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Delivering What Muscles Need 

1/21/2016

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Questions:

  1. Which activities increased your heart rate the most?
  2. Which activities increased your heart rate the least?
  3. Was the order in which you ranked the activities accurate? (It's good to be wrong!) Explain.
  4. What changes did you notice about your heart rate as you became more active?
  5. Why do you think your heart rate changed when you were more active? What inference can you make? (Use pages 65–66 of your reference book to help you answer this question.)
  1. The activity that increased my heart rate the most was running in place. Next it was lunging. I did the most movement in these two activities.
  2. Laying down, and sitting were the activities that increased my heart rate the least. I wasn't moving as much in these activities.
  3. I ranked the activities in the order I did them. So I kind of was right; I didn't think that sitting was going to be the same as laying down.
  4. My heart rate increased the most from lunging to running in place. I think this happened because I really worked hard while running and maybe messed up a tiny bit while lunging.
  5. When I was running in place my body was pumping blood faster than when was sitting down so it could pump more blood to my muscle cells. So that is why my heart rate went up.

Reflection Paragraph:

This activity was hard but fun. It was hard to listen to my heart rate while standing up though. Because it was loud and I was in the middle of a lot of kids. I think kids should do this experiment instead of seeing a sample answer and graph or reading it in a textbook. I still learned a lot about this. We even read a couple pages and I learned from that also. I enjoyed this a lot. 
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Working Muscles - A Clothespin Activity 

1/13/2016

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Reflection:

  • Write a one paragraph reflection, and answer the following questions:

  1. Was it difficult to use the same technique throughout the whole experiment?
  2. How did you hands and fingers feel BEFORE, DURING, and AFTER the experiment?
  3. Describe how your data changed over time.
  4. What errors or inconsistencies might have affected your results?
  5. Why did your hand strength change over the course of this experiment?
  6. How do you think your muscle cells get oxygen, nutrients, and water to make the energy they need to function?
  7. What do you think you could have done to prevent your muscles from tiring?
  8. What should you do if you experience muscle fatigue in the future?

Answers:

  1. Yes, it was because I wanted to constantly switch hands and use my other hand.
  2. Before my fingers felt normal, they didn't feel different. The first two rounds I felt good but my muscles started complaining at the third round. After the experiment my muscles were very tired.
  3. At the beginning I got my highest scores, then on the next two I went down a lot. Next I leveled out around a hundred and on the last one I went down. 
  4. One trial I remember I dropped my clip and had to scotch my chair out to grad it under the table. Or I might have miss counted or miss clipped. 
  5. My hand strength changed because I got tired or I was really pushing myself. 
  6. Through my blood vessels. Because blood carries many things around the body and Everywhere in my body. 
  7. I could have a. Not done the experiment. b. Only pinch the clip a couple times each round. Or c. Not tried my hardest.
  8. Keep going as you still can, but it will just hurt and you will get more tired. 
Reflection Paragraph:
      This experiment was fun and interesting. I was predicting my graph would start really high then drop then rise back up to a median for the rest. I did not expect my last trail to be 11 clips less than my ninth trial because I would "finish it strong." I think my last score dropped because I was so very tired and sore I just slowed down. Overall it was a fun experiment to do and was much more interesting than reading a fake graph. 
     
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KinderPals - January 

1/11/2016

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Q's

  1. How has your first round of KinderPals gone?
  2. What were some differences between the two experiences (AM and PM)?
  3. How did you improve your skills as a KinderPal from the first experience to the second?
  4. In what specific ways did you help improve your students' self-esteem?
  5. Why should other schools do a program similar to KinderPals? Is it worth the time spent?

A's

  1. Great! Both of my KinderPals were so cute they were great at finding there super powers. My PM KinderPal hugged me when I was leaving. And my AM Pal switched the score of our contest at the last second to a tie.
  2. My PM KinderPal was just rattling on about her friends or how she doesn't have a football at her house but she does at her grandma's. So it made that very easy to identify her superpowers. But my AM Pal was kind of shy at first but quickly warmed up.
  3. It was a tiny bit easier the second time because I knew some good ideas to do in the kindergarten classroom. I also knew some good things to ask my Pal like "Do you like to swim at the pool because swimming is my favorite sport." Or "Are you on a team?" Instead of "What are your superpowers for sports and activities. I just finished the conversation with "Nice, a swimming superpower will come in handy."
  4. I  had a 50 second flower drawing contest. Where my Pal was nice enough to call a tie. So lots of compliments went around regarding this. I think it was time worth spent as they got to see that other people can draw too but I focused on telling them how creative they were with different things.
  5. KinderPals is a great use of time. It's once a month for only thirty minutes. The first time is most likely not going to be as productive because you are still getting to know the kid but it still is good. I think it was time well spent especially the way I approached it. My PM KinderPal hugged me at the end of the session. And my AM Pal ran up to me at the end and switched our contest score a tie instead of her winning.  
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Creating an Elbow Joint 

1/8/2016

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Q's and A's

  1. How many bones did your model need?  How many muscles did it need?
  2. How were your pretend muscles similar and different to real muscles?
  3. What would happen if the ligaments of the models were overstretched or torn? How would it affect the way the models could operate?
  4. Explain what ligaments, tendons, and cartilage are.
  5. What made this activity fun?
  6. What made this activity challenging?
  1. Two bones and two muscles.
  2. They both pulled not pushed. They both move the bone up and down. The muscles were called the biceps and triceps.
  3. If the ligaments were too stretchy the bones would not move properly. The ligaments act as a guide for the muscles. Like "You can pull up, but you have to stay in these guidelines."  
  4. Ligaments are that stretchy, rubber band like, tissue that keep your bones together. Tendons are the strong and flexible but not elastic, fiber that connects your muscle to a bone. Cartilage is there to make sure your bones don't rub together. The reason you get arthritis is because you don't have enough cartilage at that joint. 
  5. This activity was fun because it was hands on. I got to learn that the ligaments have to be fairly tight or your bone flops around when the muscles pull; through trail and error. 
  6. This activity was fun yet challenging as I had never done anything like this before. (Except engineering and building machines.)
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