Thursday, May 28, 2009

Drug Awareness week

This week is drug awareness week. On the 29th of May Dr.Rane taught the class how to put people in the recovery position. This is how you do it: You put the person who fainted right hand in the how! position. Then you put their left hand of the right check. Then put the unconscious persons left leg up and turn them over to the left or right. Then put your ear against their ear so you can hear them breathing. Lift their head up so you can put your fingers against their neck so you can feel their heart beating. The whole class watched Mr.Bean on youtube. He didn`t use the recovery position, instead he used jump leads on the unconscious man. It would be very dangerous if you did this in real life.

Thursday, May 14, 2009

My visit to the Palmetum

Me and the class went to the Palmetum on the 14th of May. We went because we were learning about plants. We learnt that there can be trees from South Australia in Townsville. Some of us saw insects like a ladybug and a butterfly. My group went to the Rainforest,Wetlands and Savannah. When we went to the Savannah we saw cacti and there was more than one kind. In the Wetlands there were many lillies. When we through the Rainforest, the trees were blocking the sun. We went because we wanted to see plants in different environments. We learnt that plants can have bigger leaves in the bottom of the Rainforest because there is  hardly any sun at the bottom level of the Rainforest.