The Project
For this project, our goal was to build a model of two organ systems of the human body. My group was assigned the endocrine and digestive systems. Our models needed to show an individual function of each system, as well as one function that they executed together.
Our Project
This section of our model shows the endocrine system working alone. The marble represents a hormon and the ramps reperesent reseptore sights.
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This section is the digestive system alone. the wood blocks represent teeth and the foam is food.
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This is how the two work together. the hormones tell the body to eat and the food goes to the stomach represented by the bowl where the stomach ascid breaks it down.
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Biology
The endocrine system is a set of glands that produces hormones and sends them throughout the body. They get sent through the blood stream, they find and connect to receptor sites that are for the hormone.
The digestive system has one main purpose which is to provide the body with nutrients. The digestive process starts at the mouth we break down food by chewing and swallowing. The chewed up food then goes into the stomach where it is digested and all the nutrients are picked out and shipped throughout the body. the waste gets removed from the body.
The digestive system has one main purpose which is to provide the body with nutrients. The digestive process starts at the mouth we break down food by chewing and swallowing. The chewed up food then goes into the stomach where it is digested and all the nutrients are picked out and shipped throughout the body. the waste gets removed from the body.
Reflection
This was a good project, it was nice to be able to do something physical again. Me and my group got along very well and were able to agree on most of everything. We did take on a bit too much when trying to make a functional archimedes screw, it was way too hard to make one that actually works with the supplies we had. In the end we replaced it with a pully and it work well. one high I had was when we got to start building and one low was when the screw didn't work and we had to take it off.