Human Body Model Reflection
Overall, our project was successful and we were able to perform the functions and put information across. One success that we had was our ability to manage time wisely and bring materials to work on the project. We stayed within our given time limit and got all of the materials needed to progress each day on the project. We were also able to compromise well on some of the ideas that we had initially disagreed on, such as the material we should use to construct the liver and pancreas. After debating about which clay would be able to keep the parts on the board, we tested each out and compromised by using each type for a different part of our model. Something we struggled with at times during this project was dividing work between group members. Since most of the parts of the model had to be connected and work together well, if was difficult for people to be working on one part when the preceding step was not complete. We fixed this problem by adding more presentation aspects to the project like the informational note cards next to each organ.
On the final model, most of the aspects worked. We were able to move the jaw of the skull to chew the food and the food successfully traveled down the esophagus to be let into the stomach by the esophageal sphincter. We did have one problem with the enzyme used to show digestive juices in the stomach. Thee solution that we created to represent the digestion did not work quickly enough to show digestion of starches in our short presentation time.
The feedback we received from the judges was primarily good. We were told that our presentation was clear and did well at representing the major functions with the materials we had. One judge did tell us that we should research some of the disruptions and diseases that are connected to the digestive system to make our presentation component stronger.
On the final model, most of the aspects worked. We were able to move the jaw of the skull to chew the food and the food successfully traveled down the esophagus to be let into the stomach by the esophageal sphincter. We did have one problem with the enzyme used to show digestive juices in the stomach. Thee solution that we created to represent the digestion did not work quickly enough to show digestion of starches in our short presentation time.
The feedback we received from the judges was primarily good. We were told that our presentation was clear and did well at representing the major functions with the materials we had. One judge did tell us that we should research some of the disruptions and diseases that are connected to the digestive system to make our presentation component stronger.