Our Last day (13/05/2020)

So finally, we finish our classes and all the conceps are clear in our minds, so now is our job to organize them in order to use it whenerver we need it. Was a real pleasure to take part of this subject with all my partners and the projects and activities that we did together. I think that all of us have learnt a lot o new concepts, and make more solid other ones. Today was a doubts day about the examn and how it's going to be assess. It was a warm goodbye, but this subject doesn't finish yet, now is study time until the exam day. I will prepare myself doing my best.

Twenty-second day (08/05/2020)

So after reading the document, today, Irene asked to do like a sum up about which are the main steps that both children and teachers have to follow to success in this method. We talked about which were the most important steps for both roles, and then, we displayed our contents on a wheel.
Was an interesting activity to review what we have read before. Also, to share ideas and contrast our points of view, reinforce the ideas of the texts that we read.

Twenty-first day (06/05/2020)

Today was a special day. Eartly in the morning we did an activity that was prepared by a group of third grade of  childhood education. They made a gymhkana game about recycling and how can we take care of the nature. Was a really good and funny hint game!

After this part we talked about the project, and a group showed us how their work was about, and also, they tryed to remind us how important is to avoid plastics when we go shopping. Also, we assess our project partners.

Finally, Irene reminded us about a document that we have to read for the next class.

Twentieth day (29/04/2020)

Finally, we have already ended the Class project, was a tough way until get where we are now, but... We did it!
So as we end it, Irene asked to do an evaluation each group about our experience and also about if we have achieved the different objectives that we proposed at the begining of this project.
All of us are quite glad about how this class project has been developed, and obviously, we have achieved all our objectives. Besides, we did other many activities to complement what we have done in the project, activities as a video for example. Even we have tried to make more group cohesion for making a nicer class environment,

Finally we did a revision about different questions of the last unit we learned. Meanwhile we were answering the different questions, Irene explained each one slowly, for making a more solid content.

Nineteenth day (24/04/2020)

We dedicated today's class to make, by ourselves, an activity about how an ecosystem works. For that activity we used a web which guess how a determined ecosystem can change depending on some variables that you introduce at the begining , and how those variables can change through the time.

This was a really complete activity because we have to play with the different trophic leves and whit the diffierent events that can happen in these situations. Firstly was a bit annoying and tough to deal whit this generator, but meanwhile i was doing the exercises, was easier to understand and to finish the activity. 

Eighteenth day (22/04/2020)

Today we have begun the new unit about ecosystems, but before that we did an evaluation about the different questions that we answered the other day about plastics, sustainability and all those concepts.

After we finished that part of the class, Irene introduced us the new unit talking about the key concepts that we are going to talk about, and how this unit is going to be develop, then she asked to read this unit ourselves for having a deep idea about the concepts of the unit. Later on, Irene explained us more carefully what photosynthesis means and why it's so important for the earth and for us. Finally we understood how this process works and the benefits that has for the human beings. We will continue with this unit in the next classes.

seventeenth day (17/04/2020)

Today was a really good day, we did many things in hour and a half.

Firstly, Irene asked to see a documentary that it name is "a plastic ocean", all my thoughts about this documentary were bad before have seeing it because i don't like this type of documentare, but when I finished, I was glad that have watched it, my point of view changed immediately, It is a really good resource to show to our students, they will learn many things.


So after that, today we had a debate in acadly's chat, I thought that it would be a mess but finally was quite didactive and funny. We comment on if we have a positive point of view according to this problem, or if we haven't. Was a really dinamic debate, and we talked about many things that appear in the documentary what we have seen.

It is a really good activity even in the situation that we are, all of us have contributed to make this activity works.

sixteenth day (15/04/2020)

On today's class, we spent most of the time talking about how the project is developingm and how each group are working also. For having more information about that we did like a survey where different features of the project were asked there. My group and I, as we are the coordinator and we have other type of tasks, Irene asked to evaluate our peers about the work that they are doing, we mark with green the whole groups because they are doing a great job. But also we wanted to make a notice to them because the class are not working as expected, interacting with the profile. Apart form this thing everything is okey.

