Plants Don't Go To Coto and NEVER EVER Procrastinate!!!

Hi, people!!! I hope you're (not your) not relaxing and you're studying for NEXT THURSDAY'S TEST!!! I was watching a film called "Across the Universe" full of songs by the beatles and it ended like this:



As we discussed in our last classes, plants don't need to get their food, they can produce it!!! So, The Beatles were wrong when they say "ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE"!!! This is not correct about plants, all they need is SUNLIGHT, CARBON DIOXIDE and WATER (and of course all our caring love!)
Remember that the process by which plants turn INORGANIC substances into ORGANIC ( means that the composition is CHO) ones is called Photosynthesis


 
And here you can see my friend Hank again:


I´m also posting my power point presentations (Thank you, Miss Andrea!!!) because it was not clear on your booklet

Powerpoint 1

Plants don't go to Coto from sdelrioandrea

NUTRITION IN PLANTS  (This is the video in the presentation)

 

Powerpoint 2

Plant structure function and transport from sdelrioandrea

Here you have some more useful videos for you to revise your ideas so far (unit 7)

TRANSPORT in PLANTS

Another video on TRANSPORT




Please, Don't PROCRASTINATE till the night before the test!!!

 (Do you know what PROCRASTINATION is?)

So, don't do this!!!!!

Keep on studying and surprise me on Thursday!!!

XXX

Andrea

THE ULTIMATE PROCRASTINATORS

Plants Don't go to Coto

Hi, my plant creators!!! How did you spend this looong weekend? Hope you have relaxed and started preparing the summaries for the test on plants!!!
Have you seen my cacti in bloom??? (the real and the virtual one) It's impossible to be unhappy when you see this kind of magic...

 Well, first of all I wanted to share with you two great links on what we have been discussing in class:

* Our Argentinian scientists from Fundación Leloir discovered how plants know they are not alone
http://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias/2014/11/141117_plantas_parientes_vecinas_argentina_lp

* Great science page for you to read, review and practise on TRANSPORT IN PLANTS
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/science/triple_aqa/transport_systems/transport_in_plants/revision/1/ 

I'm also including the chart on the PARTS OF A PLANT and how to distinguish MONOCOTS from DICOTS

 
This is a great TED-ED video on how plants communicate!!

And last but not the least: OUR POLL!!!!
* Poll for people from MONDAYS/THURSDAYS 

https://PollEv.com/free_text_polls/fPi3Fqdd9zNkZyV/web



* Poll for people from FRIDAYS

https://PollEv.com/free_text_polls/9xXCCqx1fiYEpCf/web 




REMEMBER TO ANSWER ONCE ONLY  by clicking on the link and including your name at the end of your message

See you on THURSDAY!!!

XXX

Andrea 

Plants Here, Plants There, Plants Everywhere

Hi people!! How are you? Did you sleep late today??



(Have I told you I'm a big fan of Sherlock Holmes Series??)

I'm super happy as I finished correcting and closing the term averages!!!!! Time to relax!! No, wait... Brain is right! I have tons of #3rdYear reports on Osmosis to correct and #4thYear Super Summaries...#NoSeTerminaMas #YassssQueen #HateCorrecting

Well, back to reality!!
For Monday, August 26th I want to see all your CD germinations (one per person) to cover the windows of our floor!!!
These are the instructions:

  But I don't want everybody to use the same kind of seeds, so  people in
*  GROUP 1 First shift:
Padula- Muruzabal- Giacoia- Castrolagonegro- Ros-Campobassi
and  GROUP 2 First shift:
 Dib- Aloe- Bandura- Nervi- Chiaramonte- Barbera    will be using FLOWER SEEDS (the ones you choose)

 *GROUP 3 First shift:
Lopez- Grassano-Lisi-Nuñez- Barreto- Martinez Alzaga- Bagnato
 and  GROUP 4 First shift:
Caride- Della Torre- Cuesta- Zavalla- Parigi- Torterola  will be using OMBU seeds (ask me if you can't find them, I've got tons!)

* GROUP 1 Second shift:
Lo- Comesaña- Fernandez Bula- Caamaño- Kalbermatten- Castro Expósito- Giustiniani
and  GROUP 2 Second shift:
Chaio- Taboada- Mauvezin- Reyes- Martín Arias- Galli    will be using CEIBO or TALA seeds (ask me if you can't find them, I've got tons!)

