1º BACHILLERATO - TEORÍAS EVOLUCIONISTAS

- Aquí tenéis el powerpoint que hemos utilizado en clase.
- Ave con dos colas
- El Sol invierte su polaridad
- Y aquí las preguntas que debéis de hacer.

3º ESO: UNIT 2- FEEDING AND NUTRITION

Welcome to my new 3ºESO pupils from IES Monte Miravete, I hope you will enjoy my blog, looking into the information there already is from other levels and that you can use for remaining concepts!
 


Here you can download the review work sheet I told you at class.

YA PODEMOS SER INVISIBLES!!

Impresionante avance tecnológico - ¿cómo ser invisible?

1º ESO- MINERALS AND ROCKS

- Video - Types of rocks

Chemist joke

ATOMIC PARTICLES CHARGES

1º ESO - THE HYDROSPHERE

- Vídeo: Tsunami de hielo
- Video: Does water squezee out of a cloth at Zero Gravity?

2º ESO - FORCES AND MOVEMENT

Theory sheet - print here

OREO PLATE BOUNDARIES

1º ESO - THE ATMOSPHERE

- Video: estructura de la atmósfera
- Theory english sheet: download here
- Experimento de Torricelli. Ver

2º ESO - MATTER AND ENERGY

- Imprimir hoja de apuntes: aquí
- Notación científica - Imprimir y realizar hoja de ejercicios : aquí
- Theory sheet- ENERGY AND CHANGES IN MATERIAL SYSTEMS
- Amazing experiment - Water changes due to sound 

- Aquí tenéis una tabla periódica con nombre de los elementos y valencias.
- Y aquí una tabla donde se ve la tendencia de los elementos a ser negativos (gana el Flúor, recordad)
- Ejercicios de formulación : aquí

Is a mixture!!

Glass Eel / Anguila de cristal

2º ESO- Curiosidades sobre el hidrógeno

Si quieres apreder curiosidades sobre el hidrógeno pulsa sobre la siguiente imagen:

BABY OWL

How cute it is! 

Don't you think so?

Please comment...

2º ESO- TRABAJO PARA VACACIONES SEMANA SANTA

Para que no echéis demasiado de menos al instituto, os he preparado una serie de ejercicios que deberéis de tener hechos el primer día de clase:

 - Libro, páginas 156-157: 1, 8, 10, 13, 15, 18.
 - Imprimir hoja de apuntes: aquí
 - Imprimir y realizar hoja de ejercicios : aquí

1º ESO- VERTEBRATES

- TRABAJO PARA SEMANA SANTA: descargar explicación

1- FISH

Fish parts

2- AMBIPHIANS

- Vídeo los anfibios 

3- REPTILES

- Presentation: Types of reptiles

4- BIRDS

- Presentation: Las aves
- Vídeo: El vuelo de las aves
- Actividad interactiva: Las aves

5- MAMMALS

 - Video: Nacimiento de canguro (marsupial)

2º ESO- La materia y la energía

Documental - Cómo empezó la Vida

Red-eyed tree frogs (Agalychnis callidryas) lays their gelatinous eggs on leaves above pools of water.

RESURRECT AN EXTINTED FROG ...HOW COOL IS SCIENCE!!!!

Gastric brooding frogs went extinct thirty years ago - but today, scientists announced that they have taken a massive step forward in bringing this extinct creature back to life. A team of Australian scientists succeeded in cloning one of these frogs and taking it to the stage of an embryo, and they have now announced that they plan to go all the way and resurrect the gastric brooding frog using cloning technology.

MONKEY ORCHIDS

These incredible looking flowers are monkey orchids. There are two species shown here, Dracula simia (the ones that look like monkey faces) and Orchis simia (which resemble little dancing monkeys).
Dracula simia are only found in the cloud forests of southeastern Ecuador at elevations of 1000 to 2000 meters and their flowers smell likes ripe oranges. Orchis simia are found in Europe, the Mediterranean, Russia, Asia Minor and Iran and the flowers smell strongly of feces!

AMAZON MILK FROG

The Amazon milk frog, a large species of arboreal frog native to the Amazon Rainforest in South America.

THE EARTH HISTORY

2º ESO - UNIT 7: A UNIVERSE OF MATTER AND ENERGY

1-  WHAT IS THE UNIVERSE MADE OF?

   - Vídeo - La inercia

2º ESO: EJERCICIOS PARA HACER DURANTE LA SEMANA DEL VIAJE A NORWICH

Estos son los ejercicios que debéis hacer durante la semana del 4 al 9 de marzo (viaje a Norwich).

- páginas 120-121: ejercicios 1 al 14 (ambos inclusive)

- páginas 136-137: ejercicios 1 al 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12 y 13

- Además estudiad, que sabéis que a la vuelta tenemos el examen de los temas 6 y 7.

See you soon!

THE OCEAN DEADLIEST PREDATOR

One of National Geographic's posters to raise awareness about the dangers of plastic bags on beaches.
Many large marine animals mistakenly eat plastic bags, believing they are jellyfish. The bags can choke them, or eventually they die because of all the plastic blocking their digestive tract.

Picking up a bag or two at the beach only takes a second, so do your part!

1º ESO- Coming soon...VERTEBRATES!

A baby cobra emerging from an egg. The infant is able to care for itself immediately, and can spread its hood and strike on the same day it hatches.

SUPER VOLCANOES

WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE! (Episode 2013): The Root Cause of Super Volcanoes?

A volcanic eruption can mean bad news, but even among volcanoes there are those that mean REALLY bad news, like – total apocalyptic catastrophe.

The vast majority of volcanoes (those active on the earth today and those discovered in the geologic record) are “normal” volcanoes. These are volcanoes with relatively well understood origins, generally related to the geology of tectonic plate margins. “Normal” volcanoes are erupting as we speak along mid-ocean spreading ridges and above convergent margins where one tectonic plate is being subducted beneath another. Just about all the volcanoes within the Pacific Ring of Fire are “normal” volcanoes.

“Super” volcanoes are not just immense volcanoes, though their size is one of the criteria distinguishing them from “normal” volcanoes. To compare two well-known examples: the caldera of Mount St Helens, a “normal” large volcano, contains an estimated volume on the scale of one km3; the volume of the Yellowstone Super Volcano is estimated at 1000km3 – that’s three orders of magnitude larger than your everyday ordinary source of total destruction! Super volcanoes that have been active in the past and are still threats today include Yellowstone, Long Valley (Mono-Inyo valleys in California), the Valles Caldera of New Mexico, Lake Toba in Indonesia, Taupo Volcano in New Zealand, and the Aira Caldera in Japan. A super volcano that hasn’t yet erupted is proposed beneath Europe (deadset under Germany), and some consider Campi Flegrei in Italy to be a potential super volcano hazard.

The origins of super volcanoes are not well understood: it has been suggested that they are intimately related to mantle plumes (uprising columns of hot rock through the earth) that penetrate intra-plate localities as hot spots. However, the Hawaiian volcanoes, perhaps the best studied example of hot spot volcanism, though large, are not as huge and destructive as would be an eruption of a super volcano. Hawaii is well-behaved and tourist friendly. Yellowstone could be cataclysmic.

Michael Thorne at the University of Utah has been investigating deep earth structures located at the core–mantle boundary, huge piles of rock at a depth of ~2900 km beneath the Pacific and another beneath Africa. Using seismic waves as a sort of terrestrial-scale sonogram, these large rock piles appear to be in motion (very slow motion), and at some areas where they converge, seismic waves are transmitted with the characteristic signals of partially molten rock, ie, blobs of magma. These “blobs” are on the size scale of, say, Greece (including the Aegean). Seismologists give these blobs the friendly name of “mega ultra low velocity zones.”

Are mega ultra low velocity zones the source of super volcanoes? Thorne believes these blobs could be the roots of mantle plumes that give rise to hot spot volcanism, and when of large enough scale (super blobs!) could cause super volcanoes or flood basalt eruptions (as the Deccan Traps or Siberian flood basalts). It is estimated that the time scale from which a blob ascends from the core-mantle boundary as a plume to intersect the lithosphere is on the order of 100 million years. Thus, the mega-blobs beneath Pacific and Africa could be the root cause of an apocalyptic eruption and extinction in the distant future.

Whew! We’re safe for a while – at least until Yellowstone decides to blow up.

Annie R

Graphic: BBC Earth the Biography

A baby common marmoset, (Callithrix jacchus)

They might be completely adorable, but you do NOT want one as a pet. They have very tiny, very sharp teeth and they bite.

THE HAPPY FACED SPIDER

This is the happy faced spider, Theridion grallator.
Don't you think it's so cute? It's quite similar to that kind of pictures you like to draw at the classroom blackboard!

