Hi, people!!!!What about the bone class? Did you find it useful? I love bones and the name of this post, apart from being part of one Ryanna's song, is a well-known idiom
Let's talk about The Practical work on SKELETAL SYSTEMfor NOVEMBER 9th. It will be in groups:
GROUP A:Caamaño-Lo-Vittola- Comesaña- Taboada- Mauvezin- Fernandez Bula- Zerni
The tittle of this post is connected to a certain film that certain teen forced her mother to watch once and again over the years :P
After the fun part, let's get down to business!! I'll start with a helper for you to take into account what is really UNFORGETTABLE about excretion!
Here you have two videos to refresh your mind on EXCRETORY SYSTEM, kidneys, nephrons and Osmoregulation(remember that I will only ask for the names we saw in class)
I'm also including a link to a SUPERB page where you can check your information
But Homeostasis is not only about "peeing" and Zac Nephron (CUAC!). It's also about Respiratory System, the LIVER and the SKIN. This time, instead of my powerpoint presentations, I'm including three webisodes I created for you (in case you want to hear my horrible nasal voice in your head for days!!) explaining my powerpoints. Don't hate me!!
A) EXCRETORY SYSTEM
B) HOMEOSTASIS
C) SKIN
So How will we remember all these for the end-of-the-year integrative test???!!!!
Ok people, Im closing this long post (looks like a Will and Testament) with a great video that summarises HOMEOSTASIS
Enjoy the post and STUDY a lot!!!!!
XXX
Andrea
PS: Well, for the test, all the powerpoint on Excretory System and Skin will be
included as well as all the information on alcohol we have been
discussing (plus the videos and webisodes I posted for you).
Hi, people! Have you been resting today?? Me??? Just correcting 😡😡
Let me start this post with one of my fav. bands with one of my fav songs (totally crazy video, isn't it?)
After the musical interval, back to work, people!
We will start working on SKELETAL SYSTEM. On Friday OCTOBER 20th
GROUP 1:Taboada- Lo- Vittola- Comesaña- Fernandez Bula- Mauvezin will explaining to us what a bone is and the function of the knee joint. They have to bring a bone cut longitudinally in halves and a cow knee (ask the butcher!). The rest of the teams need to bring the bone cut in halves
GROUP 2: Rojas- Caamaño- Castro Expósito- D' Angelo- Rávida- Zerni will put today (if you can) chicken bones in a bowl and cover them with vinegar. Please, take pictures of every step and one picture per day till Friday.
These are some useful videos on SKELETAL System for the brave members of group 1 (remember that is not only about BONES):
* One with our friend HANK (I think you remember him as well as his FIOS brother)
* the second one is a video on the anatomy of a human knee joint
* and the last one is about the BENEFITS of exercising!!!!
I hope you enjoy the task and SMILE!!
XXX
Andrea
PD: Last but not the least, Miley's video that Sofi Cerredo posted for me some years ago that will help you remember the names of the bones
Hi, guys! What about the weekend? Did you have a good time or overwork your liver???
The tittle of my post is connected to these jokes... Poor liver!!!
Well, I just wanted to post all the videos I found really interesting for us to discuss in class and to be included in the test
First, check on the effect of alcohol on the brain
Then, let's see what causes a HANGOVER
Where does this urge to pee come from????
Is there a CURE for HANGOVER????
The problem of alcohol is the LONG TERM EFFECTS!!!
Drinking when you are under 18 is illegal, but it has got an anatomical explanation
And last but not the least... Can we have a water overdose????
Please, watch the videos and make a summary (in the posters groups) to discuss on Thursday.
Hi people!!! I hope you are enjoying the relaxation after a great trip to Madryn so, as it´s not my intention to ruin it, I'm starting my post with the old but very funny song about the result of the excretory system and its follow-up trip
Now, let's get it started Next FRIDAY we are dissecting the kidney!!!! So, I'm including some videos on dissection for GROUP 4: Chaio- Hernandez- Rodriguez Guarnera- Lionetti- Martin Arias- Rizzo responsible for teaching us how to open the kidney (I´ll give them a mark for that)
Every group will need some material for our experience
* KIDNEY (cow, pig or sheep) at the butcher's or you can find it at the supermarket
You must bring it to school in a lunch box
* LATEX GLOVES ( Each group can buy a box of gloves to have them for later experiments)
* SCALPEL - Two per group (you can buy them at the drustores near the Faculty of Medicine.- Farmacia Rex, for example)
*WIPING TOWEL to clean the table after the experiment
* KNOWLEDGE about excretory system
* YOUR OWN EXCRETORY SYSTEM with an EMPTY BLADDER
External and internal view:
Once open you will see:
I´m leaving you a great video that summarises HOMEOSTASIS
Hi people!! How are you doing?What about the return to school after the long wekend??? It won't be easy to BREATHE so early in the morning!! XD
Well, for you to remember that the verb is (to)breathE/d and the noun is BREATH , these are two of my fav songs that contain these words: HERE WITH ME by DIDO (the tittle of this post is a line in this song)
and "Every step you take" in Glee's version
Have you been reading about RESPIRATORY SYSTEM???????
