Homeostasis is your body’s ability to keep everything stable.

Your body does this in many

different ways and these different ways are what you are going to explore!

Task: Create and execute an experiment to test how your body maintains homeostasis. The
test should be able to be done in school and the teacher must approve of your procedures
before you get started.

You will first chose a way your body maintains homeostasis and describe it in full detail.
Than you will create an experiment that proves how your body does it and finally you will
do the experiment and show your results in a lab report and poster session!

Lab reports must include:

Abstract: CLEAR paragraph explaining your overall claim, experiment, evidence, and
analysis.
Introduction: background information (how homeostasis should occurs) and hypotheses,
Materials and methods: what was your procedure and what is needed for your procedure.
(What is your sample size, requirements to be in the test, and justification for both)
Results: what data did you collect in sentence form
Discussion and conclusion: what does your data mean, what went well, what did not go
well, where there any errors, what other tests should be done?
Works cited: where did you get your introduction information from

Poster board should include:

Everything in your lab report but with more graphics, acknowledgements, and make it
more user friendly. You should also be able to intelligently discuss what you did and
learned in the process.
Gigi Vasquez
Heston Wilson
Chase McAndrew
Water Levels

Need to Know:
● Grading rubric
● Homeostasis
● Timeline
● Positive and negative loops
● If our subject is positive or negative
● All the processes in our subject
● Things that involve feedback loops.
● Experiments
● Examples of homeostasis
● Conditions that are needed for human homeostasis.
● Control consistency for accurate data
● Procedure for making a scientific report
● Good sources
● How to form our poster
● Requirements
● Organs and systems involved
● Available materials
● Limits to our research

Negative with Lungs: working faster to keep up with the CO2 in system
Negative with Temperature: regulating temperature with sweat and cooling evaporation
Positive with heart rate as it works faster to pump more blood.
Positive with muscles: muscles working harder and tightening for use
Positive with energy: originally used available glucose, and then tapped into fat storage

Dehydrates versus OverHydration

research scientific method:

a. What are the steps of each

● Ask a question
● Research
● Make a hypothesis
● Plan experiment
● Test/experiments
● Analyze data
● Conclusion
● Share
b. why we need it

We need the scientific method to be able to solve a scientific problem and

convey accurate results correctly. Using this method is an easy way to
answer our hypothesis.

c. what makes a test valid

By having accurate data a test is valid.

Then start working on each part

For your introduction make sure you answer:

a. What is homeostasis

The act of staying at a balance in a system

b. How does your specific way of homeostasis work?

Decline of fluids creates osmolality which releases ADH which then

acts on the kidneys and distal tubules. These then release water to be
reabsorbed into the blood. When natural level of fluids increase, ADH stops
being produced. This is how homeostasis is retained. When there is an
increase of fluid, ADH sends another signal to increase the need to expel
liquid.

c. What organs are involved?

Brain hypothalamus, kidney , pituitary glands.

 d. What hormones are involved?

The ADH hormone is involved which is a antidiuretic.

e. What reaction does your body do?

The body reacts by increasing water efficiency in the kidney and also
decrease urine production so that water can be conserved. Likewise, when
there is to much water the ADH hormone can assist in getting rid of the extra
water.

For procedure do research on multiple ways before you decide your procedure and fill out
graphic organizer

Procedure​:

The above goes in order from 1-8. Analyze color each time and give a number.
 # of Trial Trial Trail Trail Trial Trial Trial Trial Trial
times 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

CM 1 4 2 1 1 1

GV 1 2 4 5

CM 2 7 2 1 1 1 1 1 1

GV 2 2 6 5

CM 3 5 2 1 1 1 1

GV 3 2 6 6

CM: 85 ounces a day (about 2.5 liters) above needed

GV: 25 ounces a day (about 0.75 liters) below needed
*Above results are including dilution from water already in the toilet

1. Head to bathroom area when you have the need to pee

2. Expel fluids from organs
3. After all fluid is in toilet, observe coloration
4. Compare coloration to the above chart
5. Record findings (understanding that results are diluted by toilet water)

When chase drank more than the necessary amount of water each day, his urine was
almost clear, the sign of hydration. He also urinated more than the other trials of having
less water. When Gigi drank less than the necessary amount of water to stay hydrated, her
urine was much darker and scaled in the dehydration zone. She urinated much less than
chase with much darker coloration.

The color in the urine is caused by the chemical Urochrome.

Heston’s Research page
Humans = around 70% comprised of water Elderly = 55% water
No adequate markers to determine hydration levels specifically
We gain 20% of our water from food approximately
Getting hyperhydrated is also bad.
The hypothalamus monitors the levels of water and saltiness of the blood. They need to be
Balanced/electrolytes. Detects drop in pressure from the lessening water.
ADH hormone is secreted by the pituitary gland and it controls blood water content levels.
It tells the kidneys how much water to conserve.
The anatomy of the feedback loop.
The hypothalamus observes a low level of hydration in the blood. This stimulates the
release of ADH which is a antidiuretic hormone. This causes the kidneys to be more
efficient and use more water. This also causes thirst so that water content is replenished.
The stimulus is a lack of water content in the blood. Next, the receptor, the hypothalamus
detects low water content and then signals the pituitary gland. The gland then releases
ADH and the human drinks water and the stimulus decreases.
Basically the human needs water and

https://www.naturalhydrationcouncil.org.uk/database/the-physiological-regulation-of-thi
rst-and-fluid-intake/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2908954/

Gigi’s Research:
“The release of ADH is controlled by the hypothalamus (an area in the brain), which
contains so-called osmoreceptors. These cells sense the osmolality (concentration of
particles) of extracellular fluid. When the osmolality is high, the pituitary secretes more
ADH, which stimulates retention of water to dilute the body fluids. When the osmolality is
low, the pituitary secretes less ADH” (Nano-Cal).
ADH is a hormone secreted from the posterior pituitary gland. Decline of fluids creates
osmolality which releases ADH which then acts on the kidneys and distal tubules. These
then release water to be reabsorbed into the blood. When natural level of fluids increase,
ADH stops being produced. This is how homeostasis is retained.

http://www.nanocal.com/homeostasis.htm

Chase’s Research: Hydration was ​critical to the body's process of temperature control. If we
are low on water, our bodies will reduce the amount of sweat and urine we produce in
order to slow down fluid loss.

https://study.com/academy/lesson/what-is-dehydration-definition-causes-symptoms.htm
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Scientific research:

Parts in the article

- Abstract: general overview of study
- Introduction: background info and reason for study
- Participants and methods: Actual test and procedure
- Result: Data
- Discussion: What we learned and further info
- Literature cited: research for intro