1. ISSUE 6, June 2012
...in this edition
experiments, events
and
project evaluation
Bermuda Triangle
Page 1 - Workshops with a reporter in Poland
Page 1 - Carpe Diem Choir, Spain
Page 1 - Transit of Venus
Page 2 - Experiments
Page 2 - Conference and project evaluation WORKSHOPS WITH
A REPORTER IN POLAND
CARPE DIEM CHOIR, SPAIN
Carpe Diem Choir collaborated in “ The Polish stu- dents had an op-
Bermuda Triangle Project”, singing portunity to take part in workshops
the famous song of the movie “ held by a former student of our
Ghost” to our all European Partners school - Mr Piotr Tokarski who is a
in the celebration of the 4th Course journalist of one of the leading Tv sta-
of Secondary School Graduation. tions in Poland - TVP INFO. Mr Pi-
The Choir was created in Viera y otr told us about his profession, every day tasks and obli-
Clavijo Highschool . Its members are gations. During the workshops we could see a presenta-
teachers. Carpe Diem Choir belongs tion of the most importnat of his so far reportages, we got
to the Music and Cultural Association to know the adventages and disadventages of being a re-
of the same name, which also has porter and we discussed the issues connected with EURO
other activities. 2012 as Mr Tokarski is one of the reporters responsible
You can find more information in the website: for TV coverage of the event. He gave us some hints how
http://www.corocarpediem.com/historia.htm
to be a good reporter and we hope to use them in our
The song of the movie “ Ghost”:
project while holding interviews.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4mWc_y
DE7M by Righteous Brothers
TRANSIT OF VENUS
On the 5th /6th June , there was one of the most anticipated astronomical events of
the year, Funded by the European project GLORIA http://www.gloria-project.eu
A retransmission of the phenomenon was performed and live through the portal sky-
live.tv http://www.sky-live.tv/index- en.html from three Australia / Japan /
Norway. The information Relay Traffic and visibility can be found here http://
www.sky-live.tv/venus.html
The students of all the partner schools had a debate on the theme, discussing their
version of the event as well as consider- ing its importance in the project. The Span-
ish team reported the one of the most famous experiments and to the partners. We also prepared debates using a
new ICT tool called GoAnimate. You csn watch them in our website.

2. EXPERIMENTS
We carry out experiments to prove or reject certain facts or phenome-
na. We try to explain particular phenomena in a scientific way. Some-
times it is not possible ... We combine our knowledge of Physics and
Mathematics to conduct the experiments. By doing some tasks, we
deepen our knowledge and skills of these subjects on our own, in a
practical way, what is much better than learning from course books.
The Polish students did some experiments in the Żar Mountain. We
got to know some interesting facts and discovered an unusual phe-
nomenon. Watch the reportage to find out . We tried to explain the
phenomenon in a scientific way. We did some exercises in physics, we
calculated the force needed to push an object uphill. The German students did the experiment stimulating
turbulences in an aircraft - Flight 19 in the Area 51. We tried to give an example that vectors need more
than two dimensions to present the turbulences. Our vectors need 4 dimension the fourth is for the time.
The next experiment concerned the sinking ship. It was done in Germany, Poland and Spain. It measured
the sizes of waves and the behaviour of our ships. There was a kind of
relation between the size of the waves and the sinking ship. The behav-
iour of waves was an example for continuous functions and their
graphs. It was a pity that we couldn't measure the pressure of the
waves. The experiments were followed by exercises in Math and Phys-
ics. We also recorded an international video - the Polish team recorded
the experiment of the sinking ship, the German team prepared a Math
lesson with a task to solve...
CONFERENCE AND PROJECT EVALUATION
A conference summarizing the first year of the project was organized at the Polish school. We
carried on discussion on the impact of our project on pupils, teachers, parents and our school.
We invited representatives of local authorities to present the project Twinspace and the website
of the project. We presented the end products and evaluated the progress of the project.
The project has been evaluated in all partner schools. We carried out opinion polls among stu-
dents, teachers and parents. We worked out the results and exchanged them with the partners.
We drew the conclusion for the work during the next school year.
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