I think you might like this video for an accurate picture of the system. WOW!!!!!
As you can see, the respiratory system is basically a long tube with two sacs at the end, with NO bones, only cartilages inside the tube (to prevent it from collapsing) and muscles outside the sacs to make them larger or smaller. This tube is covered by a thin EPITHELIUM that is full of CILLIA and secretes MUCUS to prevent bacteria and other harmful substances to get to the ALVEOLI.
I'm also including here some videos for you to revise your concepts:
1) An IGCSE video with a whole revision and a FIBROSCOPY of the RESPIRATORY SYSTEM where you'll see a real operating system :)
2) a 3D explanation on BREATHING and VENTILATION
3) The video I posted like a year ago in my facebook page about the effects of SMOKING on the Respiratory System:
4) Another video about Smoking
5) And last but not the least, a superb tutorial on the LARYNX by Sol Lamanna and Vicky Burone
I hope the videos are useful and fun to watch (well, fun...not really, maybe just interesting) and to start studying Don't PROCRASTINATE!!!!!
See you on THURSDAY!!!
XXX
Andrea
PS:And a practical work for next FRIDAY, August 25th (in pairs). NO COPYING AND PASTING, I WANT THIS IN YOUR OWN NERDY TALK
1) Explain
this statement: Players who are born and live at sea level will have a smaller lung
capacity than those who spend their life at a high altitude (such as Bolivian
players!!)
2) These are the legs who has just finished a Cycling race. Why do they look like this? What for?
Hi people!! How are you? Have you been sleeping late?? Do you miss your Biology class?
So far, I've been cooking,sleeping and watching all the films and b-lated seasons of my favourite series that were in my bucket list.
Well, back to reality!! This is the time of the year when you create some great posters for our lab.
GROUP 1: MALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM and FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM
Rojas- Castro Expósito- Galli- Martelitti- Hernandez
GROUP 2: SKELETAL AND MUSCULAR SYSTEM
Mauvezin- Caamaño- Rávida-Zerni
GROUP 3: DIGESTIVE- CIRCULATORY
Taboada-Lo- Vittola- Comesaña
GROUP 4: ENDOCRINE_ NERVOUS
Reyes- Chaio- Martin Arias- Rizzo- Rodriguez Guarnera
GROUP 5: EXCRETORY and SKIN// Photo booth Frame
Fernandez Bula- D' Angelo- Giustinian- Prola- Rodriguez Sourrouille- Lionetti
INSTRUCTIONS:
You can be as creative as you want and use the materials you want. Just remember, the due date is Thursday August 3rd for groups 1/2/3/4 and the first Thursday after you come back for group 5 Here you have some pics that can be your inspiration.
It would be great if some of you could copy the old anatomy books plate discs like this one
Group 5 must do the photo booth frame for our new project: THIS WEEK IN SCIENCE. I would like a photo frame that looks like a newspaper page (or whatever you think convenient) that we will stick on the school hall and every Thursday one member of the class will bring something interesting about science to share with the class and the school. The frame would be something like this:
Well, go on relaxing and enjoying with friends while I'll be at home, super sad correcting tests...hahaha
Well, this was at least the situation back in January 2015!!!
Measles was confirmed in 59 California residents.
Additionally, there were a handful of related cases in Utah, Washington,
Colorado, Oregon, and Mexico—bringing the 2015 total to 67, according to the California Department of Public Health.
The patients in California ranged in age between seven months and 70
years, and at least 28 of them were unvaccinated. But that wasn’t all by
choice: Six are infants who were too young to receive the shot. The
first dose of the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine
is typically given to children 12 months or older, with the second dose
administered before they start kindergarten around age five. Of the confirmed cases, 42 were linked to Disneyland or Disney California Adventure Park in Orange County.
