Thermal Station 3.1:Communications Module
Temperature Regulation in Health
Examining Body Temperature Regulation: Expanding and Dilating
- Standards: Adult Education or Industry
- Module Goal: To apply medical terms and concepts related to the regulation of the body’s temperature.
- Materials Required: Computer with fast Internet connectivity.
- Applied Objectives: In completing this unit, you will...
- Interpret and analyze reading passages related to understanding body temperature and maintaining homeostasis.
- Identify the roots, prefixes, and suffixes for medical terms.
- Apply new medical terms in writing.
- Develop reading fluency through recordings of different kinds of passages.
- Write definitions and summaries.
- Write different kinds of sentences.
- Apply the skill of outlining in writing.
- Apply the skill of summarizing in writing.
- Pre-requisite knowledge- 6th grade reading level.
- Applied Terminology: Many new medical terms have been introduced throughout this module. You will learn their meaning by breaking them into their parts, and then practice using them in different forms of sentences and in writing exercises.
Note on Grading
Read all of the content in this module. That is how you will support what you learned in the lab and also practice reading. The more you read, the better reader you will become! Read, read, read as much as you can, always!
There are also many activities to help you practice different reading and writing activities in this module. Review all activities. Next select at least eight among those that challenge you the most and complete those activities.
Activity graded by the % of correctness of your work
Activity graded by the rubric
Activities from which you can choose five to submit
REMEMBER: To get credit for the Communications Lab, your coach needs to check the activities marked with the % and Rubric icons. You need to get at least 80% on both activities. You, also, need to show proof that you did at least five of the activities marked with the ‘5’ icon.
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In this station’s lab, you were introduced to thermoregulation, or how the body keeps its temperature within certain boundaries, even though the surrounding temperature may vary greatly. You learned that our bodies strive to maintain a state of homeostasis.
REFLECTION
Talk with your coach or another classmate about the following questions. If no one else is around, write your short answers and share with your coach the next time you see him/her.
- What is homeostasis?
- Can you think of other systems in your home that need to regulate temperature?
- How does your car regulate temperature?
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Links to Station 3.1 Modules
Lab Intro | Lab Presentation and Practice | Communications Intro| Communications Presentation and Practice| Math