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I am trying to find out if sweating helps the body to cool down.  

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Biology Coursework - Sweating Aim I am trying to find out if sweating helps the body to cool down. I am going to use 2 boiling tubes to represent the human body. I will wrap them in paper towels but one of the paper towels will be wet. These will represent human skin. The wet paper towel will represent skin sweating and the dry paper towel will represent dry skin. I will put hot water in them both and this will represent blood. I will then see which boiling tube cools down the fastest. Prediction I predict that the boiling tube which is wrapped in the wet paper towel will down quicker. This is because in the human body when you get hot you lose heat through your skin, this cools you down. This process is sped up by sweating. It is sped up because the heat goes into the sweat and then it...

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