Astronomy

On the 10th April we went to the University of Girona to listen to a talk about astronomy, the Sun, Galileo Galilei and his discoveries about the Solar System.

We listened to an astronomer, we saw some videos about the eruptions of the Sun and we made a short movie to discover how many days the sun needs to rotates. We also saw some sunspots using a Solarscope.

Then we went to a little inflatable Planetarium to see the planets of the Solar System, their moons and some constelations and galaxies.

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EARTH MOVEMENTS

We are studying the Earth movements.
To do this we had an Earth balloon and torches in small groups. We had to discover things and answer some questions:
- Which is the movement that produces day and night?
-If now in Girona it's 10 o'clock in the morning, what's the time in other countries?
-What would happen if the Earth didn't move?

It is quite difficult but fun to discover things and not just read the information.

 We also had some help watching videos.

Another day we had a Tellerium, which is a reproduction of the Sun and the Earth movements. It was helpful to understand the seasons.