Measles is a highly contagious viral disease that spreads rapidly
through the air from coughing and sneezing. The initial exposures
occurred in December, but additional confirmed cases visited the parks
while they were infectious in January. Less than two weeks ago, only nine cases were confirmed in this California-centered outbreak.
Because there are also cases where the patients haven’t visited
Disneyland—or any venues where travelers congregate, such as other
amusement parks and airports—the health department recommends that
measles be considered in any patient with clinically compatible symptoms
at this time. It usually starts with a fever that lasts a couple
of days, followed by coughing, runny nose, pink eye, and a rash that
appears on the face, hairline, behind the ears, and eventually the
entire body.
The U.S. experienced a record number of measles cases in 2014, with 644 cases in 27 states, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s the greatest number of cases since measles elimination was documented in the country in 2000.
This is the link to a great article on the same topic in one of my fav. science pages
Hi people!!!!! How are you doing after the VIATOR retreat (retiro) ?? I know the thisis a major event in 4th year and I hope it gave all of you a lot to think about and the chance to find these answers you still haven't found and you are looking for.
Believe it or not, this song is not about finding the prefect boy or girl, it's about finding THE perfect love, God's love. I´m sure he accompanied you through those days and helped you discover the special light we all have inside and that makes us unique.
Well, now that the retreat is over, shoulder to the wheel!!! (= Manos a la obra!!)
Let me remind you of the NEW groups for the practical wok ( Questionnaire on Circulatory System and Lymphatic System) and Dissection
GROUP 1:Taboada- Lo- Vittola- Comesaña- Fernandez Bula- Mauvezin
GROUP 2: Rojas- Caamaño- Castro Expósito- D' Angelo- Rávida- Zerni
GROUP 3: Galli- Giustinian- Martelliti- Prola- Reyes- Rodriguez Sourrouille
GROUP 4: Chaio- Hernandez- Rodriguez Guarnera- Lionetti- Martin Arias- Rizzo
Next Friday (June 16th) we are dissecting the heart!!!!
So, first of all, let me clarify some rules for the lab:
Safety Rules in the Laboratory
1.During
experiments, listen carefully to instructions and follow them as exactly as you
can. In case of confusion or uncertainty, ask questions! Performing
unauthorized experiments will not be tolerated.
2.No
horseplay will be tolerated.
3.Never
eat in lab or drink out of glassware. Never taste or smell anything unless you
are given specific directions to do so.
4.Any
injury, major or minor (cut, burn, etc.), must
be reported to the teacher at once. Put cold water on burns first. Chemical
spills should be washed off immediately with water. Know the location of all
laboratory safety equipment. Chemicals in the eyes must be flushed immediately
with the eyewash. Hold the eye open, rotate the eyeball, and continue washing
for 10-15 minutes.
5.Do
not touch equipment without permission. All unauthorized experimentation is
strictly forbidden. This includes all chemicals, models, or apparatus. Complete
all pre-lab work. Don’t do any lab procedures until approved by instructor.
6.When
heating a test tube, always point the open end away from you and others. It
should be at a slant rather than straight up in most cases.
7.If
glass is broken, the teacher should be informed immediately. Students should
not handle broken glass; teachers will dispose of broken glass.
8.Dispose
of all materials as per instruction. Do not assume that all liquids go down the
sink!
9.Dissection
equipment can only be used on specimens. Any misuse of dissection tools will result
in disciplinary action.
10.Before
class will be dismissed, all equipment and sinks must be clean, and desktops
must be clean and dry.
If the above guidelines are not followed, you may not be
allowed to participate in the lab and may not receive credit for the activity.
Here you have a video on how to keep it safe in the lab:
I'm including different videos on dissection for Group number 3 responsible for teaching us how to open a heart (ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE GROUP SHOULD KNOW EVERYTHING TO ANSWER QUESTIONS) VIDEO 1
VIDEO 2
VIDEO 3
EVERY GROUP will need some material for our experience
* HEART (cow, pig or sheep) PLEASE, ENCARGUEN EL CORAZON AL CARNICERO CON ANTICIPACION PORQUE NO ES UN PRODUCTO QUE TENGAN TODO EL TIEMPO
You must bring it to school in a lunch box
* LATEX GLOVES ( Each group can buy a box of gloves to have them for later experiments)
* SCALPEL - Two per group (you can buy them at the drustores near the Faculty of Medicine.- Farmacia Rex, for example)
*WIPING TOWEL to clean the table after the experiment
* KNOWLEDGE about circulatory system
* YOUR OWN HEART filled with energy for a new experience
