THE SOLAR SYSTEM´S PERFORMANCE II (Unit 7-ScienceY6)

This time we have done a different activity as a final task of the Science Unit about the Solar System. In this post we explain to you how to do it.

Science Project: Solar System Performance

This are the final products the students have created and perfomed in the Science Lesson. 

REVIEW UNIT 4 'FOCUS ON FOOD' (English Y6)

To review the unit 4 Focus on Food, the Y6B classr does these exercises using the TIC.

To review COUNTABLE AND UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS use this webpage: 

• SOME / ANY / AN or A.  

To review MUST / MUSTN´T use this webpage:

• MUST or MUSTN´T. 

 Enjoy and review the unit.

MATTER (Unit 6-Science Y5)

Today we are going to start a new unit MATTER.

First to get to know more about Matter we are going to watch this video:

Where can we find matter in the universe?

Everywhere because everything is made of matter

What are tiny particles called that matter is made of?

Atoms

Then, we are going to visit this webpage:

http://www.wikisaber.es/Contenidos/LObjects/what_is_matterEN/index.html

You can visit this page:

An element is matter which consists of only one type of atom.

A compound is matter which consists of more than one kind of atom.

TYPES OF MATTER

 Are made up of a single type  of element or compound.

 Are made up of several pure substances.

PROPERTIES OF MATTER

General properties: All matter has general properties like mass and volume.

Characteristic properties: Properties like odour, colour, shininness and density are characteristic.

I SAW A MONSTER

I SAW A MONSTER

We are going to do a project in the unit 3.
 We are going to make a presentation in gdocs like this.

You have to make a presentation with 8 slides.
1. Title of your presentation.
• Insert the title.
• Name and Year
• School's logo.
• Your monster´s picture.
2. Insert monster´s picture.
• Monster´s name.
• Monster´s picture.
3. Monster information file.
4. Describe the monster.
• Description.
• Minimum five sentences.
5. Monster´s daily routine.
• Minimum six questions and their answers.
6. Where were you ...?
• Insert the video which you are answering the questions.
7. What was HER or HIS father like?
• Minimun five sentences which you are answering this question.
8. Farewell.

Don´t forget you to embed your presentation in a new post in kidblog. After send me the URL´s post to EDMODO by asignament.

And your evaluation will be with this rubric:

RÚBRICA DE EVALUACIÓN:

Rubrica I Saw a Monster 

ARE YOU ABLE TO CREATE AN AD?

Here it is. What? You will think.
It is the explination of your proyect. This proyect is to the unit 4 FOCUS ON THE FOOD.
What are you going to do? You have the steps below:

1. CHOOSE A NAME AND DESIGN A LOGO (Is it original?). PUT THEM ON THE BOX.
2. WRITE A DESCRIPTION OF YOUR PRODUCT ON THE BOX.
3. WRITE AN ADVERT FOR YOUR PRODUCT ON THE BOX.
4. PERFORM YOUR ADVERT
• You can make a story board and a script.

You can see an example in the page 36 of the Class Book.
Remember that you have to present your new product with an advertisement. (You can choose music to make it.)
We will record this the next 31th Janaury of 2013.
To evaluate this activity, we will use this rubric:
 

Rúbrica ad

 

View more presentations from Julián Mamolar

We will show you the advertisements. 

BLOOD CIRCULATION (Unit 5-Science Y5)

The previous days we have been learning about NUTRITION, the DIGESTIVE SYSTEM, the RESPIRATORY SYSTEM and the EXCRETORY SYSTEM.
Today it's time to find out the CIRCULATORY SYSTEM and the BLOOD CIRCULATION.

CIRCULATORY SYSTEM

Circulation is the movement of blood through the circulatory system.

To get to know more we are going to watch these videos:

Our heart moves blood through the body.

It never stops beating.

BLOOD VESSELS are tubes which transport blood through the circulatory system.

What is the name of the blood vessels which carry blood away from the heart?

What is the name of the blood vessels which carry blood into the heart?

What is the name of tiny blood vessels which connect arteries to veins?

BLOOD CIRCULATION

There are two circulatory systems:
PULMONARY CIRCULATION
SYSTEMIC CIRCULATION

Can you describe each one?

To get to know the answer we are going to watch this video:

To review everything do these activities:

ACROSPORT PERFORMANCES Y6B 2012/13

If you want to know more about this unit:
Acrosport en el San Gregorio
These are the final tasks.
Y6B

THE SOLAR SYSTEM´S PERFORMANCE (Unit 7-Science Y6)

This unit you have been learning about THE SOLAR SYSTEM, THE EARTH, THE MOON and ECLIPSES and finally STARS, CONSTELLATIONS and GALAXIES.

As a final task and project of this unit we are going to invite you to create a lesson about what you have learnt. We want you to be as much original as you can. 

Here you have some guidelines to help you to work:

• You are going to do this final task with your class group.
• The explanation will include the four parts of the unit:
• The Solar System (planets and the sun)
• The Earth (rotation and revolution)
• The Moon (lunar phases) and Eclipses
• Stars, constellations and galaxies. 
• You have TO DO YOUR BEST: 
• A performance.
• A model.
• Record a video and show it.
• Create a song.
• ....
• The main objective is TO BE ORIGINAL. 
• You will have four lessons to do it.
• The final task will be shown to the rest of the class group along the last week of January (From the 28th to the 1st of February).

