Polish students' impressions

It was a very busy time for all of us - the teachers and the students preparing the visit in Poland.
The students were so excited when you were here! I could observe them behaving better than before the meeting:). After your leaving, last week, they kept me asking a lot of questions about the guests, for example: what happened to Dogan as he was wearing a plaster on his cheek. I took advantage of their curiosity and asked them to draw their impressions after the visit. See how they were working and their works are on the way, I sent them last week to you.

Thank you for being here with us!

Making the board games in Finland

Classes 4A and 4B made board games. They were really exited about the games.

Water research in Romania

This activity was due to determine the quality of four different water samples: 1-water impurified with small bits of acid substances, 2-rain water, 3-tap water, 4-water impurified with soap.

The 13 year old students determined the pH, the quantity of dissolved oxygen, the presence of sulphate ions and chloride ions.

Conclusions: The rain water and the tap water have pH about 7, the water of sample 1 is acid and sample 2 is basic; The quantity of dissolved oxygen is very small in all the samples, because they were not taken from a lake or a river; All samples contain very small quantities of sulphate and chloride ions except the rain water.

The evaluation test given by the chemistry teacher Viorica Cortojan, showed that the students were interested in this activity, they acquired new information and they would like to determine the quality of water in the rivers passing by our city.

Romania:"The Water Basins in the seven WWW countries"

Three classes in our school (4A, 4C, 5B) have studied the waters of the countries that participate in the project. The teachers Marioara Lupu-Neicu and Georgiana Munteanu coordinated the students in collecting information from atlases, books and internet, organized the activities in which the students had the opportunity to present their work in front of their classmates; several students were helped by their parents to make models representing different water basins or famous buildings close to them (which you can see in the presentations below). Some water legends were told, a powerpoint presentation about the Danube and its Delta, talks about the social and economic importance of water as well as pollution and ways to reduce it, all these made our students more aware of the necessity to protect water. But pictures speak better than words:

Cyprus, Board Game

The students created a board game related to their geographical research. It was an exciting activity which the children enjoyed a lot.
The board game is a memory game that consists of 21 pairs of cards with the WikiWaterWorld's flags, longest rivers and largest lakes.
Wishing you a lot of fun! Enjoy playing it!

 

Cyprus, Exploring Geography

The children in their Geography classes explored some WikiWaterWorld geography!
They spotted the seven countries in the european map and they made a research concerning the longest rivers and largest lakes of each country.

 

Turkey, Water Research

Our 8 grade students and Science teacher, Mr. Ali Baloğlu, did several experiments on the water samples from the Marmara Sea and the Thermal area. They researched the water samples after filtering and they tried to find the turbidity, pH degrees and dissolved oxygen degrees.

Romania - weather diary activity

After a whole month – October – without any rain, we finally had a few showers on the first days of November; the team of “experts” were happy to go out and measure the quantity of rainwater gethered in the three special pots placed in the school garden. The water has a yellowish colour because of the leaves fallen in the pots.

Like everyday, the students also checked the temperature shown by the big thermometer attached to a bush branch at about 1 metre above the ground, as is said to be the optimum position in such observations.

Finland: adding words to the dictionary

This week classes 6A and 6B started to work on the wiki dictionary. First we collected words that have to do with water sports and recreation in Finnish. Then we talked about using dictionaries on the whole and tried to find the English equivalents for our words. We also used an on-line dictionary. Finding the right word wasn't always very easy, because there are soooooooo many words in a dictionary.

The last task was to add the words in the dictionary.

Making a snow depth gauge

Winter is coming to Finland and that means snow. During winter it is quite difficult measure rainfall in water millimeters. It is easier measure total snowfall in centimeters. To be able to do that we made measuring device to measure snow depth. Here is some pictures about building it and in use.

Water samples from the Marmara Sea and the thermal area

We took water samples from The Marmara Sea and The Thermal (a thermal area close to Yalova). 

Our students were very enthusiastic for both the trip and carrying out experiments on water. 

Preparing for the visit in London

Before the visit in London the students of Zespół Szkół Uzdrowiskowych were very busy. They prepared the bookmarks for the British students and the older students with their educators - small glass paintings for our partner schools. They packed everything very carefully and said good bye to our mascot - Hadwalunia.
See some pictures.

New school year with WIKIWATERWORLD in Poland

The students of Zespół Szkół Uzdrowiskowych, Poland started their new school year with new energy and next activities. See what they have been doing.

We keep watching the presentations from  our partner schools:)

We are still working on the letters in a bottle...

...and keeping in touch with our partner class. Here while preparing something for our Turkish friends:)