Teaching this curriculum unit will include background information in science, hands on activities, math lessons, reading, and writing activities. The unit will be taught as part of our fifth grade science curriculum. Our curriculum requires we teach the human body. I will focus on the respiratory and circulatory systems. The students will learn and have hands on demonstrations for the various drug delivery systems for asthma in correlation with our school nurse, using nebulisers, spacers and recognizing the differences.
The students with our school nurse will test heart rates.
The objectives for this unit are:
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· The students will learn the identification and functions of the circulatory and respiratory systems.
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· The students will identify symptoms of asthma.
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· Students will be able to identify different drug delivery systems children use for treating asthma.
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· Students will have knowledge of the most prevalent illness with children in the U.S.
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· Students will be able to understand biomedicine and engineering.