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DLC911 - Feedback Mechanism Lesson Plan

The document discusses how organisms use positive and negative feedback mechanisms to regulate body processes and maintain homeostasis. Negative feedback helps regulate things like blood glucose, water, and temperature through receptors that detect levels and send feedback to the brain. Positive feedback occurs in processes like childbirth, lactation, and blood clotting. The endocrine system maintains homeostasis by secreting hormones that coordinate body processes.

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DLC911 - Feedback Mechanism Lesson Plan

The document discusses how organisms use positive and negative feedback mechanisms to regulate body processes and maintain homeostasis. Negative feedback helps regulate things like blood glucose, water, and temperature through receptors that detect levels and send feedback to the brain. Positive feedback occurs in processes like childbirth, lactation, and blood clotting. The endocrine system maintains homeostasis by secreting hormones that coordinate body processes.

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Biology

Lesson Plan Feedback Mechanisms

Summary:
Organisms use positive and negative feedback mechanisms to coordinate activities within the
body. Negative feedback helps regulate normal body functions like blood glucose, water and
electrolyte levels and temperature regulation in the body. These feedback mechanisms primarily
function through receptors that detect the concentration of the agent (glucose, water,
temperature) in the body and send feedback to the brain. Positive feedback occurs in processes
such as contractions during labor, lactation and blood clotting. The endocrine system functions
by secreting hormones that help maintain homeostasis and coordinate processes in the body.

Subject:
 Science:

8.6 A) Describe interactions among systems in the human organism.

8.6 B) Identify feedback mechanisms that maintain a system’s equilibrium.

Grade Level:
 Target Grade: 8
 Upper Bound: 12
 Lower Bound: 8

Time Required: One to two class periods

Learning Objectives:
 Negative Feedback plays a key role in maintaining body homeostasis.
 Endocrine system secretes and releases hormones that reach the target organs in the body
and regulate and maintain normal ion, glucose concentration.
 Receptors are present on the target organs and they send negative feedback signals to the
hypothalamus in the brain. This stimulates endocrine glands to release hormones to
maintain normal concentrations levels in the body.
 Positive feedback helps regulate certain processes in the body such as contractions during
labor, lactation and blood clotting.

Lesson Introduction / Motivation:


This lesson is designed to introduce students to feedback mechanisms in biological systems.
Positive and negative feedback mechanisms are discussed for several human organs
systems/processes.

Lesson Plan:
A feedback mechanism is a cycle in which part of the output is returned to the input to regulate
further output release. The endocrine system releases chemical messengers called hormones and

© Partnership for Environmental Education and Rural Health at 1


College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University
Funding support from the National Center for Research Resources, National Institutes of Health
Biology: Feedback Mechanisms

this lesson discusses eight glands that are involved in hormone secretion and release. The
hypothalamus receives signals from the receptors located on the target organs and stimulates the
pituitary gland (primary endocrine gland) to release eight hormones. The hormones released by
the pituitary gland maintain important body functions like glucose and insulin regulation,
temperature regulation and water regulation in kidneys. Negative feedback mechanisms are
important for maintaining homeostasis. Positive feedback mechanisms help regulate special
processes such as contractions during labor, lactation and blood clotting. In positive feedback
loops, the output of a system acts to enhance the changes to the input of the system.

Prerequisites for this Lesson: (Optional)


 Endocrine system overview including the hormones of the pituitary gland,
insulin/glucagon and anti-diuretic hormone.

Multimedia Support and Attachments: (Optional)


 Feedback Mechanism Power point.

Keywords:

Feedback mechanisms, positive feedback, negative feedback, the endocrine system

Authors:
Graduate Fellow Name: Sunny K. Scobell
Teacher Mentor Name: ___
Undergraduate Fellow Name: Mayura Shinde
Date Submitted: ___
Date Last Edited: ___

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faculty and what grade you used it for.

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College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University
Funding support from the National Center for Research Resources, National Institutes of Health

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