Natural Science test

You have your Natural Science test on Unit 3: Reproduction on Friday, 5th May.

We will correct the review sheet in class on Thursday (6ºB-- we will do Natural Science instead of Social Science on Thursday.)

You must study:

--The diagrams of the male and female reproductive systems (label and explain what each part does.)
--The chart on page 40 about the different life stages
--The two types of sexual characteristics (primary and secondary) and when they appear
--The menstrual cycle
--Puberty changes in girls and boys
--Genes: what they are and why they are important
--Pregnancy and birth
--Gender equality (p. 49)

Good luck!

Repaso Ciencia y Tecnología para la Reválida: El cuerpo humano

Aquí os pongo enlaces para recordar lo que hemos trabajado en Naturales, en español. Prestad atención especial a todo lo que se refiere a la aplicación práctica: cómo podemos cuidar los distintos sistemas de nuestro cuerpo, la salud y los primeros auxilios, etc.  

El cuerpo humano:

Aparatos y órganos del cuerpo humano

La función de relación
Los sentidos
Aparato locomotor y nervioso
La musculatura
Esqueleto y músculos

 El aparato digestivo
La digestion
Hábitos alimentarios saludables
Los alimentos, la dieta, y los deportes

El aparato respiratorio
La respiración

El aparato circulatorio

El aparato excretor 1
El aparato excretor (juego)

Aparatos y órganos de la función de nutrición (juego)

Aparato reproductor maculino
Aparato reproductor masculino (juego)

Aparato reproductor femenino 1
Aparato reproducror femenino 2
Aparato reproductor femenino (juego)

El ciclo menstrual
La fecundación humana

El embarazo
La reproducción y el embarazo

La pubertad y la salud

Las etapas de la vida

Salud y enfermedades
La salud
Mejoras en la salud y la alimentación
Medidas de prevención y primeros auxilios
Cómo podemos ayudar en un accidente

Pregnancy and Birth

Human fertilisation

Pregnancy

 Birth

Reproduction and pregnancy

Watch full video here.

Respiratory and Excretory Systems

Nutrition Project

You are going to do a project about one of the processes of Nutrition.

--Individually or with one other person

--Make a video and bring it to me on a pendrive. You can use a mobile phone to record. If you cannot make the video at home, we can make it at school, but you must let me know as soon as possible if you need to do it at school.

--If you work with a partner, both people must speak in the video.

--You must include all of the parts described in the question for full credit.

--All projects must be handed in by Monday, 13th of March.

There are five options:

Option 1: Digestive System.

Using your Digestive System poster from Art, explain the steps in digestion. (Do not read the words from the poster—you must speak without reading.) Include information about the epiglottis, bolus, pancreas and liver.

Option 2: Circulatory System

Make the heart project (ask me for the photocopies) and use it to explain the process of circulation. Include the path of blood through the heart and the two types of circulation (you can use another diagram or picture as well.)

Option 3: Respiratory System

Make the lung model from this video:

Use it to explain the process of inhalation and exhalation. Then use another diagram or picture to help you explain the process of respiration.

Option 4: Excretory System

Make a model of the urinary system and use it to explain the process.

Nutrition Project: Healthy Habits

Make a brochure (folleto) or poster about healthy habits for each of the four systems, and explain them.

Sweat glands at the tips of your fingers!

Watch this close-up video of sweat glands at your fingertips:



Your excretory system at work!

Yaiza's presentations for Natural Science

Here are the presentations that we have seen in class:

Digestive system by Yaiza Martín from Kathleen Marcy

The respiratory system by Yaiza Martín from Kathleen Marcy

Excretory system by Yaiza Martín from Kathleen Marcy

Food diary project!!!!!

Remember, you have a food diary project that will count as a test grade in Natural Science.

It has three parts:

-- a food diary that lists everything you eat in three days
--a food pyramid to help you analyse your diet to see if it is healthy, and a personal reflection about your diet
--a food diary proposal for you to create a healthy diet plan for three days, using the information from the healthy diet pyramid. On the back is a grading rubric that I will complete.

6ºA must hand in the project to me on Wednesday.  If you have any questions or need any of the worksheets, you can ask me on Monday.

6ºB will receive the third worksheet (food diary proposal) on Monday. You must give it to me on Friday.

Tenéis un proyecto "Food Diary" que cuenta como un examen en Naturales. Tiene tres partes:

--un diario donde tienes que escribir todo lo que comes durante tres días
--un pirámide alimentaria para ayudarte a analizar tu dieta y hacer una reflexión personal
--una propuesta de dieta sana para tres días aplicando la información del pirámide. En la parte de atrás hay una rúbrica de evaluación

6ºA lo tiene que entregar el martes. Si tenéis preguntas o necesitáis alguna ficha, me lo comunicáis el lunes.

a 6ºB os doy la última ficha (food diary proposal) el lunes y me lo tenéis que entregar el viernes.

The Circulatory System

Do you know what is in our blood?

Watch to find out!



What do you know about blood circulation?  Watch this and test yourself.






Do you recognise this vehicle?



How about this one?



Here's a song!


The Bloodmobile
The Bloodmobile
A delivery service inside us

We begin in the heart's right ventricle
And travel to the lungs
Red blood cells get oxygen
To take back to the heart
Then from the left side of the heart
And out to every cell
Delivered by the Bloodmobile

The food that's been digested
Is waiting at the dock
To be taken to the tissues
In the body's grocery truck
So from the small intestine
It's carried everywhere
Delivered by the Bloodmobile

The Bloodmobile
The Bloodmobile
A delivery service inside us

The white blood cells are soldiers
That fight infectious germs
They make the antibodies
Their weapons in the fight
The army is transported
Wherever they must go
Delivered by the Bloodmobile

We need to send a message
To tell a limb to grow
Or speed the heart or regulate
Your hunger or your sleep
The hormones are the message
They're sent from many glands
The messenger's the Bloodmobile

Somebody's got to haul out the trash
To the liver and the kidneys
It's not a pretty job
Carbon dioxide gets carried
To the lungs to be exhaled
And the garbage truck is the Bloodmobile

The Bloodmobile
The Bloodmobile
A delivery service inside us
To carry oxygen, nutrients, things that fight infections
Do the trash collection and deliver the mail
And we're all (and we're all)
Delivered by the Bloodmobile

How your bones and skeleton work

Ready for another video? Watch these:

 





Play this game to help you practice the bones. Click here.

Another game

And another!

What about muscles?

Muscle game

How your nose and tongue work

How do we see? How do we hear? How does our skin work? How does our brain work?

Why do we....

In Natural Science, we are studying about the Nervous System. The brain is such a fascinating organ!  Some questions came up in class:

Why do we yawn? 



Here's an explanation from KidsHealth

But there have been new studies that suggest that yawning helps us cool down our brains and think more clearly.  Read this article for more information! 

Giving a response

We are learning about body systems in Natural Science. First we are going to study how we receive information, process information, and give a response.

Here is a nice summary of the process.

Here is a game about the Nervous System.