Happy Easter ! Activities to do inside !

Spring is back!  But after two or three days, Winter came back. Cold, wind, snow and rain. So I can't think to publish a poem about Spring. Perhaps a poem about Easter? Let's see if I can...

   The cold earth slept below;
       Above the cold sky shone;

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Today April 19 is Saturday alleluia. Just a day to Easter Sunday. Easter is the most important Christian religious holiday and widely regarded as the second most popular holiday in general after Christmas season.

The students and teachers got some days as school break of Easter in the most countries in Europe and elsewhere.

In addition to the fun and candy, Easter is also a time of reflection for many, with traditions that commemorate the significance of the holiday for Christians around the world.

Easter 2025 is the coldest and stormy weather  we've had in many years. Nothing comparable to previous years. It's so sad to kids and families! Impossible to  do the traditional host of Easter egg hunts outdoor.

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But there are other activities inside. The students who stay in town with their parents, they have good choices to have fun and learn a bit as well.

Museums, Luis de Camões 500 years,  Google games, reading on pc or smartphone at home, cinema, Snow White or Minecraft movie for example to kids, Kaiju nº 8 for adolescents music, science on a virtual interactive visit on the internet, and so much more are offering different activities. Just enjoy!

I would like to share with you a message of hope. Planet Earth is complaining for all the bad things human kind are doing. I believe in the new generations, Let's continue our green education.

 

Life can toss us down and make us fall out of the blue, but the hope inside us will pick us up again and again!

We do not lose heart when we fail in life, a storm can't  shoot us down, Must be positive.

We must be grateful! We have our home isn't it ? Stay positive ! Always !

Who knows tomorrow, Easter Sunday we will present us a sunny day ?! 

Happy Easter !  

G-Souto

19.04.2025

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October, November in Review & Games Awards 2024 : The winner is... Astro Bot !

 

Astro Bot game

screenshot

https://sonyinteractive.com/en/

Astro Bot brings together some of the biggest character designs from PlayStation's past and present

Astro Bot has won the top prize at the videogame industry's biggest awards ceremony. The Games Awards 2024

The Games Awards 2024

https://thegameawards.com/

The cute and colourful PlayStation platformer beat Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, Black Myth: Wukong, Metaphor: Refantazio, Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree and Balatro to be named Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2024 

Accepting the trophy, Nicolas Doucet, studio head of developer Team Asobi, appeared to pay tribute to rival Nintendo.

Astro Bot also picked up three other awards :

• Best Family Game, 

• Best Action/Adventure, 

• Best Game Direction.

Astro Bot game

screenshot

https://sonyinteractive.com/

The PS5® mothership has been wrecked, leaving ASTRO and the bot crew scattered all over the galaxies. 

Time to ride your trusty Dual Speeder across more than 50 planets full of fun, danger and surprises. 

On your journey, make the most of ASTRO’s new powers and reunite with many iconic heroes from the PlayStation universe! Charge into a brand-new, supersized adventure with ASTROO 

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Astro Bot is a 2024 platform game developed by Team Asobi and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment for the PlayStation 5 to coincide with PlayStation's 30th anniversary. 

Astro Bot is a 3D platformer where the player controls the title character, a small robot named Astro Bot, through the use of the DualSense controller. 

Astro's core move set is identical to previous entries, maintaining his ability to jump, hover, punch, and spin-attack, as well as being additionally granted the ability to ledge grab. The ability to swim underwater also returns from Astro Bot Rescue Mission, having been absent in Astro's Playroom.

Education:

Kids love games. And if Astro Bot is a familiar game, Christmas is the best time to play games at home.

From sandy beaches to lush jungles and piping-hot volcanoes, explore a myriad of memorable planets in search of Astro’s lost crew!

Astro Bot is pure joy. It's like fragment of childhood sealed away and suddenly uncorked. It's like jumping into a ball pit as a grown-arse adult. It's magic.

And now, time to share with you the rundown of the posts in October & November.

Here is the popular posts of October & November 2024 :

Schools : Science - Rise of the Half Moon celebration... with a game ?

International Day of the Girl : #HerEducationOurFuture

Schools : The International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste : Resources and Activities

52e édition du Concours de la BD Scolaire 2025 !

Science : World AMR Awareness Week 2024

The most of you, teachers and students are out of school ! It's Christmas season!

Oh! My usual readers know I write in English, French and Portuguese, my mother language.

 

I will be back before Christmas, I hope ! It's family time... but I will do my best.

G-Souto 

22.12.2024

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Schools : It's Pink October ! Always ! Resources

credits: unknown

via Google Images

It's the last week! Time to talk about Pink October in school education. Always!

Education helps students and teachers to aware about Breast Cancer and other cancer diseases to be informed and take care of family, but also of their own lives.

Let us all, teachers and students, take part in October’s Breast Cancer Awareness campaign to increase awareness about the disease. 

💗Theme 2022:

 “Be the heroine of your life”.

On this occasion, Pink Ribbon Foundation inaugurated its awareness campaign organized all throughout October, with the theme of “heroines”, accompanied by its powerful message: “Be the heroine of your life”.

National Breast Cancer Foundation

• Education:

Every year an new opportunity to draw attention from our students. Girls and boys are growing up faster and need to be aware that it is out there and early detection is the best cure and hope of getting through this awful thing.

😪Let me remind you, the leading cause of death for children under the age of 15:

"In developing countries, over 100,000 children die each year due to poor diagnoses and lack of access to basic treatment options. If given the generic drugs and simple medical procedures so desperately needed it is estimated that more than half of them could be saved. Instead, survival rates stand at 20 percent."

Most cancer awareness programs traditionally target adults and populations considered to be at risk for developing cancer. Consequently, little attention has been given to educating younger populations about cancer. To address this gap in childhood education.

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Unfortunaly, as educators, we all have known in school some children and young people who have or had cancer or often coexist with cancer because they have brothers or sisters, sometimes mothers or grandmothers suffering with this disease.

University of Southern California’s (USC) 

credits: Rosa Johnson

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“I'm dream of the day when every child can be promised a cure."

Jessica

Schools must holding special programs to tell students about how survival rates increases through an early detection.

I think it would be very important to include cancer awareness into every school curriculum, not only in sciences curriculum.

I know several schools that involve young students to raise awareness about this disease. I did every year.

“Education helps students and teachers not only protect their families, but also their own lives” 

Resources:  

• A film about children cancer

The Healer

Paco Arango, 2017

https://www.imdb.com/

From different books and films that I've already suggest in different publications. Here another film about cancer at young age. The Healer by Paco Arango, 2017. 

Pink October is about breast cancer. I know! It's the main theme. But why not to talk about cancer in general and children cancer awareness?! I know there is the Child Cancer Awareness Month in September. But the theme is not include into school curricula. 

The Healer

Paco Arango, 2017

https://www.imdb.com/

• The Healer

A young man suddenly discovers he has the gift of healing. Trying to understand it and the new reality it offers, a teenage girl with terminal cancer unexpectedly shows him the way.

It's funny and inspiring movie at the same time. Truly loved it! May teachers include it and explore it into their lessons. You have the time. And students will understand the feeling of a young lady who have cancer.

This movie is actually very personal and bittersweet for me. The character of Abigail was based on a dear friend of mine, a student, who died of cancer. So for me it’s somewhat surreal that I see someone portraying a character based on her, and yet many of the people who watch the movie were not as blessed as I was to have the feeling of being her teacher and friend for several years until she was taken from us so young by complications from cancer at a tender age.

The Healer

Paco Arango, 2017

https://www.imdb.com/

Some notes:

Teachers can teach students that many diseases, including some types of cancer, can be prevented through healthy lifestyle habits, such as eating well and maintaining a moderate level of regular physical activity. 

