Water, spring of life

2012-03-07T21:20:00.002+01:00

Esperanza, Sergio and Andrea are creating the hidro-geographical presentation. Sergio are translating it to English. They are helped by Meli, María José and Miguel.
Marta, Roque, Irene and Andrea are searching images to the water dictionary. They shared the documents in Google docs.
Everyone is very nervous.

El castillo de San Felipe

2012-03-06T13:03:00.005+01:00

En esta fotografía se puede ver el Castillo de San Felipe junto a la ría de Ferrol, uno de los paisajes más significativos de nuestra comarca.

Esperanza y Ana 1º "G" Bach

New Logo.

2012-03-06T12:51:00.003+01:00

Here, you can see the new logo that Esperanza and Ana have created!!!!

Mar de Prioriño

2012-02-10T13:42:00.001+01:00

El agua en el mundo

2012-02-06T20:55:00.004+01:00

El agua en el mundo

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Trabajo realizado por las alumnas de 1º C Bac Lucía Dopico Tellado, Uxía Cabaleiro Rodriguez, Rosmery Soto Ramos

Snake Of Belelle´s River

2012-02-04T14:07:00.005+01:00

In the City of Fene in Sillobre, particularly at the Black Well of Belelle´s Dam it lived a great winged serpent and covered withbroad scales. The snake slept at a rocked in the cradle of the river,wrapped with sheets of mud and reeds quilt and aquatic weeds. The waters
seemed to sing sweet lullabies.

The snake was very traveller.Their small wings could hardly withstand a large body skimming. With much training effort and the whole area could go to the beach of Cabanas. Some say that the unsatisfied maternal instinct was to take the nine waves, or perhaps nine
bathrooms, because kids never knew him.

Who saw it was terrified. Fear spread through the area andplanned to kill her. They met residents of several villages and decided to make a timber with a sharp stakes, as a sharp spears.
Loans, kneeling with the tips up, in the path of the serpent in the direction of Cabanas, where flying short and even, sometimes alighting to rest. And there was nailed. The cries of slow death of the animal were heard at great distances. The scales all your body's defense had been able to man, insatiable predator.

Now the Belelle´s waters don´t sing,they cry.

Written by Esperanza Piñeiro de San Miguel and Andrés Gómez Blanco, illustrated by J.M. González Collado

Translated by Sergio Avila Testa 1º “G” Bach

This is our logo!!!

2012-02-03T12:05:00.006+01:00

By Ana López Durán and Esperanza Vázquez Dopico

The monster of Ferrol harbour

2012-02-02T23:54:00.004+01:00

THE MONSTER OF FERROL HARBOUR

Who hasn’t known anything about a mysterious tunnel which linked the local park and the Military Arsenal in Ferrol? It’s said that it even reached the fishing port, where a horrible monster lived there. That is one of the big number of fabulous tunnels with treasures, enchanted characters or even fearful beings.

Old fishermen describe the marine monster of Curuxeiras. They say it was a giant red conger eel with seven heads. It filled them with fear because fishing was frightened away by the monster and it also broke nets and rigs. Its strong tail could shake waters and generate huge waves capable of making crafts be wrecked. It lived hidden under the stones in the piers, and it roared through its seven heads during the storming days.

The number seven is a magic number like numbers three or nine. They constantly appear in the Galician traditions. Since antiquity, the number seven is symbolic and holy. In the Babylonian world map, the Heaven and the Earth are divided into seven parts. Seven were the Pleiades, the planets and the Great and the Little Bear stars, the rain winds, the plagues in Egypt and the years of abundance and drought, according to dreams from the seven fat and the seven thin cows. In Old East, with seven good spirits and another seven bad spirits, the tree of life has seven branches showing the total full. The legendary Mesopotamian cities of Uruc and Ecbatana were surrounded by seven walls with the seven rainbow’s colours. The Jewish candelabra has seven branches as well. In different cultures, the deity represents the omnipotence with seven fingers, and the omnipresence with seven eyes. There are seven Wises and seven Olympic gods in Greece. In the Christian tradition, seven are the days of the Creation, the sacraments, the deadly sins and the devils; in the Revelations from St. John there are even seven angels, seven trumpets, seven seals,... and seven are the pains of the Virgin too. Are not seven the wonders of the world or the cinema the seventh art? In the Pre-Romanesque, the juxtaposition of seven figures represented an undefined multitude. The constructive work from Fernán Pérez de Andrade, with seven bridges, seven churches, seven hospitals and seven monasteries was numerous and generous.

