Audioguide (activity 5)

Hello!

While you are finishing off the infographic of the marine species we are moving on to the last activity of the Oceans project: the audioguide!

Activity nº 5: Audioguide
Objective: create an itinerary of the 'Fish Route', specifying the location of the fishing grounds, port, fish market and other information of your interest!

ICT suggested: Eduloc >>  or Genially >>  (although Genially is not exaclty an audioguide programme you can create an interactive map with it too!)

Source of data:

• Survey you have already done
• Internet

(Teachers will supply you with the tutorial of Eduloc for Oceans)

Label of the post: audioguide

Deadline to complete the form: 29th May
Suggestion: We recommend working in teams, where every group is in charge to look up different kinds of information or different locations in your route.

Please remember only one audioguide per class!

All the best!

Sharky

Marine species from Cambrils

Comments from Sharky (The Sand)

Hello!

I see you've been having fun with the sand. Thank you for sharing it on the blog!
Now, let's see what have you found out...

How nice to see that all your beaches are so different and colourful! And sorry to hear you have some plastic mix in it too. More than once I've got a fright with some plastic bags, yuck!

You've done a good job analysing the origin of the sand, the shape of your beach and the effect of man structures. And especial congratulations for IES Jaume Almera for their discussion about artificial beaches. You've got it right! On an artificial beach the sand is not so compact. The reason is that the sand has not undergone the selection that natural forces such as wind and waves do. Even having finer sand, the grains are more disorganised, there are more empty spaces among them so the action of the waves will be more effective, making beach faces steeper and taking the sand away.

Hmmm... This is interesting, all of you have similar heaps of sand and the inclination of the beach face is the same except for IES Ramon Berenguer IV. Their sand has similar size, so how is it possible that the beach face is almost flat?

All participating schools are invited to answer on this same post, just press on the 'No comments/comments' link!

Looking forward to your comments, you are doing GREAT!

Sharky

Hello Sharky,
We are INS Lluís Domènech i Montaner and we want to answer your questions about water.
First of all, we must say that we gathered water temperature the 31st of january. It was very cold and some days before it was so, so cold that our pond was frozen.

And about climate change, we think that it is not going to be the same everywhere. As our ocean is interconnected with lots of sea currents going from North to South, there will be places where temperature will we lower as well als there will be some places where temperature will we higher.

Marine species (activity 4)

Hello!

While you are finishing off activity nº3 the Sand, we are moving on to the next activity.


Activity nº 4: Marine species
Objective: create an infographic of the 10 most important species caught by the fishermen of your closest port using the ICT Piktochart >>

You will have to create an account, sign in, choose the option infographic, scroll down, choose the first template (Create your own infographic) and start editing.


Information included in the infographic:

An infographic is made by blocks, in the first block put the Title and Authors.

In the following blocks you will describe the marine species with the following information:
- Photo or some kind of illustration that allows its identification
-Common name in the local language
-Common name in English (only if local language is not English)
-Scientific name

In the last block put two graphs:
-Percentage that each species represents of the annual turn over
-Percentage that each species represents of tonnes captured annually

You can add any other information of YOUR INTEREST!

Once you have finished you can publish it and post the link provided by Piktochart on this blog to share it!

Source of data:

• Survey at the port
• Internet

(Teachers will supply you with the information about the survey, webpages and tutorial of Piktochart)

Label of the post: species

Deadline to complete the form: 15th May
Suggestion: We recommend working in teams, where every group is in charge to look up different kinds of information.

Please remember only one infographic per class!

Looking forward to know the food I can have in your area, yummy!
All the best!

Sharky

Comments from Sharky (the Water)

Hi!

I'm happy to see so much progress! And thank you  so much for your photos!!!!

So let's see your water data (update 5th May) :

The order of participating schools is from West to East so we can all follow easily the changes in your data.

Ups! I'm afraid that IES Jaume Almera has got a bit confused with the coordinates. Could you send the corrected ones please? (Just leave a comment on this post. Thanks!)

Oh! And the students of the Wunshan Senior High School have sailed to another island, NICE! Did you enjoy the trip?

Hmmmm... I'm also sorry to see that  Wunshan Senior High School had problems retrieving the satellite Sea Surface Temperature (SST) data from NASA's webpage. I'll send further information to your teacher if you want to give it another try!

And YES!!!!! I agree with you that there's just one ocean interconnected.

Ok, now let me ask you a couple of questions:

1.  Can you tell why the temperature gathered by the Ins Domènech i Muntaner is much lower than neighbouring schools?

2. None of you coincide with the years of major and minor SST oscillation. Knowing that the sea has a great influence on the climate, do you think that the climate change is going to be the same around the world?

You can leave your answer using the comment option of the post. Students can also participate individually!

Cheers!

Sharky

                                                    THE WATER

                                        THE WHALES OF MIAMI

                         INS ANTONI BALLESTER-MIAMI-TARRAGONA

                                                   

"The name of the beach is Playa Cristal. It is very long. There is fine sand and some small stones. The beach is approximately 50 metres wide from the promenade to the water. At the left extreme of the beach there are rocky cliffs."

                                                     41 º 0´ 2.80´´ N
                                                      0º 56´10.58´´ E


WATER TEMPERATURE: 15,8 ºC



PHOTOS

EAST VIEW

WET VIEW

SOUTH VIEW

NORTH VIEW