LIFESTYLE AND ALTERNATIVES NEW

Today I'm going to show you a curious lifestyle new. It's about the use of our mobile phone. Nowadays, everyone has a mobile phone and we're becoming more and more dependant. Someones say that some people wouldn't be able to live without the smartphone. Are them good for our health? You will see it in this fantastic new:

Study finds smartphones not useful in helping adolescents maintain weight loss

Teens use smartphones successfully to do almost anything: learn new skills, communicate with friends, do research and catch Pokémon. But a new study finds smartphones aren't as useful for helping teens maintain weight loss.
In a 24-week behavioral study that combined traditional weight control intervention with smartphone-assisted helps, researchers found that teens lost weight initially, but couldn't maintain it when smartphones were the only tool helping them stay on track.

"We know that teens are on their phones, which gives us a way to intervene in the moment," said lead author and BYU psychology professor Chad Jensen. "We wanted to determine whether we could effectively use texting and a commercially-available smartphone app to help adolescents with weight loss."
The study, published in the Journal of Medical Research took place during two consecutive 12-week periods, the first of which combined electronic (smartphone) intervention and traditional in-person treatment. During this period, each of the 16 participants met weekly with a clinician and other participants to share their experiences and discuss topics like adopting healthy eating patterns, reading food labels and increasing physical activity throughout the day. In addition to these meetings, the teens were encouraged to record their daily food intake and exercise on the Daily Burn app. They also received text messages from the researchers three times each day to encourage healthy behavior and pose thought-provoking questions about motivations.
Study participants achieved modest weight loss during this period, decreasing their BMI by 0.08 points on average.

But the in-person meetings were removed for the second 12 weeks of the study, so the only interventions helping the teens stay motivated were the daily texts and self-monitoring on the Daily Burn app. During this period, self-monitoring rates dropped from nearly 50 percent to 16.8 percent and the teens regained their lost weight.

http://www.news-medical.net/news/20161020/Study-finds-smartphones-not-useful-in-helping-adolescents-maintain-weight-loss.aspx

In my opinion, this is a very actual topic and it's important to show the disadvantages of the mobile phone despite the fact that it is very useful and innovative.

PORTOFOLIO

Name.......................Oihan..Berasategi...................................... Group....1.B.... Self-assessment of European and International Competence You could periodically use it by filling in the right level (1-6)
	Domain EIO-1	Knowledge of Europe/EU (EIO-1.X.1)	Collecting, analyzing, presenting and discussing information on European and international issues. ( EIO-1.X.2)	Steps towards active (European) citizenship. ( EIO-1.X.3)
	I am an informed European citizen who can access, process and evaluate knowledge relevant to Europe and the wider world, and act upon it	4	3	4
	Domain EIO-2	Knowledge of daily life and the organization of the local community in another country (EIO-2.X.1)	Foreign language skills. ( EIO 2.X.2)	Attitude towards cultural diversity and confidence in an international setting ( EIO-2.X.3)
	I can communicate effectively and cope in everyday life in a European / international setting.	2	5	4
	Domain EIO-3	Cooperation with peers on societal issues from an international comparative perspective (EIO-3.X.1)	Cooperation with peers using ict and international project management skills. ( EIO 3.X.2)	Intercultural awareness and skills ( EIO-3.X.3)
	I can collaborate constructively with peers from other countries on a common thematic task or project.	3	3	4
	Domain EIO-4	Informal learning (EIO-4.X.1)	Work-related learning ( EIO 4.X.2)	Entrepreneurship ( EIO-4.X.3)
	I can work and learn in an informal and work-related context and demonstrate entrepreneurship in an European / international setting.	3	3	3

Could you reflect on next issues : 1. First foreign language: English

2. Second foreign language: French

3. Exchange: A French family put up me.

4. International orientation on future study: I want to continue studying French and English.

5. Participation in international contests: No

6. Europe Day 9 th May: A beautiful day.

7. Any activity you can add:

EARTH

Hello every body! Today, I'm going to write about my presentation.
This has been a work that we've done this term. It has been an exciting experience; but it's true that it isn't an easy work and it can create some nerves in your body.
I had to do a presentation about Earth and its tectonics. I made the presentation like a story, in fact, I firstly explained the earth beginnings and then, I started with the different periods of the Earth formation. After the different periods I concluded with tectonics: the history of the super continents, the nowadays situation and the different types of boundaries.
Here is the hole presentation. I hope you'll enjoy it:

EARTH

As we know, the Earth is the only planet that can support life. This is an amazing fact, considering that it was formed at the same time and trough the same
process as the other planets in the Solar System.

Earth began to form from the same cloud (mostly composed of hydrogen and helium) that formed our sun, the Solar System and even our galaxy. In fact, Earth is still forming and cooling, and it will be in the future.

The sun formed within a cloud of dust and gas that continued to shrink in upon itself by its own gravitational forces. This caused it to undergo the fusion process and give off it light, heat and other type of radiation.

During this process, the remaining clouds of gas and dust that surrounded the sun began to form into smaller lumps called planetesimals, which eventually formed into the planets we know today.

As we know, they are eight and they move around the sun because of gravity forces. If gravity didn't exist, they would move in a straight line in the universe.

Coming back to the Earth, I'm going to continue with the Earth formation. The Earth went through a catastrophic and intense period of formation. This period is called the Pre-Cambrian period and it's divided into three shorter periods: the Hadean, the Archean and the Proterozoic period.

By the Hadean period, Earth was continuously bombarded by asteroids, meteors and comets until it formed into a solid sphere.

As Earth began to take solid form, it had no free oxygen in its atmosphere. Its first atmosphere was also so poisonous, comprised of helium and hydrogen, that nothing would have been able to survive.

Earth's second atmosphere was composed mostly of gases like nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide, argon and other types of gases that were formed by the constant volcanic eruptions that happened during this time. It had also no free oxygen.
 
By the Archean, the Earth’s surface — or crust — began to cool and stabilise, creating the solid surface with its rocky terrain. Clouds formed as the Earth began to cool, producing enormous volumes of rainwater that formed the oceans.

During this period, first life began to appear and the world’s landmasses began to form. Earth initial life forms were bacteria, which could survive in the highly toxic atmosphere that existed during this time.

Toward the end of the Archean and at the beginning of the Proterozoic period, oxygen-forming photosynthesis began to occur. The first fossils were a type of blue green algae that could photosynthesise.

Some of the most exciting events in Earth’s history and life occurred during this time. The continents began to form and stabilise, creating the super continent Rodinia . Although Rodinia is composed of some of the same land fragments as the more popular super continent, Pangea, they are two different super continents.

Rodinia is thought to have broken up into eight smaller continents. Some of them were called Laurentia, Australia and East Antarctica.

The eight continents later re-assembled into another 'supercontinent' called Pangea. During the formation of this super continents, mountains were formed. For instance, the Urals of nowadays were formed during this time.

Nowadays, we have eight major plates. They are constantly moving and they are situated in the lithosphere. when they hit each other we can have three type of boundaries:

Free oxygen began to build up around the middle of the Proterozoic Period and made way for the emergence of life as we know it today. This increased oxygen created conditions that would not allow most of the existing life to survive and thus made way for the more oxygen-dependent life forms.

By the Holocene period, in the Cambrian Period and also known as the Age of Man, first human species were discovered. But I have to finish here...

Here you have two videos: the first one is more impressive and the second one explains better the tectonics situation of nowadays.




Some about the subject:
1. What type of boundaries can happen?
2. What were the first life forms?
3. Why do the planets of the Solar System move around the sun?
4. In which period of formation do the continents start to form?