All in all, the number seven symbolizes multitude, grandeur, majesty, with maximum power or terror. That’s the reason why monsters are imagined to have seven heads, as the Phoenician snake Lothan; the biblical monster Leviatam, crowned over all of its heads, capable of making the stars fall down by using its tail; or even the terrible monster from the port of Ferrol.

This passage was written by Esperanza Piñeiro de San Miguel and Andrés Gómez Blanco, illustrated by J.M. González Collado, and translated by Ana López Durán (1º “G” Bach).

The hanging bridge as far as "Gabeiras Islands"

2012-02-01T21:06:00.003+01:00

Doniños is left behind us. The wide beach was a witness of the english defeat in 1800, when they tried to invade us and also conquer the naval dockyard and shipyard. The sandy spot ends in the cliffs still having the remains of Lobariz settlements, and it is here where we begin a new legend.

It is about a snake living in those pre-romanesque ruins. A settlement which is said to have been built by the moslem. Lobadiz snake has a pointed hat "a hood".

It is said there was a bridge from which the people who lived in the seltlement arrived at " Gabeiras Islands". It was a large rubber bridge. A hanging bridge like those we usually find over Galiciam rivers. We imagine that being so large its movement in bad weather is such that is similar to a fun-fair. It is possible that people from bilbao saw in it the inspiration to make their famous smart bridge.

It is certain that in these islands of " Gabeiras" which are rougher and rougher due to the sea erosion, there is still space for the seagulls and ducks to make their nests, while they watch the international maritime traffic pass through the naval motorway.

Authors: Esperanza Piñeiro De San Miguel and Andrés Gómez Blanco.

Illustration: J.M González Collado.

Esperanza Vázquez Dopico 1ºG Bach

Ruta del rio Belelle en fotos

2012-01-27T15:44:00.002+01:00

La ruta del Belelle

2012-01-26T19:50:00.002+01:00

En el mapa se puede ver la ruta que realizamos ayer siguiendo el cauce del río desde S. Marcos, las estadísticas de la marcha y una presentación con fotos. Al llegar al final, junto a la iglesia de Neda, habíamos recorrido 10 km.

Para ver más: Descenso del Belelle

One suggestion for the students

2012-01-25T19:33:00.005+01:00

Near the city, even near the center, we can find numerous constructions which they were places not only to do laundry, but also a meeting place for women who went there to wash.
The above photo belongs to a laundry that was in "La Cabana". Not exist today, but you can find others,in differents places such as Canido, San Xoan, La Cabana, etc, some of them restaured.
It would be interesting to show the pictures to the other teams and thus, know if there are the same constuctions in these other countries.

Hiking along the path of the river Belelle

2012-01-25T19:26:00.002+01:00

Some of the best moments.

Cartel Comenius

2012-01-24T10:56:00.000+01:00

Una de nuestras estudiantes, Varja, nos deja por traslado de instituto. Pero nos deja también, entre otras cosas, este magnífico cartel que debemos utilizar para publicitar nuestras actividades. Gracias Varja.

Hiking trail along the river Belelle

2012-01-24T09:07:00.000+01:00

On Wednesday January 25th, all teachers and students involved in the Comenius project will hike along the river Belelle's route from Lavandeira to Neda. The route takes around two hours walking and during the tour we will eat our sanwich and piece of fruit.

The departure is at 12:15 and we will return no later than 6 pm.

Please, don't forget your cameras and to wear shoes and waterproof clothing according to weather.

Diseño de Logo

2012-01-23T15:46:00.003+01:00

Este logo fue diseñado por Varja Jovanovich Trobec.

I.E.S Concepción Arenal

2012-01-21T16:49:00.002+01:00

Here you can see a video which presents I.E.S Concepción Arenal. This video is done by Esperanza Vázquez Dopico, Andrea Vieites Estraviz and Ana Isabel López Durán.

Presentación: El agua

2012-01-11T11:34:00.002+01:00

El agua 4koo

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Presentación: "A contaminación das augas" por ESO 4ºA

2012-01-11T11:30:00.005+01:00

Contaminacion eso4 a

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2011-12-22T15:52:00.003+01:00

Visit our flickr, there you can find the photos of both of the recent excursions.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!

