TREASURE HUNT 6º

TREASURE HUNT               HEALTH

Who was Louise Pasteur?

What is pasteurization?

What is a vaccine?

Name an acute illness

Name a chronic illness

What is malaria?

What is the meaning of “prevention is better than cure”?

What is an endemic disease?

What type of illness is malaria?

What type of illness is cholera?

Many people who have diabetes have to inject themselves with…..

List out all the possible effects of alcoholism.

List out all the possible effects of tobacco use.

What is the primary cause of death and injury?

What is a passive smoke?

We should always cross the road at….

How could tetanus being transmitted?

How could cholera being transmitted?

Explain how malaria is transmitted.

List out nine ways to avoid infections.

What are anesthetics?

A thousand years ago anesthetics were made with….

A thousand years ago barbers did some more than cutting hair. What was it?

What is an antibiotic?

Who discovered the first antibiotic, when and what was it called?

What is an amulet? What were they used for in the past?

What is the Heimlich maneuver?

What is the pneumococcus?

What are infectious diseases caused by?

What is a donor?

What are traditional medicines made of?

Year 6 have been doing tne nervous system.

They imagined what their life would be like if they were blind. These are some of the autobiographies that they wrote.

ALBA MADRIGAL 

I was born the 1^st of June in the year 2001. So now I’m 11 years old.

My  life was so happy in my childhood… I played with my friends, I did my homework... but one day in my house there was a fire and I inhaled so much carbon dioxide that I stopped seeing  with my right eye. I learned to continue with my normal life, as normal as my life can be without an eye, but of course that’s not all. A few years later I was in my family car with my mum and my dad and we  had an accident with a big wild boar and I cannot see more of with  left eye so I went completely blind. My life after that was full of accidents like for example the one the day after getting completely blind: I was holding hands with my father when I stumbled with a rock that was in the middle of my way, my father unsuccessfully tried to help me to avoid but I can’t couldn’t so I broke my wrist and I was 3 days in  hospital, then after some months I was with my mum and I fell over, that time nothing happened to me but I had to decide if I wanted a dog or a cane and I have always loved dogs so I decided that I wanted a dog, even with the dog I have some accidents too but they were a lot less than without  Tara (that’s the name I put gave it)

 Now I am still having some accidents but it has no comparing point nothing to do with the past so I’m a bit happier now but my  life is not complete without my eyes.

 this  were my eyes before, they were beautiful

 

And this is now my eyes so they’re a bit different, aren’t they?

BLINDNESS

My name is ANDREA ALFONSO FERNANDEZ. I WAS BORN IN SPAIN IN THE 8TH OF NOVEMBER.

I am very good at swimming and I love to swim and to paint. One day I had a swimming competition and a paint competition on the same day, so I decided to go swimming.

When I finished the competition I was very sad because my mum couldn’t go.

Then I went to see the painting competition and I went to the Art room. I wanted to get a jar of paint that it was atop. I thought that it was paint but it really was  acid, so when I got it, I slipped and it got into my eyes. I was very poorly because it hurt a lot and when I went to look at myself in the mirror I saw all black, I couldn’t see anything. I shouted and I screamed and two hours later a man came and said: What happened to you? I said: I wanted to get the jar of paint but I slipped and it got into my eyes. ´What! That (jar is not of paint is of acid) It is not a paint jar, it is an acid jar, I have it there because I put the acid on the doors because the termites bite the wood’.

‘I can´t see anything’ I said ´’Now you are blind’

The man took me home but I am very sad because I can´t swim or paint any more.

The people who helped me was my family but who helped me the most  was my dog Sasha.

I have lots of accident in the street because I fall all the time.

Now I live with my dad and mum and I manage better because I have my dog.

 

 

     

DANIEL MARTÍN

Hello,  I’m Daniel a blind person. I was born in Zamora in 1996.

I was born blind.

My mother helps me to interact with the world; I changed school in 2.000 because the other boys mocked me. Many things changed in the new school like the order in school, we all had to be in the same place after moving about. Blind people use special writing machines to write and we also have a special alphabet it is called Braille alphabet:

 

MY DAILY ROUTINE

 

I wake up and I take my cane to go to the kitchen and have breakfast, then I brush my teeth and comb my hair. My mother takes me to school and she also brings me back  home. In school things are like in other school the only difference is that we use special writing machines. After school I eat and I do homework, then I go to walk. Later on I have dinner and I go to bed.

 

 

 

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The Blind

ALBA  MADRIGAL              

I was born the 1^st of June in the year 2001. So now I’m 11 years old.My  life was so happy in my childhood… I played with my friends, I did my homework... but one day in my house there was a fire and I inhaled so much carbon dioxide that I stopped seeing  with my right eye. I learned to continue with my normal life, as normal as my life can be without an eye, but of course that’s not all. A few years later I was in my family car with my mum and my dad and we  had an accident with a big wild boar and I cannot see more of with  left eye so I went completely blind. My life after that was full of accidents like for example the one the day after getting completely blind: I was holding hands with my father when I stumbled with a rock that was in the middle of my way, my father unsuccessfully tried to help me to avoid but I can’t couldn’t so I broke my wrist and I was 3 days in  hospital, then after some months I was with my mum and I fell over, that time nothing happened to me but I had to decide if I wanted a dog or a cane and I have always loved dogs so I decided that I wanted a dog, even with the dog I have some accidents too but they were a lot less than without  Tara (that’s the name I put gave it)
Now I am still having some accidents but it has nothing  to do with the past so I’m a bit happier now but my  life is not complete without my eyes.

