Dear Students:
Please watch the videos and answer the questions. Take some notes and prepare an exposition to present it to your friends, explaining what is carbon and oxygen cycle. You will need visual material, a poster (A4) in a cardboard.
Questions:
1. What is carbon?
2. Where is most of the carbon dioxide disolved?
3. How is the green house effect caused?
4. What is oxygen?
5. What is photosynthesis responsible for?
6. What are the main reservoirs of oxygen?
7. Why is the ozone layer important?
8. What does photosynthesis produce?
9. What is the other process that adds oxygen to the atmosphere?
10. Where do we find carbon?
Video 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNd5p2HvYcg
Video 2: http://www.tutorvista.com/biology/animations/oxygen-cycle-animation
Video 3: http://www.tutorvista.com/biology/animations/carbon-cycle-animation
Dear students: Here is the link with the information we check in class about the Nitrogen Cycle. Please check it and copy it in your notebooks.
Nitrogen cycle: http://eschooltoday.com/ecosystems/the-nitrogen-cycle.html
Wednesday, 20 April 2016
Tuesday, 12 April 2016
Latin American dictatorships.
Dear students:
Please watch the videos and answer the questions. If you don´t understand some of the words, please check them in the dictionary. Please watch the videos with your parents, so they can help you understand more about this topic. Then check the reading to fill in the gaps.
Questions:
1. Which countries were fighting in the Cold War (Guerra fría)?
2. Which country helped establish the dictatorships in Latin America?
3. What ideals did the dictatorial regimens try to repress in Latin America?
4. What is "Operación Condor"?
5. How many people were killed, tortured or disappeared during the dictatorships?
6. Who was identified as the head of "Operación Condor"?
7. What were the plans of dictatorships in America to bring absolute stability?
8. What did this means for the people of Brazil, Argentina and Chile?
9. What were the human right abuses in Brazil?
10. What were the human right abuses in Chile and Argentina?
OIL BOOM:
There are three videos, two of them are in Spanish. Please watch them and take notes in English. For the third video, answer the five questions.
Questions:
1. What are the eight indigenous nationalities in the Amazon?
2. Why is the water highly contaminante?
3. What is the extension of land contaminated?
4. What are the diseases found in the contaminated area?
5. Did Texaco pay or clean the disaster?
Reading comprehension
Read the article and fill in the gaps in the next sentences:
1. The term dictatorship means the ___________________ in which absolute power is _____________ in the hands of a ________________ and sometimes his _______________.
2. The dictator generally controls the three state powers : _______________, ______________ and _______________.
3. The leader of the ____________ coup, General Guillermo Rodríguez Lara, believed in “_______________ _______________” and created state-run companies.
4. Ecuador participated in "Operación Condór" in _________.
5. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte heads coup against President ______________________ on Sept 11, 1973, in which _____________ of leftists were rounded up, tortured and murdered in the basement of the _______________.
6. In Cuba, _____________________________ was installed in the presidency by
the ________ in 1952 and rules the country until being overthrown by the ____________________.
7. Juan ________________________ was a rare left-leaning Peruvian dictator, he repressed some dissent (exiling publishers), _________________________, and pursued relations with the _______________________________.
8. The government, Military Junta in Brazil, had a name for its program: the "___________________________________".
9. One of the leaders of the Military Coup in 1976-83 was ____________________________, he appoints himself president and commences the __________________________.
10. Dictators can come to power in a variety of different ways. They can be __________________, be _______________________ by the resident ruling party or Communist hierarchy, or ________________________ their position from a deceased relative.
7. Juan ________________________ was a rare left-leaning Peruvian dictator, he repressed some dissent (exiling publishers), _________________________, and pursued relations with the _______________________________.
8. The government, Military Junta in Brazil, had a name for its program: the "___________________________________".
9. One of the leaders of the Military Coup in 1976-83 was ____________________________, he appoints himself president and commences the __________________________.
10. Dictators can come to power in a variety of different ways. They can be __________________, be _______________________ by the resident ruling party or Communist hierarchy, or ________________________ their position from a deceased relative.
What is it?
A dictatorship is a government headed by a dictator. The term dictatorship has come to
mean a government in which absolute power is concentrated in the hands of a
dictator and sometimes his partners. Many dictators have held the formal title
of "President", but applied extraordinary, often non-constitutional or
de facto powers. Dictators can come to power in a variety of different ways.
They can be elected, be appointed by the resident ruling party or
Communist hierarchy, or inherit their position from a deceased relative. Still
other modern dictators seize power in a military coup, and are supported by the military. The dictator generally controls the three state powers :
legislative, executive and judicial. (Taken from: http://encyclopedia.kids.net.au/page/di/Dictatorship)
Dictatorship in Latin America
Peru has had over a dozen coup, often short-lived, sometimes populist. Below is a small sample.
Manuel A. Odria (1948-56)
Modified the penal code to punish "political terrorism" with the death penalty, adopted a draconian Internal Security Law, suppressed opposition party APRA.
