I ask, you answer

-So, here I am with more news. As you know many floods caused damage in China in 1931, and here we have Trevor, who was there when this terrible catastrophe happened, Hi Trevor.

-Hi Fred, thank you very much for inviting me. As you said before I was there when it all happened so, what do you want to know?

-What were the causes of the floods?

- Well, it was very strange, because from 1929 to 1930, by the winter of 1930 [abnormal rains on Central China began and this was followed by snowstorms. Then in spring many rains made the amount of water increase in a very notable way when between July and August the rains raised. After the rains, 1931 was characterized by the cyclone activity; about nine cyclones hit the region. It was definitely a natural catastrophe, all the damages were caused by meteorological facts.

-What happened to the people and city?

-The city, located on an island, suffered catastrophic damages and the floods caused the deaths of more than 28 million people. Many people died of drowning or from waterborne diseases such as  typhus and cholera and lots of wives and daughters were sold by desperate residents who were afraid.

-What did you do?

-Well, I travelled by plane with all my family to England. Although it was hard to leave China we started to like being here. My daughter had to say good bye to her friends and I think that travelling abroad because of the floods was something she would have never imaginaed.

China´s floods in 1931

The floods in China in 1931 were really catastrophic. During 1928 and 1929 a large drought affected China, everything was really dry, the soil was erosioned and cracked. But some months later, abnormal weather was over Central? China during winter of 1930. But then the spring came, and with it the heavy rains that then raised the amount of water in the rivers. Between July and August the rains increased significantly and were followed by cyclones. In 1932 there were around eight or nine cyclones. Trevor Digles told us that he noticed that all the streets and many houses were full of water, and wherever he went, he could find persons throwing away the water with buckets. Two of the important flooded rivers of China that reached the capital in the island were mentioned in most of TV programs. Many families were evacuated and a lot of people got ill of cholera and typhus. Even women and daughters were sold and taken away because of this natural catastrophe. Around 4 million people lost their lives and the damage that was caused was enormous.

Mar Muerto

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Evaluación integradora de Cs. Naturales

Como examen de fin de año realizamos una presentación con todos los temas trabajados en clase.

SUH

Trabajamos con el Síndrome Urémico Hemolítico y creamos una presentación con sus sintomas, vías de contagio y prevención.

Analizing Fables

We read "The Creation of the Lion", by Manuel Busquets, Mora Merlini & Thigao Sendón.

1- What were the names of the animals?
2- Who saved them?
3- Who was the god that sent their savior?

1_The names of the animals were Jim, Jam, Jeff and July.
2_The lions save them.
3_Hammurabi, he was the God of the Animals.

Katomba´s Myth

Katomba was son of the great god Zeus. He was the god of the seas. He always helped mortals to make their lives with the seas easier and rarely got angry with them, he was one of the kindest gods ever. He loved his job, as everyone in the Olympus did; everyone, except for his brother, Poseidon. Poseidon was the god of the wind, but for him, this job was very unexciting and difficult. He wanted to be the god of the seas since he was young, but Katomba already was.
He thought of many ways to steal the job from Katomba, but all his plans were useless. But one day he thought of a great game to fool his brother, this plan could never fail.

 One day Katomba was very cheerful and wanted to found a god to play with. And on top of a cloud, Poseidon his brother was also searching for someone to play with. In that moment he heard “Poseidon, Poseidon! Let's play a game”.
He went down and found Katomba that was waiting for him. In that moment Poseidon said "We will play the trunk game", that consisted on getting into a trunk that Poseidon made. The objective was to resist as much time as it could to win the game. But what Katomba and the other gods didn't know was that the Winner would change powers with the Looser. When it finished Poseidon won and Katomba loose, the eldest brother said “Now you are the wind god and I am ocean god!!!! Thank you for playing my beautiful game, brother".

 Katomba was furious. He was fooled by his own brother, but soon he had an idea: his father could return him to his beautiful, sunny coasts. He thought it was going to be very easy to convince him, but it wasn´t. Apparently, his oldest brother, Poseidon, was better than him making waves and pushing boats, and that was what make Zeus don´t allow Katomba return to his old job. But finally he makes a decision he make his son the God of a powder that was spread in the center of the Pangea. This giant piece of land, as many people know nowadays, started to divide throughout the years and this light-brown powder was spread in some of the coast of what now are continents. Letting Katomba be near his brother, the seas, with the shape of “Sand”.

By: Nazarena Ballesteros, Martín Errarte & Agustina Rivarola.

¿Qué y para qué las TICs en el aprendisaje?

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Dejenlo hablar...

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La Materia

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Digitalizando a un personaje

En la clase de Francés, creamos un personaje al cual teníamos que presentar en primera persona. Luego a partir de ese texto realizamos un comic presentando a éste personaje en una página llamada pixton.com, aqui podrán apreciar a Alexis, el personaje que imaginé.