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IB/BAT Study Skills Workshop Feria de universidades

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n Friday 21st November, to engage the students in Ms. Garcia helped the students
OIB/BAT students spent conversations and activity (Ketan explore their university options as Ferias Universitarias son muy comunes en el mundo
a whole day preparing for Kumar completed his secret and enabled them to make a Lentero y se llevan a cabo en los centros de enseñanza o en las
their exams by attending a mission to locate and retrieve all brilliant presentation to ESo1 propias universidades. Dichas ferias proporcionan al estudiante
bespoke workshop created by the hidden sweets before most students. The IB students gave la posibilidad de tener acceso a gran información, así como la
Ms. Martos, Ms. Garcia and Mr. had even started to complete the ESo1 students a ‘tour’ or a oportunidad de hacer preguntas y esclarecer dudas.
Ward. theirs!). Mr. Day set the scene ‘lecture’ of IB and university. This
by presenting a rousing speech was an inspiring event to watch, Cristina García se encuentren desorientados
xxxxxxxxxxxxx that certainly got the students as all students from different Asisten estudiantes de diferentes a la hora de pensar en su
The aims were achieved: to passionate about doing well. Ms. year groups were interacting, colegios que se encuentran futuro académico. Esto está
motivate, encourage, inspire Martos helped the students with respecting and contributing to ante una posición similar de vinculado en muchas ocasiones
and support these students as activities related to revision style each other’s education without enfrentarse a las decisiones que al hecho de que desconocen
they begin the two-year path and Mr. Ward with activities related any need for teacher input. marcarán su futuro. nada mejor la oferta académica que las
to achieving the internationally to consolidating large chunks The day ended with the naming que conocer las opciones y universidades tienen. Las ferias
renowned International of text into a more manageable of the class mascot (a teddy bear tener a expertos guiando en ese de universidades son una opción
Baccalaureate (IB). The IB is a form using the university-used they named ‘Jerry’), a presentation camino. para poder abordar la elección
very demanding course that technique called ‘reduce, simplify to EIC senior management and a no es de extrañar que los de la carrera a seguir y conocer
requires a constant emphasis and explode’. party! estudiantes de Bachillerato las opciones.
on independent study, out-out-
school study, regular revision,
exam preparation and Internal Beatriz Ornosa área completamente a nuestra
Assessments (IA). To this end, EIC El martes día 18 de noviembre, disposición con diferentes
recognises the need to nurture in los alumnos de IB/Bat tuvimos mesas representando cada una
its students the skills and attitude la oportunidad de reunirnos con a una universidad, con diversos
to accomplish great things. Hours estudiantes de otras escuelas/ guías que nos explicaban los
of preparation was put into the institutos en el Palau de múltiples requisitos para entrar
day to ensure that every minute Congressos, Tarragona, donde en sus instituciones.
was a learning opportunity. pudimos obtener información A la mayor parte de los alumnos
The day started with a breakfast sobre diferentes universidades nos resultó muy útil. Ahora nos
and secret missions designed (UIC, Rovira i Virgili, Universidad hacemos una idea de dónde
de navarra y otras universidades queremos estudiar, en qué
What if Isaac Newton was born 20 years ago? de España) y conocer más condiciones y circunstancias, por
sobre ellas, como por ejemplo ejemplo, las notas que debemos
la localización, las posibles alcanzar, costes o transportes.
n IB Physics, Alex, Marc What significance does the symbol with physical quantities was quite carreras en cada una, becas y Los alumnos no interesados en
Iand myself have been g have in our world? Well, this is interesting. We thoroughly enjoyed otros detalles de interés para estudiar en España obtuvieron
using technology as a tool to the symbol for the acceleration of getting out of our daily routine, and nuestro futuro. Se nos dio toda información general sobre el
investigate Kinematics —laws gravity, which is the acceleration that we got a first immersion into the la información que pedimos y nivel de estudios requerido
of movement— and Mechanics. we experience at all moments here world of video analysis. We got to pudimos hacernos una idea más y posibles conexiones con el
More specifically, we have been on Earth, which we know to be 9.8 see how physics works in the real cercana de cómo es el ámbito extranjero.
working with programs like Excel ms-2. newton's apple experienced world, after seeing it in a theoretical universitario. Tuvimos una ¡Un día muy útil y productivo!
and Tracker —a video-analysis this acceleration too. manner. It was also very useful to
software— to calculate physical How did we incorporate the physics understand the concept of free-fall
values like velocity, distance, and of falling into technology? By making and gravity. What if newton, Galilei
acceleration. a video of us dropping a small ball, or Einstein had been born 20 years
we analysed it with the software and ago? Certainly they would also be
Sonali Mayani got the values for time and position using IT as a tool to discover new
It is not every day that we students in each frame of the video, which concepts. Who knows how much
get to see physics in such a practical represents a certain time interval. more they would have discovered.
manner as well as making use of By using Excel, we calculated the
technological tools.Tracker is a video average acceleration, which gave
analysis software, where you can us an approximate value to g. When
import a video of, for example, an evaluating the results, we also took
object falling from a certain point, into account the errors and the
and know all types of information uncertainties on the acceleration,
about the object's speed and and other factors like the video
acceleration. definition (which does affect the
The latest thing we have worked on procedures of the software).

has been to use Tracker to calculate g. The use of technology to work