Thursday, May 22, 2014

Vocabulary Game.

Use this Quizlet game to help you learn your vocabulary for Week One in science.
Try the flash cards, listen to the audio, then test yourself. Use Scatter or Race to see what you know!
Can you get 100%? Click here for the game.

Post your results on the blog comments if you dare!!

Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Here are some interactive sites where you can see what it is like inside a cell. Our area of focus is the nucleus..but have a look around the other parts too - just for fun!
Click on the link then on each part of the cell to see what it does.

Write IN YOUR OWN WORDS  what the nucleus can do.
Do the same for the following link:
Click here to see what the inside of this cell looks like

What Chromosomes look like - Play the matching game

See if you can correctly match the pairs of Chromosomes to complete the 23 pairs. Look carefully to see the variations and match them up.
Click here to start the game

Record in your science book what your results were. What did you notice about the pairs?

Thursday, May 8, 2014

Term Two - The journey of our cells and our DNA.

This term we will be looking at biology and focussing on cells and DNA. We are linking this to the work we have been doing around journeys and using science to help us understand how people, including our ancestors have journeyed to get to Aotearoa/New Zealand.

We will be carrying out some investigations on our own family to see if we can identify traits...Don't worry...it doesn't hurt much! 
We will learn how to conduct a simple scientific investigation, account for variables, hypothesize and explain what we found.


Below is a link to a game that helps us to understand the process scientists took to identify the various parts inside a cell (organelles)
Click here to play the animation game about cells and organelles.


The game helps you understand why we have only recently been able to investigate and understand what happens inside our cells and the jobs that each cell carries out.

WRITE 5 FACTS THAT YOU HAVE TAKEN FROM THE GAME.