Week 9

Monday

Nervous System Lesson and Designing Inspiration Journal

We watched a short Brain Pop video about the nervous system and completed the note catcher shown below.

Tuesday

Team Building Luz/Komatsubara

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Senseless Shapes - teams of students work together to create shapes out of rope - the challenge here is in communicating with different members of their team, each who have given restrictions in how they can participate (example: blindfolded, can't speak, unable to hear)

Marble Relay - students work together to pass a marble along a pvc track from start position to end position.

Wednesday

10 Minute Core Workout

We started our class with 10 minutes of core work - it is amazing how much you can get done in only 10 minutes.

Muscle Stretch Reflex

We reviewed all of the steps for

We completed the notes worksheet, see below.

Thursday

Design Time

We focused on organizing our checklists and making sure we had the first three items completed before they were added into Powerschool. We spent the rest of our time tracing our images in Adobe Illustrator.

Friday

Connecting the Muscle Stretch Reflex to Stretching

After reviewing the biology of the muscle stretch reflex we developed rules for stretching:

1. go slowly

2. don't go too far

3. hold for at least 20 seconds

We then applied these rules in a group stretch session.

We ended by exploring nueromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES).

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