Level: High School
Creator: CT-STEM
Topic: Homeostasis
This series of lessons is designed to help students understand how negative feedback loops help to maintain a dynamic equilibrium within the human body. Students will engage in 3-D lessons and activities to recognize that the function of the endocrine system is to regulate and coordinate multiple organ systems in order to preserve homeostasis. Students will learn about the role of glucose as an energy molecule in our body and the hormone/receptor mediated mechanism that controls the molecule’s uptake into cells. Students will use modeling software to understand the constant flux of hormones and glucose levels that, over time, produce a stable system.
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