How the Lungs Work

Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

Subject Area

Physical Education

Grade(s)

8

Overview

This TED-Ed learning activity guides students through the explanation of how the lungs work in keeping us alive.

When you breathe, you transport oxygen to the body’s cells to keep them working, while also clearing your system of the carbon dioxide that this work generates. How do we accomplish this crucial and complex task without even thinking about it? Emma Bryce takes us into the lungs to investigate how they help keep us alive.

The activity includes a video, multiple choice and open-ended questions, additional resources to dig deeper, and a guided discussion.

This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit.

Physical Education (2019) Grade(s): 8

PE19.8.3.10

Explain how body systems interact with one another during physical activity.

CR Resource Type

Learning Activity

Resource Provider

TED ED

License Type

Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives

Accessibility

Video resources: includes closed captioning or subtitles
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