Table 2 Students’ activities and their potential effects on the teaching-learning process

# Interacting with other students and teachers by discussing ideas and concepts related to physiology and to the construction of the models.

Meaningful Learning

# Assembling cheap inert recycled materials and objects with no physiological significance to create a system or model that represents a physiological process.

# Articulating explanations about the topic in human physiology that the model is about and how it represents the physiological process in question.

# Answering other students and teachers’ questions about the model and the physiological process it exemplifies.

# Being responsible for the design, preparation and presentation of a PPM that represents a specific physiological process.

Active Learning

# Engaging in the activities of model building, project writing, presentation of the model, and interacting with the creators of other PPMs at the SIP event.

# Exploring their own attitudes, values and beliefs about the teaching-learning process when confronted by those of classmates during the group work.

# Constantly reflecting on ideas and concepts in order to improve physiological models or overcome failures in their operation.