UNIT 1: The Scientific Method

DAYSHEET 5: Factors Influencing Heart Rate Laboratory Name: _______________________________

Biology I
Date: _______________

Bellringer: Carefully study the picture of the science laboratory below.

List all the activities that should not take place during a science laboratory:

What types of behaviors should be practiced in a science laboratory? Please list them below:

Todays Objectives: I can design an investigation to test a question using living organisms. Homework: HW 5 is due next class. Activity 1: Laboratory Safety

Activity 2: Measuring Heart Rate Accurately

Each time the heartbeats, blood is pumped into the arteries. As the blood moves into the arteries during a heartbeat, each artery stretches and bulges. This bulge is called a pulse. To feel the pulse, find the artery in your partners wrist. Place the tips of the first two fingers of one hand on the palm side of your partners wrist, over toward the thumb side of his or her wrist. Dont use your thumb to feel the pulse in the wrist because your thumb has a pulse of its own. You will be measuring heart rate by counting the number of pulses in the artery in the wrist in a 30 second interval. To measure heart rate, count the number of pulses in 30 seconds. Multiply that number by 2, and you will have the number of beats per minute. Example: During a 30 second interval, I felt 28 pulses in my partners wrist. 28 pulses x 2 = 56 beats per minute Test Your Accuracy: 1. Choose one person in your group to be the subject (_________________), one person to measure the pulse count in the left arm (______________), and one person to measure the pulse count in the right arm (_____________________). The fourth person in the group (_____________________) will use the stop watch to time a 30 second interval, and will indicate when the count of beats should begin and end. 2. Both people who are measuring pulse count should write down the number of beats for the 30 second interval before saying the number out loud. ***Pulse count in 30 seconds: ______________ Next, compare the results found by the two different people who were measuring pulse counts. Did you both count about the same number of pulses in the 30 second interval? _______________ If you got different results, can you figure out why? __________________ ____________________________________________________________

3. Try to improve your technique, and repeat step 2 until both people who are measuring pulse counts get the same number of pulses in the 30 second interval (or within 1 or 2 of the same number). 4. Once you have accurate readings, use the final, accurate set of measurements to calculate the heart rate for this subject (beats per minute). ***Heart rate = ___________ beats per minute

Reflection Questions:
1. Why do you need to have a heart? _____________________________________________________________ 2. Does your heart always beat at the same rate? _______________________ 3. List some activities that you think may increase a persons heart rate: _____________________________________________________________

Designing Your Experiment:

1. Discuss how you could test your ideas concerning activities that may increase heart rate. 2. Choose three of these activities that you would like to test. Write them below: a. ____________________________________ b. ____________________________________ c. ____________________________________ 3. Have your teacher check your plan for your experiment, and make any suggestions that could improve your experiment. Your teacher must initial below before you are allowed to proceed. ***Teachers Initials: ___________________ 4. Which activity do you think will cause the greatest increase in pulse rate? __________________ 5. Record your data in the data chart below:

Test Subject: ___________________________________________________ Pulse Counter (left wrist): ___________________________________ Pulse Counter (right wrist): _________________________________ Time Keeper: __________________________________________________

 Activity Resting Pulse Rate (beats per 30 seconds) Resting Pulse Rate (beats per minute) Pulse Rate After Activity (beats per 30 seconds) Pulse Rate After Activity (beats per minute) Change in Pulse Rate

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Homework 5: Scientific Method Pre-Assessment Biology I Name ____________________________________ Date ________________ Directions: The following questions will test how much you remember about the scientific method. It is OKAY to not know. This is for a completion grade only. Do the best you can to answer the following questions. If you dont know the answer, see if you can make an educated guess. 1. True or False: The scientific method was developed to help scientists organize the process of solving problems. 2. Which of the following is not a step of the scientific method? a. hypothesis b. experiment c. conclusion d. plagiary 3. Which of these words would you NOT associate with the scientific method? a. disorganized b. organized c. data d. control 4. A hypothesis is ____________________. a. a random thought b. an answer c. an educated guess d. an experiment 5. Which of these would be called results? a. number of fruit flies b. counting fruit flies c. seeing fruit flies on an apple d. wondering why a fruit fly was born 6. What do you do to test a hypothesis? a. guess b. create a spreadsheet with data c. publish a scientific paper d. design an experiment

7. True or False: A control group is used as a comparison to the group where things are changing. 8. True or False: An independent variable is a factor that changes because of procedures conducted on the dependent variable 11. What can you do to improve how you feel about the scientific method? 9. True or False: Experiments often test multiple variables. 10. Using the smiley face scale below, how comfortable are you with the scientific method? Circle the face the best represents how you feel about your current knowledge-level.