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REFLECTIONS ON HEART DISSECTION “I really enjoyed dissecting the heart. It was a different experience for me. I was very lucky to do it once in my lifetime. Everyone should have an opportunity to have this experience”. Aslı KOCADAĞISTAN 9-C 62 "When first I smelled the heart, I thought that this will be the worst experience I would ever have. But after some time, my nose got used to it and now I feel happy to learn the real structure of a heart". Yusuf KARACALI 9-C Heart Dissection Reflection "I thought that the heart dissection was going to be disgusting because of the blood, but it didn’t affect me as much as I thought it would. It was a great experience." Başak GÜVENSİN 9-B “One of my dreams was to be a heart surgeon, so this is why I enjoyed the dissection so much. This activity made me feel like a surgeon, and I was very satisfied”. Ahmet Metehan YILDIZ 9-B We used a scalpel to gently cut the heart and the secret parts hidden inside slowly revealed themselves. My anxiety turned into excitement as we explored these amazing structures. Seeing how perfectly our hearts are designed amazed me and I felt lucky to have the chance to examine it. This experiment raised my love for science. Ebrar BUDAN 9-D “During the dissection, I felt how powerful and durable the heart is, because it stays with us from our birth to our death, always pumping blood through our body. The heart valves especially amazed me, because they don’t allow blood to go backward or to move in the wrong direction”. Emircan POLAT 9-C It was my first time dissecting a heart and I was quite nervous actually. It was an incredibly exciting experience for me. At first I couldn’t even touch it, because the cold and soft feeling it gave disgusted me, but when we cut it in half, I really enjoyed feeling the tissues even under the gloves. Zeynep Suda SARIGÜL 9-C THE CLAPPER 2018 - 2019