THE FLYING EGG

On this occasion the challenge facing our students from SIES Humanes in Cubas, was to find the way to make an egg land without breaking from a height of about five meters. 

They had several materials (garbage bags, sticks, staws, glue, ropes...) that they could use in the way they considered more appropriate. The only requirement was  the egg was not covered more than 20% of its surface and of course, it couldn´t break. After a hard but very fun work, only one of the teams achieved the goal. Congratulations guys!!!!!

Here you can see some of the videos of the moment in wchich the eggs were launched.

I hope you enjoy watching the videos as much as we did performing the job.

GRAFFITI

Graffiti has a long and proud history. The subculture surrounding graffiti has existed for several decades, and it's still going strong. The graffiti artists (or "writers" as they prefer to call themselves) are passionate, skilled, community-oriented, and socially conscious in ways that profoundly contradict the way they've been portrayed as common criminals and vandals. 

One of the most important graffiti artist in the world is Banksy, an England-based  artist, political activist and film director of unverified identity. His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine dark humor with graffiti executed in a distinctive stenciling technique. His works of political and social commentary have been featured on streets, walls, and bridges of cities throughout the world from New York to Gaza. Here you have some of the most important graffitis by Banksy in the Israel's separation wall.

 

And here you have a video of the Students from SIES Humnes in Cubas painting graffitis!!!!!

 

ABSTRACT PAINTING

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Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956), known professionally as Jackson Pollock, was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. He was well known for his unique style of drip painting.

During his lifetime, Pollock enjoyed considerable fame and notoriety; he was a major artist of his generation.

In its edition of August 8th, 1949, Life magazine ran a feature article about Jackson Pollock that bore this question in the headline: "Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?" Could a painter who flung paint at canvases with a stick, who poured and hurled it to create roiling vortexes of color and line, possibly be considered "great"? New York's critics certainly thought so.

Pollock's greatness lies in developing one of the most radical abstract styles in the history of modern art, detaching line from color, redefining the categories of drawing and painting, and finding new means to describe pictorial space.

Students from SIES Humanes in Cubas have become "Abstract painters" by imitating Pollock, dripping paint as he did.  If you would like to create your own painting you can have a look at the following video and try to find some inspiration. Dare to do it!!!

    

MOTHER'S DAY

Se acerca el día de la Madre y no queremos dejar pasar esta fecha sin decirles a todas ellas cuanto las queremos y sin agradecerles todo lo que hacen por nosotros cada día.

FELIZ DÍA DE LA MADRE!!!!!!!

Aquí os dejamos algunos de los regalos que hemos realizado para ellas. Si alguien quiere animarse a hacer unas bonitas flores de papel como estas, aquí podéis encontrar unas sencillas instrucciones. Ánimo y a ver como os quedan!!!!!

EXPRESSIONISM

           
"Everyone who renders directly and honestly whatever drives him to create is one of us"

Ernst Ludwig  Kirchner

Expressionism emerged simultaneously in various cities across Germany as a response to a widespread anxiety about humanity's increasingly discordant relationship with the world and accompanying lost feelings of authenticity and spirituality. In part a reaction against Impressionism and academic art, Expressionism was inspired most heavily by the Symbolist currents in late nineteenth-century art. Vincent van Gogh, Edvard Munch, and James Ensor proved particularly influential to the Expressionists, encouraging the distortion of form and the deployment of strong colors to convey a variety of anxieties and yearnings.

The artist attempts to depict not objective reality but rather the subjective emotions and responses that objects and events arouse in him. He accomplishes his aim through distortion, exaggeration, primitivism, and fantasy and through the vivid, jarring, violent, or dynamic application of formal elements.

The Expressionist is looking for a return to our inner, primitive state, in which we feel subordinate to life as a whole and in which we feel the often, ominous powers at work within ourselves, just as we see this in nature around us.

GYMKHANA MATEMÁTICA 2015 DE LA COMUNIDAD DE MADRID

El pasado 26 de abril se celebró en el centro comercial El Bercial de Getafe la Gymkhana Matématica 2015 de la Comunidad de Madrid.

Como viene siendo habitual muchos de nuestros estudiantes del SIES Humanes en Cubas mostraron su interés por participar en esta actividad que ofrece a los chicos y chicas la posibilidad de disfrutar resolviendo problemas de matemáticas trabajando en grupo junto a sus compañeros, haciéndoles ver que es posible divertirse pensando, haciendo y estudiando matématicas.

XIX CONCURSO DE PRIMAVERA DE MATEMÁTICAS

Como todos los años cuando se acerca la primavera, un grupo de profesores y profesoras de matemáticas de distintos centros públicos educativos de la Comunidad de Madrid con la ayuda de la Facultad de Matemáticas de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid organizan el Concurso de Primavera de Matemáticas. 

Con la organización de este concurso pretenden ofrecer el marco para que los chicos y chicas disfruten resolviendo problemas de matemática además de estimular y motivar a una gran mayoría de estudiantes, haciéndoles ver que es posible disfrutar pensando, haciendo y estudiando matemáticas. Es también otro de los objetivos potenciar los aspectos no mecánicos de las matemáticas que sabemos que ayudan a conformar las estructuras de pensamiento en los adolescentes y que, tristemente, están desapareciendo de los libros de texto: razonamientos lógicos; geometría clásica; cuestiones de paridad; propiedades de los números; probabilidad; problemas abiertos....

