Our new topic, that links Science with Health and Wellbeing, is The Human Body. We have been exploring the Experiences and Outcomes to see what we want to achieve and then we have voted on what our preferences would be on how our class should go about meeting these.

Before the holidays, everyone did a project on a different part of the human body. We had to make it into a solo presentation and some people choose to do a power point while others made models and amazing information posters. There were lots of quizzes and mostly everybody walked out the door with a prize, so that goes to show how interested we all were and how much we learned!

It seems a shame that only Primary 5 benefited from all these facts. So for all of our readers, here are some fun facts we learned along the way:

FUN FACTS!

• The brain uses over a quarter of the oxygen used by the human body.
• Your heart beats around 100000 times a day, 36500000 times a year and over a billion times if you live beyond 30.
• Red blood cells carry oxygen around the body. They are created inside the bone marrow of your bones.
• Adult lungs have a surface area of around 70 square metres!
• The smallest bone found in the human body is located in the middle ear.
• Your nose and ears continue growing throughout your entire life.
• As well as having unique fingerprints, humans also have unique tongue prints.
• The left side of your body is controlled by the right side of your brain while the right side of your body is controlled by the left side of your brain.
• It takes the body around 12 hours to completely digest eaten food.
• Your sense of smell is around 10000 times more sensitive than your sense of taste.

By Lana and Izzy