WE HAVE MADE A COMENIUS GARDEN

We have made a beautiful comenius garden in our school. First employers of  the Town hall came to help us to prepare the land.

 Later childrem have planted, watered an took care of it,

They have understood that it´s so laborious to keep a natural space. They made a big effort and they also enjoyed a lot.

Thank you very much to "VIVEROS SÁNCHEZ" to give all the plants we needed to make this beautiful garden. Actually economic difficulties would have made impossible to do it.

A BEAUTIFUL PROJECT MADE BY CARLOS HOMBRADOS, PAULA MELGUIZO Y MARINA DE LA FUENTE FROM YEAR 6 ABOUT HOW WE MUST RESPECT THE NATURAL PARKS.

NATURAL PARKS

Rules to protect natural parks.

1. It is forbidden to camp.

2. Keep clean the surroundings and leave the rubbish in the bin.

                                

3. Respect the earth, plants and animals. Don´t take plants or hunt.

                                            

4. Don´t  introduce new species of animals or plants.

                                                             

 5. Leave always the used batteries in the places destined to them.
                                            

   6. Have a good and silence behaviour.
                              
7. Don´t start fires neither , throw tobacco...
                                       

8. Use always the roads that are indicated.

9. Respect the signals.

10. Don´t take any type of animals or plants.

11. Be respectful with the habitants that live where we are

 A place that can be a natural park must ... :

●Be representatived of being naturally system.

● Have a surface big enough that can  make the ecology evolutes.

● Represent little intervention to the naturally things.

●Not have people inside.

●Be surrounded by a protected territory.

The most important Natural Parks of Spain

Cabo de gata:

It is a Natural Park that have a beautiful promenade. It is situated in Almería.

 Ordesa and Monte Perdido:

It´s located in the pyrenean central in Huesca and forms part of the patrimony of the humanity of the UNESCO.

Picos de Europa:

It´s one of the most visited and in my opinion one of the most beautiful.

El Teide:

It´s the biggest natural park of the Canary Islands and thre it is the highest mountain of Spain.

Lagunas de Ruidera:

It´s formed by 15 lakes situated in the community of Castilla-La Mancha.

Hoces de Duratón:

It is situated in the province of Segovia, is perfect for preparing a journey making tourism visiting the rest archeologist , making sport-hiking or enjoying of the water where you swim, and you also can enjoy the nature and see a specie of vultures.

Natural Park of Islas Cíes:

It is situated on the tenth position of the natural park more visited in Spain and is formed by archipelagos: the Cíes - Ría de Vigo – Ons - Ría de Pontevedra - Cortegada and Sálvora - Ría de Arosa.

THE `ALTO TAJO ´

The natural park `Alto Tajo´ has an exceptional importance to keep the biodiversity. Have a large system of cannon and cascades. Today it´s the more beautiful zone more in Spain.

ANIMALS

There is a great variety of habitants in the Natural Park `Alto Tajo´. This has permit the existence of animals in an excellent state of conservation. Different birds and little mountain goats live in the numerous rocky walls that surround the fluvial canyons.

PLANTS

Natural park `Alto Tajo´ is characterize with the lot of plants that have. Are different species of extensive pine woods, laricio pine wood and resinero pine wood. 

NATURAL PARKS OF CASTILLA- LA MANCHA:

-`Alto Tajo´

-`Hayedo de Tejera Negra´

-`Calares del Río Mundo´

-`Barranco del Río Dulce´

A PROJECT MADE BY LYDIA OF 6TH B

NATURAL PARK

Why a zone of a Natural Park is declared Natural Park?

To declared Natural Park is necessary:

• Representative of its Natural system.

• Having a large surface, sufficient to permit the Natural and ecological processes.

• Submit little intervention on natural values.

• Not having inhabited inside.

• Being surrounded by a territory, to be declared as a protected area.

NATURALS PARKS IN SPAIN:

• Natural Park of “Doñana”: Cádiz, Sevilla y Huelva.

• Natural Park of “Cabo de Gata-Níjar”: Almería

                                

• Natural Park of “La Breña y Marismas de Barbate”: Cádiz.

                                                        

• Natural Park of “ Sierra de las Nieves”: Málaga.

• Natural Park of “ Sierra Nevada”: Granada and Almería.

NATURAL PARKS IN CASTILLA-LA MANCHA

•Natural Park “Alto Tajo.”

●Natural Park of “Hayedo de Tejera Negra.”

● Natural Park of “Calares del Río Mundo.”

●Natural Park of “Barranco del Río Dulce.”

Natural Park of “Serranía de Cuenca.”

●Natural Park of “Lagunas de Ruidera.”

●Natural Park of “Moncayo”: Zaragoza.

NATURAL PARK OF ALTO TAJO:

The Natural Park of Alto Tajo has a exceptional importance. It has a  extensive system of cannon,(considerate one of the most importance of Europe.) In this day constitute one of the zones more beauty of the Península Ibérica.

SHORT STUDY OF FLORA AND FAUNA

FAUNA:

The big variety of habitat present in the Natural Park of Alto Tajo. There permit the existence of animals in a excelent state of conservation, contitute this space protect one of the last refuge for menaces of big value like the aguile perdicera. Excelents examples of raptor rupicola like a real eagle, eagle perdicera, peregrino falcon, alimoche, vulture leonado and real own. Besides of birds, this habitat it occupied by small groups of wild goat.

