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science week

Fruit & Veg

s every year in November, • Promoting diversified, different fruits and vegetables, to have more hours of science they presented their projects in a
AScience week takes place in balanced, and healthy diets learning about their properties during that week and did a science fair to the other students.
the EIC! and lifestyles through fruit and creating great descriptions variety of experiments related Congratulations to all the
and vegetable consumption. of them and stories for the to fruits and vegetables. They students for your enthusiasm. We
Science Department • Reducing losses and waste language subjects and raps created volcanoes with lemon all had a great time!
This year the Science Department in fruit and vegetables food and theatre in music. Amazing and bicarbonate, looked at plant
proposed the topic Fruit and systems. rhythms!! cells under the microscope,
Vegetables since the United • Sharing best practices In maths they calculated volumes obtained DNA from peas,
Nations (UN) General Assembly for promotion and of mandarins and oranges. And produced electricity with lemons
and FAO (Food and Agriculture consumption, improved for Social Studies, Business and and found out how to measure
Organization of UN) designated sustainability, supply chains Economics, students worked the amount of sugar in a fruit.
2021 as the International Year of and capacity strengthening. on socio-ethical responsibility They also place apple slides in
Fruit and Vegetables (IYFV) with During that week all departments through different projects, different substances to find out
the following objectives (www. developed projects related to the they learned about the impact which ones act as preservatives.
fao.org): main topic, increasing awareness of nutritional habits in the And ESO 4 chemistry students
• Raising awareness of and about the role of fruits and environment, commercial had the opportunity to link
directing policy attention vegetables in, human nutrition processes and experienced a fair- chemistry to cooking techniques
to the nutrition and health and health, production and trade simulation through a role as they spherificated fruit juice.
benefits of fruit and trade, chemistry in the kitchen… play. At the end of the week ESO
vegetables consumption. Students researched about Students had the opportunity students meet in the forum where

Children’s books about

Red cabbage changing colour

and magic paper experiment fruit and vegetables

he English project was characteristics and strengths that have never really written any sort
n Science Week we did a very interesting experiment. Tmaking children's books fruit and vegetables have, we then of book so this was quite a fun
IIt was the red cabbage experiment. about fruit and vegetables. took the information we collected project.
and created the characters of
Lluc Vallvè (ESO 1A) Maya Zhao (ESO 2B) the story, drew them and wrote
The goal was to determine the pH variations in different During my English lessons as a book. It was a great project to
solutions and find out if they are acidic, basic or neutral a student of ESO 2B my group work on. It taught us how to work
substances using a vegetable indicator, in this case we and I worked on making a better as a group and practise our
used red cabbage and if we add it to different substances wonderful children's book about grammar and writing while we
for example: orange, lemon juice (acid) or baking soda fruit and vegetables. During this learned about nutrition. The final
(base) it changed the colour. When we placed the samples project we researched different result was impressive for me. I
on the magic paper it also changed colour… COOL!!!
Surface Area and Volume

of Spheres

ur target was to find the We also measured the radii of
Oformula for the surface oranges, mandarins and apples.
area of a sphere and to test the We calculated the cube of the
formula for the volume. radii and we plot a linear graph
for R versus R 3. We used the
Sonya and Nathalie (ESO 4B) Numbers app to get the equation
To do this, we used an orange, of the graph and we compared
traced it four times in different the gradient with the one from
parts and then peeled the orange the formula of the volume and
to see if all the skin could fit in all saw the relationship between
four circles. them.