LTSDU Booklet

    One of the products of our project was to publish a booklet that collects all the coordination meetings, assessment and project actions, mobilities, dissemination actions, Etwinning project LTSDU as well as the most outstanding school activities which helped us to disseminate our project and reached our project objectives. You can find it here.

Erasmus Workshop 3th ESO

   During these last days of lessons, our project students organised an Erasmus workshop to explain to 3th ESO students the robotics activities they've been implementing at school. Moreover, we also welcomed two Italian project students who were visiting La Llagosta this week. They also explained to our students their personal Erasmus experience.

Visiting primary schools in La Llagosta

   Our Erasmus + project students team have visited today their former primary schools to give some presentations about their personal Erasmus + experiences, everything they have learned so far and how much they enjoyed the trips they made. Primary students were really engaged and motivated to take part in future projects!

Planning ahead and certificates

   During the last work sessions at INS Marina, our project coordinator has planned ahead final students tasks for the last mobility of the project in Italy. Moreover, our partners have been given an attendance certificate of this La Llagosta’s mobility. It has been a very profitable mobility to assess what we’ve been implementing so far, to get to know each other deeper as well as the problems our teenagers may have and to get ready for the last actions to be taken to finish our project LTSDU.

Your Science Star Activity

   During our C3 Training Teachers Mobility, we suggested to implement a quite useful activity for our project Science teachers. After discussing what are the most demotivating and top 10 motivating strategies we may use to promote Science knowledge among our students, we encouraged our partners and science teachers to take part in a 10' lesson activity. The aim was to brainstorm in groups of 4 or 5 teachers their top 1 activity that may be useful to share with the others. In 10' their task was to discuss main aspects of this actity while filling in the gaps in this worksheet: objectives, stickibility, groupings, learning goals, and learning steps among other aspects. It was a very profitable activity for all of us to improve our teaching practice.

Emotionally Intelligent Teachers

During our second mobility day at INS Marina, Mireia Cubero, psychologist and coach, visited us to do a workshop to increase our best practices as teachers in our daily lessons. It was a very interesting workshop for all of us¡

C3 Mobility at INS Marina

We're speding some days together at INS Marina to share, discuss and reach an agreement about the best ways and resources to deal with teenagers' problems during science lessons. We met to share our country and school's viewpoints as well as our Curriculum requirements. Teachers from Czeck Republic, Turkey, Hungary and Italy are hosted in La Llagosta this week to take part in the village's daily life.

LTSDU Dissemination

To keep our students and scholar community updated, we've published these two important tools (roll up and posters) to disseminate our Erasmus +  project LTSDU. See how awesome they look at the high school entrance and in the corridors.

 

University Workshop

 Our students atttended a workshop entitled : “Do Research! @ “Parc Científic” in Barcelona where, as biotechnologists do, they dealt with a real-life situation, that is to say, how to transfer DNA to a virus in order to fight against illnesses such as sclerosis #erasmusplus #sepie #ltsduspain

                   

LTSDU Video Contest

Now it's time to vote for the best video that shows the role of sciences in our daily life.
These are the proposals. Check them out!

LTSDU Video Contest

These last weeks, our LTSDU students team have been working hard on researching the role of sciences in our daily lives to take part in our project international contest. Each country has published their video proposals. This is our video:

LTSDU Breaking News!

This week's local newspaper 08centvint has published an article to disseminate the three Erasmus + we're implenting this year at INS Marina.

Among them, LTSDU project is mentioned in relation to the last teachers' mobility to Pétér András Gimnázium és Kóllegium in Szeghalom (Hungary), where we met other teachers from Turkey, Italy and Czech Republic to discuss and evaluate actions done during the 1st year of the project as well as suggesting and reaching an agreement on future 2nd year actions to be implemented at our school. These are our mobility's photo slide and meeting presentation:

Radio Interview

Some days ago, our 4th ESO students, who are in charge of InfoMarina radio channel online, offered us the chance to being interviewed so as to promote Eramus + advantages for La Llagosta scholar community. Here you've for the interview. Thanks dear students!

Roses, books ... and diplomas!

