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.

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.

Weekly teaching staff meeting update

    We're back from summer holidays and now it's time to go on working on LTSDU!

   This week we attended our weekly teaching staff meeting to explain our workmates an evaluation of the 1st year of the project (coordination, dissemination and impact tasks, our students' feedback about the 1st year of the project as well as future actions to get ready to. Last but no least, we introduced next week mobility to Hungary. See you in a week, we're off to Péter András Gimnázium és Kollégium in Szeghalom, Hungary.  

     This is Marta and me during the teaching staff meeting last week at INS Marina (La Llagosta)


                     

Jornada de les Arts 2017

   During two days, we have been celebrating "Jornada de les Arts" in La Llagosta. In this conference, we showed La Llagosta community (parents, authorities and students) all we've accomplished during the year. One of the issues will be our Erasmus + Project LTSDU, and we've made this video to show the success of the latest Science Fair :) #ErasmusPlusCat #letthesciencediscoveruspain

Science Fair 2017

After a hard work of diffusion spreading out our porsters and flyers, we've been hosting our Science Fair at Marina high school during two days, 25-26 May 2017. Our Erasmus team, made up by 4t ESO students and science teachers, contributed to host this event where students, parents and authorities were welcome.

Our students, by means of experiments and their exhibicions in English language as well as promoting the learning method based on laboratories, explained concepts related to microscope nature, robotics, filling up an aquifer, ph tester or acid rain among others.

We would like to thank our mayor, Oscar Sierra, to participate and visit us collaborating then with the increasement of scientific knowledge in the scholar community in La Llagosta.

You can preview pictures from the event here.
We Can Science!

Project Updates Meeting

This Friday we have met with our high school's headteachers to share with them all the activities, meetings, experiments and cultural trips we did during the last mobility in San Giovanni Valdarno (Italy) last March. Here you've got some pictures and our presentation:

  

                       

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.

          

Logo of the project

   This was the winner logo that is going to represent our project "Let The Science Discover Us" from now on. After voting for the best logo, this one got the highest amount of votes from coordinators and teachers. Congrats Turkey!

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.

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!

👉 Instagram LTSDUSpain

👉 Twitter LTSDUSpain

Coordinators of the project LTSDU Spain being interviewed by AniraM, the INS Marina's magazine

   The students who collaborate with AniraM, our INS Marina's magazine, asked us to be interviewed to spread the project across the students community, teaching staff and parents. We talked about the advantages of participating in this project, the project's objectives, students' requirements to take part in as well as the results expected.

AniraM: ENTREVISTA SOBRE L’ERASMUS+

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!