That can be presented through a series of games and activities that advocated eating well as part of a balanced lifestyle.

 “Prevention is better than a cure.” 

Louis Pasteur

 

G-Souto

24.10.2022

update 21.10.2025

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Schools : Earth Day : Invest in our Planet ! Resources

Earth Day

https://www.today.com/

“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”

 

Socrates

Earth Day, held each year on April 22, is a day for everyone to appreciate our planet and take better care of it. It's also a great day to get outside and appreciate the spectacular natural resources Earth provides us, like beaches, forests, waterfalls, deserts and everything in between.

Earth Day has grown into the world’s biggest civic event, celebrated by a billion people in more than 190 countries. 

credits. Twinkl

Theme 2022:

"Invest in our Planet #InvestinourPlanet!"

This is the moment to change it all — the business climate, the political climate, and how we take action on climate. Now is the time for the unstoppable courage to preserve and protect our health, our families, and our livelihoods.

Because a green future is a prosperous future.

Google Doodle Earth Day 2022

https://www.google.com/doodles/

Google Doodle Earth Day 2022

https://www.google.com/doodles/

Google Doodle:

Today’s annual Earth Day Doodle addresses one of the most pressing topics of our time: climate change. 

Using real time-lapse imagery from Google Earth Timelapse and other sources, the Doodle shows the impact of climate change across four different locales around our planet. 

Acting now and together to live more sustainably is necessary to avoid the worst effects of climate change. 

Ask your students to stay tuned throughout the day to view these scenes, each remaining on the homepage for several hours at a time.

For Earth Day 2022, we need to act (boldly), innovate (broadly), and implement (equitably). It’s going to take all of us. All in. Businesses, governments, and citizens — everyone accounted for, and everyone accountable. A partnership for the planet.

And while there is still time to solve the climate crisis, time to choose BOTH a prosperous and sustainable future, and time to restore nature and build a healthy planet for our children and their children, time is short.

• Did you know?

The planet is losing 4.7 million hectares of forests every year – an area larger than Denmark.

A healthy ecosystem helps to protect us from these diseases. Biological diversity makes it difficult for pathogens to spread rapidly.

It is estimated that around one million animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction.

Education:

This Earth Day, take the opportunity to educate those around you about the importance of taking care of our planet — even in little ways like recycling, buying reusable items and using less energy.

When Greta Thunberg sat outside the Swedish Parliament for three weeks in 2018, she could hardly have predicted the scale of the global movement she would spark. 

But, with young people standing to lose most from climate change, it is no longer surprising that they are on the front line of efforts to prevent environmental catastrophe.

Gen Z is providing inspiration, with 45% having stopped purchasing certain brands because of ethical or sustainability concerns. We have the power to lobby for and support businesses that take active steps to protect our environment through their practices and climate-friendly investments, and fight against those that don’t.

https://www.earthday.org/

• Resources:

Challenge kids to a nature scavenger nature

The best way to build appreciation for nature is getting out there and experiencing it. All you need for an outdoor scavenger hunt is paper, pencil and a clipboard, easy peasy. Leave room for kids to sketch their findings if they’d like. 

Here are dozen ideas for your students scavenger hunt

• Games:

Take this 5 question quiz to find the #OneGreenThing you can do for Earth Week.

https://www.today.com/news/climate/earth-day-quiz-rcna12893

Hero Wars

Play in your browse

Look for others here

On this blog you have many others resources to adapt to the levels and students you are teaching. Look for Earth Day every year on 22 April.

"We wanted to hear how students are adapting their lifestyles, working in their communities, creating new organisations, or mobilising others. 

We also asked teachers and schools to tell us how they are changing teaching, to educate young people on the latest science and support them to make a difference."

Earth Day Network

For Earth Day 2022, together, for everyone, everything, every day…

#InvestInOurPlanet

G-Souto 

22.04.2022

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