Digestive System - Science

 Teeth 

How do these organs help our body digest food? 

It helps us by tearing the hard parts of our food. It chews our food and combines our food with saliva which turns it into Bolus. A term used to describe food that has been chewed.

Why are they important for our survival?

Your teeth are important for your survival because if you don’t have teeth, you have nothing to chew your food. 

Oesophagus 

How do these organs help our body digest food? 

After the food turns into bolus in your mouth the next process will be the contracting and squeezing the food together in your oesophagus. This will make the good moves down from the Oesophagus to the stomach.  

Why are they important for our survival?

This organ is important because they are helping us in the digestion process. If we don’t have this organ it can be hard for us to digest the food. 

Stomach 

How do these organs help our body digest food?

The stomach is one of the most important organs that is needed to be able to digest food. The stomach breaks down the food that you chewed and swallowed. The stomach’s strong muscles start to work and act like a blender which turns the bolus into a usable form.

Why are they important for our survival?

Like I said before, the stomach is an important organ in our body because it breaks down the food that you have chewed and swallowed. It then sends the ‘usable form’ into the small intestine and carries on from there.

Small Intestine  

How do these organs help our body digest food? 

Small intestine is helping our body to absorb the nutrients in the food. This organ is also carrying the most work for our digestive process. 

Why are they important for our survival?

As I said, the small intestine is the organ that does most of the work is the digestion process. 

Large Intestine  

How do these organs help our body digest food?

The job of this organ is to absorb the remaining nutrients, minerals and water in your body. This organ is also helping to change the leftover waste into bowel movements. 

Why are they important for our survival?

This organ is important because if we don’t have a large intestine we won’t be able to have water in our body. We all know that almost every part of our body needs water so we need an organ that can help us to absorb water. 

Liver 

How do these organs help our body digest food?

Liver is the organ that absorbs some of our body needs. One of the things that we need in our body that our liver is absorbing is fats. 

Why are they important for our survival?

Our body needs fat but not too much. So this is the reason why our liver is important for our survival. 

Rectum 

How do these organs help our body digest food?

The Rectum is filled with nerves that sense when it is full and when the body waist (poop) is ready to be evacuated. The waist stays in the rectum until the time comes for the evacuation.

Why are they important for our survival?

The rectum is important because it is the only organ that stores the waist until it’s time for the evacuation to take place. 

Anus 

How do these organs help our body digest food?

After the digestion process and the rectum is filled with waste it will come out into anus. Basically, that is what you call poo. 

Why are they important for our survival?

It is important to our body to let out the waste and we can get sick if the waste stays in our body.

Slinkachu - Arts

 For this blog post, I'm going to be talking about the topic that we have been focusing on for half of this Term. We have been working on a google slide called Slinkachu. The slide show at the end of this blog post explains who Slinkachu is and what he does.

Fast forward to when we already finished looking into Slinkachu, we had to take our own picture with our own inspirations. I decided to choose 'The Red String of Faith' as my inspiration. In the photo that I took, I placed a family of four with a man that has a red string tied on his ring finger. The lady that he was married with isn't his real soulmate. The lady that he then sees in front of him has the same string tied on her ring finger. They are the real soulmates but the man is already married. It was the right person but the wrong timing. They didn't wait for each other longer enough where it came to the point where the man chose to marry the person who is not meant to be his.  

Breast Cancer - Health

 Hi everyone, for today's blog post I'm going to be talking about the topic that we have been focusing on for the past few days. I was working with a partner and we were able to choose any topic that we wanted. We ended up choosing Breast Cancer. The next thing that we to do was to pick 5 questions and answer them specifically. We needed to search up the answers so that we could be sure that it's the right answers. My questions were Why is breast cancer harmful?, What other issues does breast cancer link with?, Who is disadvantaged and advantaged in relation to the treatment?, How do you overcome breast cancer?, and Who tends to get breast cancer?.

Here is the screenshot of the questions and the strategies:

Like what I said earlier, we searched up the answers for the questions online just to make sure that everything that we write down is real and not made up. After we answered the questions, me and my partner have decided to make a website. On the website that we made, we included the questions and the answers that we got an also some videos of people telling their story of surviving Breast Cancer. We couldn't publish our website because we didn't know how to check the video if it could be used for reuse, but our teacher suggested to just take a screenshot of the whole website instead of getting copy righted.

Here are the screenshots of the website:

 

Coraline Character Chart - Film Study

 Hi guys, this blog post is going to be about a Character Chart that I made this period. The Character Chart that I made includes Coraline and the 'other mother'.

