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Observing blood cells

What are blood cells? What do they look like? What functions do they perform? How can I recognize the different categories? This is a short description of the blood cells and includes a simple experiment which allows you to become familiar with the cells of this precious liquid. The blood consists of a suspension of special cells in a liquid called plasma. In an adult man, the blood is about 1/

Difficulty: Middle school

This experiment teaches you how to build your own homemade stethoscope and how to use it to measure a person's heartbeat
Over 170 years ago, a man named Laennec invented the first stethoscope. Before your class goes into the Institute's Giant Heart in the BioScience Exhibit stop and see it. It is a wooden tube about 1 inch in diameter and about 10 inches long. This experiment teaches you how to build your own homemade stethoscope and how to use it.

Difficulty: Elementary school

Do boys and girls have different resting pulse rates?
The purpose of this experiment was to determine if gender in seventh graders affects resting pulse rate.

Difficulty: Elementary school

How to compare reflexes between different people
How to compare reflexes between different people

Difficulty: Elementary school

What is the effect of music beat on a kid's blood pressure?
The purpose of this experiment was to determine how two different tempos of music would effect 6th grade boys' blood pressure.

Difficulty: Middle school

How concerned are 7th graders with their health?
In the world today, there is much concern about being healthy. This is especially important with adolescents, because what they do now will set a pattern for their health habits later in life. If they are not very healthy, this can lead to disease and other complications. Still, many teenagers do not pay much attention their health habits. This experiment was conducted to really see how conce

Difficulty: Middle school

Caffeine and Alertness

This experiment was conducted to find out how drinking caffeinated coffee will affect the alertness of an individual. The level of alertness of the test subjects will be measured by the number of balloons burst by throwing darts.

Difficulty: Elementary school

How does the pulse relate to the heartbeat and how does it differ when the body is in different positions?
Take your pulse at mutiple sites. Relate the pulse to heartbeat.

Difficulty: Elementary school

Do people from different backgrounds have different lung capacities?
Students in the primary and intermediate grades will: 1. Recognize that breathing is a necessary, automatic life process; 2. Observe and record data on respiration rate; 3. demonstrate how air enters and leaves the lungs; 4. Observe how respiratory rate changes with different activities; 5. Use counting as a means of gathering data.

Difficulty: Middle school

How does the iris work?
The iris is the muscle that lets the proper amount of light through the pupil and into the eye. It opens when there is little light and closes when there is a lot. The students can illustrate this for another.

Difficulty: Elementary school

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