Incredible Crash Test

Video on Dragontrail Glass




1) What do the videos tell us about the material used for making the screens?

Roof Strength Test for Cars

View the video above and answer the question below using the "comment" function.

1) Which do you mean when a car is said to have high strength?

Your response may look like this:

1) It means that the car is _______________________________.

From: ___________ / 3 Faith

Wooden Scratch Model of Tupolev Tu-16A

View the video above and answer the questions below using the "comment" function.

1) Can you name the materials you see in this video?
2) Which material is harder? Why?

Your response may look like this:

1) The materials are __________ and ___________.
2) ___________ is harder than ____________ because ____________________________.

From: ____________ / 3 Grace

Toadstool (Poisonous Mushroom)

What are Octopus?

http://www.globio.org/glossopedia/article.aspx?art_id=65

Non-flowering Plants (Moss, Conifers and Ferns)

Moss


Conifers


Ferns

Are Whales Fish or Mammals?

Find out and tell me in class! :)

Bats are Mammals!

Platypus & Spiny Anteater - Rare Egg Laying Mammals

Platypus


Spiny Anteater

Mould - another type of Fungus

Penquins (The Flightless Bird)

Check out those feathers and beaks! :)

Guppy, black molly and swordtail giving birth

Guppy


Black Molly



Swordtail

Spores in Fern

Something interesting about yeast (another type of fungus)

The Fungi Song

LYRICS:

(Verse 1 - Zygomycota and Chytridiomycota)

Cover your bread 'cause the fungi's in town
And the big black beast's spores are stickin around
Thick walls like a fortress, resistant to attack
Domestic decomposers really know where it's at
Spreading like a plague from your garden to grass
Look out for these dung residing herbivore snacks
They could come back to haunt you if you throw them aside
No matter what this fungi phyla will come out alive
And chytridiomycota is almost the same
Except theyre smaller, less exciting, and really just pretty lame
And they live in the water just like a fish or sea lion
You'll find the cell wall of Chytrids is made completely of chitin, no lyin'
1000 species of these small little fellas
Is a pretty large amount for having tiny flagella
To move around and get down except theres no need for that
With motile spores they could just chill and relax...

(Chorus)

Mushrooms and fungi
They live all around
With four different phylum
You've seen 'em in town
Zygo, bisidio, asco, chytridio
Can even get you high when you're stuck on the ground
From kingdom to phyla
To class to order
To family to genus
To species
You sort em
Faster than rabbits
Reproduce from their spores
You'd be surprised that the number of phylum is only 4

(Verse 2 - Ascomycota and Bisidiomycota)

Largest fungi phyla is the ascomycota
With over 60000 species (international quota)
They're so important to our lives that we have pigs on a leash
Tryin to sniff out all the truffles hidden under the trees
And then there's yeast and pennicillin
Made of fungi that's lasted
For many years because the non motile spores in the ascus
And being heterotrophic they eat whatever is there
From any dead organic molecules like flowers and pears
And then basidiomycota have basidiospores
Under external rounded tops giving protection outdoors
Such as the caps on top of mushrooms people eat all the time
When they're sauteed or new and fresh, and sometimes, they're even fried
You'd be surprised how many people actually grow them inside
And make a profit off of illegal mushshrooms of psilocybe
which is the genus that hallucinogens are classified
As well as polypores and puffballs even jelly fungi...

(Chorus)

Mushrooms and fungi
They live all around
With four different phylum
You've seen 'em in town
Zygo, bisidio, asco, chytridio
Can even get you high when you're stuck on the ground
From kingdom to phyla
To class to order
To family to genus
To species
You sort em
Faster than rabbits
Reproduce from their spores
You'd be surprised that the number of phylum is only 4

Attack of the Killer Fungi!!!

Mimosa

Living thing or Non-living thing?

Bacteria Growth

Heat and Temperature - Mindmap

Expansion and Contraction

Animals Have Young

Eureka! Episode 18 - Evaporation and Condensation

Eureka! Episode 17 - Molecules in Liquid

Eureka! Episode 16 - Molecules in Solids

Life Cycle of Ants

Life Cycle of Bees

Analyse these pictures!!!

Are you able to identify the seed leave?

Observe them in the following photographs which are
arranged in sequence with respect to time.

Are you able to see the change in its size?

The change in its size is more obvious now.

The seed leave has almost dried up completely.

Some of them have completely dried up and dropped off.

Some close-up look of the seed leave.

Experiments on Germination of Seeds - Day 1 to 8 (End of Experiment)

Objective of the experiments:
To determine on what the seeds need for germination to take place.

Process:
Teacher to elicit from pupils on the above and to get the pupils to design on the below setups for confirmation.

Pupils' inputs upon elicitation prior the experiment:
The seeds need air, water, sunlight and warmth for germination to take place.

Set up 1 - Air + Water + Sunlight (in front of the window)

Day 1 - Start of experiment

Day 2 - Not much change except for the softening of the seed coat
Day 3 - About the same as day 2

Day 4 - The seeds started to sprout. :)

Day 6 - Roots are longer by now.

Day 8 - The plants have grown taller.

Set up 2 - Limited Air (air tight container) + water + sunlight (in front of window)

Day 1

Day 2 - Sprouting took place (Do you know why?)
Day 3 - The roots are getting longer

Day 4 - The shoots and the leaves appeared.
Can you identify them? Are you also able to identify the seed leave?
Day 6 - Wow... they have grown so tall! :)
Day 8 - They are getting taller by each day! :)

Set up 3 - Limited Air (as suggested by pupils) + Water + Sunlight (Placed in front of the window)

Day 1

Day 2 - One of the seeds sprouted (Do you know why?)
Day 3 - The other four seeds also sprouted
Day 4 - The first seed to sprout has its shoot and leaves now.
Day 6 - All have sprouted and are able to see the shoots and leaves now.
Day 8 - They are getting taller by each day! :)

Set up 4 - Very limited Air (Tried to squeeze out all the air) + Water + Sunlight (Placed in front of the window)

Day 1

Day 2 - Seeds sprouted!!!! (Why?)

Day 3 - The roots are longer now, and water vapour can be seen on the surface of the bag
Day 4 - I can see the shoot, seed leave and leaves now.
As the inital bag is too small, I had to move the plants to another bigger bag.
Day 6 - They are growing fast. :)

Day 8 - They have grown surprisingly big by day 8.

Set up 5 - Air + Water + No Sunlight (Placed inside the computer console)

Day 1

Day 2 - No visible change at the moment
Day 3 - No visible change at the moment
Day 4 - No visible change at the moment.
Day 6 - Yay!!! They have finally sprouted! :) Wow! They can germinate even at dark places!
Day 8 - They are getting taller by each day.

Set up 6 - Air + Water + No warmth (Placed inside the fridge)

Day 1

Day 2 - No visible change at the moment

Day 3 - No visible change at the moment
Day 4 - No visible change at the moment.
Day 6 - No visible change at the moment.
Day 8 - Wow!!!! Three of the five seeds have sprouted in the fridge!!!!
What do you think happen?

Set up 7 - Air + No Water (Dry cotton pad) + Sunlight (Placed in front of the window)

Day 1

Day 2 - No visible change at the moment

Day 3 - No visible change at the moment

Day 4 - No visible change at the moment.
Day 6 - No visible change at the moment.
Day 8 - The seeds have not germinated.

The Elements - Just for Humour