Irene proposed to see a movie that we will comment on in the next class. 

Fifteenth day (01/04/2020)

Today is presentation's day, the whole hour and a half, It has been arranged for all the groups to show the rest their proposals to carry out in this time that we have left until the project ends. The coordinators group began with the exposition of what have we done until this moment, and what are we going to do until this project ends, we showed the calendar which is the ones that we are going to work on. From this Friday to the 29th of april, each group has a number of post that they are going to create and share in the instagram profile, our work is to review that the work is perfectly done and to uploud it.

The whole class are working to make this project real and we will get it!

Foutrteenth day (27/03/2020)

Today we continue with the develop of the project. We analyzed the anwers of the questionnarie, then we send it to each group to finish their activites and the approach of the sessions or everything that they are going to do. My group and I divided the specific task and then we specify what are we going to do everyday that we have class.

We are working in coordination ourselves and with other groups, I think tha t we are doing a great job of coordination and managment of the situation. 

Thirteenth day (25/03/2020)

Today we have started with classes via web. It has been a good experience of making contact with the tool that we are going to use for a while.

Irene has started the class sending a message of calm and then she has sent us in groups to work on the project. Due to the situation, we have had to change the approach and bring it closer to the instagram tool

Twelfth day (06/03/2020)

In our last class before going to our intership period we went on with the project and detailing different things that each group has to have before finishing our interships, things like budget, materials, time... My group and I finished working on the questionnaire, that is going to be our tool for knowing many things about what university people think about the use of plastics.

Then in the second hour, we talked about the water cycle and other things that are formed due to this cycle.

Eleventh day (04/03/2020)

Today we did many things. Irene told us to read each group a little article about different topics of the atmosphere. Each group read their articles and after talking whit other groups that had the same article we have presented our topics to other groups with the final aim of everybody knows about everything just reading one article and with the explanation of other groups. 

The first group talked about why the sky change the color during the sunset. The second group explained the different types of air pollutants that exist in the atmosphere, and other group talked about an important component that filters the v-rays, the ozone layer. 

Then we dicussed about the parameters that are included when we talked about temeprature.

Tenth day (28/02/2020)

Today we got deeper on the different layers that make up the atmosphere. We talk about the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere and thermosphere. We saw the main important features of each one and then Irene detailed something that i haven't noticed before, that the different layers doesn't has an static position in the atmosphere, I believed that it wasn't true, but now it has sense when we learn carefully this concept.
Then we talk about one term that we consider it as a bad thing, but it goes in a reverse way, geen house effect has beneficts for us, the human being, it makes the earth warmer because it conserve the heat that comes from the sun. But it was not going to be all good news, due to our misuse of the resources that the earth offers us, we are overloading this greenhouse effect which is leading to global warming.

Ninth day (26/02/2020)

Today has been completely dedicated to take the exam on the content we have given so far. Then we had the Ash Wednesday celebration.

Eighth day (21/02/2020)

Today we started unit 2 that is going to be about atmosphere and the weather. As in the other unit, Irene let us enquiring about the different things that occurs in the atmosphere and also related to the weather. She began explaining us that the main gas that is in huge quantities, it isn't the oxygen, is the nitrogen. Then we talk about the air an the mixture of gases that make up great part of our atmosphere. Finally, but not less important, we saw the air main variables that are: Air temperature, Humidity, Type an amount of cloudiness, Type an amount of precipitation, Air pressure and Speed.

It is quite important to have an unit that focus on this terms. When we are teachers we have to take the control over a lot of concepts, but this one is related with one factor that worries many people, global warming. That is why we have to conscientiously educate our students so that they have a scientific sense of what is happening on this subject and that they can comment on it.

Seventh day (19/02/2020)

Before starting today's class, Irene asked us about doing a brainstorming about The Moon. We talked about the different phases, the movements... Meanwhile we were saying different features of The Moon, Irene gave us the chance to explain ourselves why those feautres occurs. Was a quite good strategy cause we try to give solutions to our own doubts and move us to think about it.
Finally we talked about everything and then Irene explained us slowly all the features that influence the Moon. One of the things that i learned with more difficulties were the two eclipses. I never knew how each one occurs, now i do.

