<p class="p1"><b><i>Physics: The Light</i></b></p>
<p class="p5"><span class="s1"><b>19 November 2015</b></span></p>
<p class="p6"><span class="s1">The Spanish Education Office in Romania is a partner in the Strategic Association <b>“Schools: Future Labs” </b>(Erasmus +, KA 2). The multilateral project includes among its partners to some educational institutions from Bulgaria, Germany, Greece, Poland and Romania, lead by Goethe Institute in Athens and with the participation of the Cervantes Institute.</span></p>
<p class="p6"><span class="s1">This Project explores new methods and methodologies for Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) with a special interest for the areas of Sciences, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM, for short). The aim is to experiment new methodologies for the learning process of these subjects in second or third school foreign languages.</span></p>
<p class="p6"><span class="s1">At the root of the project we face the need to put together two crucial elements in students’ learning, in their competences and in their eventual access to the labour market: linguistic and scientific proficiency, elements that, if we reach our aims, will enable the new generations to develop their capacities in different European environments. </span></p>
<p class="p6"><span class="s1">In Romania, in the case of Spanish language, the experimentation is being carried out in the area of Physics in Spanish at the “Liceul Bilingv Miguel de Cervantes” in Bucharest. The didactic team in charge is composed of the Physics teacher, Ms Violeta Govoreanu, and the Spanish teacher Ms Camelia Radulescu who is also the headperson of the Lyceum.</span></p>
<p class="p6"><span class="s1">Last November, 19, 2015 we could notice the progress of the project through the experimentation with 5</span><span class="s3"><sup>th</sup></span><span class="s1"> grade students (11-12 years old). This “open class” (a model class where teachers who are invited to be present while the class is being carried out to later comment on every possible aspect) was in fact al CLIL lesson where Spanish and Physics teacher working in Bucharest could have a first-hand approach to this team-teaching experience. </span></p>
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<p class="p6"><span class="s1">The class was devoted to understanding and acknowledging of light and its physical properties. Students were asked to check in groups the main properties of light in their experimentation: transmission through solid, translucent and transparent bodies.</span></p>
<p class="p9"><a href="http://www.sflabs.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/screen-shot-2016-01-15-at-14.56.55.png" rel="attachment wp-att-2639"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-2639 size-full" src="http://www.sflabs.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/screen-shot-2016-01-15-at-14.56.55.png" alt="Screen Shot 2016-01-15 at 14.56.55" width="327" height="178" /></a></p>
<p class="p6"><span class="s1">After the revision of physical concepts and the presentation of basic vocabulary in Romanian and Spanish, the different work group devoted their time to identify and apply the new contents. The practice consisted in verifying if light is transmitted on straight or curved line or if it could be transmitted trough different materials. </span></p>
<p class="p9"><a href="http://www.sflabs.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/screen-shot-2016-01-15-at-14.57.03.png" rel="attachment wp-att-2640"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-2640 size-full" src="http://www.sflabs.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/screen-shot-2016-01-15-at-14.57.03.png" alt="Screen Shot 2016-01-15 at 14.57.03" width="269" height="322" /></a></p>
<p class="p6"><span class="s1">It goes without saying that this practice was both educational and funny. The different groups applied the new knowledge to reach conclusions which, obviously, had to be contrasted to validate results, a crucial procedure in science.</span></p>
<p class="p9"><a href="http://www.sflabs.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/screen-shot-2016-01-15-at-14.57.09.png" rel="attachment wp-att-2641"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-2641 size-full" src="http://www.sflabs.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/screen-shot-2016-01-15-at-14.57.09.png" alt="Screen Shot 2016-01-15 at 14.57.09" width="556" height="268" /></a></p>
<p class="p6"><span class="s1">The teacher’s role as facilitator was a valuable element, a fact that defines the Project “Schools: Future Labs”.</span></p>
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