21st Century European Classrooms
Erasmus+ Project
Duolingo
Duolingo is a free language learning website and it's available in the official website www.duolingo.com (click on the image to visit the site).
The site is the junction of many courses that have multiple lessons.
Stellarium
Pordata
Wikipedia
Infopédia
You can:
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Learn the meaning of something in the dictionary of Portuguese;
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See the translation of Portuguese words to the other six languages and vice versa;
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Learn the meaning of acronyms;
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See the top of the most searched words in each category.
Virtual School (Escola Virtual)
Functions:
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You can study and review what you have learned in school whenever you want;
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You can do the site's exercises;
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You have access to several dictionaries;
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With the code you can get the e-books of your school books;
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You have access to several resources that facilitate learning.
Stellarium is a free program that allows the users to see the sky in real time.
It's like having a planetarium on your computer due to the fact that some planetariums use the stellarium in their presentations.
You can download it in the official website - www.stellarium.org (click on the image to visit it) - and you can use it in several languages.
You can:
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Learn various languages depending on the language that you speak (example: Spanish to English speakers and English to Portuguese speakers);
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Learn the sentences or words in the language you're learning (audio system);
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See a graph of your performance and results;
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Join others to make new courses for speakers of various languages and participate in conversations (opinions and help) if you got an account.
With it you can:
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Observe the starry heavens or the sky during the day;
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Learn more about stars, planets, constellations, asteroids and natural satellites;
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Observe the universe from different points on Earth (many places in many countries) or from various other parts of the Universe (planets, moons);
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See more than 600.000 stars in pattern catalogue or more than 210 millions of stars on the extra one;
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Forward or backward in time;
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See the contellations drawn.
Functions:
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Fast access to the numbers of the Portuguese reality;
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Access thousands of statistics about municipalities, Portugal and Europe;
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Chronologic evolution (since 1960);
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Vast set of many visualization tools such as graphs and tables;
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Create and edit tables and graphs;
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Has information about different themes (population, justice, education, health, environment...).
Pordata is the actual Portugal database with official and certified statistics about Portugal and Europe.
This database is free and available for everybody in Portuguese or in English.
It was organized by the Francisco Manuel dos Santos Foundation and you can find it in the official website: www.pordata.pt/en/Home (click on the image to visit it).
Wikipedia is a free educational website that was released in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. Wiki (fast) pedia (encyclopedia) has 500 millions visitors per month.
It's available in 287 languages and its official website is: www.wikipedia.org (click on the image to visit it).
It's a website often used although sometimes the information isn't correct.
You can:
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Learn more about many themes;
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Search the theme that you want to learn more about in its search engine;
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Correct errors or update the information in the site if you have an account;
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Create a new page about what you want if you have an account.
Infopédia is a free Portuguese educational site that was released by Porto Editora in 2003.
The official site - www.infopedia.pt (click on the image to visit it) - is a junction of dictionaries, in a total of 22.
It includes 7 languages: Portuguese, English, Italian, French, Spanish, German and Dutch.
Escola Virtual is a paid Portuguese educational site that was released by Porto Editora in 2005.
The official website is www.escolavirtual.pt and it's available for students and teachers. (click on the image to visit the website).