Visiting Navy's Arsenal.

2011-12-20T07:08:00.007+01:00

Yesterday Monday, 19th December 2011, students who take part in the Comenius project accompanied by the teachers Esperanza, Meli, María José and Miguel, visited the Navy’s Arsenal of Ferrol in order to contemplate the architectural elements that make up the so-called “Ferrol of Enlightenment”.

And the next day, it means today morning, some brave students, challenging the weather, visited the Navy's Water Tanks in order to check where the water of river Belelle is stored and purified before being distributed to the Navy's Arsenal.

The legend of Aurena's spring

2011-12-19T22:12:00.000+01:00

This legend takes place in Artabro Gulf, on Ancos mountain near the city of Neda, which was called Libunca by Roman historians. From the summit, the view is awesome, and, you can see a unique scenery, Ferrol's bay shape and its narrow entrance.Among the many legends about this mountain, where there was a ‘castro’ (a kind of Celtic fort), several ancient springs, nowadays dry, were located in its slope. Formerly, this place was a swamp, where the accumulated water was turned into a pond, which would not dry on hot days. Around, moss and ferns and colorful wild flowers grew wild. Although there was never a tube to drink comfortably, people stopped to ease their thirst off and relax because of the beauty of the place.It was told that, if you approached quietly, you could see the silhouette of a girl living just under the water. People said she was delighted and steeped in sadness. As she had long, beautiful golden hair, she was called Aureana. On Saint John’s Day, at the shortest nights of the year, Aureana left the waters at dawn, and she climbed up to the top of Ancos Mount. There, with her beautiful hair drying in the breeze, she looked at the entrance of the estuary and she cried. She waited for that boat, sunk a long time ago, to be back with her boyfriend.

There is another version of the legend:Once upon a time there was a man which had three daughters: Laureana, Aureana and Ana. When he became a widower he married to another woman who was a witch and, besides she abused her young stepdaughters. The witch decided to get rid of them and, with a spell, she became the three daughters in three pieces of cheese.One day the witch cut a piece of one of the cheeses; suddenly a thunder stroke a tree just in front of the house, turning the three pieces of cheese into three horses. In this way, the three girls, converted in horses, could flee from the witch. However, only two horses could run away trotting fast, the third one was lame: She was the piece of cheese cut by the witch and it couldn't walk.The lame horse had to stay in the place, and it turned into a fountain. This is why a prisoner of one of the sisters, Aureana, still remains in those waters. On Saint John’s, she leaves the fountain and walks out looking like a beautiful young girl with golden hair or, sometimes, like a golden hen with her chicks.

Ferrol nominated World Heritage Assets by UNESCO

2011-12-15T07:36:00.001+01:00

These are the list of buildings that form the so-called "Ferrol of the Ilustración"
Plane inside the Navy's Arsenal.This is the place we have to walk on Monday.

World record ! Surfing a 30 meters wave in Nazare, Portugal

2011-12-14T23:46:00.003+01:00

Nazaré is in Portugal about 500 km to the South from Ferrol. Enjoy the movie:

or this another one:

Stormy waves this afternoon in Ferrol

2011-12-14T23:37:00.000+01:00

The four partner schools.

2011-12-13T20:30:00.000+01:00

Partner schools

ESTONIA: Kehtna Primary School is situated in the village of 1,200. There are no big towns nearby, although the capital Tallinn is just 60km to the north. We are surrounded by forests, bogs, farmland and therefore paying extra attention to nature studies and the environment is important to us. We are a school of the Green Flag and a Health-Concious school. There are 155 students and 20 teachers in our school. Students are aged 7-17.

ITALY: Liceo Classico "Megara" con sezione scientifica annessa is a secondary school for students aged 14-19. It mainly offers three different courses for classical, scientific and social science studies. The school mainly serves students from Augusta. Our school is located in a very important area for its nature, history, archaeology and tourism. Our suburban town of Augusta is very near to Siracusa, one of the oldest and most important Greek colonies in Sicily. Our students are all members of "Legambiente" which is a national leading environmental organization which offers educational programs in schools. We live by the sea and our area is very rich in waterways, rivers and ponds.

FRANCE: College Claude Bernard is in a suburban city (Grand-Quevilly) with about 30,000 inhabitants. A town with 400,000 people called Rouen is near to us. The area has little industry nowadays following the closure of the chemical factories and the Renault car plant.

