Living Earth · Week 8 · Matter and Energy in Living Systems
Breathing Out Energy
Modeling cellular respiration and practicing slow breathing as a tool to steady the body before a test.
- Students will
- Students model cellular respiration as the release of energy from glucose and oxygen, and explain why breathing rate rises with activity.
- SEL skill
- Use slow breathing to steady the body and mind during a task
- What it looks like
- Students practice self-management with slow breathing to steady the body.
- Content focus
- Cellular respiration and steady breathing
- Format
- Partner exchange
Self-management
Self-management is steering your own feelings, thinking, and actions toward the goals you set. More self-management activities
What you get
A teacher guide with what to say, step by step, plus student pages and a supports page for students with diverse learning needs, including those with IEPs. Print or Project it, or assign it in Google Forms and Google Docs for Google Classroom. Your first 10 activities are free.
Standards
- HS-LS1-7: High School Life Science performance expectation
- Science and engineering practice: SEP2 Developing and using models
- Crosscutting concept: CCC5 Energy and matter
- Literacy in science: RST.9-10.3 Follow a complex multistep procedure when carrying out experiments or taking measurements.
- Traditional course: Biology
Fits these textbook chapters
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More self-management activities for Living Earth
- Carrying Capacity and Limits Self-managementGraphing population growth up to a carrying capacity, then naming the limits on students' own energy and time.
- Building Blocks of Life Self-managementExplaining how carbon from sugar becomes proteins and fats, and how small daily actions build larger goals.
- Survival in the Heat Self-managementExplaining the adaptations of desert pupfish and naming the personal adaptations students use to handle stress.
- Probability of Traits Self-managementUsing Punnett squares and probability to predict traits while practicing calm when outcomes feel uncertain.
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