Home

We are living in exceptional times. Scientists tell us that we have only little time to change the way we live, avert the depletion of natural resources and the catastrophic evolution of the Earth's climate.

The stakes are high for us and our children. Everyone should take part in the effort, and HOME has been conceived to take a message of mobilization out to every human being

For this purpose, HOME needs to be free. A patron, the PPR Group, made this possible. EuropaCorp, the distributor, also pledged not to make any profit because Home is a non-profit film.


Estamos viviendo un periodo crucial. Los científicos afirman que  tenemos poco para cambiar nuestro modo de vida, evitar que los recursos naturales se agoten e impedir una evolución catastrófica del clima de la Tierra.Nos jugamos nuestro futuro y el de las siguientes generaciones por lo que cada uno de nosotros debe participar en este esfuerzo colectivo. HOME ha sido creada para hacer llegar este mensaje de movilización a todos los habitantes de nuestro planeta.

Es por esta razón que la película HOME es gratuita, gracias al mecenazgo del grupo PPR y la distribuidora Europacorp, que ofrecieron su apoyo de forma desinteresada.

HOME se ha creado para ti. Corre la voz y colabora con el planeta.

Home ( en Español)
Home ( in english)

Homework:
Watch the movie, and after that:

1.     What was the most amazind landscapes in the movie? and the animal?
2.     What  types of problems  are there in the movie
3.     What do you think we can make  to help  resolve the problems about our planet?

Investigation work: Rivers in Castilla y León

We Investigate about the main rivers in our region.

Every  group have 2 people. The work have  these points:

• Main  rivers in our region (Castilla and leon), with a  river map.
• Especially the features os the rivers Tera, Esla and Orbigo, features as  sources, basins, flows,  reservoirs ...
• Especially the differences from winter to summer in their flows.    
• How  is the way that  we take the water supply for  Benavente?
• How is the landscape next to the rivers? Type of vegetation.
• Explain why water pollution  is such a serius problem in the world.
• Examine two o three especific problems in our rivers: Esla, Tera and Orbigo.
• Argue what we can all do about it.

Task: Write an essay  with all the information, with pictures.

The work of glaciers

Colorado River

Working with Thematic Maps

There are many types of maps.  Today, we will look at relief maps that show topography, population maps that show density, and different types of thematic maps.

Look at the thematic maps slide show.  What does each map show us?

Look at the following maps of the United States.

http://www.nytimes.com/projects/census/2010/explorer.html

What does each dot, or each color, represent?  Based on the maps, write down one statement/observation and one question about the following topics:

Race/ethnicity

Income

Housing/Families

Education

Physical Maps

Use to learn the  physical places names on the map. Put on the map, with Paint or the Gimp, names of the physical reliefs.

Major landforms

How many universes are there?

The stucture of the Earth, videos

Video bank
Melburne Museum 
Build your own custom video playlist at embedr.com

Describing your city

This year we are working with students of a city in Portugal: Castelo Branco. Today we start to describe how is your city. Using the map: where are the most important places?   Explain how you can go.
There are any special places to show a student in the same ages that you?
Explain to Ros, how is our city?
Send me your descriptions.
After  some weeks,  we think  that you could   explain directly these matters to Portuguese students

Curiosity: Tracking grizzly bears from space

 You can evaluate your understanding level here

The Roman Army

Roman Legionary Soldiers

The army was organized into legions. Each legion has 5000 men. Each legion has its own leader, its own banner, and its own number. Each also had its own nickname. They moved camp every night. Men would wander the new campsite, visiting and drilling. The men could always find their way back to their own legion. They simply looked for their legion banner. Once they found that, they looked for their fighting group banner. 

Each legion was broken into several fighting groups. 

A legionary's uniform included a rectangular shield, a short sword, a dagger, a metal jacket, a belt, a helmet, a kilt, a shirt, and hobnailed sandals. The legion wore special hob-nailed sandals. Unless they wanted to sneak in quietly, a legion on the move was impressive!

To  answer and TO kNOW MORE and here Who was in the Roman army?
What was a legion?
What other soldiers did the Romans have?
What armour and weapons did the Romans have?
How well-trained were Roman soldiers?

Roman Timeline

Acropolis of Athens

Link to know about Partenos

Architectonic elements of Greece

Dórico	Jónico	Corintio

Spanish names

English names
Use this image, and put the names in both languajes, with the Paint, in the correct place. Some word can be use in more than one place .

