VENUS OF WILLENDORF

The Venus of Willendorf is 11.1 cm tall. It is believed to have been carved during the European Upper Paleolithic, or "Old Stone Age", a period of prehistory starting around 30,000 BCE. It was found on August 7, 1908 by a workman named Johann Veran during excavations at a paleolithic site near Willendorf, a village in Lower Austria. It is carved from an oolitic limestone that is not local to the area, and tinted with red ochre. The figurine is now in the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria.

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Learn about the oldest sculture known

MOVEMENT

Try to get a sense of movement when drawing a picture.

PHASES OF THE MOON

The moon is about four times smaller than the Earth. It rotates on its axis and revolutes around the Earth. It takes around 28 days to complete one revolution and the same time to complete one rotation. This is why we (from the Earth) do not see always the same side of the Moon.  Here you have some easy pictures to learn the names of the different phases.

NEW MOON: we do not see the moon.

WAXING CRESCENT: We see only a very small fraction of the Moon.

QUARTER MOON: The moon has completed one quarter of its orbit around the Earth. Half of the Moon is seen.

WAXING GIBBOUS: We see more than half moon and less than full Moon.

FULL MOON: The whole of the disk of the Moon is illuminated.

WANING GIBBOUS: After full Moon and before seeing half of the Moon.

LAST QUARTER: Only one quarter of the Moon's orbit is to be completed. Half of the Moon is visible.

WANING CRESCENT: The illuminated part of the Moon decreases from the lit up semicircle, then, little by little it will disappear completely.

FULL MOON: The entire face of the Moon is illuminated.

THE UNIVERSE

Our little scientists want to know about the universe. We will learn a lot during this unit, but meanwhile here you have a great link to read, play and find out a lot more.

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PLANETS' AND STARS' SIZE COMPARATION

ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM

Electricity and magnetism are two different phenomena present in our planet. Electricity is the flow of charged particles and magnetism is the force of attraction or repulsion between objects.

Explaning students how forces attract or repel.

The Earh's molten iron core acts like a huge magnet. Magnets and compasses always point to the magnetic North Pole.

 Explaining how the magnetic filed acts surrounding the Earth.

The magnetic field around the Earth acts like a huge shield that changes direction of cosmic rays and protects our atmosphere.

LEARN ABOUT THE EARTH SEEN FROM SPACE

Campo magnético de la Tierra

Earth's invisible shield

MUJERES CIENTÍFICAS

Jornadas de Universidad de Castilla la Mancha para animar a la mujer  a elegir carreras de ciencias.

MUJERES CIENTÍFICAS

6A junto a Edelmira Valero, catedrática del Dpto. de Química Física de UCLM, quien ha representado el papel de Marie Curie en el teatro "Científicas".

Archimedes ( 287BCE - 212 BCE) was a mathematician who lived in Syracuse on the island of Sicily. His father, Phidias, was an astronomer, so Archimedes continued in the family line.He  was the most famous mathematician and inventor in ancient Greece. Archimedes discovered the relation between the surface and volume of a sphere and its circumscribing cylinder, known as Archimedes' principle.

Archimedes' principle