Tuesday, 20 January 2015

The Heart Dissection

We have started a new topic called Blood Heart! It is very exciting and a little bit gory. To help us understand the different sections of the heart, we dissected a lamb's heart. We drew the heart, then we cut into it to see the blood vessels, left and right atrium and left and right ventricle. We also added water into the various blood vessels at the top of the heart to work out which were to lead to veins and which were to lead to arteries. Most of us really enjoyed touching and cutting the heart. We couldn't believe how hard the fat felt around the heart compared to the muscle!!