1. lights sources and hang on the walls of toilets and In the World of Astronomy
ENERGY CLUB classes. In the World of Inventions
Their Club Teacher, Yasemin Tutkun give seminars The VI a class participated in the inter- school contest
An exciting exhibition titled
In our school, We have to our school staff, students, and parents of students. on the sport and astronomy knowledge. We took third
“In the World of Inventions”
students free activity Club Teacher and club students visit the homes of place. Teams consisting of three representatives, gave the
was organized in our school
clubs.Students choose their their friends to see how they use energy in their answers to the questions about space (Karol Lange,
library. Pupils got to know
club in first week of the school homes. Michał Szyborski, Karol Wójcik)- and we were the best at
about the way of making lin-
year. And they study for their They plant trees in school garden it. In spite of this, the teams prepared the post stamp pro-
en material, they were in-
activiy club for one year with ject (Aleksandra Mizerska, Kinga Stancel, Daiana Suszek)
formed about the past life
their friends and club teachers. A little note from our energy club students to their and the space costume. The costume “Space Sumo” was
daily tools and devices. An old iron heated by the coal,
This year the most friends from different countries; designed by Karolina Baprawska, Klaudia Palkowska and
water yokes, Edison` s gramophone, slide projector,
hardworking club has been the Michał Szymborski.
! In one second time, 130 mL water flows adapter, vinyls and “Pionier” radio were watched by the
ENERGY CLUB.They come
from the tap,That means while you brush children with a great interest. These and other tools and We collected, carried and got satisfaction
together with their teachers one
your teeth(in 3 minutes) , you waste 23,4 devices made the world from the 19th and 20th century
hour in per week.They have
Liters water. closer. Few days ago the students from VI a class carried many
started a school project and
plastic nuts to the High School no 4. Nuts
they study for their A photo from a sketch
friends,teachers,parents and for all school and maybe for Our Experiments were collected in order to help raise the
Students of school money for the wheelchair for a student
all of the village to have awareness about the global- energy club What lives in the ground? What swims and from that school. All students who joined
warning and depletion of energy sources. prepared little
what sinks? How do the balloon fly? Does this action, and thanks to whom we col-
SOME ACTIVITIES sketches to draw
the water have skin? Our guests tried to get lected many bags of nuts, may be satisfied
OF ENERGY CLUB attention to
to know the answers during the School Open that they could help other person to fulfill
They prepared importance of
energy sources Door Day which took place at our school. his or her dreams
warning signs about
and global- The classrooms turned into mysterious laboratories, in
the correct use of The experiment with water
warming. which many games and experiments took
water, heat and
place. They were mainly connected with the
Needed for the experiment are: half an
water, air, space, light and sound. In the
cool in crystalline form. orange, one plate, four matches, water,
MELTING AND FREEZING This experiment shows some heat is needed for melting
World of the Earth children got to know not
only our country` s specimens but also from
0ne glass
On one of the Physics lessons we were examining the of crystalline substances and the heat has to be taken First pour water on the plate. We then
other foreign lands. The Land of Lights and
melting and freezing of the away at freezing. plugged in four matches in a half an or-
Shadows took us to the charming plays. We
solids. Examining the ange, burn the match and cover glass. Af-
melting and freezing of the ROBOTICS could also see different cells that are invisible
without special equipment in the Land of Micro World.
ter a while the water is drawn into a glass.
ice would be the simpliest We have Robotics as an extra-
way but it is very difficult to curricular activity at our school. On
freeze the ice in a laboratory the first lesson we constructed a
Do you know, how many teeth does the
so we have chosen a white robot from a lot of small pieces. On
adult horse have? Solve this cipher. -
crystalline substance – the the other lessons we made
sodium thiosulfate. programmes for it on the computer. A= B=2 C= D=4 E=5 F=6 G= H= I= 8 1 1 2 8 9 1 2 2 - 1 9 2
We started heating the sodium Later we equipped the robot with 1 3 7 8 9 9 0 8 0 5 9 4
thiosulfate on 22 °C. We did not put it directly above the various sensors, such as a distance sensor. It can identify J=1 K=1 L=1 M= N= O= P= Q= R=
0 1 2 13 14 15 16 17 18
flame but we were heating it in some water. We had the distance of the robot from other objects. The light
S= T=2 U= V=2 W= X=2 Y= Z=2
a look at it every 30 seconds and wrote down the sensor helps the robot to slow down or stop if there is 20 5 5 20 8
19 0 21 2 23 4 25 6
temperature. We realised its temperature had been not enough light. It depends on the programme. There is
continuosly rising until 48 °C. Then the temperature did a sound and a bumper sensor too but we have not used
not change in spite of the fact that we had cuntinued the them yet.
