Term 3 has seen the Class 7s look inside themselves and start asking questions like: What does my body need to work? How do I get energy from food? What transports energy around the body? Why does metabolism produce waste products and why can’t I eat a dry Weat-Bix in under a minute?

The Healthy Human Being is a Main Lesson which not only introduces Class 7s to the main elements of our human biology but also challenges them to look at themselves with curiosity and acceptance. Our bodies, like the rest of the natural world, are something to be cared for and cherished, loved and celebrated!

We have covered the topics of the Digestive System, the Urinary System and the Respiratory/Circulatory systems, and the Reproductive System.

The students have conscientiously committed to the daily 7-minute exercise challenge for the full four weeks, where we compare the effects of this regular routine on our minds and bodies. Some other activities we have done: discussing a balanced diet, making playdough and then moulding it into a model of our internal organs/systems, creating an oval game using the digestive progression of food becoming nutrients and testing the effect of acidic soft drink on pulverized crackers.

It has been a thrilling time of discovery! Our imaginations have even been captured with a creative writing piece in the 1^st person exploring a piece of food narrating its own journey through the Digestive Tract. I am immensely proud of this class of fearless scientists.

Mary-Jo Masmanian

Class 7 Teacher