Turning our work on choices into an inquiry into the real effects of our choices on our bodies

We thought about all the choices we make every day or every week of our lives, wrote them on pieces of scrap paper and then stuck them up all over the room - the walls are a mess! It made it really easy for us to start thinking about how our bodies are affected by those choices.

Yoga with Mrs. Fairbairn

To find out more about how certain activities affect our bodies, we did some yoga with a secondary teacher called Mrs. Fairbairn. Can you find out more information about yoga? Can you learn any new stances?

Choices, choices, choices...

The second teacher question in this Unit of Inquiry is "how is our body affected by our choices?". We have started our exploration of this question by thinking about the choices we make every day and deciding whether we think they are good or bad for our bodies. Here are some examples:

"I have made a choice to drink less coffee at work, and I hope that it will be good for my health." Mr. Sherratt

I make a choice to sleep only 5 hours,and that is bad for my health.
Henrica

My good choice is to sleep daily 8 hours
Afsana

My choice is to sleep at 8:30 thats good for me because I can get lots of rest
Farzad

My choice is to do my homework everyday i think thats good for my brain.
Afif

My choice is that I will drink milk and eat egg every single night and and morning.
Mysha

My choice is to play basketball everyday and I think its a good choice.
Meem

Experts teach their peers

The experts on each of the body's systems spent several hours working together in small groups gathering information, preparing lesson ideas and materials and doing role-play lessons.

Today, they went back to their original table groups and taught each other about the systems our bodies are composed of. Here are some pictures, read the comments section to see how they thought it went.