Life-Size Respiratory System Model

I absolutely love teaching the body systems! There are so many neat things that you can do to teach them. There are so many questions that the students come up with that make it fun as well.

For the beginning of our Respiratory System lessons, I decided to let my students make a life-size model of the respiratory system. This allowed them to get familiar with the parts while moving around and enjoying class.

I put them into groups of four. Each student had a job. Students were to trace an outline of someone in their group and then draw and label specified parts.

Jobs:

1) Materials/Piece of Art – in charge of gathering materials needed and will be the person getting traced. Responsible for helping the recorder.

2) Time Keeper – Make sure to get the task done within the allotted time; Will also be in charge of helping the artist.

3) Artist – Draw the respiratory system .

4) Recorder – The recorder will write down the functions for each body part and will be responsible for telling the rest of the group.

Students were given a textbook picture of the respiratory system to go by. They were to draw and label the following respiratory system parts:

1) Nose

2) Pharynx

3) Larynx

4) Trachea

5) Bronchi

6) Bronchioles

7) Alveoli

8) Lungs

9) Diaphragm

It was so funny to see the students doing this. It was also funny seeing how big the outline of the body became because the artist was too afraid to get close to the person being traced.

Here are some of examples of my students' work.