Wednesday, 25th of March

Today was the first day of class due to the suspension of our internship due to the state of alarm in which we find ourselves due to the coronavirus.

We have had our first virtual meeting with Irene and she has explained to us that during these days we will have to carry out an experiment, which consists of creating a cloud, and two measuring devices with things that we have at home, and then use them for seven days and record the results.

Afterwards, we have been holding small meetings with our working groups, to talk about the final project.
We were going to create a Scape room, but due to the situation we have and we don't know if we are going to return to the classes or not, Irene has told us to change everything and try to do it in a virtual way, perhaps through a instagram account or something similar.

During today's class I have felt good, since Irene has been able to explain to us what is going to happen with the subject and what steps we have to follow. However, I have been overwhelmed when we have had to change everything we had in the project, because we have gone from doing it in person to making it virtual, but little by little we are seeing how to approach it again.

Friday, 6th of March

Today was our last class, since next Monday we begin our internship period.

Today we have time to talk to our groups about the final work. We have reviewed the questionnaire that we have done among the whole class and we have thought about how to set up our scape room so that it fits well.

Then Irene has sent us two jobs to do, one mandatory for everyone before Sunday, and another volunteer.
Voluntary work consists in conducting an experiment, we have to create a home made cloud at home and record the process.

When the video will be ready, I'll upload the video here too.

And ...
... this is all for now, see you around the internship period!

Wednesday, 4th of March

In today's class, we have started to get together between the groups that had the same text and all comment on the conclusions. Then two or three representatives went to the center of the class to discuss it with the rest of the classmates.

Our text was about air pollution. Primary and seconary pollutans.

Once the activity is finished, we start with the second part of this unit, the weather.

We have started talking and describing the following concepts:

➼ Daily temperature range
➼ Daily mean temperature
➼ Monthly mean temperature
➼ Annual mean temperature
➼ Annual temperature range



Finally, we have seen how the temperatures of two places can vary according to their:

➼ Season
➼ Latitude
➼ Differential heating of land and water
➼ Ocean currents
➼ Geographic position
➼ Cloud cover and albedo

I felt good during class today, since I like the topic of the weather a lot and I find it very curiousand interesting.

Friday, 28th of February

In today's class, we started talking about some of the questions we asked the other day in the test to clarify some concepts.

Next, we have continued talking about the atmosphere. Today, we started with the layers of the atmosphere  that are the followings:

➼ TROPOSPHERE: (Is the closest to us.)

➼ STRATOSPHERE: (Atmosphere ozone is concentrate in this layer.)

➼ MESOSPHERE: (Lowest temperature value in the atmosphere.)

➼ THERMOSPHERE: (Density much nearer vaccum.)

During the second hour, we started talking about the Greenhouse Effect that is the process by which radiation from a planet's atmosphere warms the planet's surface to a temperature above what it would be without this atmosphere. Is a natural process. 

Finally we have done an activity in groups. Each group had one of the following topics and we had to read it and draw conclusions that we would present during the next session.

➼ Air pollutans

➼ Ozone hole

➼ Uv index

➼ Changing color of the sky

My group had the topic of air pollutans.

During today's class I felt good, and in our case I found the text that we had to read very interesting. It was very well explained.

Wednesday, 26th of February

Today we only had one hour of class, due to the celebration of ash. 

As Irene had told us last day, today we had the test to see how we were doing and where unit one entered. We have gone to the computer room and have been able to do it in pairs. It was a multiple choice test.

I have felt confident to be able to take the test in pairs, and to be able to discuss between them which is the correct answer. However, it seemed a bit complicated because I had to reason a lot and there was some trikky questions.

On the other hand, this exam has served us as a drill and to give us an idea that she can ask us in the final exam.

Friday, 21th of February

During today's class, we have started a new unit. We have started talking about the atmosphere, that is the envelope of air that surrounds our planet.

We have also continued talking about:

➼ Origin: 4.500 million years ago

➼ Chemical composition: 99% nitrogen and oxygen 

On the other hand, in today's class, Irene has explained the final work. Our group has played the part of workshops. 

The rest of the Irene class has left us time to think about the project, and we have come up with several ideas such as a street market or a gymkana, but we have finally decided to create a scape room where the protagonist will be a fish that lives in a sea of plastic and doesn't know how to get out of there.

During class today I felt good, however we had a little discursion with another group because we both wanted the rewards issue. As we did not agree, we had to throw it to luck and we have touched on the issue we did not want. But in the end we have come up with a lot of ideas that can look good and we have motivated ourselves a bit.