- Create Air Ways
Document Actions
Create Air Ways
Target group: younger, quiet
Supplies
Either:
- paper, string, cotton balls, paper, tape, tubes, cotton, kleenex, string, elastics, crayons
- pipe wrap to use for airways (available at your local hardware store), pink felt or foam paper for airway lining, bubble wrap for mucous and elastics for muscles
Activity
- The students build 2 airways;
- The “healthy” airway has pink foam paper lining the inside of the pipe wrap, with the elastic loosely wrapped around the outside of the airway
- The “unhealthy” airway has the pink foam paper lining the inside of the pipe wrap; bubble wrap is laid on top of the foam paper, with elastics wrapped tightly around the outside of the airway
- Use cotton balls to represent mucous inserted into the “unhealthy” airway
- Show a completed model of a simple airway made out of a paper tube with a smaller diameter paper tube and cotton stuffing inside and string tied around tubes.
- Explain and point out the three things that occur in lungs when asthma gets worse:
- swelling or puffy inner lining
- muscles around the airways tighten
- increased mucous production
- Ask how much air we can blow through the airway?
- Invite the children to build their own asthma airway.
- As they are working on their models, ask them to explain how their airway works and what each component represents.
Last modified
2006-01-21 13:27
