The Circulatory

System
By: Sarah Cantor, Tony Molloy, Peter Hunt,
Andrew Uyesugi, Emilie Baxter

Function
Transport materials like water, oxygen, and nutrients
throughout the body.
Transport to your bodies cells.
Transporting materials is not the only thing your
circulatory system does. It also removes waste like
carbon dioxide, lactose, hydrogen, and many other
types of cell waste.

Our Model
Shows the distribution of Oxygen to one of the organs,
the liver(tupperware and tubing)
o Systemic Circulation (to other organs)
o Pulmonary Circulation (through the lungs)

Shows arteries take oxygenated blood away from the

heart and veins carry oxygen depleted blood to the
heart and lungs
o shown with heat and tubing

All water cycles back to heart (2 tupperware containers

with 2 recirculation or fountain pumps)

Flaws
The color change of deoxygenated blood instead, we used a differential of heat to
show variation between oxygen depleted
and oxygen rich blood
o Other Possible Solution: chemical reaction between dyes

Too many leaks

Scientific Principles
Physics- Newton 3rd law

Scientific Principles
Hydrodynamics
o

The total amount of energy in a closed system

remains constant.
Newtons Second Law of Motion - Conservation
of Linear Momentum
First law of Thermodynamics - Conservation of
Energy

Model in ACTION!
Systemic Circulation

Pulmonary Circulation
Lungs (oxygen in,
carbon dioxide out)
Left Atrium
Pulmonary
Artery

Right
Atrium

Left Ventricle
Right
Ventricle
Aorta

Organ (Ex: Liver)

Blood Enters
through Capillaries

Posterior Vena Cava

Pulmonary
Vein

Idea planning for the project

Came up 3 ideas
Chose the most realistic idea
We voted and discussed on our final project
o

weighed out the level of difficulty, practicality, and

costs

Original Ideas
1. Fish Tank Idea
o

wouldnt be enough interaction; we would just buy a

fish tank with water filtration

2. Balloon idea
o

not enough pressure

3. Our current idea the pumps and tubing

Problems
Making the wooden bases stand up- made another
wider base (more surface area = more stability)
Using the balloons - stopped using balloons
Making the holes in the pipe- kept on having redo
the holes and make them bigger
Making sure the holes are water proof- learned to
be more accurate

Relate to the Real World

Pump similar to Pacemaker
o
o

replaces the sinus node(small specialized group of

cells in the right atrium)
electrical impulses make the heart beat

Sprinkler system
o

system of tubing
with only 1 error, still catastrophic

Thanks for Listening!