Bellwork

Open your notebook to your Table of Contents. Make sure it’s updated.

On a separate sheet of paper, answer the question: what makes something

alive?**You can get paper from the front of

the room**

Science Fact of the Day:The little Alaskan Wood Frog is capable of

reviving itself back to normal life after staying completely frozen for months, during which its heart, brain, and other organs stop functioning.

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Today’s Essential Question: What makes something “alive”?

Is fire a living thing?

Are Transformers living things?

Are X-Men living things?

Are vampires living things?

Are zombies living things?

So what?

• How many of the eight characteristics does something need to be considered “alive”?– Can you name them?

Heart Rate Lab(pg 11)

• Today you will design a lab to test for 1 characteristic of life: response to the environment.

• Specifically, can you change your heart rate?

Lab FormatI. Title

II. PurposeIII. Hypothesis (testable statement)

IV. MaterialsV. Procedure

VI. Data/CalculationsVII. Conclusion

VII. Analysis

Lab FormatI. Heart Rate Lab

II. PurposeIII. Hypothesis (testable statement)

IV. MaterialsV. Procedure

VI. Data/CalculationsVII. Conclusion

VII. Analysis

Lab FormatI. Heart Rate Lab

II. To investigate an organisms response to the environment

III. Hypothesis (testable statement)IV. MaterialsV. Procedure

VI. Data/CalculationsVII. Conclusion

VII. Analysis

Lab FormatI. Heart Rate Lab

II. To investigate an organisms response to the environment

III. If a person __________ for __________, then their heart rate will be ___________.

IV. MaterialsV. Procedure

VI. Data/CalculationsVII. Conclusion

VII. Analysis

I. Heart Rate LabII. To investigate an organisms response to the

environmentIII. If a person __________ for __________, then

their heart rate will be ___________.IV. StopwatchV. Procedure

VI. Data/CalculationsVII. Conclusion

VII. Analysis

I. Heart Rate LabII. To investigate an organisms response to the

environmentIII. If a person __________ for __________, then

their heart rate will be ___________.IV. StopwatchV. Procedure

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VII. ConclusionVII. Analysis (No analysis for this lab)

Resting Heart Rate

Trial 1 Trial 2 Trial 3 Average Heart Rate