Respiratory System Models

Teacher Name: Jaclyn Minish 

School: Elrose Composite School 

Grade: 4/5 

Subject: Science 5 

Curricular Outcomes:  • HB 5.2 - Investigate the structure, function, and major organs of one or more human body systems such as the digestive, excretory, respiratory, circulatory, nervous, muscular, and skeletal systems. [SI, TPS]  • HB5.3 - Assess how multiple human body systems function together to enable people to move, grow, and react to stimuli. [SI]  

Summary

In our unit on the human body, I incorporated a hands on lesson and the use of technology. The students were given different materials such as straws, balloons and large pop bottles and were asked to create a model of the respiratory system. All of the models turned out great! They were then given a sheet with different QR codes (see appendix). Each group member was in charge of exploring one or two of the QR codes and then report back to the group. Once they were finished I asked them to explain what they had learned. Our final part of this lesson was to do a reflection and post it on their blogs.