En el primer año de andadura de la Sección del IES Humanes en Cubas, también hemos querido estrenarnos en este concurso. Tras realizar la primera fase de clasificación en la que participaron diecisiete de nuestros estudiantes de 1º ESO, elegimos a tres de ellos para participar en la segunda y última fase.

El sábado 18 de abril de 2015 tuvo lugar esta segunda prueba en la Facultad de Matemáticas de la UCM. Aquí os dejamos una foto de nuestros chicos unos minutos antes del gran reto.

Si queréis divertiros resolviendo los 25 problemas a los que se enfrentaron nuestros estudiantes aquí podéis encontrarlos. ¿Muy difíciles?  

Os dejamos también las soluciones, pero sólo para que comprobéis lo bien que lo habéis hecho!!!

ENHORABUENA A TODOS LOS ESTUDIANTES QUE PARTICIPARON EN LA PRIMERA FASE Y EN ESPECIAL A LOS TRES QUE CONSIGUIERON CLASIFICARSE PARA LA FINAL!!!!!!

IMPRESSIONISM

"Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct"

Claude Monet

Impressionism is a 19th-century art movement that originated with a group of Paris-based artists. It can be considered the first distinctly modern movement in painting. Their independent exhibitions brought them to prominence during the 1870s and 1880s, in spite of harsh opposition from the conventional art community in France. Its influence spread throughout Europe and eventually the United States. The name of the style derives from the title of a Claude Monet work, Impression,(Impression Sunrise), which provoked the critic Louis Leroy to use this term in a satirical review published in the Parisian newspaper Le Charivari.

In turning away from the fine finish and detail to which most artist of their day aspired, the Impressionists aimed to capture the momentary, sensory effect of a scene, the impression objects made on the eye in a quick instant. To achieve this effect, many impressionist artist moved from the studio to the streets and countryside, painting en plein air.

TRIANGULATED STRUCTURES

"DESIGN AND BUILD A STRUCTURE THAT SUPPORT YOUR OWN WEIGHT FROM A MATERIAL LIKE PAPER, IF IT IS RECYCLED, BETTER"

CHROMATIC CIRCLE

Before beginning to paint by using colors, students from SIES Humanes in Cubas have been experimeting with the chormatic circle. A color circle, based on magenta, yellow and cyan, is traditional in the field of art. Sir Isaac Newton developed the first circular diagram of colors in 1666. Since then, scientists and artists have studied and designed numerous variations of this concept. A chromatic circle is a visual representation of colors arranged according to their chromatic relationship.

Some of the students have painted a 36 color wheel and the rest have tried only with 12 colors. In order to paint a chromatic circle you have to begin by positioning primary hues (cyan, yellow and magenta) equidistant from one another, then create a bridge between primary colors using secondary (orange, green and violet) and tertiary colors. In this way you  get a 12 color circle. If you would like to obtain a 36 color circle, you have to mix the obtained colors with white and black and you have it!!!

GOTHIC STAINED GLASSES

In the 12th century, as Gothic cathedrals began popping up all across Europe, those in charge of decorating these fabulous structures were faced with a new challenge: Given the grand scale and great importance of these bildings, how should they be decorated? Gothic artists responded to this challenge in a variety of ways. On the outside, Gothic sculptors decked their cathedrals with an ever-growing array of decorative sculptures. On the inside, Gothic glaziers took advantage of advances in Gothic engineering to build soaring walls of stained glass, flooding the interior with light.

These stained glass windows were the multimedia stories of their day. Since very few people could read at the time, stained glass windows offered illiterate Christians a glimpse into the tales of the Bible. Fitting pieces of glass together in lead frames, Gothic glaziers wrote the stories of the Bible, not in word, but in light. 

ROMAN MOSAICS

Roman mosaics were made during the Roman period, throughout the Roman Empire. Mosaics were used in a variety of private and public buildings, often incorporating social, entertaining, mythological or personal scenes within wider geometric patterns. Mosaics were traditionally made with bits of tile or glass, but we are going to make our mosaic with pieces of paper. The only rule is to have fun. This activity, increases our ability to develop our sense about beautification and sublimity as well as our patience, ability to concentrate, psychomotricity and promotes team work.

HOW TO MAKE A PAPER MOSAIC

Materials:

- A cardboard for the base
- Cardboard, shiny wrapping paper, newspaper, magazines...
- Scissors
- Glue

Steps:

1. Lightly draw a picture on a piece of paper but do not shade it or put a lot of details in it. The objective is simply to create an outline for the image you will be creating.

2. Get some colored paper. You can use cardboard, shiny wrapping paper or you can look for some magazines with brightly colored photos.

3. Cut or shred the paper into small pieces. You can make regular pieces, like squares or triangles, or let the shapes be irregular for a different effect.

4. Glue your pieces of paper over the sketch you just made. Leave a small gap between each piece for a tiled effect, or place them close together or overlapping for a different look.