Newsboard - Organ Donation

What started out as a Newsboard session has exploded into it's own Inquiry! All thanks to a video shared with me from Anne Barker (Primary Science Facilitator)  - Somebody That I'll Never Know (Gotye parody) Organ Donation which led to a discussion around organ donation. They were hooked! From here we discussed key points from  NZ Future Problem Solving around organ donation in the year 2025. After a lot of cruising the Internet searching up interesting information around organ donation we were ready for our next task - Anne brought in a teaching manikin AND the major organs from a beast (heart, lungs, kidneys, and bronchial tube) which the students dissected with Anne's dissection kit.

From here we looked at the news report of  Dad uses 3D printer to make his son a prosthetic hand  and the possibilities this could open up. WOW! Students also contacted ODNZ (Organ Donor New Zealand) about the process of donating an organ and receiving an organ. They are keen to send along an expert to speak with us!

Our next visitor was the recipient of a heart 14 years ago - the students had some very interesting questions for her...What did the surgeons tell you about your operation? What was your greatest fear having a transplant? Do you know anything about the person who donated their heart?

The students were totally focused during her visit - one of the biggest thoughts to come from this was how important your attitude is...just like life in general!

I'm not sure where this will go at this stage, in the time we have left this term but am thinking that organ donation awareness within our community could be our making a difference.

Term 3 - better late than never!

Where has the time gone?!
Term 3 was busy with assessments, literacy, mathematics and Inquiry.
There was some nice growth in Probe reading results, GLoSS and PAT Maths which was great for the students and the work they had put into their learning.

Short and sweet!