LIVING THINGS: Life's Basic Ingredients

Watch this interesting  video about the life requirements.

Then, try to fill in the linked worksheet.

Vertebrates

Let's start with some basic vocabulary

suckle, warm, temperature, birth, fur, hard, soft , hair, feathers, eggs, dry, wet, smooth, damp 

Brainpop VIDEO about  VERTEBRATES

Now you are ready to fill in this VERTEBRATES' WORKSHEET

 worksheet key

It is time to summarize the main information about Vertebrates

If you want to know more, explore some of these interesting resources...

Frog dissection

Another vertebrates' video to watch real animals!!

INVERTEBRATES and VERTEBRATES

Before start reading about invertebrates you should remember severals facts about living beings...


Whittaker proposed the five-kingdom taxonomic classification of the world's biota into the Animalia, Plantae, Fungi,Protista, and Monera in 1959.

As you can see in this flash (please, stop at 1 min. 38 s!!!), Animals (Animalia kingdom) can be classified into two main groups:

• Invertebrates: animals without a spine or backbone
• Vertebrates: animals with a spine or backbone

Let's explore invertebrates by watching this funny animation about the diferent types of invertebrates. Visit this website to know interesting data about invertebrates.

Now, try to find their names in this invetebrates' word puzzle search.

Now, it is time to revise the basics about invertebrates by filling this missing word activity.

Try to see if you can identify some invertebrates and sort them into their appropriate groups.

To finish, use all your knowledge about invertebrates to solve the invetebrates' crossword. If you need some help to solve it, click here 

If you are interested in invertebrates, please visit this link to see amazing invertebrates' photos shooted by the best nature photographers.

Cell discovery and Cell Structure

Maybe you have no idea about how cells were discoverd. We will explore it throughout this video

Try to answer these questions in order to see if you have got the main topics of this video.

To remember the main ideas and researchers that contribute to Cell Theory, let´s sing a rap...

Once you know more about cell discovery, we can travel inside the cell to learn about cell structure. Click here to go  the BBC Bitesize website.

After reading the basic about cells, let´s have a look at this nice animation

Finally, answer this worksheet to check your knowledge about cells

Water pollution

    Water covers over 70% of the Earth’s surface and is a very important resource for people and the environment. Water pollution affects drinking water, rivers, lakes and oceans all over the world. This consequently harms human health and the natural environment. Here you can find out more about water pollution and what you can do to prevent it.

http://www.water-pollution.org.uk

Using the previous resource we are going to explore:

• The causes of water pollution

If you have understand the different causes of pollution you should be able to match them with the photos in this document.

• How to prevent water pollution?

Water and natural disasters. A brilliant solution to purify contaminated water.

WEATHER VS. CLIMATE

Weather forecast

How heavy is air?

We use some instruments to predict the weather. One of the most important is barometer. It allows us to measure atmospheric pressure. Let's know more about how it was invented...

Test what you have learned about the barometer



You might be interested on Tornados? Watch this video to see how tornados are formed.

To check you knowledge about tornados, do this test.