Science W3
Science W3
Warm-up
Ask students to stand up, put their hands on their chest and to take a deep breath.
Science
Ask them to discuss the following questions with a classmate: What happens when Breathe In – Breathe Out
you take a deep breath? How do you feel? Why Does My When you take a breath, do you feel like something grows inside
your chest? When you breathe out, do you feel like you deflate?
Then, ask them to hold their breath for a couple of minutes before asking them to Breathing is the moving of air into and out of your lungs. Remember,
discuss the following: How did you feel? Did your chest stop moving? Why do you I Breathe? the lungs are inside your thoracic cavity or rib cage. Lungs don’t have
muscles and can’t move by themselves. They expand
and contract with the help of the diaphragm and the
think that happens? 01 Work in pairs. Follow the instructions. intercostal muscles.
1. Close your eyes, relax, and remain in silence When air comes in through your nose, it’s called
Let students share their answers in groups of three or four. for 60 seconds. inhalation. The lungs fill with air, expand, and your
2. Start counting how many times you inhale ribs rise. That is why you feel your chest expanding.
and exhale in a minute.
3. Check your answers with a classmate. Was When air exits your body, it’s called exhalation.
there a big or small difference? The intercostal muscles relax, the lungs contract,
and the ribs descend.
1. Breathing is the moving of air in and out of the body. 1. The thoracic cavity protects your lungs.
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Teaching Tip 2. Lungs don’t have any muscles .
2. Lungs are inside the rib cage. T
3. Lungs expand
3. Lungs have many muscles that move them. F
For Exercise 3 and contract .
4. The intercostal muscles help the lungs move. T
Divide the class into pairs. Give students a couple of minutes to read the text again. 4. The diaphragm moves the lungs
Tell them to look for words in the text that match the definitions in Exercise 3. When 5. Inhalation is when air exits your body. F up and down.
they finish, ask them to write new sentences about the topic using the keywords. 5. The process of breathing air out is
6. Exhalation is when air enters your body. F
called exhalation .
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03 Read the text again. Look for the words in the text
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that match the definitions. Write them in the boxes. 05 Work with a group of three. Prepare a small
presentation to explain in your own words how
1. to occupy or take up space fill inhalation and exhalation work. Use the illustration
below to help you.
2. curved bones protecting organs
in a cage ribs
Differentiation Strategy
3. when air exits your body exhalation
For Exercise 4
4. empty space within a
Go to the Differentiation Strategies Bank, and adapt this exercise using Strategy 4a. solid object cavity
Inhalation Exhalation
Flexi Exercises
(To adjust to students’ needs, you can choose whether to use the activities below) 38 Week 3
Exercise 1
Shaping My Knowledge
A Adapt [approx. 25 minutes] Why Does My When you take a breath, do you feel like something grows inside
your chest? When you breathe out, do you feel like you deflate?
Fe
s
that match the definitions. Write them in the boxes. 05 Work with a group of three. Prepare a small
presentation to explain in your own words how
1. to occupy or take up space fill inhalation and exhalation work. Use the illustration
below to help you.
2. curved bones protecting organs
in a cage ribs
Inhalation Exhalation
38 Week 3
Shaping My Knowledge
Teaching Tip
For Exercise 6
06 Complete the sentences using the letter of the
Have ready various sets of flashcards with all eight reflexive pronouns. Divide the correct option. You don’t need to use them all.
class in pairs and give each pair a set. Start the activity by saying a reflexive pronoun
a. herself b. himself c. itself d. myself
out loud. Each pair must show the flashcard with that reflexive pronoun and say a
sentence using the reflexive pronoun to their partner. Then, ask students to complete e. ourselves f. themselves g. yourself h. yourselves
Exercise 6 and share their answers when they finish.
1. You have to take care of your lungs g .
3. David read quietly to b about lung health. 5. Intercostal muscles move the lungs by f .
For Exercise 7 3.
Go to the Differentiation Strategies Bank, and adapt this exercise using Strategy 7.
Students write down a sentence with something they learned in today’s class on a
piece of paper and crumple it up. Students throw them up in the air on your signal.
They then pick up a nearby response on a piece of paper and find the students who 09 Discuss the following questions in groups of three.
wrote it. Students should explain what they wrote in their own words to the student Share your information with another group to see what
they answered.
who picked up their piece of paper.
› After reading the text, how important do you think
your lungs are?
› One of the actions that damage the lungs is smoking.
What are the results of smoking?
› How does it damage the lungs?
› How does it affect the respiratory system?
Flexi Exercises
(To adjust to students’ needs, you can choose whether to use the activities below) 39