TURKEY: Tepeköy Ilkögretim Okulu is a public school serving children aged 7-15, starting from pre-school till the 8th grade. It is a rural school and caters for 226 students and 18 teachers. Our school is in Nevsehir (Cappadocia Region), being situated in agricultural region. Our region does not have sufficient water resources and we need to focus on environmentally-friendly options.

SPAIN: IES Concepcion Arenal is a secondary education centre located in Ferrol, a town with 70,000 inhabitants in the region of Galicia (north-west of Spain). There are 85 teachers and 700 students in compulsory (12-16 years old), post-compulsory (16-18 years) part and in vocational training.

Visita al Arsenal de la Ilustración.

2011-12-12T22:54:00.002+01:00

El próximo lunes día 19 de Diciembre, si las condiciones meteorológicas nos lo permiten, los alumnos inscritos en el proyecto Comenius nos desplazaremos al Arsenal ferrolano con objeto de visitar, entre otros, todos aquellos elementos arquitectónicos de los siglos XVIII y XIX que conforman el denominado Ferrol de la Ilustración.

Son obras de especial importancia:

Del siglo XVIII
- Cortina, que incluye una polvorera, garitas, troneras...
- Foso defensivo por la zona de tierra
- Dique sur de abrigo en la dársena interior y su espigón de cierre
- Muelles de las dársenas
- Cuartel de la Compañía de Guarda Arsenales
- Sala de Armas, con sus almacenes contiguas porticados y la plaza que se abre sobre el mar.
- Fuente de la Fama
- Puerta del Dique
- Portada del antiguo cuarto de Ayundantía Mayor
- Despacho-residencia del Almirante
- Museo y Biblioteca de la Zona Marítima del Cantábrico (antiguo cuartel de Presidiarios de San Campio)
- Oficinas de la Comandancia General (antigua Tenedoría-Almacén General)
- Sala de Proyectos de la Empresa Izar (antiguo gran tinglado de maestranza)
- Herrerías antiguas
- Portada del antiguo edificio de Ingenieros
Añadidas en el siglo XIX:
- Residencia del Capitán de la Compañía de Guarda-Arsenales
- Oficinas de la 31 escuadrilla
- Fuentes-algibes en Puerto Chico y Herrerías
- Laboratorio
- Puerta del parque
- Despacho-residencia del Ayudante Mayor
- Edificio de la despensa
- Dique seco de carenar San Julián
- Puerta del astillero antiguo
- Cuartel del Tercio Norte de Infantería de Marina
- Edificio de la antigua Capitanía General

Barnacles

2011-12-09T16:00:00.005+01:00

Barnacles ('percebes in Spanish') are a very popular and tasty type of shellfish in Spain. They are captured in the clifs near Ferrol by experienced fishermen with great difficulty and risk of their lifes.

We can photograph water drops at 4000 fps

2011-12-07T11:14:00.002+01:00

If you're an amateur photographer see what you can get:

The Beauty of Mud (4000 fps) from David HJ. Lindberg on Vimeo.

Cuatro Channel Spanish TV reports about Ferrol

2011-12-05T10:12:00.005+01:00

Paula Vazquez is a very well-known Spanish TV presenter who was born in Ferrol. In this splendid documentary she describes the town and its geographic area with wonderful images and landscapes. I think, it would be good if we subtitle to make easier to our partners its understanding.

The Fountains Of Our Cities

2011-12-04T12:41:00.001+01:00

We have started a new project on the fountains of our cities:

http://thefountainsofourcities.blogspot.com

We want this blog to be a compilation of photos, comments and historical aspects of the fountains in our neightborhood.

We call for the collaboration of all the participants of this Comenius project. We'd like to know fountains in the regions of our partners.

If you want to participate, send us a comment in the blog with your e-mail in order to register you as editor. (You need a Google account.)

Wallace Fountain (Ferrol)

The sea of the end of the world

2011-11-30T12:24:00.014+01:00

At this link you can see an excelent documentary in English created by José Irisarri about Galician sea and its fauna. I hope you enjoy it.

http://www.newatlantis.net/index.php?option=com_jomtube&view=video&id=86

Water dictionary and glossary

2011-11-29T11:24:00.004+01:00

At last we started to work with water dictionary. We have selected the topics and the levels in which we are going to work with them. The levels are 12-13 years (first year of compulsory secondary education) and 15-16 years (last year of compulsory secondary education). In the lowest level all the students have to describe the selected topics with their own words and their science teacher will select the best to uploaded to our blog.

