The purpose of this assignment is for you to have a chance to reflect on and digest what you saw in the Incredible Human Machine movie.
You are to address two things in your reflections:
1. Name and discuss three new things you learned about the body systems. What impressed you about them?
2. Name and discuss five relationships you saw between how the parts of the systems are built and what they do. Each of these relationships should come from a different system.
Have fun.
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Okayokay. So in science we spent like a bazillion classes watching this hour and a half long movie about the "incredible human machine", AKA. . . us! Amazing name, I know. No, I didn't come up with it. I'm sorry I can't be special.
Anyway, so now I've got to show you (Mr. Science Teacher) that I actually got something out of that whole gigantic movie. (Aided by my lovely little notebook of course -- it retains things when I obviously can't, but feel the need to make pretty symbols called words.)
Okay, so, three new things that I learned about the body systems and what impressed me?
--] One thing that totally amazed me that I never even knew before watching this move was the fact that blood circulates around your entire body -- over 60,000 miles -- in less than one minute. That is seriously, majorly insane. Space ships can't even cover that much ground in so little time! SPACE SHIPS! How on earth does it go so fast? And when you cut an important vein, how come blood only squirts out? Why isn't it like some kind of deadly projectile?
--] Something else that I thought was really amazing (even though I probably should have figured this out on my own, considering) was that the stomach can expand to 20 times its size! That's HUGE! If I could expand to 20 times my normal size, I would be 100 feet tall and weigh like 2,000 pounds! . . .That's a lot. In case the message hasn't quite gotten through yet. Seriously though. That's insane, when you think about it. It also explains why your stomach like.. explodes after you eat a big meal -- it's 20 times bigger!
--] One last thing that I thought was really interesting was the whole section that the movie did on ECM. Now THAT is cool. We (as humans) can actually now take cells, put them into ourselves, and they actually grow into the cells nearby, helping them heal. I think that that's really amazing -- and this is just the start. Seeing where we are now, it makes me wonder where all of human medical science will be in a hundred years, or even ten. Kind of crazy, isn't it? Life's turning more and more science fiction like every single day.
Okay.. that was kind of long. Now for five relationships I saw between how systems are built and what they do.
1] In the digestive system, the stomach is a really good example of systems being built just for what they do. When you haven't eaten anything, it's only about the size of your fist. Look at your fist for a second. Small, isn't it? Now look at the two or three meals you eat a day. Sure, once it gets to your stomach, it's all ground up, but there is simply no way in the world that all of that food will fit into something the size of your fist. (even if you happen to have very, very big hands) Your body's solution? Make the stomach insanely expandable! Your stomach can stretch to twenty times its normal size to fit all the junk you eat inside of it and start to digest it. This wouldn't reallly help any other system -- how would being expandable help your bones? It would just make you turn into a puddle. Being a puddle isn't good.
2] Your brain, in the nervous system, is INCREDIBLY dense and compact -- the average brain only weighs about 5 pounds! And that little thing controls every tiny, unnoticable thing that your body does. Think about all the millions of neurons all stuffed into your brain. Then, think about a typical desktop computer -- specifically, think about the giant main computer, not the moniter. That giant thing is like your brain in one way. How? It's vital to the functioning of the computer. It IS the computer. The thing is though, a computer does absolutely NOTHING compared to what your brain does. Maybe 1/1000th of what your brain has to deal with. And even then your computer still crashes! Guess what else? Your computer weighs like, 15 pounds! Unlike a computer, your brain is incredibly compact -- and it has to be. It's not like it has room to stretch out.
3] Your bones are probably the only parts of your body that aren't soft and flexable. That's how they have to be though, to do their job. If your bones were made the same way as your stomach, you would be in pretty bad shape (and probably in somebody's soup bowl) Your bones are made just for their job, which is holding you up and taking tons of bad beatings.
4] Your skin is made perfectly for it's job -- keeping out stuff that'll try and hurt your internal organs, and letting sweat out. Your skin, not even 6cm thick, is very tough. It's made to take anything that the envirement throws at it. If it's cold, that's great, your skin deals with it. It's it's 110ยบ, that's great too, your skin can deal with it. Your skin, althought it may look smooth, is actually covered in tiny holes (where hair grows from) and is rough and barren. The holes let your skin let water out, if it needs to.
5] Finally, your veins, in your ciruclatory system, are made perfectly for their job. Many people think that blood just rushes through veins, and there's no muscle or anything in them. Think about it though -- if there was no muscle in your veins, wouldn't all the blood in your body just pool at your feet? No, your veins most definately need to have muscles in them, to get blood around. Your veins can also be incredibly thin, and still work just fine -- some, small enough that 1/1000th inch wide red blood cells have to go through one at a time.
Wow. I'm sorry that was so long =[[
1) One new thing that I learned from the “Incredible Human Machine” video is that when you walk, your body uses 200 different muscles. I found this incredibly astounding. I never even knew that the body had 200 muscles, let alone that it uses so many to walk. This is really cool to me because this just goes to show you how complex the human body is (not forgetting the brain, that is).
Another new thing I learned from the video was ECM. ECM stands for Extra Cellular Matrix. It’s in all animals, even pigs. And in the video, surgeons used pig ECM to repair a man’s nerves. In the video, it looked like the Stridex® gauze pads that I use on my face in the mornings. I found this very perplexing seeing that something inside the body could look like something that is made from cotton.
