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- 5th
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Students debate different sides of diagnosing black lung disease, and explore opposing views of the law concerning black lung disease benefits. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students study the parts of the human respiratory system. They examine the gas exchange process that occurs in the lungs and how engineers use this understanding to create items such as the heart-lung machine. They look at how respiration and lung capacity changes during spaceflight. Full Review »
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- 9th - 10th
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Students are introduced to genetics along with genetic diseases and heredity. In groups, they complete a Punnett Square to determine the dominant and recessive genes. After viewing diagrams, they identify the characteristics of DNA and demonstrate the processes of Meiosis and Mitosis. To end the lesson, they discover the factors that cause genes to mutate. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students study the parts of the human respiratory system while examining the gas exchange that takes place in the lungs. They make a model lung. They look at how the respiratory system is affected by spaceflight. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students investigate the negative effects of smoking on the lungs. They discuss the function of the lungs, identify the various damaging effects of smoking, and conduct a demonstration of how difficult it is to breathe if their lungs fill with tar by breathing through a straw while holding their nose. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students investigate the concept of lung capacity. They use flow meters to measure the maximum capacity of themselves and others. The data is collected in order to make some conclusions concerning the mean of individual lung capacity. The study sample is varied to reduce any bias. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students research and discuss health issues related to lungs and breathing in this technology-based lesson for upper elementary classrooms. Emphasis is placed on internet research including the use of Google and the website brainpop.com. Full Review »
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- 8th
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Students explore the similarities and differences between the Black Death and HIV/AIDS. They write an essay answering which is the worse plague, the current spread of HIV/AIDS or the Black Death in the mid-fourteenth century. They research the Internet and evaluate websites to record information and read about both topics. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students document information about the United Mine Workers of America and Black Lung disease through class discussion of relevant readings. They determine that part of the union movement was for basic human rights that addressed conditions like: wages, work hours, benefits, and health protection. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students investigate the lungs and the effects of smoking upon them. They conduct research with the help of using multiple resources. The information is used in order to create the context of models made from clay of healthy and diseased lungs. Full Review »
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