5th Grade

NATURAL SCIENCES 

Hello students! I am here again to share with you this short video about cells and levels of organization in the human body. It will help you to revise the unit we are working at the moment. See you soon!

Alicia

 

Hello again! This last unit we have been working on energy. What an interesting topic! In this section you can find simple material that can help you to understand the theory. 

I hope you like them. See you soon!

 

 

In this video you can find simple experiments and tricks about energy that you can try to do with the help of an audult at home. Come on, science can be fun!

NATURAL SCIENCES

Hi everyone! I found some videos about FORCES and SOUND. I think they are quite easy to follow. Take a few minutes to get some key words of the topic we are studying. I am sure you will!

- Alicia Fernández -

Find a few minutes and a cosy place, it is time for English! Enjoy this video and learn more interesting things about ECOSYSTEMS.    

–Alicia Fernández-

The Ecosystem Summary

An ecosystem is all the living things that live in the same place as well as the physical environment and the relationships between them. The two components of the ecosystem are living things such as fauna and flora and the physical environment such as terrestrial or aquatic environments.

All living things are grouped into species. A population is all the living things of one species that live in an ecosystem. A community is all the populations in an ecosystem.

Species → Populations → Community

Living things depend on their physical environment to survive and have to change or adapt to their environment in order to survive. All living things need food to survive. Food chains show how living things feed on other living things in an ecosystem. 

Producer (Grass) → Primary Consumers (Rabbit) → Secondary Consumers (Fox)

Food webs, on the other hand, consist of many food chains. There are other types of relationships such as mutualism, competition, commensalism, and parasitism. Mutualism is when both species benefit. Competition is when different species have the same needs. Commensalism is when one species eats the leftover food of the other. Parasitism is when one species benefits while the other suffers. 

SOCIAL SCIENCES 

Dear students, with this video you can enjoy a short and clear summary about Middle Ages. All you are about to see has been tought in class. I hope you like it!

–Alicia Fernández-

UNIT 7 SOCIAL SCIENCE: SPAIN DURING THE MIDDLE AGES

476 → The start of the Middle Ages after the fall of the Roman Empire.

711 → Battle of Guadalete: A Muslim army crossd Gibraltar and defeated the Visigoths. 

Visigoths → They were a Germanic tribe and had their capital in Toledo. 

Christain kingdoms:

1. Corona de Castilla

2. Corona de Aragón

3. Reino de Portugal

4. Reino de Navarra
   

Christian Society:

Nobility: Knights and ladies

    -They lived in castles/ palaces.

-They did NOT pay taxes and had 

special privileges.  

Clergy: Bishops, priests, monks, and nuns.

    -They lived in monasteries or 

churches.

Peasants: Serfs, artisans, merchants. 

    -They lived in the countryside in small villages. 

    -They paid taxes to the King, Church, and landowner

    -They were very poor and had no medicine. Their lives were usually short.

Modern Age

Inventions such as compass, modern maps, and safer ships improved navigation.

Humanism: A new way of understanding the world and the idea expanded with the invention of the printing press. 

Trade and industry grew, but the majority of the population remained peasants and the economy still based on agriculture. 

1469 → Princess Isabel de Castilla and Prince Fernando de Aragón got married and by 1479 unified their kingdoms. 

They created different organizations such as:

• Santa Hermandad: to maintain order

• Santo Tribunal de la Inquisición: to punish religious crime

They created a modern army and made alliances to extend their territories. 

Carlos I inherited many territories and became Carlos V of Germany.

1556: Felipe II became king of Spain. 1580: He became king of Portugal.

1561 → Felipe II made Madrid the capital of the empire.