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Out-of-the-classroom learning experience like exposure trips makes a unique contribution to a student’s knowledge and offers many different benefits to them, it also improves their sense of place and wonders the world around them.

Stonyhurst Southville International School exposure trips let students learn lessons that complement those taught within the classroom while having fun at the same time. I firmly believe that it is effective in supplementing and furthering student learning since students get to visit various places such as museums and the like that expose students to different perspectives that can enlighten their minds and have real-world experience. It will build a greater depth of understanding, based on personal experience, and will lead to numerous taking off points for developing a student’s interests.

Nonetheless, some students believe that exposure trips are ineffective because they do not learn anything from it and it will just cost much money. It is because the payments that they are going to pay for the trips are expensive. In addition, they also find the places tedious, tiring and irrelevant. Although some of the students find it not appealing, Exposure Trips of SSIS-M offers activities that undoubtedly make students learn, discover and have fun simultaneously.

Educational Trips can be efficient in furthering student knowledge since learning is not only limited to the four walls of the classroom. It can open up the mind of students in terms of cultural understanding. An example would be the trip of Senior High School students in Taal, Batangas wherein they wandered around the scenic streets and church of Taal.

The students learned another culture different from the culture that they are familiar with especially the international students. This trip allows students to open their eyes to new environments and new cultures. It positively changes their outlook on a global level and triggers ideas and solutions that may not derive from their natural everyday behavior and habits. Moreover, researchers believe that students who go on out-of-the-classroom trips become more empathetic, tolerant and respectful towards different culture and the society as a whole.

Since students are exposed to different people with different culture when they travel, their social skills are being tested and developed. Last 2016, Senior High School students conducted a social experiment in Taal, Batangas wherein they will act their real personality differently. Most of them learned something from the social experiment; they learned that some people would help a person when in need, while some people will make fun and will act indecently when a person is wearing sexy or whatever weird clothes a person can wear.

By doing this social experiment, the mindset of the students broadened. They learned that people will always have different perspectives and views about various things and will have to accept it even if it is different to their opinions and outlooks. Additionally, it developed their skills and self-confidence that they can apply later on in their life.

Along with the engagement of the subjects that required these experiences, the students bonding that occurs on trips improves the learning experience and creates a learning community as students continue onward in a discipline. Aside from it, they also create lifelong memories among classmates, which is no doubt a fun learning experience in itself.

SSIS-M goes to different places that – they believe can also develop students cognitive skills. Places like mind museums can help them experience a more comprehensive, realistic picture of the lessons that, in the room, may have only been displayed textually and abstractly. After all, some of the museums are created to spur curiosity and actively engage the visitor, so schools like SSIS-M have a very professional partner working with them to help the students learn.

A study by Shamna (n.d.) states that student who sees, touches and smells artifacts and original sources of books becomes motivated to in-depth study the lesson when students return to the room. Trips stimulate learning beyond what books and videos can give to the learning environment. Students are learning in an informal setting when on an Educational trip. It is directed by professionally trained staff, such as at a museum or science center. This allows all students to learn without realizing it, which reaches more students from different learning styles.

These points are the reasons why I believe that exposure trips are effective in furthering student’s learning. To further help the institution in order to have better educational trips, I suggest that the school target places that are engaging and captivating to the eyes of the students at the same time gaining new knowledge and making the trip worth it. It is also advisable to choose places that align with existing lesson plans to synchronize with room learning. A trip that teachers choose for these reasons can serve to demonstrate complex lessons in a classroom discussion by giving more precise information. The specialists who are in the places that the students will go to may be able to provide professional perception from advanced study or direct experience that teachers could never provide alone.

In this experiment, we need to get the temperature of the solvent before and after mixing it with the salt. We are to identify if the reaction of the solvent and salt is endothermic or exothermic. If the temperature rises, therefore, it is exothermic while if the temperature decreases it is endothermic. Moreover, our temperature is not that accurate because when we’re getting the temperature of each solution it doesn’t change at all, so we need to redo all over again. After re-doing all of it eventually it kind of change at least 1 degree.

