Etiqueta: The Virtue Project

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What is growing on that disk?

Today in our Science class we have studied the fouling of our Virtue disks using even stereo microscopes. Andrea and Judit, 1st ESO students have come to help us to identify organisms and we could draw the results on ipads.
Andrea has had the virtue rack placed for five months in Roses.
We saw living “mantis shrimps”, algaes and many other organisms.
It was really interesting!
Have a look at the pics!





Look this is a grown up mantis shrimp, ours are very tiny!

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Studying virtue disks under the microscope

In our last Science class and on World Ocean Day we studied the fouling of our Virtue disks using even stereo microscopes. 1st ESO students helped us to identify organisms and we could draw the results on ipads. We saw living “worms”, algaes and many other organisms.
It was really interesting!





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OBSERVING OUR VERY FIRST CD

We have started to analyse with magnifying lenses and under the microscope the growth of organisms on the CDs obtained from the Aquarium.
What did we find?
Filamentous algaes, leaf algaes, hydroids, bristle worms and some barnacles!
So great!



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Cd disks from the Barcelona Aquarium!

Our school is collaborating with the Barcelona Aquarium in an International School Project called The Virtue Project.

Last Monday, two divers from the Aquarium took out a CD rack that had been placed in seawater for seven months in order to give us some CD disks to study organisms that had grown on them.
Ms. Coral Hispano, the head of the laboratory showed us around and explained to us backstage of the centre.

The Aquarium of Barcelona is the most important marine leisure and education centre in the world concerning the Mediterranean.
A series of 35 tanks, 11,000 animals and 450 different species, an underwater tunnel 80 meters long, six million litres of water and an immense Oceanarium, the only one in Europe make this centre a unique reference!