Exploring the sheep heart
Well another Valentine’s Day has rolled around so what better time than now to dissect a heart?
Fourth Class have been looking at the human circulatory system and how the heart works! On Valentine’s day we became heart surgeons and explored some sheep hearts! We then teamed up with Science Club for some more investigations!
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- When blood enters the valves close!!
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- The valves are open…
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- Da Vinci was one of the first scientists to sketch the heart!
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- Dr Sammy leads the dissection
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- Dr. Keegan labels the chambers with Bilguun in Science Club
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- Dr Da Silva gets ready to hold the heart
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- Dr Rooney explains that the Aorta (the main artery) has a bigger diameter than our little fingers!! We could feel all the way down!!
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- Dr Rock in consultation with her surgical team
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- Identifying the upper chambers of the heart
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- Our hearts are the size of a fist!
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- Exploring the sheep heart
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- Dr Chen located the heart on his patient Mr Quinn
