Estamos em um momento em que a Ciência está em foco, já que em meio a essa pandemia causada pelo coronavírus, ela é essencial para o conhecimento do vírus causador, para a descoberta de medicamentos para o tratamento, para a formação dos profissionais da saúde, para o desenvolvimento de equipamentos hospitalares que salvam vidas, para o desenvolvimento de vacinas, entre outros. Precisamos valorizar o trabalho dos cientistas de todo mundo!
Mesmo em meio à uma Pandemia e ao ensino remoto ainda é possível fazermos e discutirmos Ciência! Então convidamos os alunos dos 6º, 7º e 8º anos a fazerem experimentos em casa que se relacionassem aos conteúdos tratados durante o ano. Tais experimentos foram apresentados em forma de vídeo e de painéis com as etapas do método científico. Confiram o que os nossos alunos do sétimo ano fizeram nos vídeos abaixo:
Gabriel Cardoso Bellotto 7C 13
Luccas Carusi Guida de Souza 7C 18
Gustavo Napoli Belfort Mattos 7C 16
Lorena Martinez Junqueira Neto 7A 16
Rebbeca Sayuri Ono 7A 24
Depois de estudos e discussões sobre o tema, os alunos produziram um PODCAST para informar os impactos ambientais causados pelas queimadas no bioma Pantanal. Eles se apropriaram do formato PODCAST para produzirem o seu próprio informativo. Dessa forma, eles conseguiram transmitir informações científicas sobre um assunto tão importante dos dias atuais.
Lara Martinho Haddad 7B 16
Manoela Lopes Murad 7B 20
Gabriel Mita Schymura 7A 10
João Francisco Cammarota de Abreu 7B 12
Rafael Costa Lima de Andrade 7B 27
Luccas Carusi Guida de Souza 7C 18
Science and math classes during quarantine
We all know that the COVID-19 changed the life and routine in schools all over the world. Once the outbreak started, early in the year, something very unusual happened, converting traditional classes into online meetings. This wasn’t different for science and math at Colégio Santo Américo. In order to keep up with good quality of the classes and content through online platforms, some adaptations needed to be made.
Science and math classes were fused, and the scope of both subjects were tied together on a project-style approach. These projects were designed so the students would start from a central topic, going through biology, chemistry, physics and math classes.
7th Grade: Earth – The Structure of a Dynamic Planet
During the third trimester, the students could focus on: Tsunamis, earthquakes, volcanoes and their relation to the tectonic plates; layers and structure of the Earth; continental drift theory; fossils and processes of fossilisation; sedimentary, volcanic, and metamorphic rocks; mineral and their chemical and physical properties; shapes found in nature.
During this project, the students were exposed to daily news about natural phenomena. This was the starting point, things that they might already knew from common knowledge. The students were able share, discuss, compare and learn a lot about the structure and components of the Earth, rocks, fossils, and how dynamic our planet is. Moreover, they finished this project by classifying minerals and their properties.
Here is one of the researches about fossil flying reptiles, the pterosaurs. The most interesting fact that the students learned was that those animals are not dinosaurs as they originally thought.
Students:
Lucas Guida 7C 18
José Eduardo Andrade 7B 28
João Francisco Cammarota 7B 12
Rafael Andrade 7B 27
Gabriel Schymura 7A 10
Here is a homework where the students had to create a model that represents the layers of a sedimentary rock. During this activity, students could comprehend how the layers made of different sediments are deposited and form rocks after millions of years.
Cássio Barros Damasceno 7B 7
The goal of this activity was to create a table as their final assignments. Students had to investigate minerals and research and their properties. The most interesting fact they learned was the talc is the weakest mineral and diamonds are the hardest.
Lucas Guida 7C 18
José Eduardo Andrade 7B 28
João Francisco Cammarota 7B 12
Rafael Andrade 7B 27
Gabriel Schymura 7A 10