Christmas homework 6º

Dear children:

Sorry I couldn't upload homework before. I had some trouble with the Internet.

What you have to do is:

• Read the topic of Health.
• Find a trasure hunt on the blog. It's on old entries, 18th  December 2012. Answer the questions in your copybook.
• Do a piece of work about one section of the topic, whatever you think it's interestincg. You decide the type of work you want to do.

HAPPY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR  TO ALL OF YOU

LEAFLET YEAR 5

Here is the leaflet.

YEAR 6 TEST NERVOUS SYSTEM

CHECKLIST.

I can:

• Label the different parts of a neuron and write about them..
• Explain how neurons work.
• Label the different parts of the brain and what their task is.
•  Say  what the central nervous system and the peripherial nervous system is.
• Tell the difference between sensory and motor nerves.
• Sequence a voluntary and a réflex movement using key words and connectives.
• How is internal coordination carried.
• Tell what endocrine glands are and what hormones are.
• Make a chart with glands, the hormones they secrete and their task.
• Recognise the importance of mantaining a safe distance.
• Match diagrams about mantaining distances with scenarios like the ones on page 39.

ENDANGERED ANIMALS

http://www.kidsplanet.org/factsheets/map.html

Here you can find a list of threatened or endangered animals. Choose one of them to make your leaflet.

Global warming the pictures

year 5 global warming

Dear children:

I will post the images from the book on Saturday (tomorrow)

Piece of work about ecosystems year 5

You are going to write a piece of work about Ecosystems.
Remember that an ecosystem consists or LIVING THINGS and THEIR ENVIRONMENT.
LIVING THINGS: flora and fauna ENVIRONMENT: soil, climate, light.
INTERACT
Sometimes the living things can change their environment. This is what we humans are doing to the environment when we pollute the air and our rivers.
Other times the environment can change the living things around; most plants can’t live in the desert.
YOUR TASK:
* You will have to write about four environments:
1- A Natural Park /Preserve in Castille and León
2- A Natural Park or Preserve in Cantabria, Asturias or Galicia.
3- An aquatic environment of fresh water in the province of Zamora.
4- An aquatic environment of sea water in the seas of the Spanish coasts.
YOU MUST:
* Say where this ecosystem is.
* Talk about the fauna (4 animals) and the flora ( min 2)
* Talk about the climate: temperatures and precipitation.
* Write minimum 1 sentence saying how the environment there can affect the living things and the other way round.(how living things can affect the environment)
* Draw a food chain for each environment.. Follow this example.
owl TERTIARY CONSUMER photos or drawings of the animals
shrew SECONDARY CONSUMER A decaying leaf is eaten by an earthworm.
The earthworm is eaten by a shrew-
earthworm PRIMARY CONSUMER The shrew is eaten by an owl

Decaying leaf PRODUCER 

THIS IS COMPUTER WORK

Acid rain and food webs

http://www.epa.gov/acidrain/education/site_students/foodweb.html

BRAIN HOMEWORK

HOMEWORK

• Google:  Enchanted learning.com brain diagram to label.

Label the diagram of the brain in capital letters and write down the functions of each part. E.G: CEREBELLUM: balance, movement.

• Neurons are the principal  cells in the nervous system.

Read the paragraph about neurons on page 32 of your book. Make a neuron out of plasticine . Take a picture. Label the neuron and include it in a page size factfile.

WHERE FOUND
PARTS OF A NEURON
WHAT THEY DO
INTERESTING FACTS

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• Watch video clips on the blog an do the assignment stated there.

• Google: kidshealth . go to a website called   kidshealth.org.  How your body works,. Select the Brain and watch a video clip (Movie). Here you will find some interesting facts about the brain. Write them down in your copybook.

Go to “articles” on this same website and answer Why do you fall asleep?

