Merry Christmas from Loulé

Students from Loulé visit the CosmoCaixa Planetarium (Barcelona, Spain)

Images of the features projected on the Planetarium

As part of a schooltrip to Cordoba, Barcelona, Valencia and Granada, all cities in Spain, the portuguese students from Escola Secundária de Loulé went on the 16 December 2008 to the Planetarium at CosmoCaixa Barcelona.

First lines from Toulouse

Until now, our students prepar ppp to present themselves and their college, they also look for informations about our planets, Mars and Jupiter, or about our countries.

Our school - Escola Secundária de Loulé

Our Geographic Coordinates (24Set2008)

Today at Escola Secundária de Loulé students made a GPS activity. They have measured our geographic coordinates and obtained our coordinates: Latitude-37°8'33.01" N; Longitude - 8°1'3.56" W.

Studenst also learned the proinciples of the GPS system functioning and how to navigate using a GPS receptor.

The sunset on September 23rd

We took pictures of the Sunset on September 23rd (equinox day) in order to allow us to see the way sunsets change along the year.

Using the ancient way to find latitude (23Set2008)

Students have used the shadow of a pole to measure their local latitude.

Today the Sun is precisely over the Equator and therefore we can use the shadow produced by a pole a noon to measure the latitude. The angle that the shadow produces at the top of the pole will be exactly the same as the latitude of the place.

Our students have obtained a latitude of 37º N. The fact that it is in the northern hemisphere was deduced by the fact that the shadow was produced in that direction (confirmed by a compass) which means that the Sun is South of the place.

First Lines (22Set2007)

This blogue is about the eTwinning project "Solar System - Our big Family / European Union - Our Small Family". Here the partner schools will publish the work that is done in their students' activities.

We hope you enjoy it.