"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.

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!

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

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:

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.
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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.

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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!

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.

                   

The winners of the logo competition

   Our students have been voting for their best logos to represent our project and here we've got the results. The 3 most voted logos will be sent to Turkish partners who will decide, among the logos from all the partner countries, which one represents best the project #letthesciencediscoverus. Thanks so much for your collaboration! These are our winners:

        1st Prize                                                                 2nd Prize

                                                       


                                                                                                                                                                                                                    3rd Prize
                                                         

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!

Project Logo Competition

 

   Now it's time to decide which logo is going to represent the project! Just click on the this form and grade each logo proposed with 1  to 5 points. All these logos were done by 4th ESO students at school. Thanks for your collaboration!

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. 

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: