Workshop The Blood Circulatory System

This workshop will guide you through several links. Read the pages carefully as they will help you to explain
 Why animals need a circulatory system
+ read the section on transport systems 6.139 thru 6.141
 In the previous session we discussed the medium of transport and the sites of exhange that allow materials deliverd. Name these two components. can you think up the other two members of this transport system? Decribe their function.
 The structure and function of the components of the blood.
+ read this
+ then click here
+ read 6.166 about how white blood cells vary in size and function
Challenge level: can you find some examples of this white blood cells in action?
 To describe how the blood is directed around the body in a set of vessels
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 To decribe the differences in structure and function of arteries and veins.
+ click here
+ read more on 6.152 - 6.155
 Why we humans have a double circulatory system
+ click here to read 6.142
+ read more
 To know the names of the main arteries and veins of the human body.
+ click here and read the introduction 6.152
find the location of the following carotid artery - pulmonairy vein - aorta - hepatic artery - hepatic portal vein -renal artery -femoral artery -femoral vein -renal vein - hepatic vein -vena cava . What is their relationship? can you put them in a diagram? Visit this link to help you out.
+ read more on the consequences of a high fat diet
 To have answered the questions on page 111 (Q 1-5) of your hand-out.
You will have to work individually and hand-in your results at the end of this workshop with the front-desk of the mediatheek.

Workshop on Green Plants as living Organisms

Click on the links below; they will guide you through your worksheet2 / worksheet3!
Animation 1: section through a leaf
Animation 2: The working of a stoma explained
Animation 3: osmosis explained
Animation 4: Why do swollen cells bend?
Animation 5: The vascular plant tissues
Animation 6: Nutrients

You have more questions? This site is recommended!

Next: End-of-term Test Jan 16, 9:50AM: all about Eyes and Sensors

"We don’t see things as they are; we see things as we are."

This quote suggests that what we see depends as much on ourselves as it does on the world around us. Explore this link and see if you can figure out what they tell us about how we see.
Did you know, even blind people can learn to see again with... their tongue!
+ watch this video

Now, what is this test about?
Study Pickering, complete Biology: section 5.6 p 100 - 103
+read pickering
Can you do more?
+view here to see the world as a colorblind person would
+view here to experience impaired vision
+view here to see the world with old eyes

check your final P1 results!

How well did your preform?
+ read more for your quiz results on homeostasis
+ read more for your poster grading

how to revise .... BETter Ch. 5 a bird's-eye view

Great links to visit!
Brushing up ... play this cartoon
than quickly look at these pages: 1,2,3
Questions asked by you during class...
here is your feedback
You think you know it all?
Get ready and go for the quiz...

New! Class room copies available

As of period 2, don’t bring your book to class.
However, to log your progress you need to keep an A4-size binder as journal.
Kindly refer to your journal rubric for the end-of-year evaluation.

Just a Body Responding

Today's lab (Mo Oct 15) will be about two body respondses:

--> Temperature Comparison
follow the Protocol as listed on p. 174, BSCS
--> Front Squat - test
follow the Protocol as listed p. 179, BSCS

Homework (due Friday Oct 19)
1. Execute tasks 4 and 5 on page 176.
2. Read the essay Homeostasis (p229) and record the analysis questions 1 - 4 in your journal.
4. Rewrite your prediction as an if-then statement (task 5 page 179, BSCS)
5. Complete tasks 9 to 12 on page 181-182
6. Complete the Analysis questions p 182 task 1 and 2.