* GROUP 3 Second shift:
Zerni- Vittola- Rodriguez Guarnera- Rizzo- D'angelo- Martelliti
and GROUP 4 Second shift:
Hernandez- Rávida- Prola- Rodriguez Sourrouille- Rojas- Lionetti  will be using  VEGETABLES seeds(no Beans, please!)

I'd like to see your names and the different parts of the plant labelled in yours!!!

Well, go on enjoying this beautiful almost- Spring day!!

 XXX

Andrea 

PS: This is an old picture of me with my granduncle for you to see how much I loved plants (up to the point of trying to eat a tree hahaha)

My Robocop Super Summary to the Rescue!!!

Sorry! I watched the new Robocop yesterday and I'm still excited about a part we'll be watching ...



And now, to the point:
These are the pages of my Super Summary for you to print for MONDAY and FRIDAY!!!! Don't do anything, just print them!! Don't forget!!!

 

 

This is a summary for you to see how many things you know already and not to forget everything!!!

See you On Monday!! I'll go on correcting!!!! buuuhhhhhhh!!!!

XXX

Andrea

Are We Sponges Or Ballerinas??

Here I am again, people,!!! This is the video I told you (and showed people from Fridays) about last class. I hope it can help you understand the relationship between surface area and volume. This is a key concept to understand absorption in every part of our bodies.

So, less talking and more doing!!!
A biologist will show this ratio with an interesting lab experiment



This is the other video we watched in class last Friday.




I'm also including my  powerpoint presentation on transport IN and OUT of the cells for you to use as a review
  
TRANSPORT IN CELLS
 

Transport in cells 3rd from sdelrioandrea

Study a lot for the test on FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2nd (Friday Group) and MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 5th please, because I wouldn't like this to happen:

 In case of doubts, please, remember, you can contact me in different ways:

sdelrio_andrea@yahoo.com

Andrea Bio-logics

andrebiology

                                                           XXX
                                                         Andrea

Once There Was A Jack And A Charlie Diffusing In Water

As you can remember, we discussed that poor Leo Dicaprio died in Titanic because of 1) the loss (=perdida) of heat to the water by a diffusion process and because 2) all the water in his cells froze and the enzymes inside the cells stopped working because of the low temperature...


It was sad, wasn't it? and now, off with the watery romantic eyes and in with the funny stuff.

Shame on you, Rose, you selfish cow!!!

and ... do you remember Rose´s last words in the trailer?

The Mythbusters proved James Cameron WRONG!!!



I have a special 10 for the person that can tell me if Jack could have really gone to the bottom of the ocean or could have floated after dead (with a scientific explanation, of course!!!)

And for the girls only... the moment when heat diffuse from Zac's body into Tess's cold body to save her life...



(I was wrong, he wasn't wearing a t-shirt at all from the beginning of the scene...)

and now let's get a bit more serious...


(just the information we discussed in class!!!)

And another one from BBC




Hope you like them!!!
See you next Thursday/Friday

XXX

Andrea

PS: Let's see who can understand the joke

The Strange Case of Alfred, the Gummy Bear who Drowned in Distilled Water

Hi, people!! How are you?  Sorry for not posting the material before but I was down with temperature yesterday (Apparently, my enzymes have been doing their job pretty well and now I'm feeling much better!!! GO ENZYMES!!)
Let's talk a bit about your two practical work assignments and the test...

For Thursday July 7th, each pizza group from Mondays- Thursdays will have to come to the Biology lab on the 2nd floor with the following materials:






 

4 disposable transparent plastic cups

Masking tape

permanent marker

spoon

a bag of Gummy Bears (different colours) a packet of Halls candies (= pastillas Halls)

Distilled water (= Agua Desmineralizada). I bought it in the car section at Coto

salt

centimeter rulers

With the group from Fridays, we will make the experiment on Friday July 15th (last two hours)

And this is a file for you to print and complete on the results (individually) for the first class after the winter holiday  (For the last page BE EXTRA CREATIVE!!!!!)

For Monday July 11th, each pizza group will have to choose up to 10 of the pictures you took during pizza making, print them and on a colour cardboard (cartulina) stick them , telling how the process was (every step) and showing your final pizzas. I will hang the posters on the walls of the lobby, so do your best!



And last but not the least

People from Mondays- Thursdays will have the test on ENZYMES and RESPIRATION on THURSDAY JULY 14th. The group from Fridays will have it on FRIDAY, JULY 15TH.







            See you!!!

XXX

 Andrea