Orientación didáctica:  Besides enjoying reading, you'll learn about the human heart and the circulatory system. -->Before reading, we will ask the pupils the meaning of the expression 'A man who moves his legs, moves his heart'. -->During reading, we will ask them to look in a dictionary or encyclopedia the meaning of 'tachycardia' and 'heart attack'. What is the meaning of the expression 'To give someone a heart attack'? Do they know any similar expressions? -->After reading, we will suggest the students to do the following activity: What similarities are there between the cave of the Heart and a real heart? (Publisher Information)...  Leer     

Orientación didáctica:  Besides enjoying reading, you'll learn about light and colour, about the phenomena of reflection and refraction of light, and about the different types of lenses. -->Before reading, we will ask the pupils to look for the definitions of the following terms: optics, transparent, opaque, refraction and reflection of light. -->After reading, we will suggest the students do the following activity (from Pinch of Salt work cards): Put a pencil inside a glass of water. Look at it. What phenomenon makes you see the pencil like that? Describe this phenomenon using your own words. Draw a picture of the pencil. (Publisher Information)...  Leer     

Orientación didáctica:  Besides enjoying reading, you'll learn about erosion, landscape forms and types of rocks. -->Before reading, we will ask the pupils to find pictures of a desert, a canyon and a volcano. The aim is to talk in class about their different features. -->During reading, we will think about fast-changing and slow-changing landscapes. -->After reading, we will suggest the students to do the following activity (from "Pinch of Salt work cards"): If you put a flag in the middle of the desert and you left it there for ten years, what do you think you would find if you went back after all that time? (Publisher Information)...  Leer