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School Science Projects - The Human Body
Looking for an idea for a science project about the human body? Here are a few ideas to help:
Educate your class about asthma. You can use the links below for help:
- What is asthma?
- What are asthma triggers?
- Should people with asthma exercise?
- What are the signs of asthma?
- What to do if you think you have asthma
- What is a peak flow meter?
- What is an inhaler and how does it work?
- Asthma and its treatments
- Make a display or poster with a diagram of the lungs and show how the lungs work. You could also show the difference between someone with asthma vs. someone without asthma.
- Create a list of helpful hints for people with asthma and hand it out to classmates.
- Inform classmates about how they can help a friend who has asthma if they have an attack.
- Teach classmates about what activities are okay for someone who has asthma.
- Measuring lung capacity with:
- Construct a lung
- Gather your classmates together and time their breathing. Compare how many breaths they take:
- Per minute
- Per hour
- Per day
- Per year
- Show classmates what its like to have asthma by passing out drinking straws, and have them run in place for 1 minute while breathing through the straw.
- Show a video telling about asthma similar to the one found here.
Teach your class about allergies. Explain to them:
- What is an allergy?
- What triggers allergies?
- Who gets allergies?
- How does someone know they have allergies?
- How can a doctor determine which insects you are allergic to?
- What should people with allergies do differently than people without?
- What are symptoms of an allergic reaction?
- What is immunotherapy and how does it work?
- What is the immune system and how is it affected by allergies?
- What is anaphylaxis and how is it related to allergies?
- Make a diagram showing what happens in the body when someone has an allergic reaction.
- Obtain an Epi-Pen trainer to demonstrate how to inject it when an allergic reaction occurs.
- Make a poster showing the most common allergy triggers.
- Create a brochure listing steps to take in case someone has a severe allergic reaction and hand it out to your class.
- Show a video telling about allergies similar to the one found here.
For more information on allergies and asthma, visit the AAAAI Patient Gallery, the Allergy and Asthma Foundation of America (AAFA) and the Allergy and Asthma Network Mothers of Asthmatics (AANMA).
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