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.