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SOCIAL AND NATURAL SCIENCE

Can you...?

Move the wheel... Can you say three things about these characters??

Timeline of History

Have a look at the timeline I have made for you.

Hope you like it!!

LA FUNCIÓN DE NUTRICIÓN

How the Nervous System Works...

THE NERVOUS SYSTEM

CELLS and the HUMAN BODY

España: Organización Politica

Geografía Española II

Geografía Española

HABSBURG and BOURBON DINASTIES

APPS to create Timelines

I’ve found a few websites with recommended apps to create Timelines. Here they are:

Top 20 Sites and Apps for creating Timelines: Tech & Learning

5 great Ipad Apps to create timelines: Education Technology & Mobile Learning

Seis Apps para crear líneas del tiempo: AulaPlaneta

Hope you find them helpful!!!

                                     

SOCIAL SCIENCE TASK

                       

In your computer or tablet, make a vertical timeline of all the periods in History (prehistory and history) until the 19th century.

Mark the most relevant events of each period: add pictures, dates and a short explanation.

DEATH DATE: 28th January

Human Body Book - Example

QUESTIONS: The Reproductive System

  1. What are the primary sex characteristics?
  2. What are the secondary sex characteristics?
  3. When do secondary sex characteristics start appearing?
  4. When do boys usually go through puberty?
  5. What happens to a girl’s hips during puberty?
  6. What parts of a woman’s body produce egg cells?
  7. What is the menstrual cycle? Explain it.
  8. How long is a woman’s menstrual cycle?
  9. What are the external sex organs of the female reproductive system?
  10. What are the internal organs of the female reproductive system? Where are they located?
  11. What are the female gametes called?
  12. What is the muscular canal between the vulva and the uterus called?
  13. What parts of the male reproductive system are external?
  14. Which parts of the man’s body produce sperm cells?
  15. What is the bag of skin around the testicles called?
  16. What do the seminal vesicles produce?
  17. What protects the glans at the end of the penis?
  18. How does fertilisation occur?
  19. When does the embryo join itself to the wall of the uterus?
  20. What does the afterbirth include?

Baby Fertilization

What a Wonderful World

Once Upon a Life... THE MUSCLES and THE FAT

Once Upon a Life... BONES and THE SKELETON

Questions and Answers: CIRCULATORY and EXCRETORY SYSTEMS

1. Why does the body need nutrients and oxygen? How are they carried around our bodies?

The body needs nutrients and oxygen to live. They are carried around our bodies by the circulatory system.

2. What does the body do with the substances it doesn’t need or which are harmful?

It eliminates them by the digestive and the excretory system.

3. What does the circulatory system do?

The circulatory system takes oxygen and nutrients to all the tissues of the body, it also picks up waste products like carbon dioxide, and it takes them to organs that eliminate them.

4. Which systems are involved in the process of waste elimination?

The digestive system and the excretory system are involved in the process of waste elimination.

5. Explain: pulmonary circulation and general circulation.

Blood flows around the body in two different circuits: pulmonary circulation and general circulation.

During pulmonary circulation, blood flows from the heart to the lungs. In the lungs, the blood releases carbon dioxide and picks up oxygen. Then the blood flows back to the heart. This oxygenated blood is a bright red colour.

During general circulation, oxygenated blood flows from the heart to the rest of the body. The oxygen goes into the tissues of the body and the blood picks up carbon dioxide. Then the blood flows back to the heart. This deoxygenated blood is a dark red colour.

6. What is the difference between oxygenated blood and deoxygenated blood?

The oxygenated blood is a bright red colour and the deoxygenated blood is a dark red colour.

 7. What does the blood carry? What does it contains?

The blood carries oxygen to the heart and carbon dioxide to the lungs.

The blood contains liquid plasma and solid blood cells.

8. How many types of blood cells are there? Name them and say what their functions are.

There are three types of blood cells: red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets.

The red blood cells carry oxygen and also contain some carbon dioxide.

The white blood cells fight infections in the body.

The platelets help to form a solid clot when there is a cut in a blood vessel.

9. Where do the blood vessels go?

The blood vessels are special tubes that carry blood all around the body.

10.  Which blood vessels carry blood to the right atrium?

The pulmonary veins carry blood to the right atrium.

11. What are the capillaries?

Capillaries are tiny blood vessels that connect the smallest arteries to the smallest veins.

12.  How many chambers has the heart got? How are they called?

The heart contains four open spaces called chambers. The two upper chambers are the right atrium and the left atrium. The two lower chambers are the right ventricle and the left ventricle.

13.  Which chamber of the heart pumps blood around the body?

The ventricles pump blood out of the body.

14.  What does the septum do?

The septum divides the heart into two sides: right and left.

15.  Where does blood pick up oxygen?

The blood picks up oxygen in the lungs.

16.  What are the functions of the excretory system? Name the two main parts of the excretory system.

The excretory system eliminates waste products and harmful substances from the body.

The two main parts of the excretory system are the sweat glands and the urinary tract.

17.  What do sweat glands do? What does sweat contain?

Sweat glands produce sweat which is a liquid that contains water, waste products and mineral salts.

18.  What are the main parts of the urinary tract? And what are their functions?

The main parts of the urinary tract are the kidneys, the ureters, the bladder and the urethra.

19.  Explain the process of eliminating waste products and harmful substances through the urinary tract.

The kidneys filter the blood to remove waste. Then they mix the waste with water to produce urine. The ureters carry urine from your kidneys to your bladder. The bladder stores urine until you go to the toilet. The urethra carries the urine out of your body when you go to the toilet.

20.Where are the kidneys? What vessels carry blood to the kidneys?

The kidneys are two bean-shaped organs that are next to your spinal column.

The vessels that carry blood to the kidneys are the renal arteries.