Our last day!

Most of us are quite happy to enjoy holidays. It is a pity, some results were not so good as we would like it, but this is life!. We enjoyed a good time being all together this Year, and here you can see a good example of this:

Pode ser divertido crear relatos!

O domingo 8 de xuño foi a entrega de premios ós autores de relatos co galo do centenario do Instituto Oceanográfico Español. Foi na praia de Samil e houbo carpas que mostraban o traballo que fan os científicos no Instituto. Podedes visitar a páxina do centro aquí.
Os relatos finalistas foron: Angel García e Juan Pazos de 3ºA, Lucía Viña de 3º B, Aldara García de 3ºC, e Uxía Gómez de 3ºA. A finalista en relatos cortos foi Paula Couto de 3ºA. Parabens a todos e todas.

Reproduction and sexuality

What are the changes that take place during adolescence as the reproductive system develops. Is the same sex and reproduction?. How the foetus develops in the womb?
Let´s start with the BBC Revision Bite with 3 parts: Revise, activity and a test
The male reproductive system, and the female (at skool.co.uk), and much more help on iespebilingue.
Female reproductive cycle (high level) video
Human reproduction at Biodeluna
Reviewing the concepts: try on some tests (Biology of Humans)
Algúns videos: Adolescencia 1 ,   ou o video enteiro .  La adolescencia  Gametogénesis, fecundación e implantación.
Practice english with puberty videos:  1 , Puberty for girls  ,   and for boys  , Test tube conception , From 0 to 9 months .


Vai aquí unha copia da entrada feita no curso 2012-12, en galego e castelá. É interesante coñecer os procesos, a investigación coas células nai traerá novos tratamentos a enfermidades hoxe incurables. Consulta os gráficos deste enlace

Reprodución e sexualidad 

A sexualidade, unjas veces ligada á reproducción e outras non vainos acompañar ó longo da nos a vida, especialmente na adolescencia e idade adulta. Debemos coñecer algúns aspectos da nosa sexualidade e respetar sempre as relacións sexuais dos demais, e sempre sen ningún tipo de presión ou acoso.

Para coñecer os aparatos reproductores: Animacións de Ciencias  , Sexualidade e reproducción,  BlogdePaloma ,  REbelion hormonal1   4  , e 5  (tomados da serie El cuerpo humano )  Sexualidade na adolescencia  , o embarazo

Tamén podedes votar un vistazo a este Lip Dup

As relacións sexuais sen poden traer consecuencias: embarazos non desecados, enfermedades venéreas (SIDA, sífilis, ...) polo que deberes coñecer as diferentes formas de practicar sexo seguro: métodos anticonceptivos ,  ¿ Que es el SIDA?   Documental VIH SIDA

CONCURSOSSS!!!!

Outro concurso mais de fotografía e relatos e curtometraxes, esta vez convodos por ADEGA. A temática é o estado do territorio e como o vemos nos. Como vemos, sentimos e compartimos a paisaxe, os núcleos urbanos, as vilas? . Que sentimos en relación a outros seres vivos? Queremos suxerir ou temos ideas que queremos compartir para mellorar o aproveitamento sustentable dos nosos recursos? … e outras moitas preguntas que nos poden motivar a concursar. Aquí tedes máis información.

Novo concurso de relatos

Co galo do I Centenario do Instituto Oceanográfico, ven de convocar un concurso de relatos curtos, e con temática relacionada coa vida mariña e a investigación no mar. Se estafes interesados tedies aquí toda a información, e se me mandades o ejemplar xunto co comprobante de telo enviado podo subir a nota do próximo examen ata 1 punto.
Pídenvos os meus datos:
Adela Vázquez Vázquez
Profesora de Bioloxía e Xeoloxía do IES Rosalía Castro
teléfono (traballo) 981 569 650

Como preparar o exame de recuperación?

O exame de recuperación será similar os exames que xa fixemos e poderá incluir preguntas de definición de  conceptos importantes.
Incluirán os temas sinalados e tamén pode haber alguna pregunta relacionada con exercicios fetos ou fotocopias

3rd term presentation. Guidelines

Clik and print guidelines to start your work for this 3rd term.
After choosing your work group, find 2 themes that you like from the list.
Meet your group colleages, do an outline with the main ideas from my numbered instructions and assign a task to everyone.
Join all the work and show me, written or load it at the page blogrosalia

The nervous and endocrine systems

The nervous system
In this unit we will learn about the coordination and control centers within the nervous and endocrine system.
The unit at the textbook starts with a description of neurons and move on to study the different parts of the human nervous system, like the brain and the spinal cord.
We will study synapse in detail. You can do a review with these simulations: Synapse.mind; Brainu  ;  Brainu2 .  And also try one more simulation, about the reflex act  (BBC).
Videos: the nervous system (The Phoenix) ,  The nervous system (kent) ;   Learn online, quiz, label;   and sciencehelpdesk with a lot of links and help  
You can do a listening with Kids Health and nervous system.
Try this:  BBC The nervous system activity
Un buen video, (el poder del inconsciente) mostrado varias veces en La 2, sobre nuestra mente, y como funciona. Es muy recomendable verlo para comprender algo mejor como funciona.
Otro video sobre el poder de persuasión de nuestro cerebro, estos conocimientos los usan los entrenadores (de deportes, políticos, …) .

