Field trip to Huertas Cape in Alicante

We were seeing the relief in this unit, as you saw from the last entry in this blog.
As well as doing the model relief, we did a field trip to see the different forms of relief at the beach "in situ", and to see how water and wind act as erosion agents.

First we had some lunch in a park:

then, we saw looked at the geographical coordinates at the lighthouse and used them to locate it in a map

we walked down to the actual cape

to see how the erosion creates different forms, in this case, sink holes and alveolar erosion

And finally, we walked the beach so that we could see how sand is created and find some marine organism.

All in all, it went very well, I believe the girls enjoyed it and learnt also, so I'm happy with the result.

I leave you the worksheet I created for the event and that we were working with.

ACTIVITIES

1.       Go to the lighthouse and find the geographical coordinates in the sign. Write them down and locate the exact point in this map:

Coordinates:

                               Then, take a picture of the group, showing the geographical coordinates.

2.       Take a picture of a microdoline, with at least one member of the group and explain how was it formed

3.       Take a picture of the alveolar erosion and guess how it was formed.

4.       In the sand, look for different marine organisms in the sand and take a picture of at least, 3 different ones with a member of the group in the picture.

Models of relief

What's the best way to learn?. Use a model of relief!.
Here some examples with plastiline:

Temples in 1 ESO

And the girls decided to built a Greek Temple for themselves, that way, they learnt, not only how the temples looked like, but also they were very creative and decided to use very different constructive techniques and materials, have a look at the great solutions!!

Exams in 2nd ESO

One of the questions in the exam was to EXPLAIN something:

Explain how did the crisis affect the demographics of the different kingdoms, which kingdom was most affected (6 points)

POPULATION OF THE PENINSULAR KINGDOMS (x 1000)
	1300	1480
Crown of Castile	4 500	4500
Catalonia	450	260
Valencia	200	250
Balearics	50	80
Aragon	200	250

The cathedral of the sea

We read some pages of the Cathedral of the Sea, by Ildefonso Falcones, and learnt how to make a summary AND, how a gothic cathedral was built.

Modern Ages

Video we watched in the class giving an introduction to the modern ages.
 The renaissance