• Complete these sentences:

If I didn’t have a cerebellum I would/ wouldn’t

If my frontal lobe were damaged  I owuldn’t be able to…

I can read because I have…

I can see because I have…

NEURONS

Watch these two video clips about neurons and write 3 or 4 questions about them to ask children in your class.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5ynZda6xr4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyNkAuX29OU

What lives in the deep black ocean?

http://ocean.si.edu/ocean-videos/sea-creatures-deep-video-national-geographic-and-census-marine-life

Click on this link and you will see strange creatures that live deep in the oceans .

YEAR 5 ADAPTATION

MONKEYS HAVE:

A long tail to

Sharp teeth to

Flexible feet to

   

FROGS HAVE:

Eyes on top ot its head to

Webbed feet to

Long and strong legs to

Find another animal and explain on this way how it has adapted to the environment.

Create your own perfect animal. Add as many features as you like and explain how these features allow it to be adapted to the environment. Draw the animal.

If you are able, create a power point with all this. 

THIS CAN BE INDIVIDUAL WORK OR PAIR WORK

DEADLINE: Monday 2nd december.

BONES YEAR 6

Here are bones and definitions. There is no definition for sternum, so you must create one.

I remind you :

You must create a power point with:

• a labelled skeleton with definitions
• A picture of the model of a plasticen bone (get inspiration from kids health). Label the model with definitions.
• A picture of  a labelled real bone.
• A silide about " When you break a bone"

BLACK STORKS A POEM

YEAR 5 TEST PLANTS

You are ready for the test if you:

• Can name the different parts of a flower and what their tasks are.
• Can explain pollination, fertilisation  and germination is.
• Can say what seed dispersal is and how seeds are dispersed
• Can classify plants .
• Can tell the differences in between sexual and asexual reproduction.
• Can give examples of different types of asexual reproduction.
  

YEAR 6 CIRCULATORY SYSTEM TEST

You are ready for this test if:

• You know the composition of blood and the task of the different components.
• If you know the differences between arteries and veins.
• If you can label a heart.
• If you can name some arteries and veins.
• If you are able to write down the different steps of pulmonary and systemic circulation.
• You can describe a heart.
• You can explain what the heartbeat is.
• You can write down a Little pargraph about how you can keep your heart healthy.

Red Cross year 5

http://www.ifrc.org/en/publications-and-reports/world-disasters-report/world-disasters-report/

Click on this link and answer on your computer:

1- What is the international Red Cross and Red Crescent movement?
2- When was it founded and where?
3- What was it founded for?
4- In how many countries do they work?
5- What is its emblem and why?
6- What do they do?
7- Give four or five reasons why you think their work is important,
8- How can we cooperate with them?
9-What is the world disaster report?

Add some pictures to illustrate your work

HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND  

What happens in a heart attack

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8P3n6GKBSY

Watch this video clip

MAKE A HEART

• You will have to make a heart using plasticine.
• You will use pictures on page 21 as a model.
• Your heart will be actual size.
• You will need to make it in two halves so that the atria and the ventricles can be seen.
• Once that you have made it, take a photograph of it.
• Create a slide of power point. You must: label your heart: ventricles, atria, valves, arteries and veins in the same way that the book.
• You must also inlude bits of information about the heart taking out from the file that you did in class.
• This can be individual work or pair work.

DONT FORGET:   TRY YOUR BEST AND GOOD LUCK!

CITIZIENSHIP 5º

Look at the pictures. Describe them and explain if they show solidaririty or if they don't and why.

SCIENCE 5º PLANTS HOMEWORK

Do a flow chart for plant nutrition.

You will need to include all the different steps from when nutrients are absorbed until they are distributed to all different parts of the plant.

Don’t forget to highlight  words like: raw sap, elaborated sap xylem vessels phloem vessels, chlorophyll etc. make sure that all the spellings are ok.

On the other side insert an image of a flower-plant  ( similar to your worksheet)

On another word document do concept map from your copybook ( photosynthesis)

circulatory system how your body works

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oE8tGkP5_tc

circulatory system song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDSFxcf2UgQ

THE RISKS OF SMOKING

Create a leaflet , a poster or a t-shirt to persuade people to give up smoking.



