Breathing and the Respiratory System Explained - Fully Resourced lesson Plus Smart Board Bingo KS3

A comprehensive, fully resourced lesson on breathing and the respiratory system plus an innovative, enjoyable and challenging smart board bingo game. Students have to work their way through the clues to find the code to a combination lock on the school tool store in which the school handyman has been accidentally locked

Prior Knowledge Required

• 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.

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

Smart Board Bingo

• Random question generator for smart board (interactive white board) – 50 questions
• Answer PowerPoint plus answer sheet
• 48 bingo cards
• Answers PowerPoint