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Experimenting is one of the most exciting things to do in Chemistry. In our Chem. Class, we are tasked to do an experiment called Fischer Esterifications. So our group divided the things to bring to each of us.  On the day of the test; we prepare the things we are going to use, check if the materials are complete, and so on. After doing so, we started to do the experiment we divided the tasks for us to save time and also for us to complete the whole experiment. My group mate Elaine did the measurement of the organic acid and the alcohol. Qiara did the cleaning and helped Elaine as well as Bjorn who helped them to put the mixture and to put it on the hot plate, while I observe and distinguish if the hot plate were hot or if the mixture is already okay to smell. As the time pass by our experimentation is going well, however, our hot plate is taking too long to boil so what we do is we combine the test tube in one glass jar and boil it together, so it’ll be fast. After the first batch of the mixture boiled we started smelling it and somehow we smelled something that is different from the first smell of the mixtures. So we’re kinda’ happy because our experiment is doing well. On the other hand, some of the jars of the other groups started to crack while ours isn’t; we also borrowed a bowl-like to Ms. Daisy. When we’re ready to smell the mixture, my teammate accidentally pulls all the test tube causing the other one to slip into the bowl and it being spilled with the water. Even if that happens we remain calm and redo that mixture, but the time is limited, so we didn’t finish the experiment.

The whole experience was fun because I got to learn new things and reminisce some of my childhood memories because of the smell of one of the esters which are a plastic balloon. And we got a lot of points because of the experiment. (hehe)  I would love to finish and redo the test over again.

After watching the video of  Quantum Mechanics, I’ve learned a lot of things and left with plenty of questions.

Quantum mechanics are laws that redefine our understanding of reality, and it rules in every atom and every piece of matter. So what if this theory isn’t just telling us about small things, what if it is telling us about reality? They’ve used them for 75 years for predicting how atoms and particles should behave, experiment after experiment, the quantum laws has always been right.

A scientist named Niel Bohr depict that atoms are like our solar system but unlike the solar system nucleus can’t move in just any orbit instead only certain orbits were allowed. When an atom is heated, the electron becomes agitated it moves to another orbit and when it moves, and each downward leap it emits energy in the form of light in a very particular wavelength, and this is when we get the phrase quantum leap.

But then again quantum mechanics, the word itself is a game of chance. All atoms and subatomic particles in this world are ruled by probability, not a certainty. On the other hand, Einstein refused to believe this, and he once said that “God does not throw dice,” I also think that God do all of these with certainty and purpose.

I believe that there is a lot to learn and numerous discoveries in Quantum Mechanics.

My digital footprint is kinda broad because i use a lot of sites in the internet like facebook, twitter, instagram, snapchat and such. I also always update it everytime i can. I can say that i posted a lot of things. I consider it as my footprints i leave online.

If there’s some thing i want it to say about me.I want it to say that i am well raised by my parents and guardians. That i respect people who deserve my resprect. And most specially that i am a responsible person that know how to properly use media sites.

For me, positive digital reputation is imporatant because you never know what might happen if your informations get into the wrong hands. You should make sure you do not post anything on the web that you would not want any of your family members to see. Also for future reference, you may be applying for a job/university etc. Your background should be decent enough.

A unique author gives a visit to our school to tell us some things about her writing experience. It is no other than the author of She’s Dating the Gangster, a movie blockbuster hit. It is exciting that a famous author will share and give a talk about her novel. She told us that she didn’t expect that her novel will be that famous. Miss Bianca wrote it when she was in college just randomly typing the story either when she is free or when she is bored in her class.

It is a story came from what ifs. What if a boy wanted you to be his girlfriend unexpectedly? What if he wants her ex-girlfriend to be jealous of you? What if she is sick? What if you’re also sick? What if there is no cure for your illness? That is some of what ifs in her mind because of that what ifs she surprisingly came up with a good story.

She told us that some of the characters are a real person. But the whole characters in the story were her. She distributes her personality in each character so that she can understand each feeling. Miss Bianca also told us that if she was given a chance to change her story; she wouldn’t make any difference even if she wanted to. Because the whole story won’t be the same, She’s Dating the Gangster anymore if she changes some of it.

Miss Bianca does not want to be that famous or well known. Because for her, it will just stress her out if a lot of people know her. She didn’t even want to read the comments of her book due to the reason that she does not want to read bad comments about her novel.

These are some of the things she shared with us. I hope someday I have the chance to meet her again. For me, she truly is an inspiration. ❤