   On the 23rd April every year, we celebrate Sant Jordi's day. In Catalonia the World Book Day becomes an especially romantic festivity. The people in Catalonia celebrate the day of their patron saint, Sant Jordi, with a curious tradition; since that day, couples exchange gifts: a book for the men and a rose for the women. Book and flower stalls are set up along the streets of Barcelona. They are filled will people walking around stalls, looking for a gift for their beloved, and for their family and friends, too.

 This festival comes from a mixture of traditions; one the one hand, it coincides with the fact that Sant Jordi has been the patron saint of Catalonia since the 15th century; on the other hand, it comes from the famous legend of St George and the dragon and the old medieval tradition of visiting the Chapel of Sant Jordi in the Government Palace, where a rose fair or "lovers" fair used to take place.


   This is why Sant Jordi is also the patron saint of lovers in Catalonia. On this special day, we decided that it was the best moment to reward our three most voted logos at school and give our students a diploma as a prize for their effort and creativity.

We Can Science!

Flipped Classroom PPT

   During our last mobility in ISIS Valdarno school in San Giovani Valdarno (Florence), we were introducing some previously chosen methologies that could be used in order to improve our science lessons at school, as a way to engage our students in science. Ours was Flipped Classroom

   We also introduce our attempts to use modern methodologies at high school such as flipped classroom, inmersive learning,cooperative learning, BOYD, learning by doing as well as project-based learning in order to get our students into science.  Here you've got the presentation that we explained and shared with our partners.

 

Short Term Projects Teachers Meeting @ Isis Valdarno March 2017

   From the 6th to the 11th March we've spent a few days at ISIS Valdarno school where all the teachers have taken part in different activities and project meetings.

    Our guests, the Italian teachers, made us a tour around the three different centres they've got, where we've been observing lessons, visiting laboraties and doing some experiments. We've also had some meetings to analyse the different methologies suggested to improve our science lessons such as Finnish Educational System, Flipped Classroom or our Czech partners introduced us to their Experimentarium park. We also met to decide future mobilities' schedules; among others, Czech Republic in May 2017 and Hungary in October 2017.

   It's been a rewarding trip where we have learnt a lot from our Italian partners, we also got into contact with the Italian culture and their daily life in Tuscany.

          

WORLD AIDS DAY on the 1st December 2016

   World AIDS Day is held on the 1st December each year and it is an opportunity for people worldwide to unite in the fight against HIV, show their support for people living with HIV and to commemorate people who have died. Therefore, all the partners of our project also had the chance to show our support holding red sheets to form a lace in front of the townhall in La LLagosta, Barcelona. Good job!

Experiment in the Physics Classroom

   Our Physics teacher, Carlos Garcia, has developed a quick experiment in which students have seen how they can slow down the accelerated dropping motion of an object until getting a simple MRU thanks to the change of the fluid density.They have used air, water and glycerine. 

   By doing these experiments, students can learn more actively. 

Teaching staff Meeting Post Transnational.

   Yesterday we met all the teachers at INS Marina and we introduced them the project, its objectives and results expected as well as showing them all the tasks we've been doing these last months.

First, we focused on the project difusion on the local newspaper 08centvuit , the school's magazine, creation of the project's blog and other social networks. We also talked about the project team formed by science teachers and students from 4th ESO.

Secondly, we mentioned the last transnational meeting hold between the 30th November to 3rs of December in 2016 where we met each other, we introduced our schools and school systems, and we also spent some afternoons in some cultural activities such as going to science exhibitions at Museu Blau or Cosmocaixa. We thanked to Óscar Sierra, La Llagosta's mayor, for his tour. It was the best way to meet the village's culture.

In conclusion, we state that this project will be quite positive for our students to improve their science subjects marks'  but also, it's a great chance for them to visit another school in another culture and get to know their customs and values.

                   

We're on the news!

Our two Erasmus + projects are on the news. The paper from La Llagosta 08centvint interviewed us to get to know a little bit better what we and our students are doing in the two different projects. Our project is being described as an expected improvement in scientific subjects among students from 4th ESO at high school. It will also promote the collaborative work, the learning by doing and laboratory-based learning in subjects such as biology, chemistry and physics.