Saturday Courses

Saturday Courses

- Game: Spelling weird words!

7 new discoveries nobody is talking about:
Pre-watch: Match the following vocabulary with the proper definition. A word does not possess a definition here.
Slate - Fossils - Mammals - Period - Species - Coral - Electrolyte - Scan
1) ___________ : A hard stony substance secreted by certain marine coelenterates as an external skeleton.
2) ___________ : A group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding.
3) ___________ : A liquid or gel which contains ions.
4) ___________ : A rock easily split into smooth, flat plates.
5) ___________ : Cause (a surface, object, or part of the body) to be traversed by a detector or an electromagnetic beam.
6) ___________ : A warm-blooded vertebrate animal of a class that is distinguished by the possession of hair or fur.
7) ___________ : The remains or impression of a prehistoric plant or animal embedded in rock and preserved in petrified form.

While you are reading, answer these questions: 
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGxB86VrD8g
1) What did the paleontologist find in a slate?
2) What was different in Mars billion years ago?
3) What differences are there between the regular orca and the type D orca?
4) What is coral transplantation?
5) How could CO2 be transformed?
6) What was the problem of type one diabetes?
7) Why MRI in 70 seconds is revolutionary?

Post-watching: Divide the group in teams, make them pick one of these discoveries and then give them time to make educated guesses on how this technology could be revolutionary and change people's live. 

- Presentations on Science and Discovery.

- Reading Section with exercises and writing practice.