 This  were my eyes before, they were beautiful

 

And this is now my eyes so they’re a bit different, aren’t they?

5º, these are leaf shapes. Use them when you do your chart about the trees.

HAPPY EASTER

·         Read the information about blindness on the blog.

·         Try to find more information that you might need to develop your qutobiography.

·         Make a chart to organize the information. Why people are blind. How they manage. ( you can include more facts )

WHY PEOPLE ARE BLIND	HOW THEY MANAGE.
	RELY ON: MEMORIZE: USE CANES TO: DOGS HELP THEM TO:

You are going to write an autobiography about your life as a blind person.

You will need to include:

When and where you were born.

Why you went blind.

How you learned to manage in the world/ who helped you/ What your school life was like/who helped you to read…

Any incidents that you might have gone through.

What is your life like now.   Who you live with. How you manage.

Don’t forget to write in the past tense when you do your recount of past events. You can also used the structure I used to… when you talk about your routine in the past.

Then write in the present tense when you tell about your daily routine these days.

               

               

Is it clear who the writing is about?

Does the introduction make you want to read on?

Are capital letters used for names of people and places?

Is it written in the correct person eg. First (autobiography) or third (biography)?

Does the text give you factual information about the person and events?

Are the person’s feelings and emotions included in the text?

Does it keep the reader interested -using well chosen words?

Does it have a satisfactory conclusion/ending?

An example of auto-biography

I had a very happy childhood and my earliest memory is that of waiting for my dad to come home from work on his motorbike. I would wait at the top of the driveway for him to get home. He would stop and pick me up and put me on the front of the bike and we would ride down the drive together to the garage. I can still remember the feeling of excitement as I saw him riding up the road to me. It was always a thrill to sit on the tank of the Honda and feel my dad revving the engine and that is probably where my love of riding motorbikes comes from.

Dad always tried to spend time with my sister and I. Every Christmas he would dress up as Santa and we would have a party with all the kids from down my street. One year when I was 6 he was away because of work and couldn’t be there for the Christmas party. My sister and I were devastated and we both cried all the way through the party. Right at the end in walked dad dressed as Santa like always, mum was smiling and Sarah and I ran up for a big hug. It was the best Christmas present and all we wanted at the time. Of course as we got older the tradition faded and Sarah and I just wanted to spend time with our friends. I think dad really enjoyed dressing up for us and was sad when we stopped asking for it, although we never talked about it.

An event that had a major effect on my life happened when I was seven years old. I was playing with my Star Wars figures in my room and decided that Luke Skywalker really needed a parachute. So I went to the kitchen and found a plastic bag and some string. The problem was I couldn’t find any scissors and needed to cut the string. I remembered I had seen mum cutting string with a knife.  In the kitchen draw I found a sharp looking knife with a wooden handle and wrapped the string around the knife. I pulled upwards on the knife, hard. Without warning the string snapped and the knife in my hand shot up towards my face. It was all over in less than a second. I stood there blinking. Something was wrong with my eye; all I could see out of it was a sort of mashed green jelly. I ran into my mum who took one look at me and turned white, she immediately called for an ambulance and I started to cry. I didn’t know at the time what a huge impact this event would have on my life but that trip to hospital was going to play a very big part in my life from then on.

BLINDNESS

People who are blind rely on their other senses-smell, touch, hearing, taste-to help them manage in the world. Blind people have to memorize identifying features, like sounds and smells, of the places that they often go. They also have to pay close attention to where things are located in their homes in order to get around safely, always putting objects in the same places after use so that they can be found again.

Some blind people use canes or guide dogs to get around. A white cane indicates that the person using it is visually impaired. Blind people tap their canes on sidewalks, floors, and streets. They learn to identify the locations of things-like steps, walls, or doors-simply by the different sounds that their cane taps make. Various high-tech devices have been invented, including laser canes, that use sound or light waves that bounce off objects and send signals to the user about where these objects are located, what they might be made of, and how big they are. Guide dogs, or seeing-eye dogs, are specially trained to lead blind people about. The dog and the person work as a team, with the dog following commands that help the blind person go about her day. The dog, in turn, signals the person when she is approaching a curb or when it is safe to cross a street.

Blindness is complete loss of sight. It can happen when certain parts of the eyeballs, the optic nerves (which carry visual signals from the eyes to the brain), or the sight centers of the brain are damaged. Such damage can occur as a result of injuries or diseases. A person can also be born with eye or brain abnormalities that cause blindness. In many cases, particularly in very poor countries, infectious diseases and poor diets can also cause blindness. A lack of vitamin A, in fact, is the leading cause of blindness worldwide. With basic medicines and proper nutrition, such cases could be prevented.

For every one person in the United States who is totally blind, there are four others who are visually impaired or "legally blind." These people have some ability to see, but they see so poorly-even with eyeglasses-that they cannot do things that require good vision, like driving a car.

Last Friday we went to visit three Romanesque churches that are being restored. We went into Sta María La Nueva, San Antolín and San Esteban. We could see some skulls an tumbs, we looked at paintings being restored and we even built a portico with two arches, and it didn't fall. Amazing!