PORTFOLIO WORK     YEAR 6     ELECTRICITY

PORTFOLIO WORK

• It will be done at home.
• It is individual work but you can use dictionaries or ask for your peers’ advice.
• The teacher will not mark that work: you will go through it  in June and then you will be able to change it, rewrite it...
• You will design your project. You can do it either on the computer or in pen.

1-    Write an account about the electricity topic we have just finished that includes:

Symbols, diagrams, types of circuits, how they work and everything else that you think it might be important to recall. (max 2 pages)

2-   Write about the house you have made. Stick on a photograph of you and your house with an account about how you made the house using connectives: First, next, then...finally.

If I built my house again this is what I would change: Instead of using this, I would use that... I would add a...

This is what my new house would look like.

3-   Using your knowledge of electrical circuits, design a device, toy, “thing” using an electrical circuit. You can use buzzers, bulbs, motors...

Use the house worksheet as a plan for your project.

If you like, build a model of your invention. 

TEST YEAR 5

YOU ARE READY FOR THIS TEST IF YOU:

• Know where the temperature can reach 5.430ºC
• know the different parts of the geosphere, what they are called and what they are made of.
• Can give examples of sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rocks and name some objects that are made with them.
• Can explain why the cliffs in Seven Sisters Natural Park are changing  their shape gradually and slowly.
• Can name and explain the different parts of a volcano.
• Have been listening in class so that you can explain where Pompeii is and what happened there.
• Can tell the differences in between minerals and rocks.
• Can tell what a fossil is.
• Can name some natural disasters and their consequences.
• Know agents of erosion.
• What the atmosphere is of and the composition of the air we breath.

electricity games

Play these games over the weekend and write down something new you have learned after playing the games!!!!!!

http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/electricity.html

Erosion 2

Erosion made simple!

Erosion

The Earth is always on the move!

6º HOMEWORK

VACCINES

Go to you " Documento de Salud  Infantil" and check:

• There is a vaccine called Triple Vírica because it protects you against three infectious diseases. You must find out what these three diseases are and do three factfiles about them.

  your factfile must include:

NAME OF DISEASE:
NAME OF VIRUS THAT CAUSES THE DISEASE:   (include picture)
SYMPTOMS OF THIS DISEASE:
WHAT TO DO IF YOU GET INFECTED:
WHEN WAS THIS VACCINE FIRST USED:


( Don't forget you must do three factfiles, one for each disease)

• How many doses of the "triple Vírica " you must have? When?
• Do English children get the same vaccine? Same doses?

Do your work on the computer and save it onto a pendrive.

TREASURE HUNT 6º

TREASURE HUNT               HEALTH

Who was Louise Pasteur?

What is pasteurization?

What is a vaccine?

Name an acute illness

Name a chronic illness

What is malaria?

What is the meaning of “prevention is better than cure”?

What is an endemic disease?

What type of illness is malaria?

What type of illness is cholera?

Many people who have diabetes have to inject themselves with…..

List out all the possible effects of alcoholism.

List out all the possible effects of tobacco use.

What is the primary cause of death and injury?

What is a passive smoke?

We should always cross the road at….

How could tetanus being transmitted?

How could cholera being transmitted?

Explain how malaria is transmitted.

List out nine ways to avoid infections.

What are anesthetics?

A thousand years ago anesthetics were made with….

A thousand years ago barbers did some more than cutting hair. What was it?

What is an antibiotic?

Who discovered the first antibiotic, when and what was it called?

What is an amulet? What were they used for in the past?

What is the Heimlich maneuver?

What is the pneumococcus?

What are infectious diseases caused by?

What is a donor?

What are traditional medicines made of?