Human body, Electricity and Electronics

The P.E. and Technology departments have worked together to study how our body can be studied as an electrical machine and how Robotics can interact with the nervous system. 

These two videos are a good summary:

ENDURANCE 2 ESO

ENDURANCE: Training methods

Endurance Circuit
Ropes
Military course

GYMNASTICS 2 ESO

This video is  a compilation of the gymnastics elements that the students of 2nd  ESO have learnt this term.

Balances: one foot, hands and hand&foot

Inverted balances: Head-stand, hand-stand, cartwheel and round off

Somersault: forward and backward

How It's Made

"How It's Made" is a documentary television series. It shows how common, everyday items (including foodstuffs like bubblegum, industrial products such as engines, musical instruments such as guitars, and sporting goods such as snowboards) are manufactured.

There is a Youtube channel about it. We strongly recommend you to visit it and watch as many videos as you can. You will learn a lot of things about technology and your vocabulary will become wider.

Click here to visit the Youtube channel.

Ghost Stories

 

To get the students into the Halloween spirit, we shared stories about nothing other than Spirits. Some of these tales left the students with questions. Some they couldn't believe.

But here is one story that left a chill in the room...

The Story of the Photos from the Forest 

During one long weekend, three friends decided to go camping in the forest that was about an hour drive from their town. They had this spot in the woods where they loved to sleep because it was quiet and calm, away from other people. They went camping for four days and three nights. Each day, they went hiking and relaxed in the shade, and at night, they slept in a cozy tent. One of the friends had brought an old film camera for them to take photos of the nature they saw, and after she returned from the trip with her friends, she had the roll of film developed.

Flipping through  the photos, she saw lovely pictures of the countryside and of her smiling friends, but then she came across a photo that made chills run down her spine. There was a picture of her sleeping, but it couldn't have been taken by one of her friends because they were also in the picture, asleep beside her.

Turning through the pictures more hurriedly, the girl found three mysterious photos, one taken from each night that the friends had camped in the woods. Each showed the three of them sleeping.

Who had taken these photos? How could anyone have done so without waking them? And why? Why take three photos of three sleeping friends? 

Experiments about density

Some students  of I2A have done, at home,  an experiment about density. They have studied what happens when some objects are immersed in water: 

Coke experiment:

A) Normal coke sinks

B) Zero coke floats between water and normal coke.

Conclusions --> Normal coke is denser than water because it has sugar. Zero coke doesn't have sugar, so it is less dense than normal coke.

Rainbow experiment:

A) Honey is at the bottom of all liquids; syrup is on top of honey; water is on top of syrup; sunflower oil is under olive oil; olive oil is under alcohol; alcohol is on top of all liquids.

B) They have their own densities and it doesn´t matter the order to add the liquids into the recipient.

Conclusions --> Alcohol is on top because it has the lowest density; honey is at the bottom because it has the highest density; syrup is under water because it is denser; olive oil is on top of water because it is less dense.

The Fifth of November

    Remember, remember!
    The fifth of November,
    The Gunpowder treason and plot;
    I see no reason
    Why the Gunpowder treason
    Should ever be forgot!
    Guy Fawkes and his companions
    Did the scheme contrive,
    To blow the King and Parliament
    All up alive.
    Threescore barrels, laid below,
    To prove old England's overthrow.
    But, by God's providence, him they catch,
    With a dark lantern, lighting a match!
    A stick and a stake
    For King James's sake!
    If you won't give me one,
    I'll take two,
    The better for me,
    And the worse for you.
    A rope, a rope, to hang the Pope,
    A penn'orth of cheese to choke him,
    A pint of beer to wash it down,
    And a jolly good fire to burn him.
    Holloa, boys! holloa, boys! make the bells ring!
    Holloa, boys! holloa boys! God save the King!
    Hip, hip, hooor-r-r-ray!

The History of Halloween

Click here if you want to read the script.

