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Anatomy and Physiology 12 Core Competency Self-Assessment

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Sausage Membrane Diffusion Lab

This lab was performed to demonstrate diffusion through a semipermeable membrane. What I liked about this lab was the teamwork and shared roles. As a class, we learned how specific the chemistry can be behind diffusion and how the collaboration and strategies must be tight to obtain a successful lab result. In the end, only a few groups had great results remaining clear sausage. We discovered by putting our ideas together what was the cause of the others to turn blue. This lab incorporated both logical thinking and teamwork amongst the entire class to understand the cause and effects of this lab.

Fetal Pig Dissection

This lab was full of hard work and good eyesight. With three members in my group, we completed the lab and cut out the intestinal tract, which ended up being 2.0 meters long. Throughout about a week, we learned about the different parts of the pig and how they work. This lab was mostly fun because it included precision and encouraging group members. We had fun throughout the lab and helped each other overcome the next steps in the process.

Hear Lab

In this lab, we learned where all the arteries and openings to the heart are, like the aorta, left and right ventricles, pulmonary artery, and left and right atria. I had to go into period four to complete this lab and was selected to be in a group with a friend. This made the lab more enjoyable as we supported each other in our leaning. In this lab, we made observations from other groups’ work and applied that to ours. In the end, it took a few tries to get all the placements correct, but in the end, it was because of teamwork that got us to the end.

Heart Rate Lab

This is a picture of a classmate’s results using the sphygmomanometer. His results made the class laugh, and the teacher worried about how far off they were from the ordinary. Everyone in the class recorded their results, which were one of the highest. We also tested blood types, and I discovered I have the rare blood type O-. The blood testing was fun because we all got to poke ourselves and laugh at each other when we didn’t bleed. Overall, this semester has been fun and I have learned many things that will be beneficial in the future.

PHE 10 AH Reflection

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My Artifact

Before P.E., I usually feel unenergetic. I feel this way today as well.

Personal Health and Awareness

When I am sad, angry or frustrated, lifting heavy weights helps me be more productive and calm. Working out releases hormones like endorphins, serotonin, and dopamine neurotransmitters that correspond with feeling of sadness, anger, pain and anxiety. These effects help with sleep, mood, senses, appetite and overall well-being. Some of the things I do to stay mentally and physically healthy include eating healthy, no processed foods or foods with high sugar contents, and working out 4+ times a week. Eating healthy and staying fit makes me feel better and improves my appetite. I feel accomplished after a healthy meal or a hard workout. Some of my preferred strategies for maintaining a healthy, balanced lifestyle include no diets – most of them don’t last and people end up binge eating – cutting meal sizes, eating more vegetables and clean proteins like chicken and fish with Omega 3 fatty acids, drinking lots of water, and supplementing pure fibre for digestion and feeding good stomach bugs.

Core Competency Reflection

I can tell the difference between facts and opinions. I can decipher between the two by doing my own research.

I give, receive, and act on feedback to progress in my goals. I appreciate every time I get feedback from coaches or teacher about how to improve my techniques. I utilize the opinions and suggestions to accomplish my goals.

I demonstrate respectful, inclusive behaviour by including people who appear to be left out and always speak to people with the same level of respect I believe I deserve.

I take action to support diversity and defend human rights. I am more than willing to stick up for a classmate when I hear judgements being made about their personal beliefs, looks, ideas or opinions while still remaining respectful. Everybody has the right to be treated equally.

Chemistry Titration Lab Response

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A titration is a technique used in chemistry to determine the concentration of certain substances. This is done by adding to the measured sample an exact known molarity to a solution with an unknown concentration. An indicator, in this case phenolphthalein, is used to signal the completion of the reaction. The concentration can then be quantitatively determined. During any acid-base titration, the reaction will always include the neutralization between aqueous hydrogen and hydroxide ions. These ions come together to for neutral water molecules.

The titration process in this lab was used to figure out when the number of moles of acid equals the number of moles of base, the equivalence point. In this lab, we figured out that the equivalence point was when the acid, HCl, turned the lightest shade of pink possible and sustained the colour for thirty seconds when base, NaOH, was added. This light shade of pink that had to linger for at least thirty seconds also marked when the end point of the titration was reached.

The results of our lab are as follows:

Moles of NaOH: 0.00145

Moles of HCl: 0.00145

Concentration of [HCl]: 0.145

Core Competency Reflection – Thinking

Some strategies my partner and I concocted to solve and overcome a problem were to ask those around us. By asking other students who were comfortable with the lab procedure, we did not waste our given three questions. Another strategy we used was critical thinking. If something did not make sense and seemed like it did not line up, we thought through our steps and referred back to our notes and the lab procedure to guide us through our mistakes. We measured everything to best of our ability including accuracy, recording and analyzing. By thorough examination of our results, our conclusions were as accurate as possible. We made the decision to keep everything precise and start at 0.00 mL when we added our base into the buret to make the end calculations as easy as possible. The feedback we received from our teacher, Ms. Borges, was helpful when it came to minor confusions. From her advice, we changed the way we went through our procedure and everything ran smoothly in the end. For next time, I would have like to get more comfortable with half-dropping the base into the acid in the E. flask. I thought the colour was perfect in the end, as it stayed a light shade of pink for thirty seconds.

Overall, I think this lab was successful for both my partner and I.