Biodiversity in Colombia: How much do you know?

September 11, 2022 is National Biodiversity Day. This is an opportunity to reflect on our behaviour as citizens towards the environment and take action to help protect Colombia´s environmental wealth. 

One of the reasons why the National Biodiversity Day is commemorated on September 11 is to remember José Celestino Mutis, who died on September 11, 1808 and who, with the Botanical Expedition, left behind a significant collection of plants that are a remarkable basis for Colombian’s biodiversity national inventory.

Scan, Participate and Win! What is biodiversity? How much do you know about Colombia’s biodiversity? The Science department and Zasqua invites our students, parents, teachers and the admin staff to test their knowledge about biodiversity in Colombia. 

• Look out for the QR codes posted around the school billboards and in the weekly bulletin from the 12th to the 16th of September. 
• Scan and answer the trivia questions
• Five mouth-watering prizes await the participants with the best scores!

Preschool and elementary: Each class will watch a video with their science teacher during one of their classes. Then those who want to participate will pick up a trivia question card from their science teacher and then turn it in to the teacher after answering the questions. 

During the last academic year, 5th grade students have dedicated their science classes to explore some of the ways human activities, what you and I do every day, disrupt the delicate balance in ecosystems. From “Making their Voice Count ” to“ Thinking Globally and Acting Locally”, they have one or two things to teach you about the importance of ecosystems and the contamination in the Rio Bogotá, the most important river in the Cundinamarca department. After studying the importance of ecosystems, the special properties of water and the invaluable role watersheds play in the water cycle, the students worked individually to create persuasive videos on selected research strands and later worked in groups to make podcasts on the importance of water.  We want you to become aware of these problems and the possible solutions. Please listen to them and be part of the solution.

Kingsley Ogbonna
Science Coordinator

Luego de una investigación en las clases de Sociales e Informática, los estudiantes de 2° crearon una serie de cuentos digitales sobre culturas indígenas. Estas historias fueron llevadas a la plataforma digital StoryJumper y los nogalistas fueron los encargados de darle vida con su creatividad. Les compartimos algunos de los trabajos apoyados por Fabián Padilla, profesor de tecnología, y Antonette Bretton, profesora de Sociales y Español.

• Afro
• Guambianos
• Palenqueros
• Pijao
• Sikuani
• Achagua
• Sikuani
• Embera
• Paez
• Sikuani
• Wayuú
• Embera