The presentation of the activity and the performance will have a SCRIPT, which you should show to the teacher before acting:

• START: Group´s presentation and activity´s presentation.
• NUB: Explain the activity. Each member of the group has got a role in the performance. (Explain with your own words)
• ENDING: Activity´s conclusion and farewell.

Also you have to do a STORY BOARD, remember the example:

To evaluate your project we will use the following rubric. 

 

Rúbrica para evaluar la EXPRESIÓN ORAL

DO YOUR BEST!!!

STARS, CONSTELLATIONS and GALAXIES (Unit 7-Science Y6)

How wonderful is to watch the stars in a warm summer night? How much do you know about the STARS?

This video will help yo to understand how to see the stars and also is going to show you some of them.

STAR: It is a spherical body which generates light and heat through nuclear reactions. Most stars consist of hydrogen and helium.

Stars have different characteristics:

1. Colour.
2. Size.
3. Luminosity.

CONSTELLATIONS: They are groups of stars. There are eighty-eight constellations. They used to have the names of characters from mythology or the names of animals or objects because of the shape they form.

NEBULAE: A nebulae is a cloud of dust and gas. Some are illuminated by stars near them.

GALAXIES: Galaxies are enormous groups of stars, gases and dust.

There are three types:

• Elliptical

• Spiral.

• Irregular. 

Our Solar System is inside a Galaxy called THE MILKY WAY.

If you want further information you can look in the following link.

Rader's Cosmos4Kids

LET'S CHECK YOUR LEARNING WITH THE FOLLOWING TEST AND ACTIVITIES.

• Neok12. Label the Diagram: Astronomical Objects
• Cosmo4Kids Quizz: General Astronomy
• Cosmo4Kids Quizz: Solar System

RESPIRATION and EXCRETION (Unit 5-Science Y5)

The previous days we have been learning about NUTRITION and the DIGESTIVE SYSTEM.
Today it's time to find out the RESPIRATORY SYSTEM and the EXCRETORY SYSTEM.

RESPIRATION

Why do we need to breathe?

What are the two breathing movements we make?

Discover the answers.

We need oxygen to lived.

The function to obtain oxygen from the air is carried out by the respiratory system 

To know more we are going to watch this video:

 It is made up of the nose, air passageways and the lungs.

Do you know what it happens in the alveoli?

When we inhale, our lungs fill with air.

When we exhale, air leaves the lungs.

EXCRETION

It is the elimination of the waste substances.

To know more we are going to watch this video:

What do we call the process that eliminates waste substances from the blood?

What are the main organs?

The sweat gland in the skin also help in excretion.

To review everything make these activities:
Respiratory system review game quiz
Respiratory system definitions
Human excretory system quiz

THE MOON and ECLIPSES (Unit 7-Science Y6)

Do you know that the Moon orbits the Earth and rotates on its axis?

This video may explain you lots of characteristics of the MOON and ECLIPSES. 

The moon has four LUNAR PHASES, they depend on the Moon's position in relation to both the Earth and the Sun.

• NEW MOON: no part of the moon is visible.

• FIRST QUARTER: The illuminated half is increasing.

• FULL MOON: The side of the moon facing the Earth is being lit by the Sun.

• LAST QUARTER: The illuminated half is decreasing.

Sometimes there is a great phenomenon, when the MOON, the SUN and the EARTH ALING. This is which we called ECLIPSE.

We can have two kinds of eclipse:

• LUNAR ECLIPSE: The Earth passes between the Sun and the Moon and blocks the Sun's light.

• SOLAR ECLIPSE: The Moon passes between the Earth and the Sun, block the Sun's light and project a shadow on the Earth. If they are in a perfect line it is a TOTAL ECLIPSE. 

To know review the MOON we are going to watch this animation:
http://e-learningforkids.org/Courses/EN/S0801/login.htm

In the following link you can watch a short video about a Solar Eclipse. 

Solar eclipse block sun in Australia

LET'S CHECK ALL YOUR LEARNING WITH THE FOLLOWING ACTIVITY:

THE EARTH (Unit 7-Science Y6)

As we have learn the Earth in the last lesson the Earth is the third planet of the SOLAR SYSTEM. Like the song said to us it has got land and sea, this is why it seems to be blue.

THE EARTH

The earth has two kind of movements:

REVOLUTION

ROTATION

This video may clarify the two concepts for you:

REVOLUTION: It is the movement of the earth around the Sun. It takes 365 days and 6 hours. This is why we have LEAP YEARS every four years. The orbit around the sun it isn't a circle, IT IS AN ELLIPSE.

ROTATION: The earth has an invisible axis, and the earth rotates on it. It takes 24 hours. At any time there is half part facing the sun and half part facing away the sun. THIS IS WHY WE HAVE DAY AND NIGHT, and this is why the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. 

SEASONS: We have different seasons depending on what part of the orbit around the sun the Earth is. It is hotter when the Earth is nearer the Sun, and it is colder when it is further from the Sun. We also have different season depending on the hemisphere because of the slighty tilted axis. 

The best thing for learning something is doing it. SO LET MAKE A SHORT PLAY TO EXPLAIN THE ROTATION AND REVOLUTION OF THE EARTH.

YOU WILL NEED:

1. A torch.
2. Some  labels: The Moon, The Earth, The Sun, etc..
3. The script.
4. Some IMAGINATION.

In your group you are going to create a short play to explain the rest of the class how the Earth rotates and revolves around the Sun, also you should explain why do we have seasons and day and night. 

LET'S CHECK ALL YOUR LEARNING WITH THIS LINK  (You can show how the Earth moves and also do the quizz)

Earth, Sun and Moon