Information for teachers - Learning all about asthma

TEACHERS

What are the children's page about?

These are 5 interactive pages that introduce the functioning of the lungs and asthma. They are aimed at children from ages 8 - 10 years old.

The idea is that these pages can be used by children on their own - if they want - so we have included cartoons, word searches and a quiz to make the process more enjoyable.

We hope these pages can also be used as a teaching aide. This teaching materials page includes some simple, downloadable data from all the children who took part in the 'Asthma in Ashford' Study. All data has been anonymised but we hope it will be more interesting for children to have 'real' data when learning about spreadsheets and graphs.

There is also a more complex quiz for use in the classroom based on all the information found on the kids pages.

Data to download

This information is based on a study investigating the causes of childhood asthma. Data was collected from 642 children from birth through to 6 years old in Ashford, Kent. The data reflects the current beliefs about possible environmental causes of asthma such as exposure to house dust mite, cat dander and other aeroallergens. Please click on the house icon top left of the page if you would like more complete information on the study.

Click here to open data

(15kb)

Click here to download a zipped file (you will need winzip to unzip the file) (2kb)

Quiz

The following questions and answers are based entirely on information in these pages.

Click here to a printer friendly quiz without answers.

Click here to a printer friendly quiz with answers.

Click here to go to an online quiz.

	1.	Why do we need Oxygen?
		Click here for answer 1
	2.	How does Oxygen get from the air into our blood?
		Click here for answer 2
	3.	How many air sacks are there in our lungs?
		Click here for answer 3
	4.	What happens when someone has an asthma attack?
		Click here for answer 4
	5.	What happens to people who are allergic to pollen?
		Click here for answer 5
	6.	What is carbon dioxide?
		Click here for answer 6
	7.	What are the three most common allergens (things that people can have an allergy to)?
		Click here for answer 7
	8.	Where would you find these allergens?
	i)	House dust mite?
	ii)	Pollen?
	iii)	Cat dander?
		Click here for answer 8
	9.	Name four facts that we know about the spread of asthma
		Click here for answer 9
	10.	Can you think of the 'proper' name for ..
	i)	The windpipe?
	ii)	The tubes in the lungs?
	iii)	The tiny air sacs in the lungs?
	iv)	The muscle that helps pump air in and out of the lungs?
		Click here for answer 10
	11.	Can you name some things in the home that don't cause allergies?
		Click here for answer 11
	12.	How would you help someone who was having an asthma attack?
		Click here for answer 12.


Educational links
You may find these links useful to further explore different areas of science in the classroom

	www.ngfl.gov.uk	National Grid for Learning: Click here for games and quizzes for under 11's

	www.naturegrid.org.uk	Canterbury Environmental Education Centre, Kent, UK

	www.marwell.org.uk	Marwell Zoological Park

	www.sciencemadesimple.com	Children's science projects, simple science experiments & kids science questions answered

	www.scienceweb.org.uk	Scienceweb provides a ranges of free curriculum-led teaching resources supporting the National Curriculum for England and Wales with an extensive links page to further sites

	www.bbc.co.uk/science	Games, competitions, interactive human body, dinosaurs, etc

	www.schoolnet.org.uk/keystage_1/science	Science and links (for more links on this click here)

	www.gridclub.com	Science activites

	www.kent.gov.uk/e&l/artslib/kids/home	Kent County Council Arts and libraries

	www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/websites/sci	Kent NGfL 1001 science web sites

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