Principle

In biology, thermoregulation is understood as the more or less great independence of an organism's body temperature from the outside world. The human body has various functions to regulate the body temperature. Significant interactions with the ambient temperature occur by increasing or decreasing the breathing and heart rate, but also by processes such as sweating. In particular, however, different areas of the body are supplied with blood at different rates. Thus, parts of the body further away from the heart are generally colder.

Benefits

• Especially understandable and didactically prepared description of the experiment (relevance to everyday life, etc.) including protocol questions.
• Future-oriented teaching: Integration into digital science lessons with tablets or smartphones.
• Increased motivation of students by using the intuitive measureAPP.
• Increased media competence.

Tasks

• Pupils should use the Cobra SMARTsense Temperature to analyse the temperature of different parts of the body.

Learning Objectives

• The students should understand that different parts of the body have different temperatures and that this is an essential part of the body's thermoregulation.