The Golden Age in the ancient Greece

Geography in the Ancient Greece

Making a Comic

We make a Comic with ToonDoo
We make one Comic, on the comic story we explain how the Human Being live in the Neolithic age: their experiences, their tools, their lifestyle, their beliefs,...
At the end send me the comic made

La odisea de la Especie

1/5 Los orígenes de la humanidad- La odisea de la especie

Enlace al vídeo.1/5- Los orígenes 

Enlace a otros  vídeos de la serie:
2/5 - Los orígenes de la Humanidad- Homo Sapiens (La odisea de la especie II) - La conquista del mundo 
5/5 El amanecer del hombre

Stone Ages

Prehistoric Species of Human

Diferences and Similarities in the Temperate climate

Mediterranean Climate

The Mediterranean climate is a special type of climate that describes a regime of hot summer drought and winter rain in the mid-latitudes, north of the subtropical climate zone. This climate occurs most noticeably in the regions around the Mediterranean, from where the climate gets its name, but also in coastal areas of California, South Africa and southern parts of Australia.

In summer, the high pressure belts of the subtropics drift northwards in the Northern Hemisphere (during May to August), southwards in the Southern Hemisphere (during November to February). They are coincident with substantially higher temperatures and little rainfall. During the winter, the high-pressure belts drift back towards the equator, and the weather becomes more dominated by the rain-bearing low-pressure depressions. Whilst usually mild, such areas can experience cold snaps when exposed to the icy winds of the large continental interiors, where temperatures can drop to -40°C in the extreme continental climates.

Continental Climate

Continentality is a measure of the degree to which the climate of a region typifies that of the interior of a large landmass. Such regions usually experience hot summers and colder winters, being far away from the moderating influence of the ocean, which keeps climates milder in winter and cooler in summer. This is because soil and rock have a much lower heat capacity than water, and therefore gain and lose heat much more quickly. Continental climates are often found to be relatively dry. Most of the moisture carried by air masses originating over ocean regions far away is lost as rainfall earlier in its journey.

Regions of the Earth that have continental climates include Siberia and central Russia, and much of North America. Siberia, Canada and the northern states of the US in particular can exhibit very large differences between summertime and wintertime average temperature of up to 40°C. This compares to the more maritime climate of the UK, where the annual average temperature range is only 10°C.

Air masses that originate from continental interiors sometimes influence continental fringes that usually experience maritime climates. In the UK, continental polar air in winter is very cold and temperatures associated with this air stream are usually well below average. The air mass is basically very dry and stable but a track over the central part of the North Sea supplies sufficient heat and moisture to cause showers, often in the form of snow, over eastern England and Scotland. During summer, the airflow is usually warmer, since even northern parts of Europe experience high temperatures during this time of year.

Maritime Climate

Oceanicity is a measure of the degree to which the climate of a region is influenced by a maritime airflow from the oceans. In contrast to continental climates, maritime climates experience generally cool summers and mild winters, with a much smaller annual temperature range. This is because water has a much higher heat capacity than soil and rock. Seawater takes a long time to warm up in summer, but once heated it retains its energy long after the surrounding land has cooled down, helping to moderate the climate. Maritime climates generally are fairly humid, accompanied by considerable amounts of precipitation, since the main moisture source is not very far away.

The British Isles experiences a typically maritime climate, with prevailing southwesterly winds from the Atlantic Ocean. The maritime air masses that influence this part of the world are particularly mild on account of the warming influence of the Gulf Stream. The annual average temperature range in the UK is only about 10°C. Although the west coasts of Canada and Alaska experience maritime climates, the absence of an equally significant warm Pacific current in the mid latitudes means that these regions are generally colder in winter, with more precipitation falling as snow.

Task: Read the text, after that , you have to choose diferences and similarities between the three climates

You can use this table:

	Diferences	Similarities
Mediterranean Climate
Continental Climate
Maritime Climate

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Africa Climates

New climate graphs

Biomes

To work in class. It is  necessary make this climate graph and explain it.

What are weather fronts?

Rainfall

Winds and Jet-Stream

What cause the season?

TASK:
In the videos, are the seasons similar at the same time in the Northern and Southern hemispheres?
In the videos, does the length of the day change with season?
In the videos, are there any special locations?
What is the cause of the seasons?
In January, which hemisphere (North or South) is most perpendicular to the Sun?
Explain how the tilt of the Earth's axis causes the seasons vary over the course of the year.

You need to see the videos and can use your book.