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Wednesday, 02 April 2008 @ 19:22 GMT

How does the body respond to the environment and to safeguard itself.

Task 1

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What is the task?

Produce images to explain how the human body responds to one environmental factor to safeguard itself

What needs to be covered?

Choose an environmental factor from the list below (alternatively you can choose your own)

Use the relevant information sheet, text books and the internet to produce at least 6 slides explaining how the body responds to protect itself from your chosen factor.

Each slide must contain:-

  1. written text and 1 image.

Use the internet to find a real life example from the news where this has occurred. For example if you choose the environmental factor ‘cold’ you may want to find an example in the news of when someone has got stuck up a mountain and suffered hypothermia.

How do I present it?

I suggest that you do this on PowerPoint and dedicate 1 slide to one key point or example. You will need to produce a minimum of 6 slides.

Alternatively, you could create a table in word with 2 columns, one column containing the written information and the second column containing the key image.

Are there any other resources?

This is a bit dated so you can have a giggle at the way we all used to dress but it was a TV series that the BBC did in the 90s called 999.

AO4danger.docx

AO4starvation.docx

fightorflight.pptx

Starvation.pptx

There is a detailed information sheet available to get you started but individual research is also required.

There are a number of useful websites.

NHS DIRECT Hypothermia

Hypothermia Symptoms

BBC Information on Hypothermia

Human Bodies Adaptive Responses to Starvation

Flight or Fight

Bodies reaction to Danger

the Biology for you text book also contains lots of relevant information.

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