Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How Do the Lungs Work?

For Students 9th - 10th
When you breathe, you transport oxygen to the body's cells to keep them working, while also clearing your system of the carbon dioxide that this work generates. How do we accomplish this crucial and complex task without even thinking...
Article
DOGO Media

Dogo News: Week of 4 4 16: Go Ahead and Let Out That Long Sigh

For Students 5th - 8th
Learn why it's important for our lungs to sigh. Includes video.
Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Breath of Life: Does Exercise Increase Vital Capacity?

For Students 9th - 10th
When you take a deep breath, the amount of air you are capable of holding within your lungs, is known as your lung capacity. It is not the same for everyone. This lab asks you to find out if it is possible to increase your lung capacity...
Unit Plan
Science Museum of Minnesota

Science Museum of Minnesota: Your Heart and Lungs

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn everything you've ever wanted to know about your heart and lungs as you journey through this human gallery. Animations, videos, lessons and links to new technologies are included.
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Polluted Air = Polluted Lungs

For Teachers 4th - 7th
To gain a better understanding of the roles and functions of components of the human respiratory system and our need for clean air, students construct model lungs that include a diaphragm and chest cavity. They see how air moving in and...
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Anatomy and Physiology: Cardiopulmonary Sys Transportation

For Students 9th - 10th
Through informational text along with printable notes, animations, video clips, and practice problems, students discover how the structures of the cardiovascular and respiratory systems work together and function as one. Provides lots of...
Website
Other

National Lung Health Ed. Program: About Your Lungs

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource contains general information on breathing and lungs, as well as information on two lung disorders: asthmatic bronchitis and chronic bronchitis or emphysema.
Article
WebMD

Web Md: Emphysema Every Breath You Take

For Students 9th - 10th
This overview provided by WebMD Health gives information on emphysema and discusses the different treatment options people afflicted with emphysema have to explore. A picture, is given along with helpful resources and additional...
Activity
Other

Canadian Lung Association: Respiratory System

For Students 3rd - 8th
A chart of the repiratory system and an explanation of the various components.
Activity
Science Museum of Minnesota

Science Museum of Mn Lesson Plan: Lung Model

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
In this lesson plan site, students do an experiment, read, and view pictures to learn about the parts of the body that are involved in the breathing process. Contains related links.
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Just Breathe

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students explore the inhalation/exhalation process that occurs in the lungs during respiration. Using everyday materials, they create a model pair of lungs.
Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Out of Breath

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
This lesson goes over the parts of the human respiratory system and the gas exchange process that occurs in the lungs. It also covers changes in the respiratory system that occur during spaceflight, such as decreased lung capacity.
Handout
Inner Body

Innerbody: Respiratory System: Terminal Bronchi and Alveoli

For Students 9th - 10th
Detailed description and illustration of the terminal bronchi and alveoli.
Lesson Plan
Other

Simple Science: Breathing Lesson

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The innovative resource has learners investigate, diagnose, and assess the severity of emphysema in the lungs of three patients using transverse CT images of the upper and lower lungs. The activity has an interactive online version and a...
Handout
Other

Lung Association of Saskatchewan: How Do We Breathe?

For Students 9th - 10th
This Lung Association of Saskatchewan site for kids explains how we breathe and the basic mechanics.
Lesson Plan
Other

Inside the Human Body: The Respiratory System (Grades 7 12 Teacher Resources)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This teacher's resource page accompanies the student website ?Inside the Human Body: The Respiratory System? for grades seven through twelve from the Canadian Lung Association. This site walks teachers through the features of the student...
Interactive
Other

Inside the Human Body: The Respiratory System (Professair's Mad Lab)

For Students 1st - 9th
Have fun learning about the human body's respiratory system while playing games in Professair's Mad Lab! These interactive games have colorful graphics and are broken into three grade groupings: grades one to three, four to six, and...
Website
Other

Inside the Human Body: The Respiratory System (Grades 4 6 Teacher Resources)

For Teachers 4th - 7th
This teacher's resource page accompanies the student website "Inside the Human Body: The Respiratory System" for grades four through six from the Canadian Lung Association. This site walks teachers through the features of the student...
Website
Other

Inside the Human Body: The Respiratory System (Grades 1 3 Teacher Resources)

For Teachers 1st - 4th
This teacher's resource page accompanies the student website "Inside the Human Body: The Respiratory System" for grades one through three from the Canadian Lung Association. Not only does this site walk teachers through the features of...
Website
Other

Inside the Human Body: The Respiratory System (Grades 1 3)

For Students 1st - 4th
Students in grades one through three will love learning about the body's respiratory system through a variety of fun and interactive activities. Particularly engaging is the online storybook that teaches children about the heart and...
Unit Plan
Other

Inside the Human Body: The Respiratory System

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This site has respiratory system activities and learning games for students at all grade levels.
Activity
North Central Regional Educational Laboratory

Kids Learn: Respiratory System Internet Workshop

For Students 9th - 10th
Come and explore this internet workshop that was designed to introduce you to a study on the respiratory system. Students and teachers will benefit from this resource.
Website
Ducksters

Ducksters: Science for Kids: Breathing and the Respiratory System

For Students 1st - 9th
Kid's learn about the science of human breathing and the lungs. How we get oxygen into our blood and remove carbon dioxide.
Activity
Science Museum of Minnesota

Science Museum of Minnesota: Habits of the Heart: About Your Lungs

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn about your lungs by viewing animations and interactives of the respiratory system and actually see your lungs at work.