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- 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 »
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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 »
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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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- 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 »
- Grade Range
- 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 »
- Grade Range
- 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 »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students will learn about the respiratory system by comparing and contrasting models, building their own models, and giving one another feedback. Questions about familiar body systems can be useful in getting students to start thinking about systems generally. They can then begin to understand that each organ affects and is affected by others. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 8th
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Students study the structure of the lungs and experiment to measure the amount of air in their lungs. They use lung models to tell what they have learned about their function. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 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 »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students examine the long- and short-term effects of smoking. They create a persuasive argument against smoking. Students are each given a drinking stray. They are asked to place the straws in their mouthns and breathe only through the straw for 30 seconds. Full Review »
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