Heart Dissection

Kia Ora fellow readers and welcome back to another blog post. For today's blog post I will be sharing with you what I did in Biology. So in Biology, we were to get into groups of three or get into pairs. In my group, we had Tasharn, Nici, and me. The aim of this activity was to educate ourselves on how a heart works. We are doing this because it is important to know how things like this work. 

We started off by getting newspaper and putting it over the tables so no juices would get onto the table. We then got given a scalpel, scissors, tweezers, and a metal tray. Our teacher Miss Abernethy gave each group a sheep heart. The first thing that I noticed about the heart was that there was fat around it this was to protect it. We put gloves on and each chose a tool to use, but within the lesson did switch a few times. We first cut the left side and then the right and then inspected and looked at what was inside. We then cut the septum ( the part that separates the left from the right side ). After we had done that we ended up cutting the heart completely in half. For each step of cutting the heart, we felt around to see what each part would feel like and we would look at it and see the different parts of the heart that our teacher had recently been talking about. 

Something that I learned was the different parts of the heart for example the septum which separates the left from the right side. Another part of the heart is the right and left side ventricle. The right ventricle pumps the oxygen through the pulmonary artery, and the left ventricle pumps the oxygen through the aortic valve out to the rest of the body. 

I personally enjoyed doing the dissection because it was easier to remember which each part of the heart does what by seeing it. 

This image shows the heart when it had completely been cut in half. This shows inside of the heart. 

This image also shows the heart completely in half but from the top side.

100 Word Challenge

 Kia Ora fellow readers and welcome back to another blog post. For today's blog post I will be sharing with you my work today. So for today's work, I had to create a 100 Word Story based off of a visual prompt that Miss Birtch gave the class. 

Here is the visual prompt.......

Here is my 100 Word Challenge.....

I was just finishing up in the garden when I spotted a gnome that I had never seen before.

It was wearing green clothing and was resting on a four-leaf clover, it was tucked up and had its eyes

closed.  I slowly walked up to it and picked it up, the gnome just stayed resting I then moved it to be

next to a moss-covered mini wooden seat and it looked perfect. Then I grabbed my hose and watered

the plants surrounding the gnome and the little wooden seat. E

Film Shots

 Kia Ora fellow readers and welcome back to another blog post. For today's blog post I will be sharing with you a D.L.O I made about the different film shots used in movies. We got to choose what we wanted to present our work on and I decided to use a google drawing. My favourite part of this activity was learning about the different camera angles, but if I did this task again I would try and use a different app. By completing this task I learned that there are so many different types of camera angles. 

Here is my D.L.O.......

Chinese New Year

 Kia Ora fellow readers and welcome back to another blog post. For today's blog post I will be talking about the activities I have been doing in Wananga. So in wananga, we have been doing a series of activities based off of the Chinese New Year. I have made a slideshow and on that slideshow have completed a couple of the tasks. I think that I did pretty well on these tasks but maybe next time I should put more detail into the tasks.

Here is the slideshow... 

Taika Waititi

 Kia Ora fellow readers and welcome back to another blog post. For today's blog post I will be talking about what I have been doing for English. So for English, my class and I have been learning about the New Zealand director and actor called Taika Waititi. Our task was to create a D.L.O and answer some questions about him on the D.L.O. My personal comment on his work is that I really like how in most of his movies there is a scene where he is in it. Also, I've watched a couple of his movies and have really enjoyed them especially Boy and Hunt For The Wilderpeople. 

Here is my D.L.O....

Hygiene and Safety

 Kia Ora fellow readers and welcome back to another blog post. For today's blog post I will be sharing with you what I did for my practical lesson for Home Economics. So what I did was create these Savoury Bread Cases. The ingredients used to make these were: Bread, Spaghetti ( Or other ingredients could be used like baked beans ), Cheese, Ham, and you could also use pineapple. 

The steps were to one cut off the crusts on the bread and then butter one side of the bread. You then push the buttered side of the bread into the muffin tray and fill the bread with the ingredients you used. My team worked ok I think to improve that we need to communicate better and not just expect one person to be doing most of the work. 

My team and I preheated the oven to 180° on Bake and then when the food was ready we put the oven gloves on and slipped it into the oven and left it for 10 minutes. 

My Sport Scores

My athletics prep scores. Today we have started to do our athletics prep scores. Here are my scores..

100 meter sprints	12:81s
Long jump
High jump
Long distance
Shot put
50 meter sprint	7: 13s
Discus

5 Tips for High Jump

1. Visualise Yourself. 

2. Choose the side that is most comfortable for you.

3. Be consistent.

4. Land on your shoulders ( Frosbury Flip ).

5. Look above the bar. 

6. Ten step approach. 

Next session I am going to focus on visualizing myself clearing the bar before attempting to do so.