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STEM & Health: Stressors on the circulatory system
Author(s) -
Cooper Robin L,
Krall Rebecca McNall,
Cooper Hyewon,
Mayo Susan,
Johnson Diane,
ZeidlerWatters Kim,
Rose Stephanie
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
the faseb journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.709
H-Index - 277
eISSN - 1530-6860
pISSN - 0892-6638
DOI - 10.1096/fasebj.27.1_supplement.517.25
Subject(s) - circulatory system , extant taxon , stressor , medicine , resistance (ecology) , psychology , cardiology , neuroscience , biology , ecology , evolutionary biology
The goal of these exercises is to understand the circulatory system while integrating STEM and health‐related issues. For high and middle school students the ability to assembly a model from a provided kit to represent the human circulatory system and relate the physics of how pressures are altered due to health related issues (obesity, arteriosclerosis) should promote the importance of why a healthy life style is advantageous. The hope is that providing cardiovascular kits to classrooms for teachers to use will bridge biology, physics and health concepts for an integrative approach to learning within STEM related around fluid dynamics and physiology. Four kits represent: (1) plaque formation and effect on flow, (2) elastic recoil and arteriosclerosis, (3) effects of blood viscosity, (4) differential blood pressure related to resistance. Since new national standards in teaching for secondary teachers in life sciences are to cover “modeling” as engineering and design, this activity is timely and very suited for a life science classroom for high & middle schools as well as college level. In the four activities (kits), the alteration in the extant of circulatory “tubing” to flow and the effect of resistance on blood pressure can be modeled and experimented with by inquiry learning. Funded by KY Department of Education Science Leadership Support Network.