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.

Wednesday, 15th of April

Today was our first class after the Easter holidays.

In today's class, we have made two questionnaires about the plastics project that we are carrying out to see the participation that we have at the individual and group level.

In my case, I am reading and seeing everything that is uploaded to instagram, but it is true that I cannot participate in all the challenges that are proposed to us, sometimes due to lack of resources or time.

On the other hand, the rest of the people we go to are not participating at all, and in our case it is very complicated since we are doing a Scape Room and it is very difficult to keep putting tests if nobody does them, but we will continue ahead.

Finally, Irene has sent us a task, we have to watch a movie for the next day and take note of the message she wants to convey, the main ideas ... to comment on during the next class.
The chosen film is an Ocean of Plastic.

During class today, I felt good. However, as I mentioned before, we are a little frustrated by the low participation that other people are having with respect to the proteject. We hope that it will be solved soon and that people will overcome all our challenges.


Finally, I would like to finish today's post, putting the images of the work that Irene sent us to do at Easter.

We had to create two measuring instruments and I chose to create a barometer and an anemometer.

Barometer

Anemometer

Wednesday, 1st of April

Today was our last class before the Easter holidays.

Today we had to organize the dates on which we were going to publish each one of their publications on instagram. There has been a bit of a mess, because we are many groups and we want to publish a lot, without saturating it.

Also, we have seen the results of the survey that we carried out in Ces to check the needs that we have to cover and what is really known about plastics.

Finally, each group has carried out the expositions of their project.

During today's class I felt good, because in my opinion, after seeing what each of us is going to do and setting dates, it was like seeing a ray of sunshine, that the global project ends up coming out, despite all the Modifications that all groups have had to make.

And that is all for now, we will be making our publications as we have agreed.

See you around Easter.

Friday, 27th of March

Today we have had another virtual class.

Today, we have held small virtual meetings with our working groups to continue with our project.
We had to fill out another sheet in a group, to distribute the tasks and see what we had to do.

We had thought about making small games, but talking to Irene, she told us that it is better if we took advantage of what we had already done (the fish story) and used it as a common thread.
And that we have decided, we will make our history and small challenges or games that we all know, to make people aware that the issue of abuse of plastic is serious and that with little we can do a lot.

The story has been based on Nemo and Dory. Dory has memory problems and that's why she does things wrong (related to the plastic issue) and that's why she needs the help of Nemo. We will play the role of Nemo a bit throughout the project to remember the importance of doing things well, and the rest of the people will be Dory, who forget to do those things well, because they think they don't matter.

Finally, my group and I have started with the development of the story and the design of the small challenges and games.

The next day, we have to prepare a short presentation about our work to show it to our colleagues.

During today's class, I felt a bit overwhelmed again due to the difficulty of developing our project in a totally different way from what we had thought, but little by little we have finished going.