Maths + English- How many days have you lived?

Can you guess How many days do you lived?
Our 1st ESO students did it ,and they did it in English!!!

Twitter

As you have noticed, on the sidebar of this blog you can see a twitter account. This account is a transversal activity for 2nd grade and every tweet that shows up there is written by a student.

Nowadays it is only used in science. The goal is simple, make students think on what they have done that day and write a short sentence in English about it. English is not assessed but it is completely forbidden to use translators to translate the whole sentence. Of course they can still use dictionaries or translators to know the translation for some words.

Why is this interesting?

It is interesting because students work a lot of different things when they write a tweet:

- They make a review of what they did that day
- They use English (although it is full of mistakes)
- They learn how to use properly a Social Network.

Feel free to follow us and retweet!

Science in English: Some games performed in English

Lately in Science subject we have been doing some contests

The first one was an activating activity to introduce students to the new unit: The states of matter.

The subject was projected on the board and students had to think and write, in pairs, 10 verbs related to it.

The students enjoyed it a lot!

Another contest performed in classroom was some kind of running activity. The activity pretended to make student understant a very important mathematical concept, specially for science: the meaning of fractions when they are used as a unit.

The class was divided in four groups and for each one, a part of the black board was set with 20 fractions. The fractions were something like windows/house, people/car. Also there were some ones which are real units (km/h, g/ml...).

Then the contest started: Teacher said a santence that had some kind of relationship with one of the fractions (My house has 15 windows). A member of each group had to run and circle the correct one.

The activity was an incredible success, but there was a little problem: the emotion and excitement of the moment generated too much noise... we should think a way to minimize it.

Science in English: The crown of King Hebron

Last Monday the students of 2nd ESO helped King Hebron. He wanted a new crown but there were some artisans who tried to cheat on him. 

First of all we watched a video where King Hebron explained us his problem and asked for our help. 

 

 

Then, we worked on those things we needed to know to help him, like the definition for density. As it was all in English we had to translate it into Catalan. We did it all together!

After that we surfed the net to find some density values and finally we proceeded to calculate the density of each crown.

 

 

We found the answer!

But there was one last thing to do... we had to tell the results to King Hebron.