Monday, September 30, 2013

semana del 30 de septiembre al 4 de octubre

SCIENCE 5 grade:
This is a summary of the theme 1 on the Science book. Remember that all this information is written in your note-books.

THEME 1, LIVING THINGS                                                                                     5th grade


LIVING THINGS
Living things: born, eat, react, grow, reproduce and die (animals, bacteria, plants)
Non-living things: never alive (rocks, air, wind)

LIFE PROCESSES
Nutrition: eat food (contains nutrients)
Sensitivity: react to the environment
Reproduction: have offspring
Vocabulary: are born, die, eat, grow, living things, non-living things, nutrients, nutrition, react, reproduce, sensitivity


CELLS
Unicellular: just one cell
Multicellular: two or more cells

Parts of a cell
Membrane: is the covering around the cell
Nucleus: controls the cell
Cytoplasm: liquid between the nucleus and the cytoplasm
Wall: special hard membrane in a plant cell
Vocabulary: cell, cytoplasm, membrane, Multicellular, nucleus, unicellular


ORGANISATION OF LIVING THINGS
Cells: smallest living unit in a living thing, form tissues
Tissues: made up of cells, form organs
Organs: made up of tissues, form systems
System: made up of organs, form an organism
Organism: made up of all the systems
Vocabulary: cell, organ, organism, system, tissue


KINGDOMS
Animal kingdom
·         Multicellular
·         Eat other living things
·         Can move
·         Nervous system/sense organs
·         React
Plant kingdom
·         Make up their own food
·         Not move
·         Multicellular
Fungi kingdom
·         Multicellular
·         Eat other living things
·         Not move
Vocabulary: animal kingdom, fungi kingdom, kingdoms, plant kingdom



SCIENCE TEST THEME 1: the next Thursday, 4th October, 2013
(la fecha de examen de science del tema 1 es el jueves 4 de octubre)