Lesson 5: Autonomic Control & System Failure
Duration of Days: 4
Lesson Objective
Analyze autonomic nervous system and effects of stress or disease.
How body regulates itself
How stress affects the brain
Sympathetic, parasympathetic, cortisol, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's
HS-LS1-1
HS-LS1-3
Comparative reading on treatments
Analyze autonomic control
Connect stress to system changes
Purpose is understanding regulation and disease
DOK 3
Chronic stress in communities
Stress is only emotional
Comparison organizers
Guided notes
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1siFIsOAs45CxuUlyJt9dNRdT70eTva14fJMeE1qXHPk/edit?tab=t.0
Neurological case file project
Skills Assessed
- Research and synthesis
- Comparing disorders
- Explaining system regulation
- Presentation and written communication
Content Assessed
- Sympathetic and parasympathetic systems
- Cortisol and stress response
- Parkinson’s disease
- Alzheimer’s disease
- Chronic stress effects
- Autonomic nervous system regulation