Y2

HI Y2.

I am interested to hear more about your topic. Can you send me a little bit of information about it?

SH

Hello Ms.Hall

My topic is about the new born teras(deformed children). And I am going to research to know how they are born and what causes conceiving teras in mothers' wombs.

I'm sorry, but I actually wanted to put the addresses of the webpage that have the information of teras and I looked for them but there weren't much webpages that are in English...I'll look for them again though.

It may help if you use the term fetus, fetuses in your research. You now need to see how you can fit this under one of the IB topics. Perhaps you would like to consider the politics of this topic?--bag

Hi Y2

THis could end up being a bIology essay. Get a bit more research done and we can perhaps talk more than.

SH

Hello Ms.Hall

Ok, then I'd love to accept your idea of 'use the term fetus, fetuses'. Thank You!

Oh, so do you mean I have to see if my topic fits under the subjects such as TOK, maths, English and so on?

Oh I see...I thought my topic was about Human rights,,,or maybe Biology though. I heard from Ms.Gorley that if I have the topic about Bio or like Phisics which is Scientific subjects, I will have to have experiments for the essay so I was stucked at that part...But she said that I'm leaving here in the end of the school year so that I don't have to.

from Y^2

Yes we have a bit more leniency with an in-house essay than with an IB essay. Please see Mrs. Hall for some suggestions. Have you tried anay of our databases?--bag

Hello

Umm,,,anay of our database?? Can you show me where that is? I'm sorry,,,

Y^2

HI Y2 I am looking forward to talking to you about your ideas. Drop by after class one day SH

Have you located any major articles or experts?--bag

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-An introduction to Human Diseases-pathology and Pathology Correlations-Fifth Edition by Leonard V.Croweley (a book that I found in Ms.Hall's biology classroom)

This book got a lot of information of human diseases including congenital diseases which is my basic topic of my extended essay. I think the strong points of this book is that the information of diseases are quite detailed and they use quite a lot photos. And they are all colored so for example it's easier to compare and contrast the normal people with the people who has specific diseases. And some websites or books try not to put photos of patients because some of the pictures look grotesque.

-x51,org

This webpage is basically about weird and undergrounded news that usually don't go on newspapers or TV. But I find a lot of articles that concerns about uncommon diseases so I think this webpage is such a good resource. It's in Japanese. From this webpage, I knew about cyclopean, which is one of uncommon congenital deseases. There are some other congenital deseases highlighted too so it's so useful.

-http://www.ne.jp/asahi/okamoto/osaka/page013.html

This page shows some pedigree diagrams to show how the congenital diseases are sex linked and stuff. the vocabulary in this page is quite difficult and special, but if I read it carefully I get to understand the proccess of teras being given birth and how chromosomes matter.

-Fetal Abnormality Diagnosis

This page explains how they use the technology of an ultrasound scan for pregnant women and figure out whether they have a deformed/abnormal baby in their wombs. And this webpage also detailed in introduction part of each uncommon disease. There are some pictures of deformed/abnormal babies that were taken by an ultrasound scan.

-[|http://www.wdic.org/w/SCI/%E5%8D%98%E7%9C%BC%E7%97%87]

This webpage is not as detailed as other webpages above, but I can use this webpage as an online dictionary. The knowledge of this dictionary is quite wide. It also had the word "cyclopia" and other diseases too.

-http://www.nurs.or.jp/~academy/igaku/t2/t21121.htm

This webpage shows a classified diagram of "Occuring malformation depending on component/drugs that pregnant women take". It is showing a list of drugs and abnormal proliferations by taking each drug are explained.