Body Response Group Lab

For this lab, you will be planning, carrying out, and writing up a simple body response lab with your table group.  These are the requirements:

1. Pick a vital sign you want to measure (heart rate, blood pressure, tidal volume, or respiration rate), the tool(s) you will measure it with and the activities you will have your subjects do.  You are required to measure your subjects at rest, after mild exercise, and after more vigorous exercise.
2. Carefully and consistently take data with as many subjects as you can.  I recommend starting with yourselves so you can iron out any challenges, and then measure at least one more group.  
3. Lab Write Up:  As a group, you need to write a lab with the following components:  1)  Focused question   2)  Variables (especially discussing controls!)  3)  Procedure/Methodology   4)  Neat organized data table with uncertainty, units, etc    5)  Data Processing:  Could be as simple as calculating percent changes and showing a sample calculation, but you could do more than that too    6)  Conclusion:  Refer back to question, use specific data to back yourself up, explain using science, discuss the impact of uncertainty on the data.
4. Due Thursday/Friday before break.  You can finish it in class after you take the test.

From Now Until Winter Break

• Tues/Wed 12/3-12/4:  Check off Circulation Worksheet.  Notes on the path of blood through the heart, control of the heartbeat, and atherosclerosis.
• Thurs/Fri 12/5-12/6:  Finish Circulation Notes.  Hand out Respiration Worksheet and Internal Assessment Hand-Out.  Please come up with a focused question for your IA by next Wed/Thurs.  Read 5.4 on the Respiratory System.
• Mon/Tues 12/9-12/10:  Notes on the respiratory system.  Check off Respiration Worksheet.  Introduce Body Response Lab.  Use Vernier heart rate meters first, then try other equipment.  Tell Ms. Kenny what you are planning to test.
• Wed/Thurs 12/11-12/12: Please turn in focused question for your internal assessment through turnitin.com.  Pig Heart Dissection, done in 2-3 students.  Each group needs to do 2 labeled and measured diagrams, write observations, and describe how structure supports function for 3 parts.  Due next class.
• Fri/Mon 12/13-12/16:  Turn in Pig Heart Dissection.  Body Response Lab.  Write it up and turn it in next class.
• Tues/Wed 12/17-12/18:  Materials and methodology due for the IA.  Play Kahoot and finish going over heart and lung concepts.  
• Thurs/Fri 12/19-12/20:  Take Circulation and Respiration Test.  Pick up Digestion Worksheet and get started on it.  Work on your background information, control of variables, procedure, etc for your IA over the break if you would like.  The pre-write is due through turnitin.com by January 17, 2020 (and counts towards your first semester grade).