EL AIRE - EJE MOVIMIENTO DEL AIRE -
In Environmental Management classes, we learned that Earth works as a whole, as a system, but, in order for scientists to study our planet in depth, we look at it from four different angles: biosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere and lithosphere.
We tend to separate nature into different parts as well. We call them elements and they are air, fire, water and earth. This year's topic for the fair was “Air”. Regarding the categories into which we divided Earth, it falls into the category “atmosphere” but, as always, it has implications on the others.
In particular, in Senior 3, we focused on “tropical cyclones”, which are named differently throughout the globe, but are the same meteorological phenomenon: intense circular storms that originate over warm tropical oceans, characterized by low atmospheric pressure, high winds and heavy rain.
Both in Mathematics and Environmental Management classes we learned about the conditions required for a tropical cyclone to form, the location in which they take place, the scale in which they can be categorized in terms of their wind speed and the negative effects these massive storms can have on societies.
We carried out different activities as part of the preparations for the fair: we visited official websites regarding the topic, we watched videos about hurricane formation in the Atlantic ocean, we learned about the Galveston hurricane (the biggest natural hazard ever recorded in the USA!) we analyzed information related to wind speed and the trajectories of different cyclones in the Atlantic basin, we made graphs and infographics we uploaded to Paddlet and finally we recorded videos showing what we learned.
All these materials are gathered in the digital book available here:
