Month: February 2021

This week we did a lab, learning about blood types. Here is my check for understanding response.

The transfusion test helped me better understand and learn more about blood types, and which blood can and can’t be transfused. Certain people have different blood types, and that determines what blood you can put into your own body to help you after a surgery, accident, etc. I learned that type O blood is the most common blood found in humans, it is the universal donor, but only O’s can get type O blood. There are four main types of blood: type A, B, AB, and O. Type AB has both A and B antibodies, which means it can get all blood types, and it is the universal recipient. Type A can only get type A and O, and B can only get type B and O. 

 

Questions:

Does anyone else think it’s cool that goat babies are called kids, like how human children are called kids, too?

What comes to mind when you think of the word “fidget”?

Why can’t any human tell me where the spleen in located (not after you look it up)?

This week, we only had three days, so we had three science classes. We are starting on learning about the Endocrine system, which controls and holds hormones, and –in the voice and words of Shane– PUBERTY! We are also learning about the brain. Shane showed us this really weird and funny video that her previous students made, about a fictional character named Joe, and what happens after he becomes drunk at a party, and what happens to your brain.

We are learning about the adolescent brain, and how weird and awesomely interesting it is. Your brain does this really cool thing called pruning, where it gets rid of all the memories it doesn’t use anymore. Example: if you knew one creation of origami when you were 8, but now when you’re 13, the brain is gonna be like “no, we don’t need that anymore.” So, it goes along and erases it from your memory.

(Those paragraphs were from 2 weeks ago, so now i’m going to write about this week.)

This week in science we made pear hearts. What’s a pear heart you ask? Well, to better understand and to learn more about the hearts inside our bodies, we were assigned a project to make a heart out of a super ripe pear, jell-o powder, and life savers. We first had to cut the pear in half (we had partners) and then scoop out the four chambers of the heart. We stuck little tubes inside it for the veins, too, and we used the life savers for the valves. This was a really fun project.

Questions:

Why do we call the heart “heart”?

What 3 words would you use to describe yourself?

What is your favorite animated movie?