19 and Friday 20, May

Monthly work nº7 (Spain)_ Friday, 3 June

EXTRA JUNE! Monthly work nº8 (Cold war & Decolonization)_ Friday, 17 June

Good luck! :)

Deadlines for second term

These will be the deadlines for the second term (do not panic, you will have enough time to do your homework after Christmas; your duty now is enjoying your holidays!): 

1º British

Oral: 7 Wonders of ancient times _ Friday, 21 January

Exam I (Greece)_ Wednesday, 2 February

Monthly work nº3 (Classic World) _ Friday, 9 February

Exam II (Rome)_ Wednesday, 23 February

Monthly work nº4 (Ancient Britain) _ Wednesday, 9 March

Book review (details here/page 2) _ Friday, 11 March

2º British

Comic _ Monday, 24 January

Video: Spanish America TV news _ Monday, 7 February

Monthly work nº4 (America)_ Monday, 14 February

Monthly work nº5 (Modern era)_ Monday, 7 March

Exam I (if necessary)_ Monday, 21 February

Exam II (if necessary)_ Monday, 14 March

3º British

Oral: Searching a job in Europe! _ CV delivery (Monday, 17) & Interview (Monday, 24) January

Monthly work nº2 (Primary sector)_ Monday, 31 January

Videoscribe _ Monday, 14 February

Monthly work nº3 (Secondary sector)_ Monday, 21 february

Exam (Primary & Secondary sectors)_ Monday 14 & Tuesday 15, March

4º British

Monthly work nº4 (Industrial) _ Friday, 28 January

Twitter (Victorian era & Industrial): 

• Election of roles (Friday, 14 January)
• Development: Tuesday 18 to Tuesday 25, January 

Historical newspaper (1914) _ Friday, 11 February

Spanish flu vs Covid _ Friday, 18 February

Monthly work nº5 (IWW & Russia) _ Friday, 25 February

Exam (Industrial Rev, IWW & Russia Rev.)_ THURSDAY 10 & FRIDAY 11, March

Have a nice day and take care.