- ASTHMA Flash Cards
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ASTHMA Flash Cards
Target group: all ages
Supplies: six large bristol board posters, each with one letter “A-S-T-H-M-A”
Activity
- Six students are assigned a letter and holds that piece of Bristol board facing the audience, in a line spelling out the word “asthma”.
- The facilitator introduces the group and indicates that the presentation will help to summarize what the students have learned during the RAP program.
- Each student takes a turn, beginning with the first letter A. The student steps forward and reads the information provided on the reverse side of the Bristol board to the audience.
Example
A is for airway.
- At RAP we learned what happens to our airways when we have an asthma episode. We built asthma model airways. The airways are cool!
S is for warning signs.
- We learned what signs tell us that our asthma is getting out of control, like when we wheeze or cough.
T is for triggers.
- Triggers are things that make our asthma worse, like cats, pollen, dust and being around someone who smokes.
H is for help.
- We learned that we need each others’ help and understanding about asthma. We can do anything everyone else can, like sports and running.
M is for medication.
- We learned how to take our puffers properly. We understand how our puffers help our airways by knowing what each puffer’s job is.
A is for aerochamber.
- We use our aerochamber so most of our medication goes into our lungs and not our mouth.
Other students can hold props related to specific letters and explanations. For example, a student standing beside the "A is for airways" card could hold up the airways they built and explain the differences.
This idea came from the RAP instructors at Credit Valley Hospital, Ontario.
Last modified
2006-01-22 16:46