Also, I learned that when your heart pumps blood through your body, it gets pumped through over 60,000 miles of arteries, arterioles, capillaries, ventricles, and veins, all in less than a minute. To me, that is so ridiculously fast and it kind of freaks me out in the sense that the blood must be pushed so hard by your heart. It wouldn’t surprise me if I found out that a person got an aneurism because of it. This just goes to show you how incredibly powerful the heart is.
2) a) Your muscles are very, very dense. They are everywhere movement is in your body. Without them, we wouldn’t be able to move. If they weren’t so dense, your body would have to be much, much bigger just to accommodate all of your 200+ muscles. Also, if they weren’t as dense and stretched out, they would have to move a lot more to do the same thing. This would use much more energy. So, in a way, your muscles move you and they save energy. I wonder what the world be like if we lived like muscles. We would all be low maintenance and very energy efficient. Maybe we, and the earth (atmosphere), would be much better off.
b) The human heart is very small and very powerful. Its shape and inner structure are very unique. It has 4 chambers (right atrium, right ventricle, left atrium, and left ventricle) that push all of the 5 liters of blood through the body’s labyrinth. It has to be small to fit between your lungs and your diaphragm. Its unique one-way passage allows it to push all of that blood very quickly and with a lot of power behind it.
c) The brain of a human is extremely complex. It’s so complex that not even the world’s best scientists know everything about the brain. As a matter of fact, they’ve only skimmed the surface of the brain’s incredible depths. The looks like a big blob of slimy goop. What it really is can be considered a one of a kind control center that controls every single thing that your body does. Its creases and folds allow it to be much larger in the same amount of space. Think of your brain as a super, state-of-the-art, mega computer filled with neurons, instead of wires, and more neurons. It only weighs approximately 5 pounds. This super, state-of-the-art, mega computer allows us to do everything we do
d) Your skin is the largest organ in your body. It is your outer, soft, shell. Your skin is very though and rugged (when looked at with a 600 times zoom microscope). It appears to be a rocky, desolate mountain range. It weighs about 8 pounds and shields your body (to a certain extent). It has tiny holes, called pores, where sweat is released from and where hairs grow out of. Without your skin, you would look a big, walking, talking, bloody mess (literally).
e) Your stomach is very interesting. It is about the size of your fist, when it’s empty. But, your stomach can expand to be up to 20 times it’s original size to accommodate for all those delicious cookies that my mom is making right now. Anyway, your stomach uses its muscles to churn food and it uses acids to chemically break down food. Its compact shape gives it an easy “storage” for when you’re not eating. But when the time comes, it gets big again. Its amazing elasticity is truly remarkable.
I really thought that finding out that your balance is controlled by tubes in your ears was cool. I had always thought that your muscles sent messages to your brain, which then told muscles to keep you upright. In fact the tubes tell your brain to keep you upright in whatever shape or form. We can now have remote control people.
I really took in how there is miles of blood tubes, in which blood flows so fast, it circulates throughout your whole body in less than one minute. if it is flowing so fast, when you get a cut, it doesn't shoot out like a hose?
I always thought that your stomach was pretty big, and that it could take in whatever food you eat and not change. But in fact your stomach expands up to 20 times it's regular size. so don't eat a huge meal!:)
I know someone that that could really use that stem cell treatment, like the guy with the hurt arm.
When the blood moves throughout the body it carries passengers, oxygen. Kind of like mini mini mini mini taxis. the Oxygen comes from our lungs, which take in air, filter it, and take co2 and push it out of the sysytem.
The nervous system tells you whether or not the water in the shower is hot, and then that info is sent to brain, and brain then tells muscles to pull back. you jump away quickly before you realize it's hot.
In the digestive system the stomach expands up to 20 times it's size. but if your bones, or your liver, or your heart expanded 20 tiomes their size, they wouldn't be able to perform their function.
The Nervous system and the Eyes that take in sight, work together so you casn watch your favorite show, walk the dog, clean the dishes, ansd type this sentence.
The lady in the movie who's eyes were degraded, I thought the treatment with the electrodes in the back of the eyes was awesome.
when you take in a mountain dew or a coke for lunch, it goes through a whole process where water, sugar, and other nutrients are sucked out by the digestive system. that leftover liquid is then excreted by the excretory system.
3 new things I learned about the body systems in this movie were…
1.] One thing I learned about the human body systems is that your stomach can enlarge 20 times its normal size [that’s a lot of food]. Now they said this could happen to a person but I wouldn’t try doing something like that. Its like your normal sized stomach eating 3 or 4 bowling balls [yum]. I would be impressed even if our stomach could triple in size.
2.] Something else I learned when watching the movie is all about ECM [Extra Cellular Material]. We humans have now created a material that can save peoples lives. It works because the material copies the cells around it and cleans up the spot from almost any problem. This is great but if this is possible couldn’t it also duplicate cancer cells. There may be a flaw to this new material.
3.] The last great thing I learned in the movie is that your brain doesn’t respond to pain. I always thought it was super sensitive and the skull is there to protect it. In my opinion it is a bad thing because if doctors are working on your brain they have to be super careful because one mistake can be fatal. This interested me because I wonder what doctors do to keep problems from happening during surgery.
5 relationships I saw between how the parts of the systems are built and what they do are…
1.] Bones are incredibly important for your body. They keep you standing up and not a piece of gum on the bottom of a shoe. They also protect your internal organs [not the skin] from being damaged.
2.] Your heart is located a little above the center of your body for a reason. It has to pump blood all around your body but also to your brain. If the heart were located at our feet we would have problems functioning and probably would have a higher chance of passing out.
3.] Your lungs are also located in the best spot they can be in. Close to your brain. It should be since 20% of the air we breathe in goes to your brain. This is the best place besides on top of your brain for breathing and living properly.
4.] Your skin is a great thing. As the biggest organ in your body it has big responsibilities. It protects your body systems from many pathogens. But at the same time it lets out sweat. If your body couldn’t sweat sports wouldn’t be what they are today and neither would the human race.
5.] Your small intestines are very interesting. And who calls them small when they stretch out to be bigger than a school bus. They are the unique but responsible way the human body can put nutrients into the bloodstream [with the villi].
Every organ in our body works for us and with us so we can live out our lives
Three new things that I learned from the “The Incredible Human Machine”
1) That your ears play such a major role in your balance, and that that’s why they were able to put “headphones” on the people and control their walking.
2) That your stomach can stretch up to twenty-five times its size after a meal.
3) That stem cells and ECM could be so powerful and save so many lives and that ECM can work from almost any animal’s part to a human part. (Such as the shoulder)
Five relationships I saw between how the parts of the systems are built and what they do.
1) Your bones are hard and grow with you to help keep your structure and allow you mobility. If they weren’t hard, then all we would be is just an immobile puddle of skin and blood on the floor.
2) Your skin is the barrier between you and the outside world and germs. It keeps things out (germs and bacteria) that you don’t want in your body, and let’s out sweat when your too hot. It decides what goes in and out (or stays out). It’s perfect because it’s covers almost all of your body, and is perfectly flexible and doesn’t restrict movement.
3) When you eat and your stomach has to store all the food, it can expand up to twenty-five times its size to make more space to store more food.
4) Your eyes allow you to see and know where you’re going. They’re perfect for the job because they’re at the top of your body, facing straight ahead, and your iris squeezes your pupil close when there’s too much light, and relaxes and let’s your pupils expand to let more light in when it’s too dark.
5) Your heart is located almost exactly in the middle of your body so that it can pump blood throughout your body more efficiently. It’s surrounded by your muscles and ribs to keep it safe and is located closer to your brain then your feet, because it’s more vital for your brain to have oxygen. If your heart was near your feet then it would have to pump much harder to get blood all the way to your brain.
Three new things I learned from watching the movie.
1) That the heart still pumps after the human body is dead. It can do this because there are still living cells on it.
2) Another thing that I did not know of was that it is possible to make a regular cell into a heart cell. I think that if we could do that with other things to make a human the world would progress a lot faster.
3) Did you know that the human stomach can enlarge 20 times after you eat. That is about 3 or 4 bowling balls. If humans could do that sports would be changed and world records would be changed.
4) Is it strange that we the humans may have pig skin make us up. I think it is. Well there is this thing called ECM(Extra Cellular Material). I would find that very creapy.
5) The last thing that I learned was that the human brain can not scense pain. It does ot scence pain because it does not have pain nerves. That is my favorite thing about this movie.
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5 relationships I saw between how the parts of the systems are built and what they do are:
1) The small intestine is very interesting because the name fools you. It fools you by saying it is small but it is actually 20 feet long and it is called the small intestine because the the tube is small in diameter.
2) The lungs are one of my favorite organs because when you breath 20% of the oxygen you inhale goes to your brain.
3) The skin is the next organ I will talk about. It is the largest organ that is used to let out water from the body by having millions of little holes that let out swet.
4) The bones are the cytoskeleton of the body just they are not flexible. The bones play a major part of holding up the body and protecting most of the organs.
5) Your eyes are one of the greatest things of the body. They are the source of site. The eyes are made of muscles that can be tight or loose that is what glasses are used for.
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1) While watching this movie, "Incredible Human Machine", I learned many new things. I learned that there are over 2,000,000 holes that let out sweat, to help keep the body cool. Also, I learned that the reason it doesn't hurt when you get a hair cut, is because it is already dead. Further more, I learned that the eyes need to be soft and watery, so it gets lubricated 10 times with each blink.
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a)First of all, the Skeletal System. Bones are placed to protect the internal organs so that they may function. They can hold a lot more than their weight and are really light. So that means that their function (protecting the body) and their structure (light weight, strong, and all over the body) help each other out, and work together.
b)The stomach. As part of the digestive system, it's job is to digest food, but to mainly churn it up and make it into chyme. It's structure relates to it's function in to ways. One, it is J-shaped so that it takes up less room and so that food can be churned up. Second of all, it is usually the size of your fist, that's small, but gets amazingly big when it has food in it.
c)In the nervous system, the brain. It is small and compact to fit in your cranium, but can still control everything that goes on in your body. It's function, to send electric signals to the the rest of the body, and it's structure, small and compact, work together to keep the body going.
d)In the Excretory System, pores come into play. They are small holes all over the skin and are really tiny. Their function is to cool down the body by releasing sweat in to the body. They are small so that many can fit on your skin. We salivate roughly 1 pint everyday.
e)Now the Circulatory System, and veins. Veins carry blood to the heart and their structure is small yet big enough to carry blood cells.They wind around the body and carry blood everywhere.
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A. What interested me most In the movie “The Incredible Human Machine” is probably the three bones the size of rice in your ear and how they actually act like drums like and eardrum. This was interesting because each sound wave makes them bump. drum, or bounce what ever you want to call it. This sends a message to the brain witch sees it as what we call sound.
