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AP Spanish Retos Ambientales 2 videos with Viewing Guides and Ed puzzle
By Specialty Spanish
AP Spanish® teachers: save time searching for the right video for your students! This Google Doc contains links to TWO YouTube videos and a viewing guides perfect for Unit 6: Los retos ambientales. One video has an auto-grading Edpuzzle version! The accompanying comprehension questions are digital for distance learners and printable for in-person learners, and they are customizable to make them just right for your students’ needs!
Have students watch these videos to get a sense of some of the problems we face with our environment. One video talks about 5 specific problems in Mexico, their causes and their consequences. It is a short video, but the narrator speaks rather fast. This resource comes with a comprehension guide in graphic organizer format, or you may choose to use the multiple choice Edpuzzle version. I find that the Edpuzzle version is a good scaffold to aid student comprehension because the questions can be inserted right after the information has been provided! This Edpuzzle is also auto-graded to save you time and to give students instant feedback! The second video is about what would happen if all the ice in the world were to melt. It talks about the possibilities and the human and animal consequences that would occur. This video is accompanied by short answer comprehension questions.
Of course, both viewing guides come with a teacher answer key, and all questions can be edited to suit your needs!
Environmental challenges is a great theme to explore as a Global Challenge, or as part of the Science and Technology Unit. These videos could be a great source for a debate as this topic can be controversial!
Who can use this product?
- Students at the Intermediate level of the ACTFL proficiency chart or higher
- AP Spanish® Students
How can I use this product?
- Assign these videos and viewing guides for in-class or for homework
- Ask students to discuss the information they heard about in the videos. Ask provocative questions and get students to play devil’s advocate to support the other side!
- Use small group or whole-class instruction to discuss the bias in these videos
- Use the information students learn from the videos as sources for students to use to debate whether or not these environmental challenges will really result in the consequences presented in the videos
- Works well with Unit 4 or Unit 6 of the AP® curriculum!
What’s included in this product?
- Two links to curated YouTube videos
- Information about how long each video is
- 2 Google Docs with comprehension questions (one for each video, all questions in Spanish)
- An answer key for each viewing guide
- A link to the Edpuzzle version of the first video (auto-graded, multiple choice questions in Spanish)
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✅Check out my money-saving bundle of activities to explore La sobrepoblación as another context within this unit!
✅Ready for the AP Test? These How-To Google Slides presentations about the AP Open-Ended Responses section of the exam may help!
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AP Spanish El calentamiento global Article with questions and Goformative
By Specialty Spanish
The Global Challenges unit of AP Spanish® has many interesting contexts, including the environment. This digital and printable article talks about the effects of global warming in Antarctica, and explains the paradox of how rising temperatures actually cause more snow! Distance learners can complete this via a Google Doc or by doing the auto-graded goformative version. Students who prefer paper copies can have a print-out! Save time searching the net to find a good article, and save more time by letting goformative grade this for you! Another benefit to the goformative version is that students can see the article side by side with the questions, and the questions are embedded just where they can find the answer! It's a great scaffold for students still developing their reading comprehension skills!
This article is good for students who are ready for a challenge and/or who like science. It's a little longer than the other article I posted for this unit, but the embedded questions make this accessible for students!
Who can use this product?
- Students in Year 4, 5 or AP®
- Students studying the environment
How can I use this product?
- Assign this article in class or for homework
- Assign this article via Google classroom or other learning management platform, or print it out
- Assign this article via Goformative (free for educators! All you need to do is create an account!)
- Use this as a class activity or as a graded assessment
- Let Goformative grade it for you!
- Use this as one source of information for class discussions, debates or cultural comparisons
What's included in this product?
- a 10-page Google doc article with link to internet source (the line-spacing in this article makes it seem very long. The questions are embedded within the article so students can find the answers easier.)
- 7 embedded questions on the Google doc (AP multiple choice style)
- an answer key
- A link to the Goformative version of this article and questions (which self-grades)
- All parts of this product can be customized to suit your students' needs!
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Other resources you may like:
✅Here is a shorter article about the different effects of global warming
-includes embedded questions and Goformative version too!
✅Here is a bundle of activities related to "la sobrepoblacion"!
✅Check out my money-saving bundle of 4 videos with accompanying questions about schools in the Spanish-speaking world!
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AP Spanish Environmental Challenges Bundle
By Specialty Spanish
Want to discuss environmental challenges with your AP Spanish® students? Unit 6, Environmental, Political and Social Challenges is a perfect time! This bundle includes activities for reading, writing and listening comprehension as well as an assessment!
Teachers can assess what students understand quickly by using the self-checking Formative and Edpuzzle questions that go with the articles and videos. Students can practice answering open-ended questions with other articles and teachers have an answer key to refer to. Last, the persuasive paragraph allows teachers to do an interim assessment that can be graded quickly!
Who can use this product?
- AP Spanish® students
How can I use this product?
- Use this as a mini unit within Unit 6
- Activities can be done in class or assigned as homework
What’s included in this product?
- 2 articles about global warming with Formative versions (for auto-correcting)
- Google Docs copy of the above articles with embedded AP-style MCQ questions
- 2 articles (about Corals and Electronic Garbage) with questions (Plus teacher answer key)
- A podcast in Edpuzzle form with auto-correcting questions
- 2 videos with questions + Teacher answer key
- Edpuzzle version with auto-graded questions for one of the above videos
- A persuasive paragraph assessment with rubric
- Study guide for students, with rubric included
Other resources you may like:
AP Spanish Unit 6 Global Challenges Complete Unit Lesson Plans
AP Spanish End of Year Bundle
Test Prep Growing Mega Bundle
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