Respiration and metabolism of warm animals with Cobra SMARTsense

Principle

The metabolic activity of warm animals depends on the outside temperature. It follows that respiration also decreases at lower temperatures.

Benefits

• Especially understandable and didactically prepared description of the experiment (reference to everyday life etc.) including protocol questions.
• Future-oriented teaching: Integration into digital science lessons with tablets or smartphones.
• Increased motivation of students by using the intuitive measureAPP.
• Increased media competence.
• Compact, easily transportable experimental set-up
• suitable for demo experiments and practical training
• Flexible test execution thanks to wireless data transmission

Tasks

In this experiment, the pupils and students will measure the metabolic activity as a function of the outside temperature by observing CO2 emissions.
It is advisable for the students to bring various animals with them.

Learning Objectives

In this experiment, the students will study animals at varying temperatures.