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Log onto the student Web site, click on “Lesson 1—What Is
Sleep?”, and enter your class code. Then click “Enter Sleep
Data.”
• Use the class code you created on the teacher administration
page to enter the averages from each student’s
sleep diary along with each student’s corresponding
sleepiness scale scores.
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Step 2
Divide the class into small teams and instruct them to think
of a hypothesis about sleep that can be answered using information
from the sleep database.
• They should test their hypothesis by building custom
reports.
• They should write a short summary of their findings.
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Step 3
Ask for volunteers to state their hypotheses and findings.
• Have students explain why they chose their question.
• If their data are inconclusive, ask what additional data
they would need to answer their question.
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Steps 4–6
Introduce the concept of homeostatic sleep regulation and
have students draw a graph depicting the need to sleep versus
the time of day.
• Ask the class, What would your graph look like if it represented
an individual deprived of sleep day and night?
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Steps 7 and 8
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