FLORA:

The Natural Park of Alto Tajo is characterizaded for the big diversity of its flora.Inside of the limit vegetate near of 20% the total of especies presents in the iberica flora.A big mass of Pino silvestre, Pino laricio and Pino resinero exist.In the central zone of the park, there are vasts mass of sabina albar, catalogue between the best maintain of Europe. In the edges of Tajo and the affluents the species arboreas more representative are the black poplar, ash, willow and the elm.

A CONFERENCE ABOUT LAWS THAT PROTECT NATURAL PARKS.

José Angel Sastre is the director of the north range of mountains and in the ravine of the dulce river in Guadalajara. He came to Ocejon school to explain to our students the laws we have in our country that protect the Natural parks.

                             
                    Protection laws of nature parks follow the European guidelines.    

                In Spain the authorities, governments and institutions make a great effort to care  for our environment.

      We hope  the visit to our center of an important person who works daily in protecting natural areas makes in  our students to have a deeper awareness in  protecting the environment.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH TO THE DELEGATION OF AGRICULTURE FOR COOPERATING WITH US.

Marina and Jennifer, pupils from 6B have made this lovely movie maker video about natural parks.
http://youtu.be/jpm5C27x2Yo

IMAGES OF THE EARTH TAKEN FROM A SATELLITE

·       An unique collection of images of the Earth mainly provided by the United States Geological Survey (U.S.G.S.) and Partners of the Spanish Association of Remote Sensing (A.E.T.)

·       Remote Sensing is a tool of territorial information. A scientist taught us how satellites observe the Earth crust, how they take the photographs, how the images taken from outer space are registered, visualized and interpreted. She also explained how the Remote Sensing technique needs to be integrated in the Management and conservation of natural resources.

·       It consisted of 90x90 cm. photographs which were explained to us by a scientist: their situation and the distance each picture was taken from.

·       The exhibition included 2 panels about what  Remote Sensing satellites are and their existing applications.

There was also a projection of an audiovisual presentation on Remote Sensing.

Children of six year visiting the exhibition.

On the 22 of November   the boys and girls from 5º went to a trip that was about the trees.       

 They told us how we can count the years of the trees:  If we cut a slice of a trunk of a tree, we can see some rings that are dark and others that are light. The dark ones are the years that rained a lot and the light ones are the years that didn´t rain much. They also asked us what we can find in a forest, in a mountain… They also told us about the different layers of the soil, about how the earth worms fertilize the soil producing a kind of compost. We also learned that earth worms can eat up to 8 kilos of soil in all their lives and how long they could be(about 15 centimetres long). Then they showed us the library where we could see many kinds of trees and also what they made with them; bowls and cups, arrows and bows...

I think it was very interesting and everybody enjoyed it a lot.

Manuel Letón  Jiménez 5ºA

Our visit to the Hayedo de Cantalojas (Guadalajara)

­October 2011

Year 6 went to the Hayedo de Cantalojas last October. Hayedo means” beech forest”, and it is full of beech trees that share the ecosystem with some other types of trees, such as oaks, yews, pine trees and several types of bushes and grasses.

EXTENSION

Its total area is 1641 hectares of land, consisting of slate and quartzite. Its soil has few nutrients but it is rich in decomposing matter.

HABITATS:

Within the Park there is a variety of habitats, rocky, forested and grassland surrounded by rivers and streams.

This is a bridge that crosses a small stream of the river Lillas. There is another small river called river Zarzas. Both were almost dry because it didn´t rain for FIVE MONTHS!!!

We saw lots of beech trees, but you can also find pine trees, yews and birch trees.

The most beautiful tree we saw was this one, which is called the yew. Our teacher explained that scientists are investigating this tree in order to make a medicine to cure some types of cancer.

This is a small yew.

Salud, our guide, showed us a parasite that lives in the wild rose bush. It is a worm that nests here because it wants the protection of the spines.

Besides being in the middle of October, this year autumn has been lazy and the leaves of the beech trees were still green, though some of them were orange or red.

Our guide, Salud, was waiting for us when we arrived after two hours´ drive along the northwest landscape of our region.

In the area of rocks, there is a reptile found in great quantity, “the Darkgreen Lizard”

 In the forest, we saw many birds, but we liked a hawk best. There are some others, for example eagles, chickadees, Titmice, finches…. We did not find any mammals, except a deer, but there are dormices, weasels, wild cats, wild boars, and nine species of bats. Sometimes, you can see otters playing in the water or building dams.

Among the shrubs we distinguished the heather, the  blueberry, the juniper and the  wild rose.

This bush is a wild rose and we studied its fruits which are small and red. They have little seeds inside which are like the seeds of the tomatoes. People use them since long time ago to prepare beverages.

We saw many mushrooms, though it was dry, but we could not see the most wanted: the boletus. It is an edible one, but it is forbidden to take outside the park.

Its climate is very rainy and wet, which is strange in the center of the Iberian Peninsula, so we say it has a “microclimate”.

Summers are mild and cool.

Winters are hard and cold, with frequent snowfall.

In Guadalajara, we have the best honey in Spain. Those are bee-hives. They were empty.

We had a very hot day with a temperature of 35ºC.

WE had a lovely day in the country. The park was lovely.