4Chestnut Learning Update

Central idea: A healthy lifestyle can be impacted by external influences.

We have had a busy but great week really getting stuck into our second line of inquiry and thinking about who and what impacts our health. We looked at this in relation to the current day, but then looked at impacts on health in the past. We found out what it would have been like to have medical treatment and even got the opportunity to see some old medical equipment. We got a little bit squeamish when talking about dentistry of old and decided to have a go at making our own toothpaste (not using brick dust or burnt ox hoof though.) It made our teeth feel very smooth but we decided that we preferred our own that we have at home. Early on in the week we looked at features of instructions and were able to put our knowledge into practice by writing instructions on how to make the toothpaste.