For this project, my group researched a way the body maintains homeostasis
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Overview
In this project, we researched how breathing can affect homeostasis throughout the body. Before we did our expirements, we learned about what homeostasis is and what systems maintain it for 2 weeks. We then chose our system, and designed our own experiment to test our body going from homeostasis out of homeostasis and then back down to homeostasis. We had a week to design our experiment, perform our experiment, and record our data to prove our system does maintain homeostasis properly. We ended by presenting our slideshow to the class in a gallery walk.
Reflection
In this project, one of my pits was work quality. I ususally keep myself to a much higher standard and try to achieve that, but in this project it felt like I wasn't upholding my standard. I also didn't do a great job of delegating work. I felt as though I didn't allow my group to do as much work on this project as they could have, and took too much charge. If I were to do this project again, I would take a step down and allow my group to take over and check my work credibility.
One peak I had on this project was leader ship. I was certainley not sitting in the foreground, and really stood up to the job of leader and organized most activities for our group. A second peak I had was working efficiently. We made sure that all of our work was finished on the due date, and even had left over time in the end to brush up or project. Overall I believe my group did an excellent job on this project, but still had slight room for improvement.
One peak I had on this project was leader ship. I was certainley not sitting in the foreground, and really stood up to the job of leader and organized most activities for our group. A second peak I had was working efficiently. We made sure that all of our work was finished on the due date, and even had left over time in the end to brush up or project. Overall I believe my group did an excellent job on this project, but still had slight room for improvement.
Concepts
Homeostasis: The body's state of equilibrium. There are many different ways homestasis is maintained, and our project was all about testing one of these ways. This idea was the central focus for our project
Feedback Loop: The repeating process of a stimulus causing a reaction. There are 2 types of feedback loops: Positve and Negative. Feedback loops relate to our project since we were studying a type of feedback loop
Positive: A feedback loop that has the stimulus encourage the reaction. An example of ths is when the body has a low temperature, the body then shivers to create warmth and increase the temperature.
Negative: A feedback loop that has the stimulus discourage the reaction. An example of this is after you do exercise, your body does not need as much energy and therefore tries to lower your breathing rate back to normal.
Respiratory System: The system in the body that controls your breathing. It consists of the mouth, nose, lungs, trachea, bronchi and pharynx. This system is crucial in maintaining the body's homeostasis because it ensures the body has oxygen going to all parts of the body, and by that extension energy to function. This relates to our project because we studied the way breathing affects homeostasis
Lungs: The lungs are a pair of elastic sacs with multiple passage ways for air to be drawn in as well as delivered. The lungs are the most crucial organ in the respiratory system, as they are the main organ that performs the task of breathing
Dependant Variable: A variable that is changed by other variables if they change. In our project, our dependant variable was the rate at which our subjects were breathing.
Independant Variable: A variable that is not changed by other variables. In our project, our independant variable was the action that the test subject was performing.
Feedback Loop: The repeating process of a stimulus causing a reaction. There are 2 types of feedback loops: Positve and Negative. Feedback loops relate to our project since we were studying a type of feedback loop
Positive: A feedback loop that has the stimulus encourage the reaction. An example of ths is when the body has a low temperature, the body then shivers to create warmth and increase the temperature.
Negative: A feedback loop that has the stimulus discourage the reaction. An example of this is after you do exercise, your body does not need as much energy and therefore tries to lower your breathing rate back to normal.
Respiratory System: The system in the body that controls your breathing. It consists of the mouth, nose, lungs, trachea, bronchi and pharynx. This system is crucial in maintaining the body's homeostasis because it ensures the body has oxygen going to all parts of the body, and by that extension energy to function. This relates to our project because we studied the way breathing affects homeostasis
Lungs: The lungs are a pair of elastic sacs with multiple passage ways for air to be drawn in as well as delivered. The lungs are the most crucial organ in the respiratory system, as they are the main organ that performs the task of breathing
Dependant Variable: A variable that is changed by other variables if they change. In our project, our dependant variable was the rate at which our subjects were breathing.
Independant Variable: A variable that is not changed by other variables. In our project, our independant variable was the action that the test subject was performing.