B. Also something new I learned from the movie is what Extra Cellular Matrix (EMC) is and how it is used. This product is from all animals one of the examples in the movie was EMC from a pig. Surgeons sometimes use this to make tissue re-grow they used this in the movie to help a mans tendons tissue grow back.
C. Lastly I think that the tubes in your ear that keep you balanced was very interesting. Those tubes reminded me of a carpenters leveler. Im pretty sure they said that in the movie but right when i saw it that's what I thought of. But I thought that the magnetized headband controller was really cool. how do magnets effect the bubbles in your ears balancing system?
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A. Bones keep your structure and allow you to be mobile because they are hard and sturdy. Bones also protect your vitals and keep you alive and away from harm. (or well protects you from harm) Without bones you would not have a shape you would just be a blob of organs, muscles, and skin.
B. Skin is your shell it is a protective layer of skin (dead and Alive) This “shell” protects from germs and bacteria that can give you invention or diseases. This guard is not just for protection it is also your coat or your pool. This skin can cool you down when you are to hot (sweating) and under it has a layer of fat to keep you warm.
C. Your stomach is designed to eat. when you put food into your body it expands to the size needed ... twenty times its size. This is like a backpack that digests your food it can expand a little but not as much as the perfectly designed stomach.
D. Your Heart is the motor of your body. This powerful muscle is what feeds your body (with some help with the lungs). The heart pumps blood throughout your body and gives the cells the oxygen needed. This convinlintly placed heart is near the brain (who takes 20% of your oxygenated blood) and guarded by your ribs and muscles. Also it is near the lungs where it gets its oxygen from.
E. Eyes are your headlights into the world. These squishy balls take in light to send to your brain so you have the power to see. These eyes are placed right in front of your brain where the light rays are read and they are in front of you so you can go forward with your life. When faced with light your pupils (the little black things in your eyes) dilate witch is makes it so you can see clearly. have you ever been in a dark room and you cant see anything but then you start being able to see more clearly? That's your pupils dilating.
Three new things I learned from watching the movie.
1) That the heart still pumps after the human body is dead. It can do this because there are still living cells on it.
2) Another thing that I did not know of was that it is possible to make a regular cell into a heart cell. I think that if we could do that with other things to make a human the world would progress a lot faster.
3) Did you know that the human stomach can enlarge 20 times after you eat. That is about 3 or 4 bowling balls. If humans could do that sports would be changed and world records would be changed.
4) Is it strange that we the humans may have pig skin make us up. I think it is. Well there is this thing called ECM(Extra Cellular Material). I would find that very creapy.
5) The last thing that I learned was that the human brain can not scense pain. It does ot scence pain because it does not have pain nerves. That is my favorite thing about this movie.
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5 relationships I saw between how the parts of the systems are built and what they do are:
1) The small intestine is very interesting because the name fools you. It fools you by saying it is small but it is actually 20 feet long and it is called the small intestine because the the tube is small in diameter.
2) The lungs are one of my favorite organs because when you breath 20% of the oxygen you inhale goes to your brain.
3) The skin is the next organ I will talk about. It is the largest organ that is used to let out water from the body by having millions of little holes that let out swet.
4) The bones are the cytoskeleton of the body just they are not flexible. The bones play a major part of holding up the body and protecting most of the organs.
5) Your eyes are one of the greatest things of the body. They are the source of site. The eyes are made of muscles that can be tight or loose that is what glasses are used for.
1a.) In the movie we watched I learned a lot of things about the reproductive system. I think it’s really cool how at week 24, babies can hear, and how at week 32 they respond to music. It’s amazing at the technology we have and how we find all these cool things out. Also the fact that 260 babies are born per minute and 374,000 babies are born per day! When I heard that I was just like wow, geez, we have a lot of babies. It’s remarkable and actually kind of sad because our population is growing at an steady incline.
1b.) Another thing I learned is that in every drop of blood, every one, there are 400,000 white blood cells. A drop of blood is SO tiny and to fit 400,000 white blood cells in it along with a ton of other stuff, it gives you a real perspective on how small cells really are. We also have trillions of drops of blood so we have.... a lot of white blood cells. So why can’t we fight off diseases easier?
1c.) Also the amount of muscles we use for the littlest things amazes me. I learned that saying 1 word takes 100 muscles! Think of how much people talk everyday... Hours and hours. The muscles in our face must have super stamina and must be really strong. Yet walking which takes way more energy than talking takes 200 muscles. Adults only have 206 muscles in their bodies. Geez.
2a.) Your heart, as it’s job, has to circulate oxygenated blood all around your body. This vital organ’s position helps with it’s function because, like the nucleus of a cell, the heart is pretty much located in the center of your body and is protected by your ribs and everything else. The heart is small to fit in between your diaphragm and lungs but the 4 chambers of the heart help it to pump blood.
2b.) In the digestive system, the stomach is a really good example of a part of a system that is built perfectly for what it does. Normally, when you haven't eaten, your stomach is about the size of your fist which is pretty small. But after you’ve eaten your stomach is capable of expanding to twenty times its normal size in order to accommodate all the food you’ve forced into it. If your stomach wasn’t capable of stretching after you eat you would in no way be able to eat as much as you do in one sitting. This would most likely end up in not enough nutrition. So your stomach grows when your eating and shrinks when your not. That’s pretty cool.
