Before the October break, year 8 in XP and XP East had a brilliant time completing some heart dissections!
This was all to help with the science part of their cross subject expedition “Fight the Power!”. This expedition has the guiding question “Where does real power exist, in the heart, body or mind?”
In science we have been covering several aspects of the human body (skeleton, muscles, digestive system and the heart) and the students have been working really hard as there was a lot of content and key words involved.
When learning about the heart, diagrams can only tell you so much. It’s made a lot more real when you can see them in real life! Needless to say, year 8 got stuck in and I was amazed and staggered by their maturity as this is usually a higher level GCSE practical!
The best part of the practical was hearing them all correctly identifying the atriums, ventricles and vessels for themselves! It gives me confidence for future practicals with this lot!
Enjoy some pictures of the dissections (or not, if you don’t like blood!)
