Systems Working Together: Preparation
When and how do body systems work together?
In the previous lesson, you shared what you know about how body systems interact with one another. The connections among body systems may be one reason you can use to explain why M'Kenna is having symptoms throughout her body. But, we need to know more about the connections among systems to explain all that is happening in M'Kenna.
One way to observe how body systems interact is to monitor them. You learned that glucose comes from digesting food that we eat. Measuring blood glucose can tell you what might be happening related to the digestive system because it tells you how much glucose is circulating in the bloodstream and is available to cells. Determining breathing rate and heart rate are other ways to measure what is happening with body systems. Calculating the amount of calories burned is a way to estimate the amount of energy required for different activities. You already know that when people are more active their body systems are working faster to bring glucose and oxygen to cells.
In this activity, you will collect data to monitor how glucose levels, breathing rate, heart rate, and calories burned change with different daily activities.
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Prepare for collecting data in the Body Systems interactive.
On your own
- Title a new page in your science notebook "Systems Working Together."
- Draw a table to organize your ideas. Use the example below.
Systems Working Together
| MoleculeData measurement | List the body systems related to this measurementList the body systems related to this measurement | If the values of the data go up, what might be happening?If the values of the data go up, what might be happening? | If the values of the data go down, what might be happening?If the the values of the go down, what might be happening? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blood glucose | |||
| Calories burned | |||
| Heart rate | |||
| Breathing rate |
- For each data measurement, write your ideas about the body systems that may be related to the data.
- For each data measurement, write your ideas about what could be happening if the values of the data go up or go down.
With your team
- Discuss your ideas with your team. You can add to or revise your ideas as you hear new information from your team.
- Review the Focus Question, When and how do body systems work together? Discuss with one another how collecting this information can help you answer the Focus Question.