TRANSNATIONAL MEETING 2

FRANCE- Reunion Island ( 1st-5th November 2016, 4 days)

 

Tuesday 1st November-Bank Holiday

Arrival-Roland Garros Airport

 

17:00 Meeting at La Palmeraie: Evaluation of the first year of project-inventory of fixtures

1. “National” activities (indoor & outdoor) ; twinspace ; results and outcomes

2. Transnational Activities

19:00 Dinner at La Palmeraie, Saint Gilles

21:00 End of Activities

 

Wedneday 2nd November-Welcome at School

9:00 Maloya show (traditional dance & songs, part of the UNESCO heritage) by Sylviane Contrain (English Teacher) and Students from her Maloya workshop.

9:45 Visiting a Reunionese (French) school

10:00 Preparation of activities in Kiruna, Sweden

10:30 Visit of Sainte Marie

12:00 Lunch at school (provided by school)

 

14:00 -15:30 Official welcoming activities at school

Introduction : Presentation of the school & of the ORIONS project

 

 

 

Headmaster’s speech

Local educational authority supervisor’s speech

 

Inauguration of the Giant Solar Watch

15:30 Coordinator’s meeting Establishing work plan for second year of project.

1. plan of upcoming activities

2. dissemination activities

 

16:30 Training (by France) activity:

Using Excel (spreadsheet software) to present results once the intensity of radiation is measured (classroom c211) :

Etwinning training

Updating the App  scientific and survival minidictionary

18:00 End of Activities

19:00 Dinner at a typical Creol Restaurant “Lé Gadiamb”

Thursday 3rd November

8:00 Departure to the Maido Observatory.

9:00 View over Mafate & Visit of the Observatory

The purpose of this Reasearch Center is the study of the atmosphere (hurricanes, weather forcast, global warming)

 

12:00 Pic Nic

13:00 Departure to Saint Leu

14:00 Kelonia Turtles care center
We went to Kelonia, a turtles observatory. We learn the life of turtles from their birth to their return to the beach to lay. We learn 3 different turtles: Leatherback turtle (this king of turtle isn't in Reunion Island); Green turtle and Nested turtle. We see turtles in the aquarium. Some of them are in Kelonia because there are sick or hurt so healers take care of them. Later, turtles can return in the ocean when they healed.

 

17:00 Return to Sainte Marie- End of Activities

19:00 Dinner at home

 

Friday 4th November

8:30 Participation in math class (ITC with the use of computers by pupils- Grade 11) or CLIL class (Maths in English- Grade 10)

9:30 Excursion to the lava route The volcano : geology outing

13:00 Lunch (pic nic)

14:00 Return to Sainte Marie.

 

16:00 Back to school- Project Meeting

French teachers share their experience of working in astronomical projects and their use in everyday work with young people.

French teachers will share their experiences in working in a multicultural environment (presentation by students)

 

18:00 Potluck meal ( each country comes with a typical meal)

19:00 Astronomy Party at School

Astrolabe : how does this instrument work?

These Astrolabes are calibrated for Reunion. They have been machined by students from a technology school in Paris in a partnership with Science reunion, a local association for the promotion of Science, who provided us 10 of them.

 

Due to bad weather, the observation with the ARECA have been cancelled.

 

21:00 End of activities

 

Saturday 5th November

9:30 Evaluation of the meeting

11:30 Farewell Lunch

 

Departures