Sixth day (14/02/2020)

Today was theory day, we spent our class on knowing more things about of the place were we live, the earth. We talked about all the movements that the earth does, and other things that affect those movements as the axis. We need sometimes class like that, class that allow us to get deeper on what we are talking about, and obviously to refresh what we learnt many years ago.

Fifth day (12/02/2020)

Today we did two things but, it occupied the whole class.

The first half and hour we were finishing the mock-up of the solar system that was begging the day before. We did many photos about where the planets should be located in real life according to the datas that we deal whit. Was quite interesting but it would be more motivated for us if we could manage smaller distances, because dealing with those enormous distances makes us being a bit lost.

The last half of the class we talked and continued with our plastic. Irene told us to think how can we do for solving that plastic problem that we find in our environment, the Ces Don Bosco for example. My group commented three options that could reduce the use of plastic here. Firstly we talked about the idea of create an Instagram account about the use of plastic in the CES Don Bosco. As we thought about using reusable bottles, the second idea was to show a design of the aluminum bottle to  the headmaster. And finally, collect signatures among the students for knowing their opinion about that.

Fourth day (07/02/2020)

This fourth day, Irene explained us what we are going to do on Wednesday. She talked about doing a mock-up of the solar system but with some changes, she wanted to represent it in real scale with day to day objects. Firstly we have to make some calculations transforming the real data into more close data using the rule of three.

We did the calculations and talked about which objects can we use to represent each planet. We have to put as the sun, a pilates ball, cause it has 50cm of diameter. According with that norm we have to build our solar system mock up.

I'm very exited about how are we going to develop this activity. I think that it can be useful when we teach this core concept of science

Third day (05/02/2020)

We begin our first unit doing a different activity, so in the first hour, Irene take us out from our common environment, our class. She carried us to the playground for doing a thinking routine in a "natural environment", as we are studying natural science, we have to develop our thinking according to that fact. The thinking routine was "I See, I think, I wonder", the main thing that i thought meanwhile i was doing this routine that how important is the human footprint in the world that we know today.

Then, in the second hour, introduced to us the first unit that talks about the universe. We talked in groups about some questions as "Who I am?" "Where do we go?"... After that, we commented it in the class.

Finally, Irene asked for bring a new that talks about the environmental problem about plastics. We talked about real data of that problem. That was quite impressive to realice the amount of wast that are in our seas and oceans.

Second day (29/01/2020)

We began this class joining each group in our clasroom place, we put four tables together as making coperative groups.

This first hour we were talking about how can we collaborate with the environment in our reality. The other day, our class mates, decided three differents facts that can be interesting to work on it. Irene asked us about select one topic and things why it is important to focus our attention on it. Then we had to choose just one and develop it as a class.

In the second hour we talked about how can we improve the situation that we had already chosen. Was to reduce plastic items in our reality. Our group were talking about that at the begining of the year, the CES Don Bosco, gave to us an agenda. They could give us like an aluminum bottle with the logo of the CES, apart from advertise the university, we could avoid all the plastic bottles and the plastics cups from the bar. All of our partners talked about quite important things to reduce the use of plastic in the CES.

We are develping a keeping environment sense little by little.

First day (24/01/2020)

Every day we have two hours of class.

In the first hour we made the groups of four that will be our reference during the whole semester. We decide the roles of each person in our group. We are Gala Sánchez, Rocío Melendez, Esther Repilado and I. I am the Spokesperson, Gala is the facilitator, Esther is the Timekeeper, and Rocío is the Secretary. We are the "Earth Keepers" and our catchphrase is "All for one, one for all!". We are very excited about working together as a group.

In the second our we saw a video about important things that we have to improve in our environment, not only in our house and neighborhood, also in the CES Don Bosco.

Let's begin our adventure! (22/01/2020)

The fist day of class, our teacher Irene, have emplained us the main facts and the key concepts of the subject. She introduced us how we are going to work and enhanced motivation showing us the topics that we are going to deal with.

Let's see how this subject going to be developed.