Unit 6 Reflection

This unit was about the nervous system, its organs like the brain and it parts, and the ones related like the eyes. We studied more about the parts of the brain, we did the dissection and see all the specific brain parts, also we read about the functions of the brain and cases where the people was born without some parts, so we learned how their brains need to adjust to work as good as it can. We learned how works the neurons that process the information and create a answer, and the receptors that take the sensations and send them to the brain by the nerves, like in the reading of the training we learned that if you exercise your body and brain, in the future all will work better. Other lab that we did and was connected to the nervous receptors was the "Reflex Lab" where we tested our reactions in front of different situations. Also we learned about the senses and the different types of receptors that each one has like the eye and the photoreceptors, and we did the dissection for see all the parts inside the eye.

During this unit we had about 5 reading where we learned more about the information that we had in our notes and vodcasts. The first was"The Woman with a Whole in the Brain"where we learned about a woman that life 20 years without knowing that she was missing¡g a part of her brain, but her brain adjust to make all the basic functions. After "A woman perpetually falling" where I learned more about the bad connections between learned in the brain and the parts of the body, after this one came " How to became a Superager" where I learned more about the fact that if old people have an active their brains are more active too so their functions continuing working. "Fit Body, Fit Brain and Other Fitness Tends" talks about the importance of exercise for the good functioning of the brain. And lastly "How we get addicted" talks about the problems that some people have when they get addicted to some substances and they can't stop consuming it. 

This unit was more hard that I really thought that it will be but the fact that the brain is connected to a lot of different parts of the body makes it a long and hard unit. Maybe I should have done the readings with more attention because I only got the basic information of each one. And the fact that a lot of new vocabulary appeared for me made it harder.

I would like to expand more information inside each of the diseases and also watch more videos than read, because in my personal opinion when you hear a video you understand the information better than when you are reading.

During this unit I didn't really make my goals because in the other subject the time of working started to be longer so I leave the daily review.