The endocrine system
Finally, we will study the endocrine system. It also regulates our functions and it depends on nervous system signals. We will describe the different hormones and the endocrine glands which secrete them.
You can label our glands here.  Blood sugar regulation and diabetes here . Another animation on blood sugar regulation Positive and negative feedback here.  Interpreting graphs .Endocrine system video. A Insuline video. Another hormones video .
Sorry, you´re not just my testosterone´s type.

How to improve my grade doing the next exam

The february and second term exam will be about the following systems: respiratory, circulatory, lymphatic and excretory .
It will have:
 -  True and false general questions about all these systems
 - One question with two words to choose the correct one about the circulatory system
 -  Multiple choice questions about all these systems
 - Label figures with names of : blood, the heart  and  the circulatory system.

That´s all, good luck!

Parabéns a Joquín

Parabéns a Joaquín Vila por quedar finalista  na Olimpíada de Bioloxía e na fase galega, agora ánimo para a fase nacional, animado xa está pois un dos premios é unha visita ó Centro Superior de Investigacións Científicas, un doce para alguén coma el con gusto pola investigación e a Ciencia. E tamén parabéns a Charo que algo tivo que ver ….

Unit 4 The circulatory and excretory systems

There is an excellent blog made in a science bilingual project, we are going to use it as a source of good learning material, for example this entry related to circulatory system.
How can we measure blood pressure?
How a normal heart pumps blood?
And please dont forget the lymphatic system,  another video.
The best 2012 scientific video is catalan and about the heart,    let´s look at it.
YOu have also to know the blood groups , and the blood cells. There is also a video.
Let`s do some quizzes: quiz 1, quiz 2,  quiz 3,    

And now, lets´look at our kidneys: How kidneys work,  The kidneys ,  kidney: structure and function ;  and nephron . And some quizzes:  quiz 1 ,  quiz 2 , quiz 3 ,  quiz 4 , quiz 5 , quiz 6 .

Unit 3. Digestive and Respiratory Systems

The human digestive system processes food that we eat. It is made up of multiple organs and glands that digest food, extract nutrients and later expel the waste products.
Here you can find some help to learn digestive system and digestion in english: a video1 ; another video 2 ;   Listening, diagram and some facts; MacGraw H video ;  Vocabulary explained. And at the end you can try with some tests: tests 1;  quiz 2 ;  quiz3;   quiz4;  quiz5.  Listening and flashcards.  Label the diagram , vocabulary games ,  Quiz games ,  another diagram .  And much more typing digestion quiz at Google.  Digestion song.
      Digestion. A window at the stomach. A French Canadian, Alexis St Martin, was accidentally shot in his side on June 6, 1822, Dr Beaumont treated him, and although St Martin recovered, he had an opening nearly 2cm across that led directly into his stomach. Dr Beaumont used him as human guinea pig to study works. St Martin lived with the hole in his stomach until he died in 1880, at the age of 82.This was the first documented study of digestion.
Nowadays we know digestion process quite well. We are studying digestion these days and you have to prepare next exam, reading unit 3 and doing exercises. You can find our class handouts, and presentation here: Vocabulary+exercises  ( and at Rosalia virtual class ) , digestion animation .
To those who like cooking I recomend a movie: "Julie & Julia" Nora Ephrom ( trailer )
Similar aid related to respiratory system: video 1 , video 2: inspiration and expiration , respiratory system song ,

UNITS 2 and 3 EXAM (just digestive system).  You have to be ready for the next exam, it will be on the first week of december. You have to read again units 2 and 3 (UP TO PAGE 47), look at the exercises and hand outs. The exam will have questions such as:  true and false,  multiple choice,  figures to fill in and tables or graphs to be interpreted. EXAM WILL NOT INCLUDE any respiratory system question!.

Unit 2. Food and nutrition

We are studying here the basics of human nutrition, its relationship with the care and development of our body, as well as its implications for health and illness.

How can you start?. 1. Check you understand the meaning of the words in blue;   2. Underline unknown vocabulary, look at the dictionary and copy these words your exercise book.

then read one page and copy and answer book exercises, ask the teacher those exercises that you do not understand.

There are a huge amount of food resources, here there are just some funny: the healthy weight ,  nutrition and good health  ,  diet an exercise  ,  audio BBC 
Some videos to improve listening skills: The benefits of fiber,  Functional foods ,  Food additives effects on kids ,  and Fast food survival .

Unit 2 exercises with solutions.
Outro video: Super autopista de la alimentación.

