Who said that learning has to be boring?
Are you looking for activities to do during these days?
At this website you will find educational games and quizzes on many subjects, including Math, Reading, Spanish, Geography, SAT, Spelling, Music and more. All activities come with animated interface, fun sounds and other cool features that make learning more enjoyable.
Click on Quiz-Tree and check your knowledge on different subjects.
Varias preguntas acerca de datos curiosos referentes a la geografía Española con una bonita canción de la Oreja de Van Gogh de fondo.
A ver cuántas preguntas eres capaz de acertar.
Relief: the variations in elevation of an area of the earth’s surface. (Relief map: a map that uses different colours to show the different heights of hills, valleys, etc.)
Plain: a large area of flat land with few trees.
Cliffs: a high, very steep area of rock, especially one next to the sea.
Basin: an area of land from which water flows into a river.
Mountain ranges: a line of mountains or hills.
Cartography: the study and practice of making maps (also can be called mapping).
On March 23 World Metereological Day is celebrated, it commemorates the foundation of World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in 1950. This specialized agency of the United Nations arose in order to study the time, to analyze the climate change and to distribute the resources of the water. This year celebrates its annual 60 and has the following motto: "60 years to the service of your safety and well-being".
I offer you a web pages selection with contents related to the time, the climate change and the water saving:
Weather Wiz Kids
Web Weather for Kids
One Word Net’s Kids Channel
US Environmental Protection Agency
And more crafts and activities:
About.com
Enchanted Learning
Family Fun Go
Naiara has found a couple of interesting websites in which you can learn a bit more about Geography by playing educational games in flash.
Hace unas semanas, el Museo Americano de Historia Natural colgó en la red este espectacular vídeo, una reconstrucción informática que muestra un "viaje" desde la superficie de la Tierra hasta los límites del universo conocido.
Desde su publicación, casi dos millones de personas lo han visto ya en la web del museo, pero en España este excepcional trabajo sigue siendo prácticamente desconocido.
Lo que hace que este vídeo sea único y diferente a la mayoría de los que se han hecho hasta ahora es que todo lo que en él aparece está basado en datos reales. Es decir, que no se trata de un vídeo "artístico" realizado según simples criterios estéticos, sino de una auténtica reconstrucción, pieza a pieza, de todo lo que sabemos sobre el universo en que vivimos.
Todo, desde las trayectorias de los satélites que orbitan la Tierra, hasta la posición de todas las estrellas, galaxias o lejanísimos quasares, está basado exactamente en los datos que tenemos sobre cada uno de esos objetos. O para ser más precisos, en los datos del Sloan Digital Sky Survey, que componen la que quizá sea la visión más completa del universo de que disponemos hasta el momento.
A pesar de todo, y debido a la posición geográfica en la que se encuentra el telescopio de dos metros y medio del Apache Point Observatory, en Nuevo México, que es el que utiliza el Sloan Digital Sky Survey, existen zonas "oscuras", es decir, áreas del universo que el telescopio, físicamente, no puede observar. Por eso, en el vídeo, la distribución de las galaxias observadas tiene la forma de dos conos unidos por la punta (el punto de unión es la Tierra ), y el resto aparece en negro.
En total, el trabajo comprende casi un millón de galaxias y más de 120.000 quasares. El viaje, que comienza en el Himalaya, termina en el límite mismo de lo que podemos observar con los instrumentos más potentes de que disponemos, los ecos del Big Bang, a 13.700 millones de años luz de distancia, y sirve para que todos nos demos cuenta, de una forma directa y visual, de lo insignificantemente pequeño que es nuestro mundo, incluso nuestra galaxia, si se compara con todo lo que hay "ahí fuera"...
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Your classmate has found games to learn a bit more about energy and she wants to share them with you.
Hope you like them as much as she did!!
Oven: the part of a cooker that has a door. You put things inside an oven to cook them.
Solar panel: a device which is used to convert energy contained within the suns rays into electricity.
Isolated: alone or apart from other people or things.
Windmill: a tall building or structure with sails.
Sail: a large piece of strong material that is fixed onto a ship or boat
Wax: a substance made from fat or oil that melts easily and is used for making candles, polish, etc.
Crops: all the grain, fruit, vegetables, etc. of one type that a farmer grows at one time.
Wells: a deep hole in the ground from which water is obtained.
Coal: a type of black mineral that is mined.
There are lots of things we can learn about energy that are not in our textbooks. Click on the following link and discover tons of information about energy, their sources, ways of saving energy and games. The games and activities are fantastic!!!
A weighing scale is used to measure the mass of objects. Place an object with an unknown weight on one plate. On the other plate, place objects of a known weight until the two plates are balanced. When the two plates are balanced the weights are equal, indicating the weight of the object.
Do you want to know how many degrees Fahrenheit is 20 degrees Celsius???
Find it out applying the formula below and practicing your addition, subtration and multiplication. Now you can try to do this with the temperatures during the whole week (month, year,...).
Converting Celsius to Fahrenheit:
See example below:
0° Celsius = ?° Fahrenheit
Step #1: 0°C + 40 = 40.
Step #2: 40 x 1.8 = 72.
Step #3: 72 - 40 = 32°F.
See example below:
32° Fahrenheit = ?° Celsius
Step #1: 32°F + 40 = 72.
Step #2: 72 x .55555 = 39.9996 (round to nearest whole number).
Step #3: 40 - 40 = 0°C.
Which changes are reversible and which are irreversible?
See if you can tell.
Have a look at these clips and learn more about science.
Learn about the experiments that make the properties of solids, liquids and gases change.
Crane: a large machine with a long metal arm that is used for moving or lifting heavy objects.
Skyscraper: an aextremely tall building.
Titanium: a hard silver-grey metal that is combined with other metals to make strong, light materials that do not easily rust (=react with air over a period of time).
Aluminium: a light silver-coloured metal that is used for making cooking equipment, etc.
To pump: to force a gas or a liquid to go in a particular direction.
Sample: a number of people or things taken from a larger group and used in tests to provide information about the group.
Shape: an example of something that has a particular form.
To heat up: to become or to make something hot or warm.
To cool down: to lower the temperature of something.
Here it's another fantastic website to learn more about our Solar System while having fun, the European Space Agency for kids.
Hope you find it interesting.
Alba (5ºC) has found the answer to the question we didn’t know in class: SATURN has more than one ring. The rings are made of particles that are made almost entirely of iced water, with some contamination from dust and other chemicals.
Thank you very much Alba for such a wonderful explanation. 
Dice el refrán que "la lluvia por San Lorenzo, siempre llega a tiempo". Y es que, cuando se aproxima la onomástica de este santo, el 10 de agosto, los agricultores miran al cielo esperanzados en busca de una llovizna que dé un respiro a los campos y declare una tregua al calor del verano.
El fenómeno de Perséidas es una lluvia de meteoritos (estrellas fugaces o shooting stars) que podemos ver cada agosto. Se llama así porque la cola de casi todos los meteoritos apuntan a la constelación de Perseo. También suele denominarse Lágrimas de San Lorenzo porque en la fecha en la que se suele visualizar el fenómeno, se celebra la festividad de San Lorenzo.
La lluvia se produce cuando La Tierra atraviesa la órbita del cometa 109/Swift Tuttle y permite que sus partículas atraviesen la atmósfera. En ese momento, la basura del cometa se convierte en rayos de luz y calor que forma el fenómeno mencionado.
