Lesson 1 - The Heart

As part of their learning in science, Year 6 have started to study the circulatory system. To begin the unit, we looked at the heart and recreated our own models! The jar and red water acted as the heart, the balloon was the heart wall and the straws acted as the artery (open) and valve (sealed).

See the information below to find out what we did!

Lesson 2 - Pulse

We looked back at how pulse rate was measured many years ago and learned all about a scientist called Santorio Santorio. He was a 17th century physician and inventor who is best known for his development of the pulsilgium, a device used to measure pulse rate. It was developed using a pendulum. We had a go at creating and adjusting our own pendulums to measure pulse rate. 

Lesson 3 - Components of Blood

This week we looked at the components of blood.

The liquid part of the blood contains water and protein. The is called plasma! 

Red blood cells carry oxygen around the body.

White blood cells fight infection when you are sick.

Platelets help stop you bleeding when you get hurt (clotting). 

We then made blood using everyday objects to represent the components. See some pictures and instructions below!

Lesson 4 - Impact of Exercise on Heart Rate

As part of their learning in science, Year 6 completed an exercise based experiment to study the impact of exercise on heart rate. They had to consider a range of scientific skills: prediction, methods, collecting and presenting results and forming conclusions. Not only this, each group thought about the variables in their experiment - what they had to control, change and measure. The children had great fun and it really supported their collaborative working skills! They also managed to sneak in a range of mathematical skills from number, time and drawing tables.