2c.) Your skin is one organ that is built perfectly for what it does. It is your body’s protective cover, that keeps bad stuff like bacteria and viruses out, and plays it’s part in the excretory system by letting you sweat when your body becomes overheated. In retrospect, your skin is the only thing that separates your insides from the world. It deals with all kinds of weather and harsh conditions, even though it’s not even 6 cm thick and weighs about 8 pounds. Your skin looks smooth, but it’s actually covered in tiny holes and close up it appears to by flaky, rocky, and rough. The pores in your skin are what let sweat out and where hair grows out of.
2d.) Your bones, although recognized are perfect the way they are. Your bones give you structure and movement (along with muscles) but they also protest your inner organs. Think of an office building. the walls and beam and stuff give it structure and safe, but it also protects the people inside. If an office building wasn’t strong it would crumble and ruin what’s inside. Same with your bones. They are made perfectly for what they have to do.
2e.) Finally your eyes. Your eyes are basically blobs of jelly in front of your face that take in images which your brain decodes to make you see. Your eyes are the windows to your souls that take in the world around you. The pupils at the center of your eyes take in light. So when there is less light, your pupils grow, and when there is too much light your pupils shrink. I think that that’s pretty interesting. Your eyes are perfect in the way they are designed for what they do. We don’t need our eyes one the sides of our faces like some animals cause we don’t have to watch for predators. Eyes are awesome.
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Here’s what I learned from that really long cool movie:
1) One new thing I learned about the body systems is how cells from your skin widen to excrete heat. I found that very interesting because I never exactly thought about that type of fact, and yet it’s so important. I also learned more about bones, they are extremely remarkable; they are light, and yet are able to hold up all our body weight? I think that’s amazing. Plus I never knew that skin carried a lot of blood, I didn’t even know that it carried any blood at all! This video taught things to me, not only reviewed me in many things about the body systems, and our all over bodies, including the brain, the most interesting organ of them all. If there’s one thing I got out of it all is that our body is so simple yet so complex, and I don’t think we even know that.
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a) Okay, the first relationship I made was to the skeletal-muscular system. Our bones are the hardest part of our body and kind of just sit there. Though they are amazing. It may not exactly seem like it but our bones are, as I believe they’re one of the most important parts of our bodies because they hold us together, keep our body systems and organs in place but most importantly allow us to move by holding our frame and structure.
b) The brain, (our nervous system), is the most complicated part of our body. It takes in 20% oxygen, that’s why it’s so close to the lungs, so it can have air whenever, wherever it’s needed. Our brain is extremely dense and so amazing, we actually do not know much about the brain, it seems like we do but yet, we really don’t. Though the really amazing thing is about the brain is that it controls every little thing our body does. Now that is what I call remarkable.
c) The skin (excretory system) is the biggest organ in your body, and a very interesting one indeed. This is because it doesn’t look like other organs. The cells of the skin actually widen when heat is being released, this is what happens when we sweat. Also the skin alone circulates a very high amount of blood.
d) The heart (circulatory system), is easily one of the most important organs of our body, it supplies blood throughout all of our systems and their nooks and crannies. It is very small, but oh so powerful, and it puts oxygen into our blood, maintaining homeostasis.
e) The stomach (digestive system) is a very interesting, important organ. When you have an empty stomach it is extremely small, like your fist. Though during the process of digestion your stomach expands up to 20 times its size! It increases the rate of digestion. The stomach churns your food turning it into chyme before sending the food off into the small intestine.
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"Incredible Human Machine"
1.One amazing thing i learned from this movie was that your stomach can expand about 20 times bigger than its actual size!!
2.Another thing i thought was really interesting is that your brain doesnt respond to pain. So if you are having an operation on your brain you can be wide awake and not feel it.
3.I also found out that your ears help you keep balance which is pretty amazing because to you and me their these little wierd thing on the side of our heads that help us to hear, but also to help us walk strsight!
a.DIGESTIVE SYSTEM: your stomach can expand about 20 times more than its actual size. But if anythhing else in the digestive system grew that big it wouldnt be to good for your body, and most likely you would die.
b.SKELETAL/MUSCULAR SYSTEM:Bones are 206 of the most important things that you need in your bodies. They make sure that you are all in one piece and strong and not like jello before you place it in the refrigerator.
c.CIRCULATORY SYSTEM: The viens in your circulatory system are very important because they carry yuor blood throughout your body. The circulatory system and the muscular system help eachother out a lot because the circulatory system has viens that carry blood throughout the body but if there were no muscles surrounding the viens all of the blood would just leak to the bottom of your feet.
d.NERVOUS SYSTEM: The brain is a squished up thing in your head that is very dense [[thats because its the smart part of your body]]the brain controls EVERTHING you do!!!..and im not exagerating!
e.EXCRETORY SYSTEM: The excretory system is the bathroom from your inside that holds things until you can get to the bathroom for the outsides! This system collectes all the leftover material that your body produces and finds a way to get rid of them.
I was not there for the second day of the movie but this is what I got from the first day-->
3 things I learned:
1. I learned that the inside of your ear controls your balance. I always thought the ear was just to hear things.
2. I learned that there are many parts of the brain that we don't use and sometime in the future we may figure out how to control those parts of the brain, which I think is really cool.
3. I learned that the stomach could expand up to 20 times its original size. I've always heard people say that you should only eat the amount of food as the size of your fist because that’s how big your stomach is, but I guess that doesn't really matter if your stomach can expand so big.
5 relationships:
1. Bones and your skeleton. The purpose of your skeletal system it to protect your organs and give your body structure. So if your bones were not dense and hard, then they would not be able to serve their purpose.
2.The stomach and its shape are important. It is compact but when it needs to be, since it is very elastic-like, it can stretch up to 20 times it actual size.
3. Your skin is tithe outer protective layer of your body and though it appears so be smooth and soft from far away but zoomed in it is actually very rough and tough. Our skin is used to help release heat from the body and keep germs out. Without it we would not be held together very well, and we would be extremely susceptible to diseases and bacteria etc. [not to mention extremely unattractive]
4. The small intestine has to process large amounts of food all at once so it is very tightly wound and contains villi to utilize all its space.
5. The brain is located near the lungs because it constantly needs massive amounts of oxygen to function. Since the brain holds so much information it uses all the space it can get and is protected by the hardest bone in the body, the skull.
“The Incredible Human Machine” Reflection
Three things that I learned:
1) Your inner ear is similar to a carpenter’s level. It is what controls your balance and coordination. If you mess with those levels (like the Japanese people did), you can control them. Imagine where this technology will go in say 20 years.
2) The combined power of your heart’s beats for one day could lift a car 30 feet into the air. I can’t even move a car, let alone lift it! Well I guess it kind of makes sense considering that your heart circulates all of your blood in less than a minute through 60,000 miles of blood vessels.
3) We have a material called “Extra Cellular Matrix” (ECM). This stuff is amazing. It is similar to stem cells. It can turn into the same cells as the cells around it, healing a wound.
Five relationships between how the parts of the systems are built and what they do:
1) Your skin is an amazing substance. It protects your body from outside invaders, and also keeps your blood and organs inside. But it has little holes called pores that excrete sweat, and allow hair to grow. (By the way, we have as many hair follicles as apes, but our hair is not as long).
2) Your digestive system is full of ingenious things. Your stomach is only the size of your fist when it is empty, but when the food comes, it can expand up to 20 times its original size. I wish I had the ability to expand and shrink whenever I wanted to. Also, your small intestines have little tendrils, called villi, that increase the surface area of your small intestine, so that you don’t have to eat so much. (Although…)
3) Your Lungs are also very intelligent organs. They have little air sacs called alveoli which also increase the surface area of your lungs. These little guys make it so you don’t have to pant like you just ran a marathon every second of the day.
4) Your bones are hard. And that is good. If your bones were any softer, they would bend and break under stress. Also, if they were too hard, they would be too brittle and would break easily. Also, we have joints. These simple hinges make it so that our muscles (such as the biceps) only have to move a tiny bit to move (the arm) a lot. Your bicep only has to move two inches to move your arm through its complete range of motions.
5) The human reproductive system is one of the things that makes us special. Because of this system we don’t just make copies of ourselves like amoebas; we make better copies of ourselves. Every cell in the body has 23 chromosomes, except for the sperm and egg cells who only have half that amount. Only combined can they become whole and become a fetus. But that fetus is special. It is different from its mom and dad. It has undergone evolution and has learned from its predecessors’ mistakes and will change to compensate for them.
The human body is truly an incredible machine.
THE INCREDIBLE HUMAN MACHINE
I learned a lot of things from this movie. I thought it was great because it thought me a lot about the body and its ability to do certain task. This movie also thought me that the human body can do a lot more than people think it can do.
1.- One of the things that I learned from this movie it is that the average human being do not use their brain in its full potential.
2. - Another cool thing that I learned it is that in order to reproduce you need to have chromosomes inside your body. Chromosome is the DNA that can be found in the cells of your body. The DNA holds the information about that specific individual.
3. - Another fun fact that I learned it is that the liver is the largest internal organ that the body has. The liver produces certain enzyme that helps to break down the food that travels though out the digestive system.
What I realized about structure and function is that structure of the organism is created so it can complete its function. For example a leg is made to bend and strong so it can support the body and allow the body to move from one place to another (walk).
1.In the digestive system the stomach is made hallow so it can hold any type of food or liquid inside. It is like a tube leading from the esophagus to the small intestine. The structure of it is round and long which allows it to connect one end to another. While the food is traveling through it, this tube mixes the food with enzyme that breaks it down turning into chime. Then the stomach transports it to the small intestine.
2.The heart is one of the most important organs in your body. It is one big muscle that it is like a train station that all the railroads (arteries/veins) meet at. The heart has two sides. On its right side is the deoxygenated part and its left side is the oxygenated the blood. This means the right side’s does not carry oxygen in the blood, the oxygenated part, the left side, is the one that provides the oxygen to the blood. The structure of the heart is created in a way that the blood coming in does not mix with the blood going out. It has like wall that divides it. Its function is to pump the blood through out the entire body.
3.In the excretory system, skin is wrapped around your entire body. It is structured to fit you body so it can get ride of all the waste in your body. It can get ride of the sweat that comes out of your body. Without it you would be just all muscle and bone.
I learned a lot from this movie and hope to see another showing that will supply me of such good information.
1. Name and discuss three new things you learned about the body systems. What impressed you about them?
One new thing I learned from this movie is that your ears control balance. I thought their only purpose was for hearing. It’s amazing how they’re so much of your balance that the machine made by the Japanese can make you walk anywhere.
Another new thing I learned is that you can use this thing called ECM to rebuild tissues in your body. Even more amazing is that you can use another animal’s ECM and put it in yourself and it will most likely start helping you grow back tissue.
They last new thing I learned was that when you see it’s not just information getting processed by the brain. It’s tiny light particles going in and being reflected then traveling through nerves straight to the brain.
2. Name and discuss five relationships you saw between how the parts of the systems are built and what they do. Each of these relationships should come from a different system.
In the nervous system all of the nerves are spread to all of the muscles and organs that we use. I think I saw more nerves in more important places but I’m not sure. It also said the brain takes about 1/3 of our oxygen so it’s good that it’s right above the lungs.
In the digestive system it goes down a specific long path so we can absorb as much of the nutrients as possible. It’s smart that we have more mechanical digestion in the beginning and more chemical digestion later on since it’s easier to absorb after it’s all broken up.
In the skeletal muscular system it’s obviously good we have bones in our feet and legs so we can walk, our torso so our vital organs are protected, and our head especially so our brains protected. Our organs are the ones who move us though and without having them attached to the muscles we wouldn’t be able to move. Muscles can also protect us like the abdominal protects our liver, small intestine, stomach, and gall bladder.
In the respiratory system its main goal is to get oxygen to all the cells. Since it can’t do this alone it uses the heart to pump oxygen filled blood to our cells. If you didn’t know the human body you’d probably think, “How’s the oxygen gonna get all the way to the heart?” Well that’s easy, it’s right there. All the oxygen has to do is combine in the capillaries. The oxygen will then go back to the heart and be pumped throughout the body.
Finally the immune system. The location for this… everywhere. Why it should be everywhere… invaders attack from everywhere. Everywhere blood vessels are, everywhere they can come out, they will protect you. Since we have skin and we can’t feel our body cells attacking pathogens we think that our skin completely protects us… wrong. They can squeeze through our pores on our skin. Even though they do that we have our body cells to fight them back and eventually become immune by creating antibodies.
that last one was from ace123 my computer just wouldn't put it down.
1.) What I learned is that your balance is kept by 3 bones the size of rice. I thought that the remote controlled people were awesome I think that it is amazing that we have the research to do some thing like that.
2.) I also learned that you can be alive and awake with your head ½ open. During the brain surgery part I thought it was that they could zap his brain and he didn’t feel a thing. I also thought it was cool that he could think with his head open.
3.) I think the most amazing part was that your stomach can stretch to 20 times its normal size after a big meal!
1) The nose has thousands of nerves that tell you what you are smelling weather it is good, or bad.
2) Your skin protects you from the outside bacteria and germs. It is thwe largest organ in your body.
3) The brain is in the middle of your head so that is protected by the hardest boe in your body, the skull.
4) The eyes are in the very middle of your head so that what you see straight ahead of you is really right in front of you.
5) Bones keep our structure. Without them we would be big blobs on the floor.
1.) What I learned is that your balance is kept by 3 bones the size of rice. I thought that the remote controlled people were awesome I think that it is amazing that we have the research to do some thing like that.
2.) I also learned that you can be alive and awake with your head ½ open. During the brain surgery part I thought it was that they could zap his brain and he didn’t feel a thing. I also thought it was cool that he could think with his head open.
3.) I think the most amazing part was that your stomach can stretch to 20 times its normal size after a big meal!
1) The nose has thousands of nerves that tell you what you are smelling weather it is good, or bad.
2) Your skin protects you from the outside bacteria and germs. It is thwe largest organ in your body.
3) The brain is in the middle of your head so that is protected by the hardest boe in your body, the skull.
4) The eyes are in the very middle of your head so that what you see straight ahead of you is really right in front of you.
5) Bones keep our structure. Without them we would be big blobs on the floor.
1.) What I learned is that your balance is kept by 3 bones the size of rice. I thought that the remote controlled people were awesome I think that it is amazing that we have the research to do some thing like that.
2.) I also learned that you can be alive and awake with your head ½ open. During the brain surgery part I thought it was that they could zap his brain and he didn’t feel a thing. I also thought it was cool that he could think with his head open.
3.) I think the most amazing part was that your stomach can stretch to 20 times its normal size after a big meal!
1) The nose has thousands of nerves that tell you what you are smelling weather it is good, or bad.
2) Your skin protects you from the outside bacteria and germs. It is thwe largest organ in your body.
3) The brain is in the middle of your head so that is protected by the hardest boe in your body, the skull.
4) The eyes are in the very middle of your head so that what you see straight ahead of you is really right in front of you.
5) Bones keep our structure. Without them we would be big blobs on the floor.
Reflection for the movie
#1
There was so much interesting stuff in the (hour and a half ) movie. I learned a lot from the movie. One of the things that really stuck in my head was from the time that you wake up, to the time that you fall asleep, your heart beats about 20,000 times. I didn’t know that it beat that much a day.
Another thing I learned was my body has OVER 100 trillion cells. That is A LOT!!!! I’ve always wondered how all of them fit inside my body. I understand that they are very small, but that is so many cells. I also think it is amazing that each cell has their own job, and they each know what their job is.
The last thing that really stuck out to me was the thing was that your stomach can expand up to 20 times its normal size. I didn’t know that my stomach could stretch so much!
#2
The First relationship I made was the digestive system. Your stomach can expand up to 20 times its size. It is very stretchy, and apparently it has to be, so you can fit everything you eat in your stomach.
The second relationship I made is your skin. It protects our body. It keeps us safe and warm. It is smooth on the outside, but very rough on the inside. It is like a jacket to our body.
The third relationship I made was the skeletal muscular system. It holds basically everything together. It makes sure everything is strong, and holds you up so you aren’t as flat as a pancake
The fourth relationship is The Nervous System. It controls everything you do (Well, actually the brain controls everything you do, but the brain is part of the nervous system). It’s your taste, smell, touch, and feel. It is very important!
The last thing relationship I made is your eyes. It is very important and very delicate. Your eyes are in the middle of your head so you can see what is in front of you, strait ahead of you, below you, and above you.
Reflection for the movie
#1
There was so much interesting stuff in the (hour and a half J) movie. I learned a lot from the movie. One of the things that really stuck in my head was from the time that you wake up, to the time that you fall asleep, your heart beats about 20,000 times. I didn’t know that it beat that much a day.
Another thing I learned was my body has OVER 100 trillion cells. That is A LOT!!!! I’ve always wondered how all of them fit inside my body. I understand that they are very small, but that is so many cells. I also think it is amazing that each cell has their own job, and they each know what their job is.
The last thing that really stuck out to me was the thing was that your stomach can expand up to 20 times its normal size. I didn’t know that my stomach could stretch so much!
#2
The First relationship I made was the digestive system. Your stomach can expand up to 20 times its size. It is very stretchy, and apparently it has to be, so you can fit everything you eat in your stomach.
The second relationship I made is your skin. It protects our body. It keeps us safe and warm. It is smooth on the outside, but very rough on the inside. It is like a jacket to our body.
The third relationship I made was the skeletal muscular system. It holds basically everything together. It makes sure everything is strong, and holds you up so you aren’t as flat as a pancake
The fourth relationship is The Nervous System. It controls everything you do (Well, actually the brain controls everything you do, but the brain is part of the nervous system). It’s your taste, smell, touch, and feel. It is very important!
The last thing relationship I made is your eyes. It is very important and very delicate. Your eyes are in the middle of your head so you can see what is in front of you, strait ahead of you, below you, and above you.
1a). One new thing that I learned about the nervous system is that there are 45 miles of nerves in your body. That is more than the distance from Croton to New York City. That fact just contains the nerves in your body not any of the other parts. No wonder you can feel things in every little place in your body.
1b). Another thing that amazed me is that if you are right handed then your brain is shaped differently than if you are left handed. When you think about it more then it makes sense because then one side is taking on more tasks such as writing. But when you see a picture of a brain you never get told if it is of a right handed or left handed person.
1c). The third thing that I learned is that your brain has thousands of receptors that transmit light. I always knew that there had to have been a way for you to see light but I never knew how. It is pretty incredible that you brain needs thousands of them. Why can’t it just use one or two? I also wonder what would happen if the receptors give out. Would you only see darkness at that spot?
2a). The bones of your body do so much. One thing that they do is to protect your inner organs. They make it so you can not damage your organs so easily. Your bones are built so light but so strong that they can protect all the inner parts of your body. It they were not so strong then your body would probably fall down.
2b). There are little tiny hairs inside of your ears that help you hear. Those hairs are very long and very skinny. This is because if they were short and wide they would not have as much surface area. They need a big surface area in order to vibrate and let you hear.
2c). The heart in our body is such a powerful muscle. It can get the blood to every place in our body. It also lasts very long. The heart is built so strong because it has to get blood to such little place in the human body.
2d). In the nervous system there are so many nerves that transport messages all the time to the brain. Nerves are built very long and skinny so they can take up a big area of the body. They help maintain the function so if you get pinched you will feel it and then tell your brain to say oooooch.
2e). The small intestine is a long and thin tube in which chyme passes through. The small intestine is built long so it can take out lots of nutrients and help its function by having lots of time to take out the nutrients for the body to use. The small intestine is a key in digestion.
1) I never knew that you constantly shed skin and constantly grow new skin. Also I did not know that dust was made of dead skin cells. The fact that skin can repair itself so quickly is amazing. Also I never really knew that hair was dead well I knew it was dead but it never really connected with me that it didn’t hurt to get your haircut because it is dead and has no feeling. I learned about something called ECM, Extra Cellular Material, ECM that helps fix internal things. Like in the movie they placed some of it in a mans shoulder to stimulate the shoulder to heal by itself. I found this really interesting because they showed ECM and it kind of looked like a piece of thin paper and to think that it could heal a shoulder was cool. I also learned that bone was made up of calcium and collagen. I never knew this I always knew that milk makes your bones stronger because it has calcium it but I never thought bones were made of calcium. I always thought collagen is the stuff people get injected into their skin. I’m impressed by the fact that calcium makes bones strong and holds our body up and keeps it together.
1) the digestive system
The stomachs shape allows it to expand and churn the food in the stomach. And the small intestine its shape and surface area enables it to absorb more water.
2)skeletal/muscular
The muscles shape allows them to grip each other and function and the way they are attached to the bone makes it so they can work together to function and make the body move.
3)excretory
The skin is ideal for letting out unwanted liquids from the body. It is fast and definitely effective. Also the bladder is located in a very convenient place in the body, it is right next to the urethra. It instead of having to go through another part of the body to get to the urethra.
4) respiratory
I think the order and setup of the respiratory system makes it faster and more efficient because if the lungs were farther away it would take more time for the oxygen to get to them and the trachea would have to be really long and take up more space than it needs to.
5)endocrine
I think that the thyroid glands are closest to the brain because they are most important and is in charge of the most out of all the glands.
This is great info to know.
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