We are almost ending the school year and in Social Science we are learning History. To be precise we are learning about the things than happened here on the Iberian Peninsula.
We all know that we were Celtiberians but apart from that we have met the different people that came to the peninsula like the Greeks, the Phoenicians and the Carthaginians.
In the following video you can remember the differences between all the people living here thousands of years ago.
As the Celts were very good metal workers and warriors, many other people came to look for metals but some came also to trade and they decided to stay and form some colonies. The next video explains very well who those people were and where they came from.
The last of these people to come were the Romans but they came to stay and we began to be part of the Roman Empire. The following video explains very nicely how this happened. The Roman Conquest of Hispania
And finally, to understand this huge empire, the Roman Empire, I invite you to watch the following video about them.
I hope all these videos help you understand and learn our Social Science last lesson!!!
In Social Science we are learning about the weather and climate.
The weather is so important that everyday we talk about it because the weather changes constantly. Now we know that it depends on four elements: temperature, wind, humidity and precipitation.
Climate is the average weather in an area over a long period of time.
I have chosen some videos for you to watch and learn more about the differences between them.
Astronomy is that part of science that studies outer space focusing on stars, planets, comets, galaxies and so on.
We know that people started to study Astronomy as far back as in Ancient Mesopotamia. Civilisations such as Ancient Greeks, Romans or the Mayans also studied Astronomy. However all of these scientists had to observe space just with their eyes.
Aristotle, an ancient Greek astronomer, calculated that the Earth was not flat but a sphere. He observed that the Earth's shadow on the Moon was curved and that when a ship appeared on the horizon, we could see the top before the rest of the ship.
Copernicus was an astronomer that lived in the early 1500s. He came up with the idea that the Sun was the centre of the universe. This was a complete different believe from the idea that the Earth was the centre of the universe.
With the invention of the telescope in the early 1600s, scientists were able to see much further objects and were able also to have a better view of the Moon and the planets.
Galileo Galilei began to study Copernicus' work and felt that his observations of the planets were correct and that the Sun was the centre. This believe was really controversial at that time. Galileo heard of the invention of the telescope in Holland and he decided to build his own telescope. Soon Galileo's version of the telescope was used in all Europe.
Galileo made many discoveries using his telescope: the four large moons around Jupiter and the phases of the planet Venus. He also discovered sunspots and that the Moon was covered with craters. As Galileo studied the planets and the Sun he became convinced that the Earth and the other planets orbited the Sun. However the powerful Catholic Church considered his ideas heresy. At first, they sentenced him to life prison but later on they allowed him to live in his house under house arrest.
Since Galileo's time many discoveries have happened and Astronomy has advanced a great deal.
Men have landed on the Moon. We have great telescopes in the space to observe and investigate. The Hubble Space Telescope has been in space since April 1990 and it's helping us to understand space a little bit more.
Here you have a short video that explains this to you.
But last year in December 2021 an even more powerful space telescope was launched into space: the James Webb Space Telescope
Since 2000 astronauts have lived on the International Space Station (ISS) that takes 92 minutes to orbit the Earth. Pedro Duque the first Spanish astronaut to go into space tells us about life in the ISS.
Finally, Nobel Prize in Physics 2019 was awarded to two astronomers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz for discovering an exoplanet orbiting a star. That means that right now there are many astronomers looking for planets orbiting stars that have water, liquid water. Astronomy is fascinating, isn't it?
The last period of Ancient History is Ancient Rome or the Roman Empire.
At those times Rome was a very powerful civilisation that ruled over much of Europe, Africa and part of Asia for nearly 1,000 years.
They conquered many lands and we still have many things from them. The language we speak, Spanish, some laws, many buildings and the roads we use today are just a few of them.
Here you have a video where you can watch and learn more about the Romans.
Learning the political map of Europe is easy if you practice.
Remember that we are learning only a few of them, the ones that come up in our book. If you want to learn more here you have a video with all the countries, their capitals and their flags.
