Travel in the Tardis

The Tardis is the name of the Doctor's spaceship. It looks like an old Police Phone Box and it is bigger on the inside. The Tardis can travel thorugh time and space, so let your students imagination fly and let them travel to an invented planet. You can use it also in Geography by choosing a real place. Fantastic!

The Doctor's Word

Doctor Who is famous for promoting the word instead of the war. He      travels to all kind of planets and treats aliens and other criatures as equals evading racism and prejudices. The children can learn a lot of it and you can create exercises about multiculturalism, empathy and rol playing using this topic. I created an avatar that talks about it at www.voki.com. You can use this alien avatar to introduce the lesson and then make a mini performance with rol playing, for example.

Doctor? Doctor Who?

 

Doctor Who is a science fiction television programme produced by the BBC which depicts the adventures of a Time Lord who is an alien called The Doctor. He explores the universe in his spaceship, the Tardis, what has a police phone box appearance. This show is a significant part of the British popular culture and a cult television favourite. The series combines many aspects that make Doctor Who amazing for kids and they can choose their favourite Doctor because the actors change in each Doctor's regeneration (a kind of dead). Watch the chapters in English could be a fun way to practice listening skills while learning a piece of the british culture. Every season a Christmas Special is made, and you can watch it perfectly even you  don't follow the show. The Doctor, the widow and the wardrobe (season 6) and A Christmas carol (season 7) are examples of Christmas chapters that kids really like.

Schrödinger's Cat

 

As an example of a science lesson through The Big Bang Theory, you can explain your students the Schrödinger's cat experiment by watching a video in which Sheldon talks about it.

Then you can talk about the most important scientist of all the times and how they comtributed to science and make this IWB activities to consolidate the knowledge:









https://www.dropbox.com/s/v44xt3o8dojys43/TBBT.notebook

Smart is the New Sexy!

The characters of The Big Bang Theory are brilliant scientists reflected in the series as nerds. You can learn about some science stuff if you watch it, but before explaining the science activities, I have a proposal analising one of the characters, Sheldon. He is the cleverest of the group, excepcionally gifted. He posseses the Asperger Syndrome or disorder, an autist spectrum disorder characterized by significant difficulties in social interaction, limited empathy with peers and repetitive patterns of behaviour and interests.

You can teach Psychology to your students with this example of behaviourism, studying the disorder and cases. Also you can make a point to the empathy, a very important feeling in mates life.

The Big Bang Theory

The Big Bang Theory is a sitcom which title is very adecuated to explain or reinforce your students knowledge about the theory of the creation of the universe. 

To talk about the solar system and the plantes, you can use the website http://www.planetsofthesolarsystem.net/, that has description of all the planets and other bodies of the galaxy so the learners can make reading activities. Also, it has a 3D model of the solar system amazing for kids and even for adults. I was really surprised when I saw it and you can change the hours and see what happens, have a microscope view and other interesting stuff. 

You can see the 3D model here: http://www.planetsofthesolarsystem.net/solar-system-model.html

The main theme of the series could be useful to students to remember the theory with music:

New Uniform!

To finish, your students can design a new cape for Superman with some superpowers. They would have to draw and describe it. By doing this, they relax drawing and developing their imagination while they practice writing skills with the description. Furthermore, you can propose them to design a comic frame; there are great tools to do so, like www.pixton.com.

Here you have the link of the IWB activities related to the superhero:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/y57e2plib3jbcv9/Superman.notebook