Light and colour

Have you heard abou Bill Nye the Science Guy?

He is an Americam science educator, television host, actor, writes, scientist and former mechanical engineer, best known as the host of the Fisney/PBS children's science show Bill Nye the Science Guy (1993–98).

We've watched his video about light and colour. It's great!

Sol Solidari

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Three weeks ago a man called Deli from Sol Solidari came to our class to explain us how they help people in Africa to cook their food using solar technologies.

He showed us a solar stove and we could heat water under the sun in our playground.  We found out  that it's possible to cook without electricity.

When we went to the class he showed us a power point and we could see photos of the projects Sol Solidari has in Africa. We think that solar stoves are very useful even in developed countries because we can save electricity and money.

We liked his talk very much. Thank you for coming to our school.

We were on TV!

On Thursday 14th of November, TV3 came to our school. They wanted to record us because we study Science and Art in English.

They recorded us while we were giving a presentation to the other students in our school. We explained them how to save energy. It was part of our Energy Saving Campaign.

Doing a presentation with the television recording us wasn't easy beacuse we were very nervous, but the cameraman was very friendly with us!

The video appeared on TV3 the same day at midday. It was an amazing experience!

 

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Energy saving campaign (II)

This term, the 6th graders are studying Energy. We are doing different activities in class: worksheets, on line games, videos, models of solar toys,  ...
Now we are making posters with different tips that we think are important to save energy at school and at home.
We are preparing some presentations to explain to the other classes what they should do to save electricity. We are going to explain it in Catalan to the little ones, in English and in Catalan to the 1st and 2nd graders, and to the other ones in English.

We think that saving energy is important because we save money. It's also important to be aware of the energy we spend because we need it, and the energy we waste.

6th graders

Energy saving campaign (I)

On Thursday 17th a mechanical engineer called Fèlix Mora came to our school. He explained us how to save energy at school and at home. He gave us some tips:

* It's better to have a shower than a bath because we are saving water and electricity at the same time.
* We have to put the dishwasher and the washing machine when they are full.
* We have to clean the light bulbs because they make more light with the same energy.
* We should use natural light, heat and cooling.
* We have to switch off the projectors when we don't need them.
* We should switch off the lights if we are not going to be in the classroom for more than half an hour.
* When we have to buy new light bulbs we should look at the scale energy label and the light they produce (lumen)

It was an interesting and usefuk talk. He was a good communicator because he's also a secondary school teacher.

Solar cookers

Last term the 6th graders were working on Energy: energy sources, types of energy and saving energy tips.
After watching next video we had an idea...


How about building our solar cookers? And that's what we did. Our students got really engaged in the project and they made their cookers with their families.


In a really sunny day we went to the playground to find out if their cookers worked or not.
And yes, they did!  Congratulations for your effort! It was worth it!

And we were in the local newspapers!