HAPPY SCIENCE
OUTDOOR CLASSES
Geography - field lesson
Topic: The apparent movement of the Sun on the celestial sphere - the rotation of the Earth
The students set up the gnomon and draw a trace of the length of the sun's shadow at the moment of arrival with chalk on the ground, recording the hour and minute. They answer the teacher’s questions related to the position of the shadow, direction of the sunrise, the length of shadows during sunrise/sunset, the point in the day when the shadow is the shortest, connection of the time "noon" or "afternoon" with the south -N direction. The students measure and predict the position of the shadow using a string. The shadow drawn by them indicates NORTH. After determining the NORTH direction, they start determining the remaining main directions and then intermediate ones. Next, the students draw a COMPASS ROSE on the ground and in notebooks. The students learnt how to use the observation of the Sun to determine cardinal directions and how to use the compass rose to determine cardinal directions in the field.
A field geography lesson for 5th grade students
Topic: We read a map of the immediate area of the school
Methods:
Students' work using a fragment of the city plan, field observation, students work using the tasks included in the work card,
Stages of the lesson:
- Organizational activities
– a short reminder of the principles of map orientation using the location of objects in the field and knowledge of directions on the map (students line up facing north)
- students read the map - searching for objects on the map, determining directions, reminder
meaning of signs and symbols used on the map
- solving tasks from worksheets in groups (the teacher checks the work and helps in case of problems);
- walking around the school looking for the names of the streets surrounding the facility (students fill in the gaps on the map)
- return to school and collecting individual worksheets
- summary of students' work.
After the lesson the students are able to:
- orient the map around the school (knows the cardinal and intermediate geographical directions)
- locate specific objects on the map
- use the map legend
- create cartographic marks on the map
CHEMISTRY
Topic: Air pollution
Grade: 7th
Stages of the lesson:
- Explaining the concept of air pollution, students indicate the sources of pollution.
- Division of pollutants according to their physical state.
- Presentation entitled "Air pollution".
- Students leave the classroom and read the air condition on the monitor (from a sensor outside the school).
- Students check whether solid contaminants have accumulated on the set prepared for this purpose (a plate smeared with cream and left outside for a few days). Students return to the classroom.
- Students list the effects of air pollution: smog, acid rain, the ozone hole and the increase in the greenhouse effect. They analyze the patterns of the ozone hole formation and the greenhouse effect presented in the textbook.
- Film titled "The Ozone Hole" is played for students
- Students and the teacher wonder how to protect the air from pollution.
8OUTDOOR ACTIVITY IN SPAIN
Spanish school had an activity in which the students were talked about childhood obesity. To do this, they held a gymkhana around the city in which they had to solve problems and activities in order to finish it.
OUTDOOR CLASSES IN POLAND
SPRING DAY
The lesson of Geography
It was a revision lesson for students of grades 5 and 6 conducted at the beginning of the First Day of Spring. The students revised basic geographical concepts such as: cardinal directions, a calendar, consequences of Earth’s rotation, orbit movements and names of the planets in order from the Sun. The teacher showed the class an example of a forgotten game from years ago: ‘A chalk adventure’. The teacher and the students designed the activities. The students' task was to come up with a station using the material learned in geography lessons. Each student could complete the obstacle course in time. It was important that students skip the boxes correctly and in order. Time was added for each error. The student who completed the route the fastest and flawlessly won.
Outdoor classes in Poland concerning science and astronomy
Students from grades 4a and 4b took part in a trip to Chorzów. They visited the "Upper Silesian Ethnographic Park in Chorzów" museum, where museum lessons and workshops were held. They participated in classes at the old school and learned about the lives of our ancestors by visiting the Kromołów Cottage and the open-air museum. There was a screening at the "Silesian Science Park" planetarium, during which they could see about 100 million stars on a spherical screen and travel to the furthest corners of the Universe.
They learned what the sky really looks like at night or during the day in different latitudes, what planets and space are made of. They improved our knowledge about the movements of celestial bodies, and they also learned about the purpose of devices and objects for teaching and popularizing astronomy.
12OUTDOOR WORKSHOPS - HORSES
On April 17 and 18, workshops "Patataj - let go of the phone, go on an adventure and go horse riding" were held, conducted by Mrs. Marta Dębowiec. The aim of the project is to promote horse riding as a form of spending free time and an alternative to the phone, computer and social media. The idea of this type of workshop was created thanks to the involvement of the parents of students of our school who are horse enthusiasts. We hope that some students will be inspired by this idea and will spend their time actively in the future.
14OUTDOOR CLASSES PORTUGAL
In Geography and Natural Sciences class, we went on a field trip to the Madeira Natural Park. In this class, we listened to technicians from the Institute of Forestry and Nature Conservation, who explained to us about endemic and invasive wood plants. We then put our knowledge into practice, removing invasive plants and planting endemic ones.
In Natural Sciences class, we also had classes on the island of Porto Santo, another island in our archipelago. We went to Pico de Ana Ferreira, 283 meters high, and at its top there was a spectacular set of prismatic columns, popularly known as the “piano”, although, in reality, it looks more like the pipes of an organ. This rock formation, which appears to have been carved by hand, resulted from volcanic activity and the slow cooling of volcanic magma thousands of years ago.
OUTDOOR ACTIVITY - SPAINWe carried out was a solidarity race to finance the search for solutions for childhood leukemia.We made an outing to row in the typical boats of Malaga, called jábegas.The Lesson of Chemistry, Grade 8th
Topic: Revision of knowledge about salts.
Methods/Forms of work:Group and individual work, carousel method, outdoor activities.
The teacher divided the class into three groups.
Group Task 1:
Students list all known methods of salt production on the interactive whiteboard. They categorize these methods into ones for producing salts of oxyacids, non-oxyacids, and precipitation reactions.
Group Task 2:
Each group receives a card with a specific salt formula (salt of an oxyacid, a non-oxyacid, or a sparingly soluble salt). The groups must write three equations for producing their assigned salt using different methods.
Carousel Activity:
After writing one reaction equation, each group passes their card to the next group. This process repeats until all groups have written equations for all salts.
Verification and Display:
After verifying the correctness of all equations, students copy them onto large sheets of paper. They then display these sheets on the noticeboard in the corridor.
The lesson of Chemistry
Testing air purity
During the lesson, we tested air purity, or more precisely, solid pollutants. For this purpose, we collected snow in several places early on, and waited for it to melt. While taking samples, we made sure that they were not contaminated with sand, salt, or animal doings. One sample was taken in the schoolyard near a busy street. The second sample was taken in another part of the city, in a housing estate of single-family houses. There is not much car traffic there, but residents heat their homes with coal-fired furnaces. We performed the following experiment: Task: testing air purity, solid pollutants. Experimental aids: snow samples collected in different parts of the city, funnels, conical flasks, filter paper, pipettes, wash bottle. Experimental procedure: Students prepared filter sets, then performed the filtering. Observations After filtering the samples, minor pollutants were observed on the filter papers. Conclusion The air is polluted with particulate matter. More pollution can be seen after filtering a sample taken in a housing estate. The sample taken near the school contained slightly less pollution.