3.17 Breathe Easy
This is Lesson 3.17 “Breathe Easy” from the Grow Your PALS Program Guide (The National FFA Mentoring Program), part of the “Making Good Choices” unit. The large-group lesson teaches students about respiration, has them conduct a breathe balloon test, and uses memory tests and a cigarette/cotton-ball demonstration to illustrate the harmful effects of smoking and drugs and the importance of making good choices for a healthy lifestyle.
At a glance
- Learning objectives
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- Understand respiration.
- Conduct a breathe balloon test.
- Describe the effects of smoking and drugs.
- Time required
- Instruction time for this lesson: 50 minutes.
- Materials
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- One balloon per group
- Ruler per group
- Conversion chart of cubic inches per group
- Pen and pencil per student
- Clean syringes
- Cotton balls
- One cigarette
- One box of matches
- PALS.3.17.LG.AS.B – one per student
- PALS3.17.LG.ASSESS.A – one per student
- Unit
- Making Good Choices
- Lesson Type
- Large Group
- Precepts
- N. Decision Making; N3. Make ethical decisions
- Key Terms
- Respiration
Downloads & Links
Aligned Standards
National Standards
- CS.02.01.02.b.Implement a plan for respecting one's body.
- NL-ENG.K-12.12Applying Language Skills
- NL-ENG.K-12.5Communication Strategies – Students employ a wide range of strategies as they write and use different writing process elements appropriately to communicate with different audiences for a variety of purposes.
- NM-MEA.6-8.1Understand Measurable Attributes of Objects and the Units, Systems, and Processes of Measurement
- NS.K-4.6Science in Personal and Social Perspectives