Premios Nobel

Estanse dando a coñecer estes días os Premios Nobel 2012. O Premio Nobel de Física é para os "pais" do Bosón de Higgs. Hai máis de 50 anos propuxeron un mecanismo para explicar a formación da materia no universo e que se desenvolveu dando o que hoxe se coñece como física de partículas. Os seus cálculos teóricos foron comprobados recientemente no CERN suízo. É polo tanto un premio e recoñecemento á ciencia europea.
Onte douse a coñecer tamén o Premio Nobel de Mediciña, foi para os científicos que estudiaron e xplicaron con detalle os movementos de vesículas (con moléculas) no interior da célula. É un momento adecuado para nos, que estamos estudiando a célula.
Por certo sabedes quen foi Alfred Nobel?. É o premio con maior prestíxio na comunidade científica a nivel mundial, e incluso o ranking de universidades se fai atendendo a estudiantes ou profesores "nobeles" que se relacionan con esas institutcións. En España tan so podemos citar a D Santiago Ramón y Cajal (estudiando as neuronas e a sinapse), e Severo Ochoa (éste último traballando en EEUU no ADN). Lamentablemente é un síntoma da ciencia española.
Os próximos anos veremos premios relacionados co cerebro, que é en este momento un reto para entender o seu funcionamento a nivel molecular.

Unit 1 The Human Body: cells, tissues and systems

Hi everyone, we are going to share this small web space, this blog will help you (to study, to enjoy and and to learn more). We have to use english at the classroom, it is hard, but we shall be proud at the end of the Year, I am sure.
Try to focus on words in black and blue at the book, repeat, write and try to understand them.
You should practice doing activities and work on Biology at least twice a week.
Stem cells are cells capable of regenerating one or more different cell types. Stem cells are will be part of medicine treatment of some serious illness such as Alzheimer or heart attack.
 To those who want to know more about these stem cells try here.
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 2013 is coming, you can write name/s and bring it to the class. Last year the Nobel Prize was awarded to Sir John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka for their discovery that "mature, specialised cells can be reprogrammed to become immature cells capable of developing into all tissues of the body. Does it sound like stem cells?.
Some videos:  Parts os an animal cell,  A cell rap (funny),  The inner life of the cell (animation)
Higher level, quite useful with transcript, very well explained (much better than mine!) Atour of the cell.   Types of human tissue.  Stem cells1  Stem cells2
Other videos:

As soon as we finish the Unit 1 we can do a quick test

The unit 1 test will be quite similar to the hand out I gave it to you with true/false and multiple choice questions, a cell table and a microscope figure.

The microscope names will be written on the exam, you have to find where the names are placed

You have to read the textbook unit 1 (more than once) and answer the exercises I told you ( they are written at the vocabulary hand out). Test questions can be related with the textbook questions

The vocabulary  hand out (I gave it to you) is a help to understand your textbook.

The unit 1 handout has also a figure explaining stem cells, look at it. Remember that  the textbook  exercises  must be done at  your exercise book.

Back to school again!

It´s school time again! You are probably feeling excited and maybe a little sad that summer is over. Some pupils feel nervous or a little scared on the first day of school because all the new things: new teachers, new friends, and maybe a new school. Luckily, these "new" worries only stick around for a little while.
We kicked off the school by introducing ourselves and talking about all the stuff we´ll be doing this year, mainly rules and what to do to get a good Grade.
Third Secondary Year is a big change from middle school to a high school and we would like to help you adjust. Here are a few tips for a fantastic school year:

• get enough sleep
• eat a healthy breakfast
• try your best
• use good work habits, like writing down your assignments and turning in your homework on time
•  take your time with school work. If you don´t understand something, ask the teacher
• keep a sense of humor.

Boas vacacións

Cos nosos mellores desexos para este verán.

Unha mensaxe pendente para Andoni: non hai cuadernillo de lengua

O exame de setembro será, na liña cos que xa fixemos durante o curso, tipo test, con preguntas tipo verdadeiro-falso e múltiple resposta con algunha figura para completar os nomes das partes sinaladas

The Earth

Let´s see first a video showing the coriolis effect.
A Google Earth climate introductory tourr (short version) video
El clima. .
The greenhouse effect.
Climate change.
What is rewilding?

Visita a Illa de Ons con Campus do Mar

A Asociación de Oceanógrafos de Galicia organiza unha visita e rutas na illa de Ons desde Bueu o 8 de xuño, se queredes ir, acompañados por algún familiar, podedes consultar toda a información aquí. Hai que inscribirse.

Final Premio Luis Freire

Xa temos os traballos premiados no Premio Luis Freire, sinto dicirvos que non foi seleccionado ningún traballo de 3ºESO, foron seleccionados 2 traballos de 4ºESO do IES Rosalía. Non hai que desanimarse e o próximo curso con máis experiencia e tempo teremos máis oportunidades.

Para mais información consultade o blog condarwin para o alumnado de 4ºESO, e así ídesvos habituando a 4º.