Our Lungs

Verse:

Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Psalm 150:6

Books:

• "You Breathe In, You Breath Out All about Your Lungs" by David A. Adler
• "How Do Your Lungs Work?" by Don L. Curry

Things we did:

• identified the parts of the body involved in respiration using a bunch of grapes
  
• followed the respiratory pathway from our nose and mouth through the alveoli
• learned about oxygen and carbon dioxide blood gas exchange
• revisited the pathway of oxygenated blood through heart and body
• learned that cigarette smoking can damage our lungs and our body
• colored, cut and glued our lungs to our body

Vocabulary Words:

• cilia
• trachea
• bronchi
• bronchioles
• alveoli
• epiglottis
• diaphragm

Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps64D3Juv5A&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixMzP5oWngM

Helpful Websites:

http://kidshealth.org/kid/htbw/lungs.html
http://www.cyh.com/HealthTopics/HealthTopicDetailsKids.aspx?p=335&np=152&id=2406
http://www.brainpopjr.com/health/bodies/lungs/grownups.weml

Activities to do at home:
I like to use playdough whenever I can for the students to better learn about the organ they are studying. Making the lung with playdough is a great hands on activity you can do. I used pink playdough for the lungs and the blue playdough shows the respiratory pathway from the trachea, bronchi, bronchioles, and alveoli.