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!.

Biology Hat Trick

Three pupils of the IES Rosalía were the best in the Galician  "Olimpiada de Bioloxía" phase celebrated January. The pupils were: Paula Rodríguez, Alberto Rama and Fernando Castro, they were selected for the following national phase, they are going to be great!.
Congratulations to all of them, and to all those that decide to present themselves to these competitions.

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 one related to circulatory system.
How can we measure blood pressure?
How a normal heart pumps blood?
And please donét forget the lymphatic system,  another video.
The best 2012 scientific video is catalan and about the heart,    let´s look at it


And now, lets´look at our kidneys: How kidneys work,  The kidneys ,  kidney: structure and function ;  and nephron

Animal treatment

Where are the limits in the treatment of domestic animals borne, fed and killed to give food to the human beings?.
A subject of current debate in which we can be interested is this. We can put links to articles here as they appear in the mass media.
"Expediente sancionador". The pâté of hollow is fabricated after doing to suffer to the hollow ones, is necessary?, we can avoid it?