Monday, 29 August 2016

Excretory System - Questions


  • How does urine get turned back into water?
  • Why is urine yellow?
  • What happens when we have kidney failure?
  • Can we survive with one kidney?
  • What is dialysis?
  • How much wee can your bladder hold?
  • What is a kidney stone?

Monday, 15 August 2016

Circulatory System Questions


** There are not many questions here - so feel free to add some more as you think of them.

Why do we have blood cells?
How much blood is in a full grown human being?
How much blood do you have to lose before you die?Why do you always bleed blood even when you don’t get  cut where you vein or arteries are?

Saturday, 6 August 2016

The Circulatory System - Videos

Make notes/sketchnotes and/or comments below in regard to watching the video clips below:

The Pathway of Blood Flow Through the Heart Animated Tutorial.


How a Normal Heart Pumps Blood -- The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia


Circulatory system

Heart Valve


You may like to Complete the labelling activity located at http://www.freezeray.com/flashFiles/heart.htm


Monday, 1 August 2016

Digestive System Questions

These are the questions you came up with in our Brainstorm: 


  • Why does our belly rumble when we are hungry?
  • Why do we have teeth?
  • Why do farts smell?
  • Why can’t our body digest some food?
  • Why do we burp?
  • Why do we fart?
  • Why is our poo brown?

The Digestive System - video clips


To access these videos, use your normal Galen username and password that you use to log in

Click view - Teeth https://clickv.ie/w/J7Ze

Click view - Tongue and Salivary Glands - https://clickv.ie/w/L7Ze

Click View - Oesophagus & stomach https://clickv.ie/w/N7Ze

Click View - Similation and Egestion - https://clickv.ie/w/R7Ze

Click View - the Digestive System - only Chapters 5 and 6 
https://goo.gl/aJSgSP