Read through:



http://kidshealth.org/kid/watch/house/smoking.html


Watch ppt about smoking.

rainforest layers

http://www.srl.caltech.edu/personnel/krubal/rainforest/Edit560s6/www/whlayers.html


Find information about reainforest layers here.

citizienship 5º HONESTY

Write the complete story:

FOOD WASTE

Food waste should de a a big concern for our society.Tones of food are thrown away everyday. Restaurants, supermarkets and homes keep in store lots of  food that sometimes ends
up in the bin.
Look at hte tips for  a responsible use of food and produce a power point presentation.

Your presentation should be about your home and what you do not to waste food.

You can take pictures in your home or download them from  Internet.

LIVING THING DESCRIPTION

My dog, Max, is a golden retriever. He has kind of wavy hair on his back. His hair is a light-yellowish color. He also has beautiful brown eyes. Max weighs eighty-four pounds and he’s four years old. Max is very friendly with people and with other dogs.

The way we got Max was at the Manistee county fair. Around ware the horse’s part at the fair was a lady that was selling her puppies. I got so excited that I asked my mom is I could get one. When I ran up to her and her dogs I saw one that I adored. He was a white color and he was the one I wanted. That dog I liked was Max. He was so cute. He had beautiful white hair. I bent down on my knees and held him in my arms. My mom thought he was a cutie. I asked my mom if I could get him but she said," I’ll think about it. " I keep thinking about what I should name him on the way back home. I mentioned air bud but that was an over board joke. My mom said how about Max? The family had agreed.

It was about a week before I got Max. The day I got Max was when my babysitter Deana had brought her dog over and started to teach me how to take care of a dog. Then coming down the road was my moms’ car. When they hoped out I saw what I wanted to see. It was Max! I was so glad. I wanted to hold him and hold him and I did. I saw he was scared so we took him inside the house and he got used to it eventually. The first night he stayed he cried. I took a blanket and put it down by his cage and took him out of the cage and he laid there with me on the blanket. After that he was fine.

As years went bye we had moved into our new house. I had found out out ways Max communicates. Like when he rolls over he wants to get his belly rubbed. Or when he sits and stairs in our window and whines he wants to come in the house. Also when he whines and is looking at my food he wants it. I’m glad Max is in our family. I love max a ton and I wish he could live forever.

http://www.onekama.k12.mi.us/e2003/g5/writing/pet/pets.page2.htm

THE MOON, OUR SATELLITE

TASKS:

1. Do a factile about the Moon . make sure that you include the facts listed below:

• What it is.
• When and how it was formed.
• Movements: rotation and revolution around the Earth.
• What it is made of and what its surface looks like.
• Approximate size and distance from the Earth.
• Moon race -When was the first time man landed on the Moon - name of astronauts. Other missions after this one. when was the last time man was on it.
• Why it is important for life on Earth.
• Include a picture on your factfile.

2. do the worksheet about phases of the Moon. Draw out all the moons and label them.

3. Copybook: Watch the sky from Wednesday night to Sunday night and draw in your copybook the Moon that you could see and the name of the phase.

Links and video clips you will need to use as sources of information for your pieces of work:

 

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/time/moon/phases.html

WHY SEASONS HAPPEN.

Seasons happen because of the tilt of the Earth and the amount of energy that the Earth gets due to this tilt.

CONSTELLATIONS

• Use your computer skills to draw a constellation. Choose the one you like and write the name of the constellation and of one or two of the most important stars in it.
• Explain why the ancients give that name to the constellation.
• Now, you must create your own constellation: It will have a maximum of 12 stars, a minimum of four. You will have to name the constellation and at least two of the stars. Your constellation will have a shape that you should describe and its shape will be in concordance with its name.

Rotation of the Moon . Tricky!!!

Watch this video clip

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.