Watch it before you practice with the interactive map that comes next.
In Social Science we are learning about our world.
The first thing is orientation and for that we have the COMPASS ROSE with the four CARDINAL POINTS: North (N), South (S), East (E) and West (W)
Here you have the song you all like so much. Now it's up to you to practise.
And here you have an image of a Compass Rose showing the Intermediate Directions: north-east (NE), south-east (SE), north-west (NW) and south-west (SW)
Once we can get the right orientation, we can learn about the world with the help of a GLOBE or a MAP.
Let's see the difference between them!!!
We also know that there are different maps: political maps, relief or physical maps, road maps, transport mapsand many more.
We are also learning to read maps. I hope this video will help you a little bit.
We are ending the school year and in Social Science we are learning History to be precise we are learning about the things than happened here on the Iberian Peninsula.
We all know that we were Celtiberians but apart from that we have met the different people that came to the peninsula like the Greeks, the Phoenicians and the Carthaginians.
In the following video you can remember the differences between all the people living here thousands of years ago.
As the Celts were very good metal workers and warriors, many other people came to look for metals but some came to trade and they decided to stay and form some colonies. The next video explains very well who those people were and where they came from.
The last of these people to come were the Romans but they came to stay and we began to be part of the Roman Empire. The following video explains very nicely how this happened. The Roman Conquest of Hispania
And finally, to understand this huge empire, the Roman Empire, I invite you to watch the following video about them.
I hope all these videos help you understand and learn our Social Science last lesson!!!
In Social Science we are learning about the weather and climate.
The weather is so important that everyday we talk about the weather because it changes everyday. Now we know that it depends on four elements: temperature, wind, humidity and precipitation.
Climate is the average weather in an area over a long period of time.
I have chosen some videos for you to watch and learn more about the differences between them.
Astronomy is that part of science that studies outer space focusing on stars, planets, comets, galaxies and so on.
We know that people started to study Astronomy as far back as in Ancient Mesopotamia. Civilizations such as Ancient Greeks, Romans or the Mayans also studied Astronomy. However all of these scientists had to observe space with just their eyes.
Aristotle, an ancient Greek astronomer, calculated that the Earth was not flat but a sphere. He observed that the Earth's shadow on the Moon was curved and that when a ship appeared on the horizon, we could see the top before the rest of the ship.
Copernicus was an astronomer that lived in the early 1500s. He came up with the idea that the Sun was the centre of the universe. This was a complete different believe from the idea that the Earth was the centre of the universe.
With the invention of the telescope in the early 1600s, scientists were able to see much further objects and were able also to have a better view of the Moon and the planets.
Galileo Galilei began to study Copernicus' work and felt that his observations of the planets were correct and that the Sun was the centre. This believe was really controversial at that time. Galileo heard of the invention of the telescope in Holland and he decided to build his own telescope. Soon Galileo's version of the telescope was used in all Europe.
Galileo made many discoveries using his telescope: the four large moons around Jupiter and the phases of the planet Venus. He also discovered sunspots and that the Moon was covered with craters. As Galileo studied the planets and the Sun he became convinced that the Earth and the other planets orbited the Sun. However the powerful Catholic Church considered his ideas heresy. At first, they sentenced him to life prison but later on they allowed him to live in his house under house arrest.
Since Galileo's time many discoveries have happened and Astronomy has advanced a great deal.
Men have landed on the Moon. We have great telescopes in the space to observe and investigate and since 2000 astronauts have lived on the International Space Station (ISS) that takes 92 minutes to orbit the Earth. Pedro Duque the first Spanish astronaut to go into space tells us about life in the ISS.
Finally, last year Nobel Prize in Physics 2019 was awarded to two astronomers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz for discovering an exoplanet orbiting a star. That means that right now there are many astronomers looking for planets orbiting stars that have water, liquid water. This is fascinating, isn't it?
