Digital Unit Plan Template
Unit Title: Human respiration
Name: Rukhsana A. Khan
Content Area: Biology
Grade Level: 9
CA Content Standard(s)/Common Core Standard(s):
1.4 Integration and Control of Human Organ Systems
a. relate the complimentary activity of major body systems (e.g. Circulatory, digestive, respiratory, excretory) to provide cells with oxygen and nutrients and remove waste
products.
Big Ideas:
Students will gain an understanding of the relationship between structure and function of respiratory organs, to conduct the process of respiration.
Students will be engaged in laboratory experiments to understand and comprehend the anatomy and mechanism of human respiration through observation, analysis and
evaluation.
Students will learn the connection between the respiratory system and the other important systems in the body (cardiovascular, digestive, and reproductive) by analyzing
the question “what is the connection”.
Goals and Objectives:
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Students will be able to describe respiration.
Perform various measurable scientific activities to understand various pathways and mechanisms of gas exchange.
Students will compare and contrast the parts of the respiratory system and identify the structures.
Students will work in groups on labs and be need to complete webquests and quizzes.
Students will be able to perform experiments by using their own measurable exercise activities.
Students will be able to relate the processes quantitatively and qualitatively.
Students will differentiate among breathing, and respiration and their individual mechanisms.
Will explain how tobacco affects respiratory system.
Unit Summary:
In this lesson unit students will understand the structure and mechanism of human respiration. Students will perform experiments to get thorough knowledge of several
respiratory processes and pathways like: breathing inhalation, exhalation, hyperventilation, and gas exchange. Students will be given tasks to explore different scientific
facts of the respiratory system. Students will be engaged observing each of the unique respiratory organs. They will learn anatomy through direct observations of the 3-D
models for these structures with labelling and vocabulary exercises. Students will learn the connection between the respiratory system and the other important systems in
the body (cardiovascular, digestive, and reproductive).
Assessment Plan:
Entry-Level:
Respiration: What makes breathing so great?
Brainstorm activities to assess pre-knowledge.
Student journals.
Formative:
Discussion with PowerPoint lecture.
Worksheet where student color and label respiratory
system with vocabulary.
The respiratory system has two parts: the upper part &
lower part. The class would be divided in two.
Upper part: Nose, mouth.
Lower part: Below the throat.
The two groups will diagram their parts.
The group will do an oral presentation to explain to the
opposite group their part.
Bring the class back together to explain how breathing,
though important, is not the only type of respiration.
Quiz - Vocabulary / labeling the diagram.
Summative:
The lasting effects of what seems as a simple function as
breathing is connected to a bigger function.
A journal entry on either question.
How has your thought changed since learning about
respiration?
How can you think of respiration on a global scale?
Lesson 1
Student Learning Objective:
Students will understand the
anatomy of respiration.
Students will describe the
function of individual organs.
Students will be able to
comprehend the relationship
between structure and
function of respiratory
system.
Acceptable Evidence:
Students will be given a prequiz or/and will perform a
presentation about the
analysis of important
vocabulary terms, including:
pharynx, trachea, larynx,
bronchus, alveolus,
diaphragm, nicotine, carbon
monoxide and emphysema
Instructional Strategies:
☒ Communication
☒ Collection
☒ Collaboration
☒ Presentation
☒ Organization
☒ Interaction
Lesson Activities:
1. Watch a video about effects of atmosphere pressure and O2 on our body
system. (Unit resources page)
2. A post quiz about the video
3. Students will make a table with three columns; K(what they already know)
,W (they want to know ), and L (what they learned in the end)
4. Labeling of the diagram of respiratory system
5. Lab activity – Creation of artificial lung using balloons.
5. Power point presentation
6. Lab activity to determine presence of CO2 in your expired breath (CO2 and
limewater video on unit resources page)
7. Journal writing about today’s activities with a critical thinking point how
breathing is related to respiration?
Acceptable Evidence:
Pre quiz, completion of
vocabulary list.
Instructional Strategies:
☐ Communication
☒ Collection
☐ Collaboration
☒ Presentation
☐ Organization
☒ Interaction
Lesson Activities:
1. Lecture
2. Writing a paragraph by collecting the previous knowledge about respiration
3. Students will complete an online web quest about human respiration.
4. A dramatic play “Chase the air”( or in n out in 5sec) in which students play the
part of different organs of respiration, air ( a mixture of gases ), and CO2.
They will chose an organ and write its name on a piece of paper or draw and color
it appropriately and cut and tape it in front of their body, etc.
Lesson 2
Student Learning Objective:
Students will describe,
identify and intensify their
knowledge by answering oral
questions. They will explain
how breathing, respiration,
and gas exchange processes
are related.
Lesson 3
Student Learning Objective:
Students will be able to relate
the process of respiration to
their own bodies.
Students will obtain scientific
proof through a lab
experiment about the fatal
effects of tobacco on living
cells.
Acceptable Evidence:
Presentations
Pin pointing the right name
and function of the
respiratory organs.
Vocabulary related to
smoking and terminology of
the diseases related to it.
Instructional Strategies:
☐ Communication
☐ Collection
☒ Collaboration
☐ Presentation
☒ Organization
☐ Interaction
Lesson Activities:
1. In two groups, the students will discuss the upper and lower respiratory organs.
2. Breathing Lab - “Holding your breath experiment” located on unit resources
page.
3. Lab activity of determination of CO2 during rest and after exercise.
4. Lab activity to determine the lethal effect of tobacco.
Unit Resources:
Prentice Hall Biology, Teacher’s Edition by Miller and Levine, 2004
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRv2zYH5p9k – Video demonstration of how to make an artificial lung.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KbEV85rJhs – Video on how carbon dioxide dissolves in water.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HuyUxJBY3E – Video showing proof of exhaling carbon dioxide.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tovsOiSvZ_c – Effects on the body during low oxygen environments.
http://quizstar.4teachers.org/indexs.jsp - Used for online quizzes.
http://prezi.com/akpfhabhvwbf/mechanisms-of-respiration/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy – Online presentation about human respiration.
Useful Websites:
http://www.stateoftheair.org/
http://www.tobaccofreeca.com/
http://www.health.com/health/gallery/0,,20443619,00.html
http://quizlet.com/16488557/flashcards