The Human Body unit
Digestive system model proposal.https://goo.gl/S0Yhx3
Grand roundsThis project focused on the endocrine system in the human body had us pretending that we were doctors. What we did was diagnose several patients and record their symptoms. After we diagnosed everyone we researched those symptoms and claimed to know what their disease using evidence and reasoning. I learned all about the endocrine system and the disorders and diseases that are from the endocrine system. As An example...
Claim: A student with tingling in their hands, muscle cramps, and they had these symptoms ever since their thyroid surgery has hypoparathyroidism. The reasoning is, when the parathyroid gland does not produce enough parathyroid hormone, which regulate the levels of calcium in the body,it causes tingling and cramps. Our patient also mentioned that they had a recent surgery on the thyroid which can also be a cause for Hypoparathyroidism. Human body reflection Our Process of building the model was receiving information, designing a blueprint that would be the base for our project however the design was more a brainstorming project for the final building. After the model we got supplies from the wood shed, physics room, CVS, and a blender from my house. The model itself worked with water and had very little trouble traveling through tubes. The part where we had struggled with was getting FOOD through the "small Intestine" the tubes was too narrow so our group and I devised a plan to get the blender to (chew) the food so the food would go down, and it worked, another thing that went bad was that we used duct tape to hold several tubes up and the duct tape kept separating from the board.
The presentation day went on and the only question we were asked is what happens when we get diarrhea, which is a mistake in the large intestine. The judges never said anything about our project however we got a 76/80 on the presentation which is very good! |
Digestive system and presentationhttps://goo.gl/3zaXGq
Status Update 3/3/16Our group added the mouth, stomach, and esophagus (not shown) and our group still needs to adjust the tubing (Small intestine and Large intestine) we need a presentation and decorations.
Status Update 3/7/16
Added decorations esophagus, and the stomach, we still need to prepare the presentation. Final status Update 3/14/16
Presented to judges and scored 76/80 very good job well done, everything went smoothly however, answering questions had us lose a point. |