Overview
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.
Underlying Lessons
Standards
Next Generation Science Standards
- Life Science
- NGSS Crosscutting Concept
- NGSS Practice
Computational Thinking in STEM
- Data Practices
- Modeling and Simulation Practices
- Systems Thinking Practices
Credits
Unit designed by Eleanor Kemp a teacher at Lindblom.
Acknowledgement
These lessons utilize resources from Project Neuron, a curriculum program developed by the University of Illinois, and HASPI (Health and Science Pipeline Initiatives).
