Tuesday
Mar232010
Abstract --> concrete!
Tuesday, March 23, 2010 at 10:38PM 
FBRA students make incisions on the pig heart.After studying, presenting, and teaching each other about the human body and specifically the heart, FBRA students went from abstract ideas and images of the circulatory system and the heart to a concrete lesson where they dissected a pig heart and made observations and comparisons to the human heart. Science teacher David Byers led the activity for what is normally a high school level science lesson for the current class of sixth graders at the French Broad River Academy. Visit the gallery to see more pictures from today's lesson.
Reader Comments (6)
It was extremely cool and crazy how thick the wall of the left ventricle was.
I thought it was really neat how all the insides of the heart were connected.
I learned that the heart is the strongest muscle in your body. I also learned that if you rip your aorta that you will die in very little time.
I learned that the heart is hard and not soft. Valves in the heart prevent blood from flowing backwards. The pulmonary artery transports blood from the heart to the lungs. My pig heart was very big 12 cm wide and 20 cm long.
That was awesome! I loved cutting random parts open and trying to find cool things inside it! It smelled awful though!
A heart is not gooey and soft and squishy like I thought it would be. But it is tough and hard. I learned that the heart is the strongest muscle in your body. I also learned that valves keep blood from flowing the wrong way.