What we did in LIFT

My camera broke this week, so unfortunately there are not any pictures to show you all we did and the fun we had.
Hopefully, by next week our new camera will be here =)

This week we started out with a fun science experiment and made "gluep".

We learned about how our lungs work and played some fun games to learn the different parts of the incredible "breathing machine" we have in our bodies.





Using some different props, we did a little skit/drama performing what actually happens in your body when you breathe - the diaphragm muscle pulls the oxygen through our trachea and into the lungs, and then pushes the bad air- CO2 (Carbon dioxide) out.

We made our own model of lungs- with a balloon and a pop bottle to show how it looks.

We also played some fun games to learn lung anatomy vocabulary and made some paper cut out pictures of the lungs.

We even watched a video of an actual cow lung breathing! Yes, gross is fun and can be educational too!


With each of these areas, we are learning specific information but it is the process - the thinking, the evaluating, and the making conclusions - that is the most important part of what we are doing.

Tackling the subjects this way does so much more than simply feeding them information and giving them the answer to questions. They have to use all different parts of their minds. Not just the memory section :-)

Things to do:
have them show you wheare the trachea, lungs, and diaphragm are and what they do. (you probably need to give them some hints, since we just learned this)