Wednesday 24 February 2016

Some Science GIFs (1)


Some new materials are coming...
meanwhile some interesting GIFs related to scientific topics you probably know something about...


 a limphocyte attacking a cancerous cell



mRNA capturing memories in a mouse's neurones


1st Newton's Law (Inertia)


Respiratory Systems


with and without bees


a full Earth day

Friday 18 December 2015

Observant llevats.


Uns llevats s'incuben 48 hores en aigua.
Uns altres llevats s'incuben 48 hores en aigua amb sucre.
Tenyim i observem.
Què observem? 

 Yeast 48 hours growing in water.
Yeast 48 hours growing in water with sugar.
 We dye and observe.
What do we observe?

40x
                                                                                        


100x


 400x

Detalls de cèl·lules en divisió (les que tenen sucre, clar!).





Wednesday 16 December 2015

Estomes.



La primera pràctica de microscòpia de primer de batxillerat tenia 3 objectius:
 

     · Investigar què són els estomes i quina funció fan.

   · Observar la morfologia dels estomes i identificar-ne les diferents parts.

    · Comparar la densitat d’estomes en l’anvers i el revers de les fulles i, si és possible, en fulles de diferents plantes. Relacionar aquestes observacions amb les adaptacions al medi dels organismes vegetals.


Com a resultat de les investigacions vam aconseguir diferents imatges de l’epidermis de dues plantes: la clívia i la planta dels diners. Vam poder comprovar que la densitat d’estomes a l’anvers de les fulles és inferior a la del revers per tal de reduir la pèrdua d’aigua per evaporació a través dels estomes.


Per altra banda vam poder aconseguir imatges de les preparacions. A partir d’aquestes imatges podem comprovar que els estomes de la planta dels diners contenen pigments vermellosos (carotens), mentre que els de la clívia contenen pigments verds (clorofil·la). 








Monday 14 December 2015

Llei de Boyle. Boyle's law.


Els de 1er de batxillerat han estat fent un experiment per apropar-se a la llei de Boyle. Sabries explicar-ho tu?

The students of 1st of "batxillerat" have been making an experiment to try to understand Boyle's law. Could you explain it?
 



Sunday 29 November 2015

WHAT ARE CLOUDS MADE OF?

What are clouds made of? This question was posed by the 3rd ESO students during the first lesson of The states of matter. Last week they checked this phenomenon. This means that now they are completely capable of answering this question
Along the following lines we will try to explain it as simple as possible. Anyway, if you have any questions I encourage you to ask 3rd's mates. We are firmly convinced that they will explain this experiment more detailed.
LAB EXPERIMENT
Firstly, the students had to answer -individually- this question and others like can you see steam? Or can water become steam at 1ºC? The purpose was to make all the ideas bring out.
Most of their answers were:
"Clouds are made of steam. When we were 10 years old, we studied the water cycle. The sea water is evaporated and becomes steam. Then, steam makes all the clouds. It is impossible that the water becomes steam at 1ºC. It is really cold! Finally, steam is visible, of course. Don't you see steam when the water is boiling into the pot?"
I would like to anticipate what was the result. Certainly, the experiment and our conclusions make them crazy.
Let's start.
This picture shows what are the 3 states of matter (at the moment, we only keep in mind three, on't think about plasma, please):
Source: www.revisegcsephysics.co.uk
There is nothing new yet, but...
Did you know that there are two kinds of vapourisation?
If we have a glass of water and leave it for a couple of weeks... What happens? Exactly, you are right. This water gets steam. As days go by there is less water in the glass. This kind of vapourisation is called EVAPORATION and it occurs from 0ºC to 100ºC. There is an special behaviour: the water that becomes steam is the first layer of the liquid. This is the reason why we need to wring the mop when we want to clean the floor. The less layers, the faster it dries.
But, do we see this steam? We must admit that we can't see it.
Source: www.uh.edu
As far as we know, when we put water to get boiled into a pot, this water is changing into steam as well. This process only happens when the water gets 100ºC and obviously is called BOILING.
But, again: do we see steam ?
Unexpectedly, what we see it is not steam. What we see are small particles of liquid. The steam condenses at room temperature. This paricles cannot make up an entire drop, so they stick with the air particles.
So, what are clouds made of? Steam or liquid?
Evidently, they are made of liquid. If they were made of steam, we could never see clouds.
Material: a pan full of water at 30-35 ºC, a flashlight and a piece of ice.
Procedure to follow: 
1. Show first that the water is evaporating but nobody can see the steam.
2. Turn off the lights and turn on your flashlight. It will be useful if you want to show these particles formed because of the condensation.
3. Put a piece of ice above the pan. The steam condenses faster and it appears these particles of liquid.

Wednesday 25 November 2015

Visita a l'iQAC.

El dia 19 de novembre vam fer una visita a l'iQAC (institut de química avançada) del CSIC per fer un taller de tensiactius.
Ens vam rebre un equip de científics que estan fent el doctorat al Centre de Química col.loidal i Interficial. 
Després d'explicar-nos molt bé què són els tensiactius vam poder observar i fer alguns experiments com aquest , on el Joel va fer una bombolla de sabó deixant atrapant en el seu interior CO2 que havíem condensat prèviament.





Un altre experiment que ens va sorprendre va ser la formació de «cápsulas de quitosano» tècnica utilitzada pel cuiner Ferran Adrià a les seves famoses esferificacions. Per poder realitzar les esferificacions s’han d’utilitzar, a més del producte a esferificar, dues substàncies: l’alginat i el calci. Es poden utilitzar també goma xantana i citrat sòdic.









http://www.cocinista.es/download/bancorecursos/recetas/errores-esferificacion.jpg

Sunday 18 May 2014

Mixtures and solutions. Lab practices 1.


After a while (¿?), we leave here some examples of the laboratory practices (filtration and magnetic separation) and their presentations that the 2nd ESO students did not so a long time ago.

Enjoy!






Sunday 11 May 2014

Coming soon to the Scienglish blog...


after a while, it is true...
amazing Mind Maps on its own sweet way! for example...



and remembering ways of separating mixtures and solutions...


and not forgeting Hydroroute activities...



and, be sure, yet lots of plants and animals presentations and forces and ecosystems and waves and even more... as said before... coming soon!


Sunday 23 February 2014

Cristalls de sulfat de coure



Els alumnes de 3r hem fet una pràctica al laboratori que consitia en purificar una substància anomenada Sulfat de Coure.
En primer lloc hem hagut de fer una disolució saturada del producte que vol dir que hem hagut de disoldre tant sòlid com hem pogut en 50 ml d’aigua.






  Per ajudar-nos una mica hem escalfat l’aigua ja que així es dissol millor.




 

 











 Hem filtrat la disolució …..


Hem deixat que s’evapori lentament ...


I ens hem trobat que ha cristal.litzat!!!!!!! 
S’han format aquests cristalls tan bonics!!!!!