Heart dissection mannequin challenge.

3° A group. Biology.

2016-17

I.E.S. Pedro de Luna

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IGCSE exam day

Now that the IGCSE examd days are close by, I´m showing your this couple of videos from  CambridgeSchools.

This first video will help Cambridge students understand what to expect from exam day.

 

This second video is for Cambridge exams officers but I also find it interesting for students so that they know how we invigilators must do on that day.

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App to prepare your IGCSE Biology exam

A funny and useful app to help you preparing the IGCSE exams from your smart phone: IGCSE Biology: Guru–App GCSE – Android Apps

You have lots of past papers available to practice, plus links to recommended slideshare presentations and youtube videos covering the Biology Sullabus for IGCSE.

The features of this app are:

800 multiple choice questions for IGCSE Biology Functionality: 1) Review questions and answers immediately 2) Available for offline viewing 3) No hidden charges 4) No login required 5) Advertising sponsored 6) Past year papers and answers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1L1J1gEFbY

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Biology trailers by Gregorio Productions

 

 

This channel by  Frank Gregorio is dedicated to providing teachers and students a powerful new resource to combat student apathy. Here, you will find dramatic, visually stunning video “trailers” in the natural sciences choreographed to powerful music, designed to motivate and inspire students at the beginning of a lesson to the wonders of Biology, Earth Science, Astronomy or Chemistry

El canal de youtube de  Frank Gregorio guarda una serie de espectaculares vídeos útiles para la clase de ciencias bilingüe, aporta un material extraordinario para combatir el desinterés del alumnado. Esta serie de vídeos sirven de introducción a las unidades de clase de ciencias, basado en la idea de tráiler presentan con música e imágenes espectaculares una serie de preguntas y conceptos para atraer la atención sobre temas de Biología, Geología, Astronomía o Química. Algunos ejemplos:

• Introduction to Earth Science

  • Introduction to Rocks

  • Introduction to Earthquakes

  • Introduction to Volcanoes

• Introduction to Biology

  • Introduction to the Origin of Life

  • Introduction to the Characteristics of life

  • Introduction to Cells

  • Introduction to Genetics

  • Introduction to DNA

  • Introduction to Evolution

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The Organ Trail -Webquest

The Organ Trail is a very good webquest on tissues and organs based on a previous  lesson plan by Stacy Baker & Tracy Trimpe.

The worksheet is here.

It starts with some questions about the types of tissue which info is very well compiled in this doc:  The Four Basic Types of Human Tissue.

Then some interesting and funny webs about the organs, as :

• All Systems Go!
• The Amazing Human Body
• How the Body Works
• Nature’s Best, the Human Body
• Nervous System Game

After visiting these webspupils have to complete 2 tasks: the writting of an original letter defending the function of the organ that your represent plus a poster summing up its functions.

Some more websites toget info are:

• Biology4Kids.com – Body Systems
• Encyclopedia – the Human Body
• KidsBiology.com
• Nature’s Best, the Human Body

The webquest page show the 2 rubric tables for these tasks.

Thanks to the authors for sharing this good resource.

You can find more useful webquest by Mr. Hill at his WebQuests page.

 

 

Internal Organs of the Human Body from The Household Physician, 1905

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Biology Questions and Answers

From this web http://www.biology-questions-and-answers.com/index.html

You can check a long list of biology questions and answers, for example, to prepare your ecology exam you could check this out:

Ecology

1. Ecosystem Concepts
2. Biomes
3. Food Chains and Trophic Pyramids
4. Biogeochemical Cycles
5. Biodiversity
6. Ecological Interactions
7. Ecological Succession
8. Population Ecology
9. Environmental Issues

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Bruil Park and Ebro excursion – 4 ESO

We met at Magdalena square with our bikes and once we were together we went to the Bruil park. There we started recapitulating the trees that we had learnt the previous Tuesday with José Luis Garde. At the beginning we guessed only three or four. So to recognize more trees we did some activities, we were divided into four teams and we had to do some challenges: recognizing some trees, locating some trees in the map, making photos…

The first was to found the trees with their names in signs. The second was to locate these trees in a map of the park. And the third was to locate some trees marked in a map and identify them with a tree guide. We saw these trees: Encina, arbol del amor, ciruelo rojo, olivo, cipres, acacia tres espinas, cedro, platano de sombra, ailanto…

When we ended this we went through the bank of the river Huerva, from the Bruil park to its mouth in the river Ebro. Once in the Ebro we followed it river up. First in the right margin and then, after crossing the iron bridge, in the left margin, so we crossed the Puente de Hierro and from there to Helios and then we continued riding along the Ebro river near his water.

The path was okey until the entrance of the Expo, it was full of water, flooded.The major part of us went backwards to use the stairs, but some “brave” people decided to go through the water. They finished soaked and tired.

We did a stop to rest a bit and to let the soaked ones to warm up a bit. Then we began the expositions about matter and energy, the Ebro river, biodiversity, ecosystems…

After that we began another time to ride the bikes through the Expo, going out of the city and going through a rural enviroment.

We stopped a little bit before the “Galacho de Juslibol”, in a picnic area. We had the chance of eating at bit more to recover energies. There were some expositions left, so the group finished them. They talked us about acid rain, global warming… And then, we started the travel back home.

We returned  again by the expo but this time by other route that go near “the river canals´´ (because is a part of the river that was diverted for leisure time like canoe trip , swimming ,…) and we saw some ducks with little ducks and we also saw two swans. Then each one returned to their homes.
When arriving home we looked the speedometer. It counted 28 km, so I entered home to rest. It was a great day!

This text is a compilation with extracts from the compostitions by Toño Arbués,Irene Hernández, Álvaro Lafuente and Alba Arranz.

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