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…