heating. The sodium thiosulfate has melted and the crys- I like this activity very much. Jakub Verbík, Petr
tals have changed into liquid. In some time the tempera- (Dávid Demjén) Batonožek
ture of the liquid started to increase again. 2 8 5 1 2 1 1 1 9 1 14
0 9 0 2 2 5
Later we stopped heating and the liquid started getting
cool. Its temperature has not changed on 48 °C but it got
An interesting thing from animal word
CHICS BORN IN A CLASSROOM ruined crops across large swathes of the Spanish coun-
tryside and there are regions in which rainfall has well,
8 1 1 6 1 1 2 2 2 5 5 2 8 My favourite animal is a horse, because it is the second
9 5 8 0 5 0 0 most faithful animal. The most faithful is a dog, I think.
Mila, one of the infant fallen, by up to 75%. New Agriculture Ministry data But now I will write about horses. I like their noble
education teachers, tells us shows that water levels across Spain’s reservoirs are walking. We can breed them in a herd or separately.
about the “chicken pro- down 20% over the last year. The giant Duero basin has They need access to fresh hay. A suitable way consists in
ject”: lost more than 25% of its water. A lack of water on this ensuring them free movement. If the horse is in a box he
Hello Mila, could you tell scale has also led to a massive economic problem for need enough light and air.
1 1 4 2 8 5 1 1 1 5
us about the Project? Spanish farmers and crop growers. Spain’s young agri- 4 0 3 8
We bring an egg to the culture association is saying that the lack of decent pas- Valerie Ferdová
classroom and ask chil- tures due to effects of the drought is costing them 2 mil-
dren if they think there is a chicken inside. We open the lion of euros per day more than it should in feed for
egg and they seem sad because there is only “an egg”… Spain’s 15 million head of cattle, pigs and sheep. They
From this moment we start our project. We explain chil- also warn that ALL the dryland crops (wheat, barley,
dren that chickens have a mum and dad (calle hen and olives, almonds, etc) from huge areas of central and
rooster) and when the hen lay eggs, they need heat and southern Spain (Aragón, Andalucía, Extremadura and
be wet. Finally we explain them that as we can not have Castilla-La Mancha) might be lost. Spanish environmen-
a hen and a rooster in the class we take a machine, called tal group Ecologistas en Acción has warned that Spain’s
incubator and which will do the same task as the hen Agriculture Ministry urgently needs to decide on priori-
(give heat to the eggs). Eggs must spend 21 days inside ties for the summer and that these priorities should be:
the incubator and later chickens will be born. Children drinking water for the population, river discharge levels
enjoyed and learnt a lot with these activities: eggs are and only then crop irrigation. They think things are get-
also a kind of food, when a chicken grows up it becomes ting that bad.
a hen or a rooster… You can see here some photos about
Airbus adec and bio-diversity proyect
the project…
Our school participates in the Project for the Conserva-
Drought in Spain tion of the Bio-diversity, an initiative from the Airbus
We have only seen the rain once during the last winter in Foundation which was first established in 2010
Cabanillas del Campo. It has been all the same in the (International year for the Bio-diversity) This project is The correct hypothesis is the No. 3
central and south areas of Spain, and even in some north- offered to any centre which expresses a desire and pre-
ern areas, which is really unusual. Here are some data sents a project. The project has a very close relationship
which can make us realise how dangerous this situation with the Eco-Schools programme, but any other schools
may be. These data have been extracted from a piece of can also join it.
news by Matthew Bennett. Basically, the project consists on developing a series of
Spain is used to long, hot summers, of course, but this action plans and a conduct code, which will be carried
winter is not over and experts are already calling for an on in each centre. These projects are, of course, focused
urgent declaration of extreme drought. Some say it is set on Biodiversity in a number of ways: protection, recov-
to be the driest three-month period since the 1940s. ery and improvement of spaces, species and eco systems,
water, energy, waste, tourism, spare time... and how all
The severe lack of water and intense frosts have all but
this can be implemented in schools.
