What Types of Bodily Changes Can You Observe In Situations of Varying Environmental Temperatures?
This activity engages students in exploring physiological changes in the body when exposed to differing external temperatures. This activity is the first of two activities and is the “engage” for a follow-up investigation on respiration rate as a function of environmental temperature. These activities are best for a high school biology course but may be adapted for a middle school life science class.

Appropriate Level: Middle School

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Contributed by:
Larry Beck
Isaac E. Young Middle School, New Rochelle, NY

Frontiers in Physiology 1997 Summer Research Teacher

Research Host:  Wen-Hui Wang, Ph.D.
New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY
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