Color Blind

For Inquiry we made projects about a disease I choose to color blind. 

Colour Blind

What is  Colour blindness?

Is there a cure for Colour Blindness ?

What do you do when you have to see the  right colours like Traffic lights ?

How do you know when you a Colour blind ?

What colou

        What is colour Blindness?

Color blindness affects a lot of people in the world. If your parents are colour blind there is a chance that if they have children they will be colour blind too. Approximately 1 out of 12 males and 1 out of 20 women are color blind. People who  are colour blind can still see clearly like normal people they just can’t see some colour.

Is there a cure for colour Blind?

There is no cure for colour blind yet but there are these type of glasses called Oxy-iso that people can wear

What do you do when you have to see the right colour like traffic lights?

When they are driving and they come to traffic lights they know when to stop because the red is at the top and the  green is down the bottom. Colour blind doesn't mean you can’t see all colours

How do you know when you are colour Blind?

There are different tests you can do like when you have to find the hidden thing in the picture you can do online tests or you go to an eye doctor

Facts about colour blindness

• What color is this?” is the most annoying question you can ask your colorblind friend.
• About 8% of all men are suffering from color blindness
• Color vision deficiency would be a much better term compared to color blindness.
• John Dalton wrote the first known Newspaper article about color blindness also John Dalton was color blind too.
• Police officer, firefighter, and aeroplane pilots are the jobs which require normal color vision.
•  Colorblind is a colorblind person who learned to enjoy there colorblind life
• Facebook is blue because its maker Mark Zuckerberg, suffers from color blindness too
• In 1875, a railway accident caused by a color blind train driver who saw a sign incorrectly because instead of red to stop it looked like it was green and killed nine people.

Smell

For writhing we have been learning about the 5 scenes and I did

Adding Fractions with Different Denominators

Smell

For writing we have been doing Explanations about 1 of the 5 senses

Smell

Smell is a very useful part of your body it helps you in your everyday life. It is one of your 5 senses. Smell also helps you taste.

How  does your nose work ?

In your nose you have a smell device. In the smell device there are more the 10 million scent receptors. And dog can smell 20 times better than a human.  Tiny Odor molecules pass through the nose and into the brain. Every month your scent cells are renewed it is just like getting a new nose. Your nose detect much more than good smells it can also detect bad nasty smells like chemicals.

Why do we need our nose ?

We need our nose so we can taste our food. Smell makes our food taste better. Also in your nose is mucus the green slimy stuff also known as Boogers. You produce almost over a liter of mucus a day. They aren't just there for you to pick they keep the dust and pollen from getting in to your lungs. Also your nose hairs help trap the dust. Another name for Nose hairs is Nasal hair. In an average lifetime you grow about 2 metersz of nasal hair. You can smell much better in spring and summer, due to the moisture in the air and some certain smells can bring back old memories .

Do we need a nose?

Yes you do need a nose Because without a nose you would not be able to taste anything sweet, sour, salty. NOTHING. Without a nose it would be very hard to breathe because you mainly breathe through your nose. Before the air goes it your lungs the nose warms it up so that you lungs don’t freeze. On average a man's nose is bigger than a woman's nose  but a Woman's sense of smell is much better than a Mans.

So altogether you need a nose to Smell yummy homemade baking, Taste sweets and lollies and Breath in air.

By Sarah Birkett