Your body is made up of 11 major organ systems (circulatory, respiratory, digestive, excretory, nervous, endocrine, immune, integumentary, skeletal, muscle and reproductive systems) These organs all work simultaneously together to keep you functioning properly and staying healthy every second of the day without you even noticing. They do anything from simple jobs to extremely complex ones and make split second decisions for you.
Project
This project we were given three days to create a proposal of the two organ systems we chose and show how the two interact with one another seamlessly. Our group chose the immune and circulatory systems and designed, modeled, and build a project showing how the two systems work together. We used prior knowledge and detailed research of the two systems to have a very deep understanding of them.
Our Model
The heart was a bottle that could pump the "blood" around a a tube that represented the blood vessels. A wooden box represented connective tissue in the body, where pathogens had gotten in the blood. These pathogens were represented by balloons and styrofoam. Small playdough balls with paper clips represented t cells and b cells that attacked the pathogens(balloons), and popped them. Acetone, representing white blood cells, melted down other pathogens(styrofoam).
Concepts
Circulatory system: Also called thecardiovascular system or the vascular system, is an organ system that permits blood to circulate and transport nutrients (such as amino acids and electrolytes), oxygen, carbon dioxide, hormones, and blood cells to and from the cells in the body to provide nourishment and help in fighting diseases, stabilize temperature and pH, and maintain homeostasis.
Organ System: An organ system is a number of organs working together to perform a specific purpose. In the human body there are 11 major systems.
Immune system: Host defense system comprising many biological structures and processes within an organism that protects against disease. To function properly, an immune system must detect a wide variety of agents, known as pathogens, from viruses to parasitic worms, and distinguish them from the organism's own healthy tissue.
Reflection
This project suprisingly was very fun do to the wide variety and countless paths we could have taken to complete this project. My group I felt worked very well together and there was not a single day that we didn't progress further in our project and have a more deeper understanding of how those two systems work together. There are definitely a few things that I must change before I go into the next project. First is that I need to stay on task. I felt I tended to wander around the class at least once a day and it took away from the valuable group time i had been offered to by my teacher. Secondly, I need to work better at my leadership skills so I can direct the group in the correct direction, I need to use my voice and project it so my group mates are able to get a direct interpretation of what needs to get done that day. Some things I did well was my individual work load. Having the project based around you and the decisions we make made it on a personal connection. I was very intrigued going into the project and worked hard and efficiently to reach my end goal. This project really opened my eyes on how precious our body is and that we need to keep it healthy all the time.