Summer plans

In the last time I think a lot what to do in my summer vacations, because I don’t have plans yet. Las summer was very special, I went to the south with my sister and a friend, and it was great. First, I don’t have money now to do anything, so I have to do something about it, because I really want to leave Santiago at least for a while. Maybe I try to work in something about Christmas or New Year to save money and be able to do the things I want to.  I really would like to go to the north, and if I can, go to Peru and Bolivia, to know a lot of places friends told me about, but I think is more a dream than other thing, but who knows, maybe I can save all that money in this time. I think maybe I go to south again with my sister and friends, so it be cool to! And also always my parents want to spend time with us, so is probable that we do something like family, so great to!  Despite of that, I was thinking to participate in a volunteer work in National Parks in south, so I can leave Santiago and helping reconstructing paths of this, and also learn about the flora and fauna of there (because I love a lot National Parks), but the period of postulation is not available yet, so I’m waiting of that!! Whatever I going to do, I really want to be in vacations!!!!!

How green are you?

Environmentally problems are very important in our time, especially because of the most of contamination from factories and people in general. For that reason is important to learn about enviromentally friendly practices, and you can learn about it everywhere, from a friend, from your family, from social networks, and of course, it must be (but isn’t) an important topic in public politics. In my family topics about environment are very important, so for example we pay a lot of attention about our garbage. Fortunately, we have a lot of space in our house, so we can have compost for organic garbage and then use it for plants. Also, we separate all we can, and the most of time we try to use it in other things (like carboard), or plastic bags, and time ago we did “ecoladrillos” but we let it for a while. Despite of that, I would like to have more order to recycling, and with my dad we want to use “clean energy” in our house, but we have to planned it well. I would love to use bike instead a car, but is very difficult to me use it every day, because a live so far away from university, but I use public transport a lot, and when some of our family come to Santiago, or go to home, in a car try to tell others to take an advantage of the travel. When I was a child, I  enjoy to a group of kids of “greenpeace”, but I don’t stay there for a long. I think every day I try to do more things to reduce my carbon footprint, because I think it is important for everyone, and is related to our way of life too.

In our Society this topic is not very important yet for everyone (is more like a “trend”), I think is important to realize that it is a problem in all the topics of life and not only the way we “take charge of our garbage recycling”. It is related to the way of the production system is propose, but I’m sure we can do a lot of things to change it.

Inquiry teaching

In other posts I said that maybe in the future I want to work like a teacher. Today I went to a pedagogy class, because a friend invites me, and I love it!!!!

It was about forms to teach that let the kids (and every who is learning) can learn, but not only from an “exposition” of the subject-matter (like the most of our class, where teachers are in the front of the class and talk about the subject, and we make notes in our notebooks, but is very static). The way that we are learn about is from “inquiry”, it means that the kid can discover from her or his own ideas the subject matter, and the teacher help them to learn more about it. The topic of today was “human body”, and we make 3 different activities. The first was to know about our bones, so I had to rest over a big paper and someone draw my silhouette, so then we have to draw in it all the bones we know about, and touch ourselves to discover where are the bone (like, we have to look our fingers and we can discover that in four of that we have 3 bones, and in the thumb we have only 2!!). Then the activity was to discover our organs, so we have images of that, and we have to positioning it in our own bodies to realize where it are! We do another 2 activities more, one about how our digestive system works and what we have in our mouth.

It was very fun and usefull to know activities that we can use in different situations to teach about! I was very interested about it, and I’m going the next week to the next class! J