Juan Velasco Alvarado (1968-75) A rare left-leaning dictator, Alvarado repressed some dissent (exiling publishers), nationalized companies, and pursued relations with the Soviet Union. As his health deteriorated, he was overthrown.
OPERATION CONDOR Peru joins in 1978
ECUADOR
A military coup in 1963 to keep the country from going communist, commences with jailing or exiling the entire leadership of the communist left and reorganizing the universities to squash the left. The junta returns power in 1967. The leader of the 1972 coup, General Guillermo Rodríguez Lara, believed in “revolutionary nationalism” and created state-run companies, often run directly by the armed forces,as part of an effort to replace foreign-produced goods and services with nationally produced goods and services. The state expanded its role in industries such as the telephone service, airlines, tourism, hotels,and steel. In addition, the government joined the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). He is deposed by the military in a series of coups in 75/76. Power is handed back in 79.
OPERATION CONDOR Ecuador is known to have participated beginning in 1978. It is unclear to the extent, but is believed to have been peripheral.
CUBA
Fulgencio Batista
Runs the country after a coup in 1933, but is finally elected in 1940. Installed in power by the US in 1952 and rules until being overthrown by the Cuban Revolution. Complete stooge of US corporations and the American Mafia.
CHILE
Augusto Pinochet Ugarte (1973 to 90)
heads coup against President Salvador Allende on Sept 11, 1973. Orders thousands of leftists rounded up, tortured and murdered in the basement of the national sports stadium. Between 5,000 and 30,000 people are believed to have been killed in the operations of Pinochet's regime.
OPERATION CONDOR killed Chilean activists, generals, trade-unionists, and threatened US Congressman (and later NYC Mayor) Ed Koch. The assassination of several people in Washington, D.C. led to the some diplomatic tensions with the U.S. Many Chileans were "disappeared."
BRAZIL
A Military Junta (1964-85), supported by the US [principally, the CIA, the ITT corporation], removed João Goulart. Congress was shut down, political opposition was reduced to virtual extinction, habeas corpus for "political crimes" was suspended, criticism of the president was forbidden by law, labor unions were taken over by government interveners, mounting protests were met by police and military firing into crowds, peasants' homes were burned down, priests were brutalized...disappearances, death squads, a remarkable degree and depravity of torture...the government had a name for its program: the "moral rehabilitation" of Brazil.
OPERATION CONDOR According to a government-sponsored truth and reconciliation commission in 2007, by the end of the 21 years of dictatorship there were 339 documented cases of government-sponsored political assassinations or disappearances. More were interrogated, tortured, and jailed.
ARGENTINA
Eduardo A. Lonardi Doucet (1955-58)
Overthrew Peron in 1955, deposed two months later by General Pedro Eugenio Aramburu who ruled for three years. Aramburu is later kidnapped and killed in 1970 by the Montoneros in retaliation for his murder of a Peronist-General.
Juan Carlos Onganía (1966-70), a month into his regime ordered La Noche de los Bastones Largos ("The Night of the Long Police Batons"), beating and arresting University professors and students. Overthrown by General Roberto M. Levingston (1970-71) who was then deposed himself by General Alejandro Agustín Lanusse (1971-73).
Jorge Rafael Videla (1976-83)
One of the leaders of the Military Coup, appoints himself president and commences the dirty war. Currently living under House Arrest.
OPERATION CONDOR Alongside the "Dirty War," upwards of 30,000 are "disappeared:" abducted, tortured, killed, their bodies hidden; often their infant children would be kidnapped and adopted by military officers or the wealthy.
Tuesday, 5 April 2016
WATER CYCLE AND WATER FILTRATION
Dear Students:
Please take a look at the following activities. Answer the questions:
Please follow the instructions on the video. If you want you can do de experiment, but is not obligatory; and answer the following questions.
1. What is aeration?
2. What is coagulation?
3. What is sedimentation?
4. What happens in the filtration process?
5. What is the last step in the treatment process?
Remember: This video will help you when you start to built your own water filter.
https://www3.epa.gov/safewater/kids/flash/flash_filtration.html
https://www3.epa.gov/safewater/kids/water_trivia_facts.html
Play the game. Print out your score. Have fun!!
https://www3.epa.gov/safewater/kids/flash/flash_qagame.html
Please take a look at the following activities. Answer the questions:
Video number 1:
Please follow the instructions on the video. If you want you can do de experiment, but is not obligatory; and answer the following questions.
1. What is aeration?
2. What is coagulation?
3. What is sedimentation?
4. What happens in the filtration process?
5. What is the last step in the treatment process?
Remember: This video will help you when you start to built your own water filter.
https://www3.epa.gov/safewater/kids/flash/flash_filtration.html
Number 2:
Read the facts about water. There are many fact that will help you to organize your script for the open house. There will be a quiz about the 15 first questions.https://www3.epa.gov/safewater/kids/water_trivia_facts.html
Video number 3:
Play the game. Print out your score. Have fun!!
https://www3.epa.gov/safewater/kids/flash/flash_qagame.html
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