1º ESO - UNIT 5: INVERTEBRATES

 1- THE MAIN CHARACTERISTICS OF ANIMALS

- Vídeo - Los distintos tipos de invertebrados
- Theory sheet (print it)
- Presentation - Asexual reproduction
- Interactive activity - Main animals groups

2- PORIFERA AND CNIDARIA 

- Presentation - Sponges
- Presentation - Cnidaria

3- WORMS

	- Presentación - La transmisión de las tenias
	- Presentación - Algunos gusanos

 

4- MOLUSCS

- Presentación - Algunos moluscos
- Presentation - Molluscs

5- ARTHROPODS

	- Vídeo - La función defensiva del exoesqueleto
	- Vídeo - El ojo compuesto
	- Vídeo - La metamorfosis de la mariposa
	- Actividad Interactiva - Las formas del cuerpo de los artrópodos
	ENGLISH: - Vídeo - The exoskeleton - Vídeo - The metamorphosis - Presentation - Arthropods - Interactive activity - Arthropod body shapes

6- Los artrópodos, grupo a grupo
	- Presentación - Algunos artrópodos
7- ECHINODERMS
	- Presentación - Algunos equinodermos
	- Actividad Interactiva - Las características de los invertebrados
	- Actividad Interactiva - Los invertebrados grupo a grupo
	- Presentación - Algunos ejemplos de reproducción asexual en animales Let’s revise Interactive activity - The characteristics of invertebrates Interactive activity - The invertebrates, group by group

- Presentación de repaso de todo el tema: Los invertebrados

2º ESO - UNIT 6: THE EARTH STRUCTURE

1- A DESCRIPTION OF THE EARTH

- Presentation - Revising the Earth’s spheres
- Presentación - El relieve de las zonas sumergidas
- Presentación - Litosfera y placas litosféricas
- Hoja para imprimir: Layers of the geosphere (print it)
- Vídeo - El origen de las capas terrestres
- Image: Submerged relief

2- CHANGES IN THE EARTH

- Vídeo - Simulamos las corrientes de convección
- Mapa: Las placas litosféricas
 

3- EARTH DINAMYS AND ROCK FORMATION

- Presentation - Formation of different types of rocks
- Presentación - Las rocas
- Vídeo - La formación de las rocas magmáticas
- Vídeo - La formación de las rocas metamórficas
- Vídeo - La formación de las rocas sedimentarias
- Presentation: Rock cicle

AMAZING BEETLE!

This gorgeous creature is Chrysolina cerealis, also known as the rainbow leaf beetle. They're found throughout Eurasia, and are about 8mm long. Typically, the females are larger than the males.

TURTLE HATCHING

OCEAN FACTS!

MARABOU STORK (Marabú Africano)

Para aquellos de 2ºB que me preguntábais por el pájaro tan "feo" que aparece en el tema de ecología, aquí os lo presento:

Por si su aspecto no es suficiente, os diré que se alimenta de heces, carroña y grillos.
Pincha aquí si quieres sabes más sobre este curioso animal.

NEW BORN PARAKEET

I'm glad to introduce you my new born parakeet! It's so cute, I will call it Milan, like the famous baby.

What are your impressions about Milan, do you like it or not?

Please leave a comment!

SQUID EGGS

2º ESO - UNIT 5: ECOSYSTEMS

1- WHAT IS AN ECOSYSTEM?

- Presentation - Elements of an ecosystem
- Presentation - The ecosphere and the biosphere
- Interactive activity - Biotope and biocenosis
 

2- HOW ABIOTIC FACTORS AFFECT THE BIOCENOSIS

- Vídeo - Adaptaciones
- Presentación - La migración de las aves
- Presentación - Cómo afectan los factores abióticos a la biocenosis 

3- RELATIONS IN BIOCENOSIS

 - Relaciones intraespecíficas e interespecíficas 

4- TROPHIC LEVELS, FOOD CHAINS AND WEBS

- Trophic levels (print it)
- Worksheet: Trophic web
- Presentation - Trophic levels

1º ESO - UNIT 4: MONERA, PROTOCTISTS, FUNGI AND PLANTS

1- THE MONERA KINGDOM 

- Algunos tipos de bacterias
- Video: flagella and cilia
- Mareas rojas causadas por algas. (Red tides caused by algae)

2- THE PROTOCTIST KINGDOM

- Vídeo - Desplazamiento de los protozoos
- Vídeo: alimentación de la ameba 
- Vídeo: vacuolas contráctiles de protozoos --> vídeo 1, vídeo 2

3- THE FUNGI KINGDOM

 - Vídeo - La reproducción de los hongos que forman setas

4- THE PLANT KINGDOM

-  Plant kingdom (print it)
-  Plant structure
- Tree structure
- Presentación: Las plantas

GENES, CLONES & TWINS (GENES, CLONES Y GEMELOS)

Interesting program about genetics. Have you ever wondered if clones are twins are the same? Here you will find the answer.

Imagina que dos gemelos son separados al nacer y se desarrollan en lugares, circunstancias o familias muy diferentes, ¿serán tan parecidos como si se desarrollaran juntos? Eduard Punset nos lo explica en el siguiente programa...

http://www.redesparalaciencia.com/8172/redes/redes-138-genes-clones-y-gemelos