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- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students determine their respiratory rate and explore the factors that affect breathing rate. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students measure lung capacity and explore factors that affect the amount of air the lungs can hold. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 1st - 5th
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Students recognize that breathing is a necessary, automatic life process, then observe and record data on respiration rate. They use counting as a means of gathering data Full Review »
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- 10th - 11th
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Students determine pulse rates using Team Labs heart rate monitor software and probe. They determine the effect on pulse rate of at attention, holding your breath, breathing into a bag, deep breathing, exercise, and make a line graph using Excel. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students analyze the parts of the respiratory system in this five lesson unit. Gas excahnge, finding their own breathing rater, their lung capacity, and the creation of anti-smoking literature form the basis of these lessons. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students fill out an anonymous questionaire to explore whether they might have asthma. They then set up a spreadsheet to enter the data, decide on a definition of asthma, and figure out the prevalence of asthma. Pupils simulate what it feels like to have breathing problems like asthma by breathing through a straw at rest and while exercising. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 8th
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Students work in groups to predict which condition produces more breaths per minute. Groups record their breathing rates during rest periods and periods of activity. They graph their results and make comparisons to their predictions. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students' identify and define visible or invisible and odorous and non-odorous indoor air pollutants. Students' describe the link between illness and breathing polluted air. Students' identify and explain the amount of air in a given space is related to the size of the space. Students' calculate the amount of air in the classroom and how much air people breathe per minute and in one hour. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 8th
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Students monitor the heart rate of the test subject using the Exercise Heart Rate Monitor and evaluate the effects of hyperventilation and hypoventilation on heart rate and graph their results. Full Review »
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- 7th
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Students take simple measurements of time for the breathing rate lesson and circumference in the lung capacity lesson. They make simple calculations for both experiments, which will lead to their determination of their both active and resting breathing rate and their everyday normal lung capacity. Full Review »
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