You have a task about FIREWORKS today. The Word document with instructions and information is here.
You have two tasks.
1. To identify the woodlice in the school grounds and note their habitat
2. To make an illustrated children's book on woodlice. Instructions here.
Remember that living things are not simply animals and plants! Life is divided into five Kingdoms (shown in the image below).
Biodiversity lesson 1 (' Why is Biodiversity important')... Download instructions for the lesson here
Watch
a starter Powerpoint presentation here
You
need the Natural History Museum site: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/biodiversity/index.html
If
you finish, look at these websites before you return to the lab for your second
lesson
Biodiversity lesson 2 - ' Enhancing Biodiversity in the school grounds'. You will find that these are good starter sites.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/animals/wildbritain/breathingspace/myspace/
http://www.rspb.org.uk/gardens/chelsea2005/attractometer/index.asp
Hampshire Wildlife Trust. Find out about diversity in your own county.
EXTRA material on biodiversity: General site
Marwell zoo picture gallery
Bagheera – a site with excellent pictures of endangered species.
Good animal pictures on this site
More animal images. Nicely classified here. http://zoltantakacs.com/zt/pw/index.shtml
Protoctist
Kingdom
University of Paisley has some good images of fungi
7ScCd SUN AND SHADE LEAVES
Excel spreadsheet. Click here. Save it to your box as '7ScCd Sun and Shade leaves'
Jamie Oliver's campaign to get good food into schools, and what has happened since he launched that campaign
CBeebies: Six quick questions on healthy food
Vote: Do you eat healthy school dinners’?
Jamie's campaign here.
'Food most fowl' video here
What's happened recently here
Video 'See what is being served up in schools' is on the same page, or here
Store Wars here
Websites
for fingerprints and forensic entomology here.
MICROBES
POSTER for WEDNESDAY 14th April. Do not print it out, but open it here
Microbe World here
Introduction to uses of fungi here
S-Cool disease.
Edexcel's helpful Microorganisms and disease booklet
What causes disease? Our defences. American, but entertaining. Here
Stalking the mysterious microbe here. Playful.
Defences of the human body here.
The immune system. A nice summary from Coursework Bank
Disease and immunity. Another good summary
Microbe Zoo
THE HEART
Short heart Powerpoint here
ECOLOGICAL RELATIONSHIPS
CELLS
Year 7: some interesting websites to look at when you are studying living things under the microscope
Start at http://ebiomedia.com/gall/gallery_main.html
Ciliates (what you were shown on the projector at school)
http://ebiomedia.com/gall/ciliates/index.html
Have a look at ‘The classics of Biology’ - Paramecium
http://ebiomedia.com/gall/classics/Paramecium/paramecium1.html
and Daphnia at http://ebiomedia.com/gall/classics/Daphnia/feature_main.html
Bacteria are also interesting
http://ebiomedia.com/gall/bacteria/index.html