Unit 1.2 to 1.3: the Joints in Motion sensor lab, kinesiology data analysis, the Restoring ROM write-up, then Relief Within Reach and the rehabilitation-plan problem.
Your PLTW coursework: Human Body Systems ▸ Unit 1: Road to Rehabilitation ▸ Lesson 1.2 Muscles and Motion ▸ "Activity 1.2.4 Mind Over Muscle", "Activity 1.2.5 Joints in Motion", "Project 1.2.6 Restoring ROM"
What to do if absent- CER:
- Claim, Evidence, Reasoning: make a claim, back it with evidence, explain your reasoning.
- SOP:
- Standard Operating Procedure, the exact steps to follow (especially in a lab).
- Tracker:
- Your PLTW progress log where you record completed evidence.
- myPLTW:
- The PLTW course site where you do the online activities. Find it in Clever with your Microsoft sign-in, right next to Schoology.
Collect muscle strength, fatigue, and range-of-motion data with sensors, and analyze how and extension relate to biomechanics and .
- 1Set up the physiology sensor and zero it before collecting any muscle data.
- 2Record a muscle effort over time and watch for the point where fatigue begins.
- 3Measure at a during and extension and log the angles.
- 4Build a simple table comparing your data before and after repeated effort.
- 5Connect one taping idea to a your data shows is weak or fatigued.
- 6Write a short claim about how fatigue changed your strength or , supported by your data.
- • You will be able to collect muscle strength or fatigue data with a sensor.
- • You will be able to measure during and extension.
- • You will be able to make an evidence-based claim about muscle fatigue from your data.
Open any day for its full lesson, the work due that day, and guided notes.
Raw with trial number, measured value (mV or degrees, with units), time, and fatigue-onset trial clearly marked.
Labeled graph of force or angle versus trial number plus a CER claiming how fatigue affected , citing specific data values.
One-paragraph CER taking a position on whether insurance should be allowed to cap covered visits.
Week-by-week plan card with two exercises, one , progress checkpoints, and written justification for each choice.
- Hook: physical therapists use the same kind of sensors you will today to track how a patient is recovering.
- Today's goal: turn your own muscle effort into data and read what fatigue and are telling you.
- Monday bioethics tie-in: should schools require fitness testing, and who should be allowed to see those results?
- Reminder: your graded fatigue or ROM data report is submitted on the class site.
Do this: Advance the PLTW HBS online benchmark through Unit 1.2 Motion Data.
- • Muscle fatigue is the drop in force a muscle can produce after repeated effort.
- • describes how far a moves through and extension.
- • Collect muscle strength or fatigue data with a physiology sensor.
- • Measure and interpret at a .
📋 PLTW evidence due this week: your muscle fatigue or range-of-motion data report with an evidence-based claim.
All PLTW activities are completed inside the PLTW course environment: this page only gives direction.
Use this chart to keep your place. Nothing on it is turned in through the portal.
| Day | Work | Turn in |
|---|---|---|
| Monday · Mon, Mar 1 | Sensor and range-of-motion lab | Raw data table with trial number, measured value (mV or degrees, with units), time, and fatigue-onset trial clearly marked. |
| Tuesday · Tue, Mar 2 | Kinesiology data analysis | Labeled graph of force or angle versus trial number plus a CER claiming how fatigue affected range of motion, citing specific data values. |
| Wednesday · Wed, Mar 3 | Bioethics: access to rehab | One-paragraph CER taking a position on whether insurance should be allowed to cap covered rehabilitation visits. |
| Thursday · Thu, Mar 4 | Evidence for | |
| Friday · Fri, Mar 5 | Rehabilitation plan project | Week-by-week rehabilitation plan card with two exercises, one assistive device, progress checkpoints, and written justification for each choice. |
- M: Philosophy for Kids / John Carroll bioethical debate
- T: teacher background notes + PLTW launch task
- W: lab / data or model work
- F: submit tracker + weekly evidence
Turn in: Unit 1.2 to 1.3: the Joints in Motion sensor lab, kinesiology data analysis, the Restoring ROM write-up, then Relief Within Reach and the rehabilitation-plan problem. weekly work due ROM data report.
Go to Schoology to turn this in.
Submit one PDF. Put your first and last name in the document header. Name the file: FirstName LastName - Assignment Title - YYYY-MM-DD.pdf.
Open Schoology PDF upload helpIf you cannot get in, see Mr. Mendoza. Do not skip the work.
4 panels from the illustrated semester.
Fiction. There is no such student. The lessons, labs and dates are the real planned course; the student, the classmates and the conversations are invented.
This explainer accompanies the PLTW lab protocol: watch it before lab.
Most days, this class is your PLTW coursework: and PLTW is online and individual. So being out usually just means doing exactly what we did in class, from home.
Open Clever, then myPLTWSign in to Clever with your district Microsoft account to open Schoology or myPLTW. Follow today's posted steps. If myPLTW will not open, use the posted alternative and tell Mr. Mendoza. Turn in your completed work through the Schoology assignment.
You can't do those from home: do this instead: Teacher-posted data/model packet, same objective. Supplemental: Khan: joints and movement.
Class still runs. A substitute will post today's plan: complete the online activity above; it's built to be self-guided. Need the concept taught without a teacher? Use this authoritative explainer:
Khan Academy: Joints and Movement
Hand-picked readings, videos, and interactives for this lesson, all free and from authoritative open organizations (NIH, CDC, OpenStax, Khan Academy, PhET, HHMI, and more).