Protection from cold. Why do we wear clothes? with Cobra SMARTsense

Principle

The human body is in permanent heat exchange with its environment. The average body temperature of the human being is generally between 36 and 37 degrees Celsius. Even below 35 degrees Celsius one speaks of hypothermia, which can be harmful to the organism. The body is able to compensate for slight temperature differences independently through various functions. However, if the ambient temperature is much lower, the body must be protected from unwanted heat loss by clothing as an additional heat barrier.

Benefits

• Especially understandable and didactically prepared description of the experiment (relevance 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.

Tasks

Students should use the Cobra SMARTsense Temperature to analyse the influence of clothing on body temperature.

Learning Objectives

Students should understand that clothing reduces the body's heat exchange with the environment and thus protects it from hypothermia in very cold environments.