Web quest

INVESTIGATING DISEASE AND PREVENTION
INTRODUCTION:
You have to study about causes of diseases and how it spreads in the island. The investigation includes how to control and prevent the spread of illness. The diseases are malaria, cholera, smallpox, thalassemia, flu.
TASK:
Your job in this Web Quest is to learn about diseases that have affected people for past five years. You will investigate five different diseases to learn how scientists have worked to prevent their spread among populations. You will answer a set of questions about these diseases and their prevention to demonstrate what you have learned.
TIME:
A week to finish this project
PROCESS:
1. Survey in the island.
2. Draw a table and write the data in the table of your own pattern. It should contain:
A) The cause of diseases.
B) The infected persons for the past five years.
C) How the disease was controlled?
D) What were the measures taken?
3. If possible collect the pictures of the diseases and the infected persons.
Resources:
If you have any quarries obtain from Google search.
Conclusion:
Now you have learnt and have knowledge about the above said disease. You have collected the information through your research skills. You have found the effective treatment and the control of the disease.

amylase experiment

Look this expt and try to do.
http://www.4shared.com/document/KBveb6tC/Amylase.html

multimedia on ecosystem

You can download this multimedia on ecosystem
http://rapidshare.com/files/384243777/EVS_2_-_Copy.ppt.html

Digestive system

Direction or mission:
Find the answers from the following link given:
1 What is digestion?
2 What is peristalsis?
3 Name the juice produced by liver.
4 Carbohydrates are split into …………….. and ………………….
5 Name the food that contains protein.
6 fat is broken down into ……………….. and …………………..
7 Small intestine has got finger like projection called ………………………
8 Name some food that contains carbohydrate.
9 Write the three tasks of stomach.
10 Name the hormones that controls the digestion.
Internet resources:
http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/yrdd/

transportation in plants

You can find information about this from the following site:
http://www.jochemnet.de/fiu/BSC1011/BSC1011_9/index.htm

Quiz questions

1 What do you call the unpleasant effects thet result when someone stops taking a drug to which they are addicted.
· Withdrawal symptoms
2 Name the fluid that encloses a developing fetus.
· Amniotic fluid.
3 Name the process for the loss of water from plants as vapour.
· Transpiration
4 Name the energy house of the cell
· Mitochondria
5 Name the site for protein synthesis in cell.
· Ribosome
6 What is the chemical name for vitamin C?
· Ascorbic acid
7 What is the chemical name for vitamin D?
· Calciferol.
8 Name the technique for keeping alive cells or tissues of living organisms after their removal from an organism.
· Tissue Culture
9 What do you a pair of matching genes.
· Alleles
10 Where are proteins first digested in the alimentary canal?
· Stomach.

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