7th Grade: Respriratory System!

You knew that talking about lungs was fun... and pretending to do mouth-to-mouth on your classmates is not an option at school. So, what to do? Look at somebody's vocal cords through a tube going down their nose! Fly through the bronchi! Animate your alveoli! See your cilia! Look at your lungs!

Oh, the joys of YouTube

Bugs Bunny's Creator - Vocal cords, LIVE!
Flying through the bronchi
Animated alveoli
Motion of Cilia
Lungs of a smoker

7th Grade: Resources for Activity 23-2, page 642-643

Use the links in this article to answer the following questions.

Pictures of Human Blood, Bird Blood, and Frog Blood. Red blood cells are called erythrocytes, white blood cells are called lymphocytes, and platelets are called thrombocytes.

You can also see this human lymphocyte with special stain under a microscope, and scanning electron microscope (SEM) pictures of an individual human lymphocyte and human blood. From these pictures, and the three microscope slides of different bloods, answer the questions below.

In your classwork notebook, answer the Analyze and Apply questions as well as you can. Observe carefully.

7th Grade: Human Body Systems

Here are a whole bunch of good links you cna use to get started in your quest for independent learning! That means: you go do the work outside of class! Yay!

Ok, joking aside, I hope these are good tools to help you out in learning about your own body and possibly even learning something that can help others.

Of course, you can always search around for yourself on Google and YouTube. I probably spend more time than I should myself, but the stuff just fascinates me.

Enjoy,

- Mr. Rice

Human Gross Anatomy :This one is a little intense on names, but very detailed.
Human Body Systems : This one is more for middle school students.
Kids Konnect - Human Body : Ok, this site really just takes a whole lot of other links and sends you to them, but the pictures are fun and help you understand what you're going to find.


My own video and image picks:

Torso with labeled organs
Detailed Muscular System

Human body 101
Human Body Systems Revealed

Nutrition - Part 1

You know you want to be healthy. What does nutrition have to do with it? You'll find out in chapter 22.

Here are some links to help you out!

Plain old nutrition facts.
What IS a macromolecule, you may ask. Find out here

And, of course, what happens when you eat too much vitamin A

Leaves and Photosynthesis

Links to pictures and videos of leaves, leaf parts, and explanations of photosynthesis.

http://www.molecularexpressions.com/primer/java/photosynthesis/index.html

http://www.osovo.com/diagram/photosynthesisdiagrams.htm

http://www.molecularexpressions.com/cells/leaftissue/leaftissuelarge.html

http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/BIOBK/BioBookPLANTANAT.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/education/bitesize/standard/biology/world_of_plants/making_food_rev5.shtml

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hj_WKgnL6MI

http://www.5min.com/Video/Plants-Photosynthesis-1354330

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2052546048515904444&ei=l2b5SeC0KY6g2wKkhcHqBQ&q=dry+ice+carbon+dioxide

Great Photos of Diverse Bacteria and Protozoans

I found this page while doing research for 7th grade. I love the pictures. Great color. Better than a photocopied textbook any day.

Enjoy.

http://www.bio.mtu.edu/the_wall/phycodisc/CHLOROPHYTA/

Flash Interactives for Seasons and Lunar Phases

The Earth-Moon-Sun system... what a joy to behold! It's a little hard to understand at first, but these interactive flash simulations make it a whole lot easier. Say thanks to McGraw-Hill.

"Thank McGraw-Hill"

That's nice, children. :-)

Lunar Phases

Earth Seasons

Seasons Interactive Flash

Hey 7th grade! Go here for an interactive demonstration of how the Earth's seasons depend on the tilt of the earth and our orbit around the sun.

We don't have time for all the activities I'd like us to do in school, but the activity you can find here looks like a lot of fun, and would definitely be worth 2 % extra on your next report card (and maybe even a couple of Jolly Ranchers).