"Fira de Recerca en Directe" @ Parc Científic

   Our students visited a fair organised by Parc Científic and EduCaixa in Barcelona to show them the latest research projects that are active at the moment related to different scientific issues, driven by their interests. The aim was to scientific research among their curiosities and make them understand how this profession is. Moreover, it was a good chance for us to start new agreements of collaboration so our students will be able to start researching in their centres soon.

Last students mobility LTSDU

   From the 16th to 22nd April, our Italian partners held the last mobility within our project Erasmus + Let The Science Discover Us in San Giovanni Valdarno where 7 students and two accompanying teachers from our high school joined their activities. During these days, our students took part in several workshops related to students' projects, research topics such as anti-ageing, animals in extinction among others. They were working in groups formed by students from other partners' schools so this fostered their collaborative and communication skills, their autonomy and critical thinking while working on scientific issues that motivated them.
   Moreover, they could also get to know the Italian culture in their visit to Pitti Palace and Galileo Galilei museum in Florence, Montevarchi museum about anthropology or an interesting quest in Siena to study the hydraulic system of the town.

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.

Academies in Barcelona

As a complementary off school activity, we invited our partners to visit the Royal Academy of Medicine and the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts, both in Barcelona. We really enjoyed these visits where we observed the old instrument collection, the clock collection, the astronomical as well as the meteorological and seismological functional equipment.

Trying out Etwinning platform

Our LTSDU team will start working cooperatively with students team members from other partners countries through the European platform Etwinning and our project Twinspace. It would be an enriching and motivating task form them, let’s start!

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:

Next Stop...Italy!

   For a week, from the 6th to the 10th March, we're speding some days in Italy, visiting our Italian partners at Isis Valdarno where we'll attend some seminars and workshops, visit museums, do some presentations and work on the project as well as meeting their culture and customs. We're looking forward to it, a presto!

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.

Student's meeting

Last Friday we met with students from 4th who will take part in our project. The main issues agreed were to set social networks for the project, a parents meeting will be set for the coming days and they will also start working on the Erasmus + corner at school. Let's work together!

Let's vote!

   Our students from 4th ESO have been voting for the best logo for our project #ltsduspain. They use their ict tools such as tablets and iphones to do the contest questionnaire. These logos were designed digitally by them. Let's see what happens...Results soon!

LTSDU Spain is now on Twitter and Instagram

   Now Let The Science Discover Us" project is on social networks such as Twitter and Instagram. Like our posts and be up-to-date with the latest news, mobilities, activities and experiments done at school and in other countries. We can science!

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1st TRANSNATIONAL MEETING LTSDU @ INS MARINA

   From the 29th November to the 2nd December 2016 the first TRANSNATIONAL MEETING of the Erasmus plus project "Let The Science Discover Us" has been held at INS Marina High School (La Llagosta). We welcomed our project's partners form countries such as Turkey,Czech Republic, Hungary and Italy.

    During these days, we've been working on the project. We've set up next mobilities and reached agreements regarding dates and actions to be done. We also visited La Llagosta townhall where our mayor, Óscar Sierra, introduced us the village on a tour.

   Definitely, it has been a rewarding experience to share the way we teach in our educational systems, our cultures and values.

Questionnaires' Results

   Prior to our project's partners visit, our 4th ESO students, their parents and their science teachers participated doing these questionnaires to check their potentials, general knowledge of sciences as well as their teachers' use of ict resources in class, among other factors. These are the results:

LTSDU Erasmus + Science Corner @ INS Marina

   Our students have been working hard to get such an awesome result¡ Here we've got our Science Corner for our Erasmus + project "Let The Science Discover Us". This will be the space devoted to the activities done during the project, information regarding mobilities etc.. you're welcome to come and see what we're carrying out during the next two years at our high school. 

We're ready!

   We've been working hard for these last months and we can announce that.... we're ready for the first transnational kick off meeting next week. For three days, we'll discussing issues related to our project Let The Science Discover Us. We're looking forward to it, dear partners!

Students' Questionnaires

   Our students at INS Marina were invited to fill in some project questionnaires regarding their potentials, ICT skills, success in science subjects etc and they did it by using their ICT resources in the class. Check it out:

"Let The Science Discover Us" Introduction

   We had a meeting with the teaching staff at INS Marina (La Llagosta) to introduce the project Let The Science Discover Us. Check out the presentation file and the pictures below: