OVERVIEW

3º ESO students celebrated the World Space Week by creating a poster that represents the link between… electricity on Earth and Space!

Moreover, they experimented what static electricity is and they shared knowledge with younger students. 

Keep reading to discover what is the project about!

The poster

The poster will cover all the alphabet. Each student will be focused on one letter.

The space terms have been taken from the NASA’s picture dictionary 

Each student has been assigned a letter. I created a guide in which each student appears together to the word on which he/she had to focus on. In order to make the activity easier,  the file includes the fun fact question, which is the central focus and a short explanation about the relation between the space word assigned and electricity on Earth. Moreover, some links to websites are also include to make the guide the research . I found necessary to create this guide because, on the one hand, they have to do the task in a foreign language for them, English (technology subject is included in the bilingual program) and, on the other hand, it is not easy to find the link between some of the NASA concepts and electricity unit. 

But, WHAT do students have to do? HOW? WHEN? Here are the instructions

And…why electricity? Because it is the unit we are studying during this term. That way we learn about space, about an international event and we are able to unite it with electricity on Earth

Included in this project, we also learnt that electricity is not only related to electrical devices, to wires, to volts or power. We also learnt that apart from electric current there is another type of electricity: static electricity. We learnt about this topic though Flipped Classroom and doing experiments in the workshop (see post)

Sharing science

Moreover we joined 5º EPO students in the technology workshop to learn about those topics. We divided the class into 7 groups. They performed the static electricity experiments and talk about this topic. Younger students learnt from them and 3º ESO students also learnt from the youngest! (the feedback was very interesting!). See photos on this post


Both subjects are included in the bilingual program that is the reason why English was the main language used. 

The 2018 World Space Week theme is “Space Unites The World”, focused on how space brings the world together. By means of this activity, we unite with space through electricity on Earth! In order to focus on how space brings the world together.

I found interesting to celebrate with students this event, so I tried to find a link between the unit we were studying, the official curriculum and the space. The result…PLUGGED INTO SPACE.