Alexa’s icy encounter with water became a cool example of the scientific knowledge being gained at Northwest High School every day.
 
Alexa and her Differentiated Biology classmates learned about the body’s healthy safeguards through an interactive project this winter. They acted as scientific detectives to explore why a marathon runner collapsed near the finish line after drinking a large amount of water. The multi-day experiment taught them about carbon dioxide production, glucose regulation and the body’s thermoregulation process in an energetic way.
 
Alexa and her three partners smiled as they gathered clues from their scientific data. They compared her internal body temperature and her skin surface temperature after she dipped her left hand into containers of cold and warm water. She said projects like this one made Differentiated Biology one of her favorite high school courses.
 
“You get to hang out with your friends, and you get to learn more things with your friends,” Alexa said. “It’s really fun.”