Romeo and Juliet (1st performance)

Visiting the "Biblioteca Nacional"

The Biblioteca Nacional is the main information and document centre on Spanish and Ibero-American written, graphic and audiovisual culture. It receives and stores copies of all the books published in Spain. Its collections include all kinds of material and  its holdings are largely enriched through acquisitions: purchase, copyright, donation and exchange.

Our students of Loeches have visited it and have spent a nice time:

"Aulas oro" contest

The group of 1ºA of Loeches has won the "Aulas Oro" contest. The prize has been visiting the "Museo de Ciencias de Alcobendas" where they have enjoyed the whole morning. These are some pictures of their visit:

MEET THE TEACHERS

Hi everybody!

Let's play a game about pictures. The only thing you have to do is guessing which teacher of Loeches matches each picture. Take your chance and good luck.

 

 

 

Khan Academy

Khan Academy is a non-profit educational organization created in 2006 by educator Salman Khan to provide "a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere."

Its website features thousands of educational resources, including a personalized learning dashboard, over 100,000 practice problems, and over 6,000 micro lectures via video tutorials stored on YouTube teaching mathematics, history, healthcare, medicine, finance, physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, cosmology, American civics, art history, economics, music, and computer science. All resources are available for free to anyone around the world.

Khan Academy web page

Khan Academy Youtube channel

A different dog

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5XTG6LE-O8

I think this is worth seeing it. It's a great life lesson

The Shakespeare Scratch (II)

The bilingual groups of Loeches have been working on a special project. It has been made using Scratch and it is related to the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death.

These are their programs -->

I3P ADS

Hi there!
I3P students are trying to sell his incredible and miraculous product. If you have smelly feet, buy it. If you get lost and don't have anything to eat, be sure you've taken it with you. 

Cheap, affordable and easy consuming. Guess its name, don't ever forget it and buy lots of it.

The Shakespeare Scratch

This week marks the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death. Our bilingual groups have been working on a special Scratch project in their technology class. Check out some of their work!

This is Iván's (I1F) scratch:



This is Laura and Jorge's (I1F) scratch:



This is Noelia and Mario's (I1A) scratch:

Shakespeare 400th anniversary

The bilingual groups attended to a general presentation about Shakespeare's life and work. The main points that our assintant teacher, Tim, talked were:

• William Shakespeare grew up in a rather important family. His father was influential as an alderman and his mother was the daughter of a wealthy landowner.

• He never received a complete education, but he spent most of his free time reading, writing and acting.

• There are a lot of things we don't know about Shakespeare, but we can hypothesize about parts of his life based on his writings.

• He became very wealthy from the work he did, and bought property in both Stratford-upon-Avon and London.

• Other than his famous stories, he also invented more than 1,700 words by combining words, turning verbs into adjectives, changing nouns into verbs and using many other techniques.

Saint Patrick's Day 2016

Saint Patrick's Day in SIES Luis de Gongora (Loeches) On March 11, "Irish Treble", an Irish dancing group, together with a folk music band, came to teach us how to dance. They want to spread Irish culture through music and dance, that is why they visit schools showing their performance. They were also invited to the celebration of St. Patrick's Day in Madrid on March 13. They did their best to get us dancing, and some of our students did pretty well. Others... Have a look!!

"Irish Treble" also visited Torrejón on March 16:

 

 

Visiting the Museum of Natural Sciences in Madrid

Our students have visited the Museum of Natural Sciences in Madrid.

By Luis García, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6067824

The museum has over 6 million specimens in its collections, and this makes it one of the main reference centres for not only Spanish fauna, but also that of other Mediterranean areas. It also offers a journey back through time via collections with centuries of history. Spectacular specimens can be viewed, such as:

By José-Manuel Benito Álvarez (España) —> Locutus Borg - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1899383

By José-Manuel Benito Álvarez (España) —> Locutus Borg - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1932235

By Xauxa Håkan Svensson - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12888413

By José-Manuel Benito Álvarez (España) —> Locutus Borg - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1932499

By José-Manuel Benito Álvarez (España) —> Locutus Borg - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1932633

By José-Manuel Benito Álvarez (España) —> Locutus Borg - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1932480