Monday, May 2, 2011

Poster Experiment.

A Stroke to Your Heart Rate
 K.M Cook, A.A Altamirano, L.T Karney, D.D Talmich


For those that can't read our poster on this page, all the information is down below!! Enjoy

Hypothesis:
Our groups overall prediction of our blood pressure and heart rate is that it will increase as we exercise our body using different types of strokes while swimming.

Materials:
1. Blood pressure
2. Pool
3. Stopwatch
4. Swimming suit
5. Goggles

Procedures:
1. First, we took our normal heart rate and blood pressure before entering the pool.
2. Then after we jumped in the water and started doing our swim.
3. We set the timer for 1 mi. and swam the freestyle first.
4. Then recorded our blood pressure/heart rate.
5. Then went for 2min/ 3min/ 4min intervals and recorded after each one.
6. Then we did the back stroke and sidestroke.
7. Then did the same procedure for each one over 1min/ 2min/ 3min/ 4min intervals. Then recorded after each.

Problem:
In this project, we tried to solve our idea by figuring out whether different types of swimming strokes will change and vary ones blood pressure and heart rate.

Conclusion:
Our hypothesis that our blood pressure and heart rate will increase as we exercise our body using different types of swim strokes was proved in thorough our experiment. We proved that while exercising that heart rate and blood pressure will increase as you get your body moving in different strokes. We concluded that when we took our heart rate and blood pressure for each swimming stroke it was higher than our normal one. The backstroke was our lowest rate during our swim compared to the other strokes. Freestyle turned out to give our highest rate while swimming. The sidestroke was in between the two rates. In the end, we proved that our hypothesis was true because for each different stroke we found different heart rate and pressure.

Abstract:
Our goal was to prove that heart rate and blood pressure varies with the different types of swimming strokes. In our experiment our test subjects, Ashley, Logan, Desiree, and Kandace, all had their initial heart rate and blood pressure taken in a relaxed state. We followed this up by swimming at different intervals of time along with 3 different types of strokes.  We swam free style, backstroke, and sidestroke at intervals of 1, 2, 3, and 4 minutes. After each interval of time, blood pressure and heart rate was taken. After each stroke, a break was taken to allow normal heart rate and blood pressure to normalize. Overall, we found that our heart rate increased that mouse while doing the sidestroke, and increased the least while doing the backstroke. Our blood pressure also followed this same pattern during this experiment.

Monday, March 7, 2011

Circulatory System (:

Diagram of the Human <3

Checking Blood Pressure

Not to long ago we played with the stethoscope and blood pressure readings. We tried this for the first time with a partner to check their blood pressure and how it works. I did have a little bit of a hard time to try and figure out how to use the "old" fashion pumps.. but I finally figured it out! I had to learn about a lub and a dub of the heart beat... we have two beats for the heart. The first beat is called the "Lub" and the second one is called the "Dub." So when you put this together the heart beat is called the Lub Dub. In order to get a reading, you had to pump it til you got 160. This was a little bit confusing for me at first, but after a couple of tries, I got the hang of it!! (:

Monday, February 7, 2011

Multiple Sclerosis.



Questions about Multiple Sclerosis!!
1. What is Multiple Sclerosis?
2. What are some early symptoms?
3. What are some common symptoms over time?
4. What is the exact cause of MS?
5. What are some treatments for Multiple Sclerosis?
6. What is the goal for treatment?
7. What is Demyelination?
8. What does Demyelination cause?

Answers!!!

Thursday, January 20, 2011

More Mitosis.

When we did the fun experiment of getting different colored balls with at least 5-10 balls and a partner. One being the mom and the other being the dad!!  This is going to show you how the chromosomes interact with each other. Well you get two different colors with the same amount of balls. Then you mix them together to see hoe parents can pass chromosomes to their daughter(s) or son(s).  Everyone in the class had different kinds of patterns and it looked really cool :) Well anyways, I found some pictures on the Internet of a chromosome being passed on the to a daughter/son from a parent.  Each phase is included as chromosomes are separated and inherited.
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Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Skeleton Labeling Contest!

I had a lot of fun with this contest, and studied one part of the skull- anterior view! This was a little bit of a challenge, more than I expected it to be. But I did it :) I was extremely nervous when trying to label this skull (my sticky notes were not sticking!) But oh well...