Thermal Station 3.2: Communications Module
Temperature Regulation in Health
Examining Temperature Sensation in the Body
- Module Goal: To improve reading and writing skills as well as 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.
= 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.
In this station’s lab, you learned more about thermoregulation. You learned what your body does to maintain a constant temperature (set point).
REFLECTION
- How do we keep machines from overheating?
- What if you drove your car through the desert and you got a hole in the radiator? What would happen if you kept driving?
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Links to Station 3.2 Modules
Lab Intro | Lab Presentation and Practice | Communications Intro| Communications Presentation and Practice| Math