2021 - 2022
Heat and temperature
Students started this unit doing a practical activity in the laboratory about thermal sensation to see the difference between feeling and measuring temperature.
How transfer of energy and temperature changes are related to molecular movement and increase or decrease in kinetic energy (studied in the unit before).
How thermometers work, scales to measure temperature and the difference between heat and temperature
To end, the three ways of energy propagation (conduction, convection and radiation) are studied.
2020 - 2021
Periodic table and Chemical elements
In order to know something else about some of the chemical elements we studied, students looked for the year of discovery, the ethymology, the state at standard temperature (25ÂșC), its uses, where can we find it, ...
We printed it using different colour papers taking into account if they are metals, non-metals o noble gases. April 2021
States of matter: solid, liquid and gas
Gases, liquids and solids are all made up of microscopic particles, but the behaviors of these particles differ in the three phases. How do these particles move? How are their forces of attraction?
Students worked in pairs, asked questions to each other and prepared a summary in English to get ready before the exam.
January 2021
The Archimedes' principle
After studying some of the properties of matter, students wondered: why does a body sink or why does a body float? The Archimedes' principle and the density gave them the answer.
Here you are some of the posters they made which are on display in the hallway. December 2020.