Diary

Diary of the Heart Dissection

     For several weeks we have been talking about the project about the heart dissection and the tablets that the high school is going to buy.

     Weeks later, Sergio came to class and gave us the news:  the tablets were already  and able to use them. First we have some problems with the conections and the paswords but finally we can use them.

     We had to find a specialist on twitter that help us with the dissection. We find Lesli Samuel who gave us a page with a plan of a dissection.

     The next day we show it to Sergio in the tablet and he smile us... :)

    The following days we were preparing the plan that we have to show in class. We had some problems because we didn't have enough time so we did by phone.

    The presentations began on 7 of March. Aranzazu and I not present because we wanted to see some presentations before.

     We present on Friday. We were very nervous, but we did well. At the end Sergio gave us the congratulations because we did it in a program that he liked.

     Some people they haven´t present, but there are few groups.  

    I think that this week (Monday, 11 of March) or the following, will do the dissection...That´s funny!

    Finally we did the dissection the last week before the Easter holidays (thursday 21 of March). Everyone brought hearts in bags and left them at the first hour in secretariat.  

     In the hour of biology (after the breaktime) we went to the lab and sit with people from our group. Mary handed out gloves, trays, scalpels and scissors and told  that we put us our gloves,  take out the heart of the bag and put it in the tray . Then everybody started to dissect following the plan he had written. At the beginning  Carla and I didn't want to touch , but we had to do it , so we turned it and started to put pencils by the aorta, the pulmonary vein... We weren't very sure where it was every one but Ismael Cabrera helped us.

     Next , one class of Bachillerato come to saw and helped us with take pictures because our gloves are dirty. A guy took the picture while we were situated the pencils. 

    When we started to cut the heart was very hard and as much as we tried it we couldn't so Dani  helped us (For this reason the hands that appear in the video are so big). After cutting it in half, we saw the connections and valves. 

     At the end we were very dizzy by the smell and Carla wanted to not having breakfast...

     We collected everything and we threw it in the trash but before throwing the heart Dani 

asked us that we leave it to break it with his hands, I think that he had fun. 

     The photos are colocated in order: