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    The document describes a learning activity where students hold their breath above ground to see how long they can last. It explains that the world record for static apnea underwater is over 11 minutes. The activity instructs students to take turns holding their breath while someone times them with a stopwatch, with the longest time winning. It includes process questions about the challenge, what happens if we don't breathe, what breathing does for our body, and which organ system is responsible for breathing.

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    Activity 1 - How Long Can You Hold Your Breath

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    Emman Revilla
    The document describes a learning activity where students hold their breath above ground to see how long they can last. It explains that the world record for static apnea underwater is over 11 minutes. The activity instructs students to take turns holding their breath while someone times them with a stopwatch, with the longest time winning. It includes process questions about the challenge, what happens if we don't breathe, what breathing does for our body, and which organ system is responsible for breathing.

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    SCIENCE 9

    Name: ______________________________________ Date:


    _____________________
    Grade and Section: ____________________________ Teacher:
    __________________

    LEARNING ACTIVITY SHEET

    HOW LONG CAN YOU HOLD YOUR BREATH?

    Static apnea (STA) is a discipline in which a person holds


    their breath (apnea) underwater for as long as possible and need not
    swim any distance. Serbian Branko Petrović set a new Guinness
    World Record in static apnea in 2014, beat-ing Frenchman Stefane
    Mifsud by 19 seconds and pushing the new limit out to 11 minutes
    and 54 seconds.
    Online challenges are popular nowadays. Today, we will
    have a challenge. We will find how out how long you will be able
    to hold your breath above the ground.

    Procedure:
    1. Ask one or two members of the family to perform this challenge with you.
    2. You will have to perform the task one by one.
    3. One of you shall record the time using a stopwatch while the other is doing the task.
    4. The task is for you hold your breath by pinching your nose and closing your mouth.
    5. The one with the longest time recorded holding his/her breath wins the challenge.

    Process Questions:
    1. Did you find the challenge challenging? Why?
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    2. What if we stop breathing? What will happen?
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    3. What does breathing do to our body?
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    4. Which organ system is responsible for this important process?
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