What am I learning?

I'm learning about different characters in the Film Coraline and saying the problems that they faced and how they reacted to it.

How does my work show my learning?

This work that I did shows my learning because I could identify the problems that they have faced and how they reacted to it. 

What am I wondering?

While doing this work, I wonder that if they reacted differently, would the film end up differently as well? Would it have been a sad ending instead of a happy ending?

Plot of the Film - Film Study

What am I learning?

We have been learning about the Plot of the movie 'Coraline". The key things that has happened in the film ad I would say the important parts that makes the film understandable. 

How does my work show my learning?

This work shows my learning and understanding of this topic because I have listed down the key things that has happened in the film. 

What am I wondering?

I don't really have any wondering about this topic because it is pretty easy to understand but I have learnt a lot of things. I learned how to identify the different parts of the film and what they are called.

Mythical Creatures - ESOL

 For today's lesson in ESOL, we shared the video that we made last Tuesday here in ESOL as well. But before we started making it, we had to be in groups or just do it individually. I was in a group with Shiela and Alliah. We then had to choose which Mythical Creature we wanted to make the DLO about. The Mythical Creature that we had to talk about was either from our country or from another country. The Mythical Creature that we made the video about was from my country, The Philippines. We chose the "Lady in White", or the "White Lady". 

Why did we choose White Lady? We chose the White Lady because it's one of the common ones. A lot of stories about it has been passed down from Generations. In the video that we made, we couldn't really put in any stories. It was mostly only about what the white lady looks like and a few scary and maybe funny clips. This was also filmed after school at the park near our school, that's why I was still wearing my uniform while filming.

Anyways, this is the video that we made:

Heart Dissection - Science

 Hi everyone, this blog post is going to be about what we did in Science at Tuesday. At Tuesday, we dissected a pig's heart and here are some questions about the experiment that we did. Before we did this experiment, we have also been learning about the hand. Learning about the parts of the heart and how they function. As we were doing the experiment, our teacher said that there were two things that are not included in the heart. It was the Atrium and the tubes. But luckily, we actually had the Atrium on heart and got to see what it looks like. Here are some questions about the Heart Dissection.

What have we been learning about?

The Heart Dissection that we did pretty much sums up the things that we learnt, because we were also learning about Blood and it relates to the heart. The Circulatory System that we were also learning about relates to the Blood which again, relates to the Heart. Almost Everything that we learnt about connects to this Dissection.

The first thing we learned about that mainly relates to the blood was the circulatory system, if you don't what the circulatory system is. It is an organ system that spreads or permits the blood to circulate in the body. This is to make sure the blood is surely able to transport the nutrients all over the body. If we don't have a circulatory system our blood wouldn't be able to transport the nutrients our body needs. This is because of gravity, our blood would just be at the bottom of our body. 

We had also learned about the parts of the heart, as you probably know on a diagram you usually see red and blue veins. This is because the blue veins are carrying deoxygenated blood and the red veins are carrying oxygenated blood. On the right side of the heart is where the deoxygenated blood needs to go through. so it has less muscle this is just so it can get through to the lungs to get oxygen. Then it will come back to the heart as oxygenated blood, to be put on the left side the being pushed throughout the whole body. This is why the right side only has a little amount of muscle because the lungs are very close to the heart. On the other hand, the left side of the lungs needs more muscle because they need to push the blood throughout the whole body. 

Why are we dissecting a Heart?

To learn and identify the different parts of the heart. To understand how they work and why they are needed. Being able to analyse everything that is in the heart.

What are the parts of the heart? did you see them?

Most of the class did not have an atrium and veins because usually the top of the heart would be cut off along with the atrium and veins. So we were lucky to have an atrium, but not the vein, we were also able to identify. The left and right sides of the heart, by feeling for the side which has more muscle. We also saw the valve, which is a thick layer of tissue that separates the left and right sides of the heart. We noticed that the valve was pretty thick we were told that it was so oxygenated and deoxygenated blood wouldn't mix together. We were also able to see the ventricles which looked pretty stringy. 

Did you enjoy the dissection? why/why not?

I enjoyed doing the dissection because I was able to put my self to the test to see if I could actually name the different parts of the Heart. I was able to touch it and do dome of the cutting that was needed to be done so that we could really see what was inside. It was also fascinating because I was able to see what a heart actually looks like and feels like in real life.

Here is a short clip of me and my group dissecting the heart. This video was muted because it was too loud in the background.: