ACTIVE LEARNING CONCEPT MAP In Anatomy and Physiology

ACTIVE LEARNING Ø CONCEPT MAP § In Anatomy and Physiology classes Ø PEDAGOGICAL POSTER § In human biology classes Ø SOY FOR YOUR HEALTH: MAKING TOFU SPAGUETTI SAUCE AND TOFU SMOOTIES § In nutrition classes

CONCEPT MAP THERMOREGULATION Sweating like mad! Freezing cold! Ø Five groups of four students work on thermoregulation when the body is facing cold temperatures Ø The tool used is a concept map stepping from general manifestations to specific physiological responses Ø The biology book is used to complete the explanations Ø Each team chooses a speaker Ø Peer teaching Ø Five groups of four students work on thermoregulation when the body is facing hot temperatures

Steps to create the concept map The steps are quite simple: Ø Place key words at the center of the page: Freezing Cold Ø Note around the physiological manifestations that you can associate with the main concept: Shivering Ø You can also name behavioural modifications to prevent overcooling of the body core: Wearing warm clotting Ø Using your book, try to link your main ideas with the homeostatic mechanisms that help us understand what the body does to increase or decrease body temperatures.

Sample Concept Map

PEDAGOGICAL POSTER Each team is assigned a different protein to synthesize and send to its final destination Ø The steps are numbered and illustrated on a poster Ø Peer teaching Ø

PROCEDURE Each one of you will be a specialized cell, the nervous cell (a neuron). Like all cells, your most important task is to make proteins. Starting with a gene (a piece of DNA) which contains the instructions to make a protein, list and explain all the steps that will lead to the final destination of a synthesized protein. Each team will be assigned one out of the 30 000 active genes. Helpful hints: Ø Give a title to your poster such as “Synthesis of the protein endorphin in a nervous cell”. Ø Draw a very large cell body of a neuron ( see p. 233 for the structure of a neuron). Ø Number all your steps. Ø Wait until you are completely sure of the entire process before gluing your organelles and mechanisms on the poster. Ø Give a brief description or title to each of your numbered steps. Ø Ex. Transcription of DNA into a messenger RNA The following pages of your book can be used as references: Ø Page 83 to 85 : protein synthesis (p. 86 to 87)… Ø You can also view the videos on CCMD.

Three Possible Pathways Ø Ø Ø Team # 1 and #4: (a) the protein synthesized will be a neurotransmitter that is excitatory to the skeletal muscle: acetylcholine. It will be released from the cell membrane. Team # 2 and 5: the protein is an enzyme: acetlycholinestarase (ACh. E) that degrades the acetylcholine (it will be enclosed in a lysosome). Team # 3 and 6 : the protein will be a solute pump (ATPase Na+/K+). It is a protein that pumps Na+ and K+ across the membrane. It will therefore be inserted in the membrane.

SOY FOR YOUR HEALTH Ø Ø Ø Brainstorm sources of proteins in the typical Canadian diet Research alternate sources of protein, origin of tofu, soy’s impact on our health, tofu recipe… Make tofu spaghetti sauce Share a dinner together Organize a nutrition tasting kiosk offering tofu smoothies to Cegep students