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Lungs-Individual and Community Choices

Students will gain a better understanding of how individuals and communities make health decisions.

Objectives

  • Students will comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention.
  • Students will know health enhancing behaviors and how to reduce health risks.
  • Students will know how to use goal-setting and decision-making skills which enhance health.

Procedure

  • Review vocabulary: lungs, renewable energy, nonrenewable energy, air pollution, trachea, bronchiole tubes, alveoli, inhale, exhale
  • Review lungs and breathing.
  • Use Brainpop to review air pathway in body.
  • Discuss dangers of smoking and reinforce with pictures of black lungs.
  • Investigate other sources of black lungs, i.e coal mining.
  • Summarize and end on individual health choices and community health decisions.

Sunshine State Standards

  • HE.A.1.2.1
  • HE.A.1.2.2
  • HE.A.1.2.5
  • HE.B.1.2.1
  • HE.C.1.2.1
  • SC.A.2.2.1
  • SC.B.2.2.2
  • SC.D.2.2.1
  • SC.H.1.2.5

NETS Profiles for Technology Literate Students

  • Use keyboards and other common input and output devices (including adaptive devices when necessary) efficiently and effectively.
  • Use general purpose productivity tools and peripherals to support personal productivity, remediate skill deficits, and facilitate learning throughout the curriculum.
  • Use technology resources (e.g., calculators, data collection probes, videos, educational software) for problem solving, self-directed learning, and extended learning activities.

Materials

  • www.brainpop.com
  • lung models
  • google search for black lungs


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