This is a blog created by Ms Luminati (science teacher), Ms Mathis (English teacher) and Ms Burguière (science teacher) for the students of lycée expérimental André Malraux (Biarritz, France) who are learning science in English. They want to show that science is fun, interesting and easy particularly when it is done in English! This year we hope to work again with some fine European partners. Let us all have fun together!
Monday 6 November 2023
degrees
Notion about Degrees
First of all we're gonna talk about the three units temperature of the world:
- The Kelvin is the international unit of temperature and he's the most use.
-The absolute temperature is 0 Kelvin wich is equal to -273degrees, nothing can be colder.
-The temperature influence the fluid activity, higher the fluid is more the molecules are collide beetwen them
Degrees
In the world, there are three types of units: the celsius, the kelvin and the fahrenheit. The international unit is the Kelvin but the celsius is used more and has the same ladder. The fahrenheit is used in the USA because they have a problem with their space station.
Ena, Laia, Marie et Naomi
degrees
Celsius and farenheit are the international unit. Daniel Gabriel Farenheit created the unit farenheit
Lord Kelvin created the unit kelvin, Anders Celsius created the unit celsius. The formula to convert farenheit into celsius is (C*9/5)+32, and to convert celsius into farenheit is ((F-32)*5)9. Hot atmopher takes more places but cold atmospher takes less places.The metric convertion was created in 1975.
Thursday 19 October 2023
Black on Grey
Black on Grey, Mark Rothko, 1970
This painting is an acrylic on canvas featuring a black rectangle and a grey rectangle, which is a reminder of the title. Rohko wanted to represent death on his piece of art. The stacked rectangles may be read vertically as an abstracted Virgin bisected by horizontal divisions that indicate the supine Christ.
Sunday 15 October 2023
the hudson river school
"Niagara falls" by Louis Remy Mignot 1866 Oil on canvas |
The Hudson River School movement was a 19th-century art movement in the United States. It was characterized by picturesque landscapes in and around the Hudson Valley. The artists of this movement wanted to depict nature as it was, without embellishment or idealization.
Hudson River School painters often used bright, luminous colors to represent the seasons and the natural light of the Hudson Valley. They also paid great attention to detail and precision in their depictions of nature.
Some of the most famous artists of the Hudson River School include Thomas Cole, Frederic Edwin Church and Asher Durand. Their works were exhibited and admired not only in the United States, but also in Europe, where they helped popularize the movement.
Ultimately, the Hudson River School movement played a crucial role in establishing American artistic identity and influenced many later artists. The precision and beauty of their work continues to inspire artists today.
Pop art
Dog balloon:
Created by Jeff Koons in 1994
Material: stainless steel
Worth: 58,4 million $
Inspiration: everyday objects
Sculpture located in Los Angeles in the US
Very controversial before people think it’s too simplistic to be art.
Minimal Art
“Red Circle on Black”, Jiro Yoshihara, 1965
This amazing paint was created in 1965 by Jiro Yoshihara in Minimalism style. The artist is a pioneer of post-war Japanese art. He was inspired by Japanese calligraphy and Zen philosophy. He hand signed his artwork so it’s considered as extremely rare. Yoshihara used a technique for surface printing called Silkscreens. This artwork is the perfect representation of “less is more” a famous quote of minimalism art. In fact the colours used are monochromatic. The only motives are geometrical. I love this painting but I also really liked the mindset of the artist because while realising this artwork he said “Do what has never been done before”. “Red Circle on Black” definitely raised debates but I personally think that it deserves all of the fame it could possibly get.
Diptych Marilyn
Diptych Marilyn (1962) |
Friday 13 October 2023
The titan's goblet
The titan's goblet is an artwork from the Hudson River School movement, which is nicknamed as a painting within a painting by the metropolitan museum of art, New York USA.
It was made by Thomas Cole, the founder of this movement in 1833 and it is described as his most mysterious work which défies full explanation of regular art. Allegorical and imaginary landscape.
"Untilted" Donald Judd 1967
The work "Untitled" by Donald Judd in 1967 is a minimalist sculpture consisting of six stainless steel boxes of different sizes, each identical in shape. Judd was a renowned artist of the minimalist movement, and this piece embodies his philosophy of reducing to the essential, exploring geometry and simplicity of forms. It has become iconic in minimalist art and Judd's approach to artistic creation.
Monday 25 September 2023
Greece: the hottest day last summer
The whole world knows the hottest days which leads to the acidification of the seas. Europe suffers bigs heatwaves, especially in Greece. This summer in Greece it was one of the warmest summer, there were a lot of restriction for the security of people. There were so many forests on fire, the firemen were very active this summer.
AUSTRALIA IN FIRE
AUSTRALIA ON FIRE
The hottest day in Australia:
Australia
Because of the heat the fields were dry and animals couldn't eat, some of then died.It was so hot that houses were broken a little and begin to degrade. There were many forests which were on fire and lots of natural habitation animals were lost.Peoples who worked outside passed out it's too expensive to rebuilt every things and to hire people. For the first time it was more than 50°C, that was so high; To conclude be careful during the summer for nature,animals, people and shouldn't forget to drink enough water
Gregoire Raphael Naomi Camille
TSTL
The hottest day in Morocco
MOROCCO
Morocco is a country in the North East of Africa in Morocco there are two languages Berbere (Amazigh) and Arabic Morocco is one of the hottest country in the world. The heat can reach 60 degrees Celsius.
They are two different climates in the North it's mostly like France but in the south it's far more hotter, because of this climate the south of Morocco suffered of dryness.
Terminal STL
Maxim, Nathanaël, Naïma, Marie