Breathing and Respiration Explained - Fully Resourced Lesson Plus 42 Question Board Game KS3

A comprehensive, fully resourced lesson for middle school on breathing and the respiratory system plus an enjoyable and challenging board game for up to six players a set.

What’s Covered

• Breathing is movement of air in and out of the lungs.
• Respiration is the release of energy from glucose.
• Breathing provides the oxygen for aerobic respiration and gets rid of waste carbon dioxide.
• Label the trachea, right bronchus, bronchiole, alveolus, intercostal muscle, rib, diaphragm.
• Label a diagram of an alveolus and show the direction of diffusion of oxygen and carbon dioxide.
• Experiment using limewater to compare the amount of carbon dioxide in inhaled and exhaled air.
• Compare the percentage of oxygen, carbon dioxide and nitrogen in inhaled and exhaled air.
• Mechanism of breathing.
• Changes in volume and pressure inside the chest during inhalation and exhalation.
• Evaluate a model of the mechanism of breathing.
• Design an investigation into how breathing rate varies with exercise.

What’s Included

Lesson

• Animated PowerPoint for teaching with exit ticket quiz
• Answer/mark scheme PowerPoint
• Flip it (pupil writes questions to given answers)
• Anticipation Guides (combined starter and plenary)
• Foldable
• Cut and stick activity.
• Worksheet to support the PowerPoint
• Fact sheet
• Homework plus answers
• Fact share worksheet
• Pupil progress self-assessment checklist
• Exit Ticket
• Suggested lesson plan showing choices possible between resources

Board Game

• Game board
• 42 Question cards with questions of varying difficulty
• Teacher answer sheet
• Instruction sheet.

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