Wednesday, December 11, 2019

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.

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