TOPIC: BREATHING.

OBJECTIVES.
At the end of the lesson you should be able to:
1. Define the term breathing.
2. State how gender, state of health and level of activity affect
breathing rates.
3. Investigate breathing rates of students before and after exercise.
4.Draw a bar chart to show breathing rates of students before and
after exercise.
 QUICK ACTIVITY.
Task 1:
Sit quietly in a chair and breath in and out and note what happens to the air as it
moves into and from the body.
Question: Based on activity what is breathing in your own words?. Write this in
your book.

Task 2:
Look back at the parts of the respiratory system and draw a flow diagram to show
the pathway air moves through the respiratory system based on the previous
lesson.
 WHAT IS BREATHING?
•Breathing is the movement of air into and out of the lungs in the
respiratory system.
•Breathing involves two major processes
• Inhalation or inspiration: movement of air into the lungs.
• Exhalation or expiration: movement of air out of the lungs.
BREATHING RATES.
•Breathing rate is the number of breathes taken by an
individual over a specific time.
•Question: Do you breathe at the same rate all the time? Yes/
No.

•Question: What time have you breath faster than how you are
breathing now?
If you guess exercise you are correct.
Task 3: Run backward and forward over the same distance for 3
minutes.
Question: What do you recognize happens to your breathing rate
during exercise and after exercise ( running) when compared to
when you were at rest. Write this in your book.
FACTORS WHICH AFFECTS
BREATHING RATES.
•Breathing rates are affected by level of activity (exercise),
gender and state of health.
 ACTIVITY.
The table below shows information collected by a students who
counted the number of breathes taken three times before and after
exercise.
  Number of breaths per minute (breaths per minute).
  Before exercise After exercise
Trial 1  25  50
 
Trial 2  20  40
 
Trial 3  30  60
 
Total.
Average breathing rate    
(breaths per minute).

1. Draw the table

2. Calculate the average breathing rate before and after exercise.
 Formula: total divide by 3.
Draw a bar chart on graph paper to show the average breathing rates before and
after exercise.
Example of bar chart is shown below.
Steps to draw bar chart:
1 Draw L on corner of graph paper.
2. Draw scale on Y axes ( axes with numbers below). For scale for each 5cm
box use 5 units. ( count upwards by 5). 5
Chart Title
3. Label Y axes according to what the number shows.
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Y axes 2.5
2
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0.5
0
Category 1 Category 2
X axes
4. Find position of calculated averages on y axes
and draw bar for before and after exercise.
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Chart Title
Bars must be evenly spaced. 4.5
4

5. Label X axes based on type of breathing rates 3.5

3

( before or after exercise.) 2.5

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6. Label Y axes 1.5

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0.5
7. Write a title for the chart at the top. 0
Category 1 Category 2
Answer the following questions based on data on graph.

1. What was the average breathing rate before exercise?

2. What was the average breathing rate after exercise?
3. What was the effect of exercise on breathing rates?