Homeostasis Project
Evidence
For this project, we had to research how homeostasis works in the human body. We also had to create an experiment that proves that homeostasis exists. Our group chose how the body regulates blood glucose levels. The poster and docs show all the research our group did.
Content
For our project on homeostasis, we did blood glucose levels. We had to research the scientific method, what homeostasis is and how it works, what parts of the body are involved with the homeostasis, how the hormones get involved and how the body reacts to everything. Our bodies use homeostasis in everything we do. One of the ways a body keeps homeostasis is using blood glucose. The organ involved the most is the pancreas. Insulin and glucose help to regulate the blood sugar levels. The glucagon helps to raise our blood sugar and the insulin helps to lower it. When you eat your food it gets broken down into glucagon energy. Then it will pass trough the pancreas and the pancreas will then check the glucose concentration. If the levels are too high then insulin comes in and decreases the glucagon levels. For our group, we proved homeostasis by taking our blood and seeing what our blood sugar was. We tested it as a normal level, but then spiked our blood sugar and saw how our bodies homeostasis would work to get the blood levels back to normal. Our baseline was a meter and a lanclet which would measure 100 mg/dL if normal. After that we measured after drinking a Yerba Mate, a drink that contains a lot of sugar. We then had to wait 10 minutes before measuring a second time. After the test for the Yerba mate, we waited 10 minutes in between each test afterwards and watched our blood levels go back down. After we got all of our results, we graphed out what we got, and saw that our blood levels started normal, then spiked after the drink and went down after each test.
Conclusion
This project was very helpful to me. I really understood how homeostasis works in our human body and how we use it every single day. Our group did a good job getting the research we needed to get as it is one of the most important if not the most important part of the project. The research we got helped us to do our entire project and kept us on track. We organized our research very well and that helped me to be able to learn a lot easier. That also led to us having more productive work. However, we also had our problems. Majority of our group struggled to participate during the entire project. That makes the work harder to do and leads to procrastination and inaccurate results. In the end, we found our end result and it turned out to be successful.