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.

Hormones and senses

Hormones are susbstances that help nervous system to control our body functions. Hormones travel through the bloodstream, they reach all the tissues but each one acts only on specific cells.
You can find more on hormones and endocrine system here:
Sensory receptors are responsible for detecting changes in the world around us. They can be just nerves   in muscles or skin, specilized cells in eyes, or ears, these are our senses.
You can find more about our senses here: Eye anatomy , How the eye works1, 2 , How we hear,  and receptors and effectors  eye and optical illusions (colorblindness test "test daltonismo") .  Try on this  Sense challenge! .
Those who are swapping your class have to read and do exercises pp 114 up to 103 and page 110 1 to 6 exercises. Enjoy it!.
We are not going to study skeletal and muscles, we will jump into the reproductive system.
What is synesthesia?
Some quizzes to practice:  QLD Teachers,  Proprofs,      to review vocabulary,  Interactive Biology ,  Softschools.com ,  CCSF ,

Unit 5. The nervous and endocrine systems

D Santiago Ramón y Cajal ensinando

Can you  be sure of what you see, hear, smell, taste or touch? In this chapter, you´ll learn how you experience your environment through your senses. You´ll see how the senses send information to your nervous system and how your brain interprets the messages.
But things aren´t always they seem. For example, look at these optical illusions.
These links can help you to study the nervous system: 1, 2, 3 and 4. Synapse, two neurons connected
There is a documentary called  "El cerebro automático: el poder del inconsciente" It describes our brain and some functions, and we are studing some topics related to. Other videos: "Nuestro cerebro"  Como aprendemos Aprende a estudiar   Como hacer esquemas   
A new Brain Map Project is starting at USa, like the Human Genome Project, some scientists are going to work together to know how our brain works, it is our next goal, and we´ll get it!.