Hi readers of my blog,
I am going to tell you about my new Unit of Inquiry. The transdisciplinary theme is “Who We Are”. It’s about the human body. We’re learning how the body goes through different changes through our lives. Some of these changes are when you are born, puberty, old age, etc. The lines of inquiry are “The changes that occur in the human body”, “Factors that cause our bodies to change” and “Actions that affect personal well being”. We have been learning the parts of the body (systems, organs, bones, muscles, etc.). We have to know the parts of the body before we can look through the changes because we wouldn’t know what the teacher is saying or what a name of a body part is when you’re trying to share something with the class. We have been investigating for some parts of the body on a website called Anatomy Arcade. We learn about the muscles and bones by playing the games Poke-A-Muscle and Whack-A-Bone. They’re really fun and I completed both games. I challenge you to play and see if you can beat my high score of 91.2 (total). We also learnt some information from a booklet my teacher gave us. In contains worksheets on the systems and whats inside them.
A week ago, we had C.C.C. (Class Community Circle) and we shared some weird and interesting facts with the class. Here are some of them:
- The circumference of the earth at the equator is 25,000 miles. If the blood vessels of an adult were lined up end to end, they would circle the equator 4 times!
- The reason why you blink is because your eye needs more water.
- Stuffing ourselves with too much food actually decreases our ability to hear.
- Boys have less taste buds then girls.
- You could remove a large part of your internal glands and still survive.
- You can live with one healthy kidney.
- Your heart has the power to lift a 3,000 pound (1,360-kg) car, the strength to pump 2,000 gallons (7,570 L) of blood twice around the world in a day and stamina to never take a break.
- Your brain can’t feel pain.
- You are taller in the morning than at night.
An interesting fact I shared is that the brain is more active in the night than in the day.
We’re soon going to start doing independent studies about a change of the human body that we’re most interested about. I’m going to pick what happens to your body during puberty because that’s the one that’s going to happen to me soon and because it is a big topic. It interests me a lot because I want to know how the body changes and what will happen to me. My 4 big questions about this are: 1.Why does the body change? 2. What are the signs of puberty? (How do you know puberty is happening?) 3. How do these changes affect you? 4.Which change is most significant? I’m going to use Keynote to make a presentation about puberty and investigate so I can make a good presentation to teach some people new things about puberty.
So far in this UOI I’ve been learning lots of new things about the human body and how it works. In class we have been doing many things to help us learn about the human body so when the time comes to learn how it changes we will understand the parts of the body and their meanings. We’ve also drawn a human body in groups and labeled all the body parts that we knew. This was a pre-assessment so Ms. Cahusac would know what we knew so she could teach us new things. We’ve also begun to watch a movie about the human body – from when a baby’s born until old age. I’ve learnt about bones, muscles, nerves, etc. The parts of this Unit of Inquiry that I’m looking forward to is independent studies about a change of the human body. What I still want to learn in this unit are the changes of the human body because that’s what this unit’s all about and I don’t know much about the changes.
I hope you’ve enjoyed my blog post update,
Dynamo 5
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