The best definitions will be translated into English in English classes.

We have not clear how to develop this activity in the upper level.

We are waiting for Evelyn's instructions about the definitive format of the dictionary.

Galicia's lighthouses

2011-11-21T18:22:00.002+01:00

Here you can see a beautiful video about all the lighthouses around Galicia.

WATER IN THE UNIVERSE

2011-11-17T23:15:00.016+01:00

Water is a very common element in our Solar System and also in the universe, especially as ice and vapor.

It’s also a big part of the material which comets are made up of and recently, some important ice deposits have been discovered in the Moon, Europe (Saturn´s satellite) and Enceladus (Jupiter’s satellite).

Some of them have got possibly liquid water under their thick ice layer. This allows them to have got a kind of plate tectonics where the liquid water would represent the magma in the Earth and the ice would be similar to the Earth’s crust.

The biggest part of the water in the universe is thought to have been caused by stars formation that expelled the vapor after explode. The birth of stars usually causes a strong movement of gases and cosmic powder. When this material crashes into the gas from external areas, the shock waves caused because of it compress and make the gas get warm. Water is thought to be created inside this hot and dense gas.

Water was even detected in interstellar clouds inside our galaxy, The Milky Way. These interstellar clouds may condense in the shape of a solar nebula. It’s also thought that water may be abundant in other galaxies, because its components (hydrogen and oxygen) are ones of the most common elements in the universe.

However, it’s known that water, on its liquid state, only exists in the Earth (71% of its surface), in The Moon (in 2008, small quantities of water inside volcanic pearls were found and brought to the Earth by the “Apollo 15” expedition from 1971), and even, as I said before, in Enceladus (Saturn’s satellite) and in Europe (Jupiter’s satellite) there are signs of some possible liquid water.

Ana López Durán (1º “G” Bach)

Is there water outside the earth?

2011-11-14T21:32:00.008+01:00

Water is an essential element in our lives. It composes of 70 per cent of our planet and a 65 per cent of the humana life. Water is also found in space being ice one of the most abundant solid materials. But how to arrive there? And how could water molecules in the frozen drakness of interstellar space be formed?

Japanese researches who try to answer these questions created water for the fisrt time in similar conditons to the ones in space.

Water is easily formed here in the sun and abundance of the earth where oxigen and hydrogen are joined. But there isn`t a great quanlity of those elements floating as gas in interstellar clouds. From this research, Japan`s team finishes by saying that water must develop when the atomic hydrogen interacts with frozen oxigen on a solid surface,the same as grains of powder in interstellar clouds.They form this process by creating a layer of oxigen on a substratum of Aluminiun at 10ºkelvin and adding oxigen. By infraring pertrascopie they confirm that, both water and hydrogen peroxide were formed and in suitable quantities as well.In orden to explain the amount of water seen in interstellar clouds we can deduce that the first molecules of water in space must have started in this way, carrying the water to the earth after that.

Space researchers keep surprising us due to the magnitude of their discoveries, as we can see in the great water reserve ever found in space. This discovery was carried out by California`s Technological Institute and Colorado University. The Huge water reserve is found orbitting in cuaser.

The cuaser has the name of APM 08279 5255 which is situated at a distance of 12.000 millions years. Due to this, the image we have of it, is very old when Spain was 1.600 millions years old, which has shown the exitence of water since nearly the proper ougin of the universe with in a radius of and a volume of 140 billions of time which is the sum of water of all the oceans of the earth.

Esperanza Vázquez Dopico, 1ºG Bach

Quién es quién?

2011-11-14T11:37:00.006+01:00

En el proyecto Comenius vamos a aprender más acerca de los países participantes: Estonia, Turquía, Francia e Italia.
Queremos invitarte a averiguar los nombres de los personajes famosos de las fotos y por qué lo son.

Personajesfamosos

Puedes participar en el concurso siempre y cuando averigues al menos los 10 personajes de un país(Las fotos de los personajes españoles están excluídas del concurso).

Por favor, entrega los resultados a María José Campello o Amelia Peralta. Te entregaremos un premio!!

Tienes hasta el 14 de Diciembre.
¡¡MUCHA SUERTE!!!