Wednesday, 13th of May

Today was our last day of class, as Friday is a public holiday.


Today has been a day of review, since Irene has reminded us of the evaluation criteria again so that we have them clear.

After that, Irene has told us that next week she will send us the exam questions so that we can work on them, and that if we have any doubts, we could do more virtual meetings to solve them.

She has also told us that in the exam he can ask us to draw and that even that part, we can do it "without it" and send it to him later.

Finally, we have been solving doubts, especially about shadows.


During today's class I have felt good, I have found this subject very short and bearable. I also think we have learned a lot of things through creative, fun and entertaining ideas such as the project, the creation of the measuring instruments or the homemade cloud, the work about the distances between planets, the sun and the moon...

However, I have to admit that when Irene said that we would have to draw on the exam, I was a little nervous since drawing is not my thing.

Finally, since it is the last post to thank Irene for everything she has taught us and the patience she has had with all of us.

Friday, 8th of May

For today's class, as I said the other day, we had to have read a document about inquiry learning.



Once read, Irene has shown us different examples of logic wheels so that we could elaborate one on inquiry learning. We had to prepare it in groups and for this, we had a meeting and from there we were preparing it during class.

Firstly, Irene had left us the first hour, but seeing that we were a little lost and that it was costing us more than she thought, she has left us all the time in class.


Here I show you the final result:

During class today I felt good. We have had some problems when using the application that Irene had recommended us to do it, and we have decided to do it in a more "traditional" way, which has been easier for us.

Wednesday, 6th of May

Last Friday, 1st of May we had no class due to the Labor Day holiday.

During the day today, we have started the class from early in the morning since we have carried out an activity that our early childhood classmates had proposed.

It consisted of the realization of a virtual gymkhana. We had to overcome different challenges and comment on the results to obtain the following tests. The final password was: There is not planet B.



Next, our classmates from "la piña" have explained their project on supermarkets and the use of plastics and later we have done a disscusion in acadly about the following question:

➼ Change comes from citiziens, consumers or from supermarkets and enterprises?


Next, we have made the final evaluations of the project and we have also evaluated the participation of our working groups, all individually.

To finish, Irene has explained to us that we have to read a document for Friday, and has explained volunteer work. We have to compare the methodology explained in that document and compare it with the one used in class last year.


During today's class I felt good, I really liked the way my classmates thought of doing the gymkana, I was very controlled as I went through the different meetings. He was very guided and I think it turned out very well.

Wednesday, 28th of April

Today's class has started strong. We have started talking about the exam and trying to set a date to do it.

Irene has explained that she will do an oral exam, in which she will let us prepare our questions. In other words, he will give us a list of possible questions and on the day of the exam he will ask us two or three of those questions randomly.

She has also told us that on the day of the exam we can discard a question so as not to answer it.


Finally, related to the exam, Irene has told us that in addition to the exam we will do another type of activity that is still not very clear and we will have to record ourselves.

Secondly, Irene has given us time to make small meetings with our groups and make a final assessment of the project. Once we have passed the statistics of the instagram account we have seen that participation in general has been very low, something we already knew, but nevertheless, within the low participation, we have seen that our group is one where people has participated more.

Finally, we have carried out a questionnaire through the application of socrative to see how we are doing. It has been quite easy to do.

During today's class I felt good, I saw that I learned more things than I thought since we didn't have time to look at anything before taking the questionnaire.

Friday, 24th of April

During today's class we continued with the theory of the previous day.

Today we have started with the energy flow and a pyramid with the trophic levels:

Top carnivore ⇝ Hervivores ⇝ Producers ⇝ Abiotic factors

Afterwards, we have seen a video about biodiversity.

➵ Link to the video:   https://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-is-biodiversity-so-important-kim-preshoff

After watching the video, we had to read an article and started an acadly discussion about biodiversity and human viruses.

Finally, Irene has sent us some activities through a simulator. In the activities we had to overcome different challenges on ecosystems and we had to make different plants and species coexist without dying.

During today's class I felt good, however when using the simulator I was overwhelmed since I was not able to do the different challenges. I was trying everything and I got it to come out. I liked the initial idea, but I found it very complicated and stressful.

Wednesday, 22th of April

During today's class, Irene has divided it into two parts.

Firstly, we have started by correcting the questionnaire that we had previously completed and we have scored the responses of two random partners.

Secondly, we have started with a new unit, "Ecosystems".

Within the unit of ecosystems, we have been differentiating between the following concepts:

➼ Habitat 

➼ Species

➼ Population

➼ Community 

➼ Ecosystem 

We have also been talking about the food chain. Within this section we can point to:

➸ Producers: (produce own food)

➸ Consumers: (use the foof energy that was created by producers)

➸ Descomposers:(Break apart dead organisms or the waste material of living organisms)

During this class, we talked about a lot more things like animal relationships, about carnivorous, herbivorous, and omnivorous animals, and about photosynthesis and chemosyntesis. 

However, as it is an easy topic, we should have read it previously in the time that Irene has left us, and then we have commented on what was most difficult for us.

During today's class I felt good, since it is an easy subject and it is also one of the ones that I like the most.

Friday. 17th of April

To start today's class, Irene asked us the following question about the film  an Ocean of Plastic (which we should have seen): 

➼ How would you describe the picture of our current world that the video show us?

We have all answered in acadly forum and it was very good, since once you answered you could see the rest of the comments. They were all quite similar, that we are destroying the planet.

Finally within this question, a cloud has been generated with the most repeated words that we have been putting:

Afterwards, we carried out another activity, which consisted of making two groups and having a debate on the most pessimistic and optimistic view of plastics. I have positioned myself on the pessimistic side. We had to comment on our position and then counter the arguments of the opposite position.

To end the class today, Irene has sent us to take a questionnaire about environmental care.

During today's class, I felt good, I think that all the proposed activities have been very good and we have had all the forms in a very active way. It has been fun as in my case, my group and I are totally connected to quickly contrast the arguments.