RESPIRATORY AND EXCRETORY SYSTEMS
Essential Understandings
The human respiration and excretion systems bring oxygen to your cells and remove waste from the body.
Essential Question
What is the basic structure and function of the human respiratory and excretory systems?
Lesson Objectives
Key Concepts
Class Assignments
Chapter 5 - Lesson 1 pages 143-148
Chapter 5 - Lesson 2 (6th and 7th grade)
We Got the Beat
RESPIRATORY SYSTEM - EXPLORE BREATHING
Links for Media Used in Class
Bill Nye - Respiratory System
Cow Lungs Inflating
Inflating Human Lungs - Healthy Lungs versus the Lungs of a Smoker
Functions of the Vocal Cords
Vocal Cords up close while singing
Speech-Language Pathology: The Vocal Cords in Action
We get plastic surgery only until 2:50
Cow Lungs Inflating
Inflating Human Lungs - Healthy Lungs versus the Lungs of a Smoker
The effects of smoking on your body
Experiment - Kids ask for a light
5 Weird Reasons Not to Smoke by Hank Green
What Smoking REALLY Does To The Lungs After Just 60 Cigarettes | Smoking Kills
What smoking really does to the lungs after 60 cigarettes (not english)
Hookah water after several hundred cigarettes
Debi Austin "Voicebox" - Tobacco Free CA
Debi Austin on Tobacco
TOP 40: SCARIEST ANTI-SMOKING COMMERCIALS (4/4) - Warning these are really really graphic.
Worksheets/Study Aids
Bill Nye - Respiratory System worksheet
Respiratory System Study Guide
Venn Diagram to compare and contrast capillaries, alveoli, and nephrons
Other Cool Stuff Related to These Lessons
Read More: Your Lungs and Respiration System by KidsHealth.org
Fun Lung Facts
The human respiration and excretion systems bring oxygen to your cells and remove waste from the body.
Essential Question
What is the basic structure and function of the human respiratory and excretory systems?
Lesson Objectives
- Label the major parts of the human respiratory system and explain in writing the function of each part (nasal cavity, trachea, bronchi, lungs and diaphragm).
- Design and conduct experiments with controlled variables to analyze the interaction between the circulatory and respiratory systems as the demand for oxygen changes.
Key Concepts
- The major parts of the human respiratory system are the nose, trachea, bronchi and lungs. This system is responsible for breathing and exchange of gases between the body and its surroundings.
- The respiratory and circulatory systems work together to provide all cells with oxygen and nutrients. When the body’s need for oxygen changes, the circulatory and respiratory systems respond by increasing or decreasing breathing and heart rates. These changes can be measured by counting breaths, heartbeats or pulses per minute.
- The nervous, immune and excretory systems interact with the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems to maintain the body’s dynamic internal balance (homeostasis).
Class Assignments
Chapter 5 - Lesson 1 pages 143-148
Chapter 5 - Lesson 2 (6th and 7th grade)
We Got the Beat
RESPIRATORY SYSTEM - EXPLORE BREATHING
Links for Media Used in Class
Bill Nye - Respiratory System
Cow Lungs Inflating
Inflating Human Lungs - Healthy Lungs versus the Lungs of a Smoker
Functions of the Vocal Cords
Vocal Cords up close while singing
Speech-Language Pathology: The Vocal Cords in Action
We get plastic surgery only until 2:50
Cow Lungs Inflating
Inflating Human Lungs - Healthy Lungs versus the Lungs of a Smoker
The effects of smoking on your body
Experiment - Kids ask for a light
5 Weird Reasons Not to Smoke by Hank Green
What Smoking REALLY Does To The Lungs After Just 60 Cigarettes | Smoking Kills
What smoking really does to the lungs after 60 cigarettes (not english)
Hookah water after several hundred cigarettes
Debi Austin "Voicebox" - Tobacco Free CA
Debi Austin on Tobacco
TOP 40: SCARIEST ANTI-SMOKING COMMERCIALS (4/4) - Warning these are really really graphic.
Worksheets/Study Aids
Bill Nye - Respiratory System worksheet
Respiratory System Study Guide
Venn Diagram to compare and contrast capillaries, alveoli, and nephrons
Other Cool Stuff Related to These Lessons
Read More: Your Lungs and Respiration System by KidsHealth.org
Fun Lung Facts
Standards
7.2 Many organisms, including humans, have specialized organ systems that interact with each other to maintain dynamic internal balance.
7.2.b. Multicellular organisms need specialized structures and systems to perform basic life functions.
C16. Describe the structures of the human respiratory and excretory systems and explain how they function to bring oxygen to the cells and expel waste materials.
Connecticut Curriculum Standards and Assessment Expectations: Grades 6 - 8, Science, C INQ.1-10
Next Generation Science Standards, Science and Engineering Practices 1-8, April 2013
7.2 Many organisms, including humans, have specialized organ systems that interact with each other to maintain dynamic internal balance.
7.2.b. Multicellular organisms need specialized structures and systems to perform basic life functions.
C16. Describe the structures of the human respiratory and excretory systems and explain how they function to bring oxygen to the cells and expel waste materials.
Connecticut Curriculum Standards and Assessment Expectations: Grades 6 - 8, Science, C INQ.1-10
Next Generation Science Standards, Science and Engineering Practices 1-8, April 2013