Making a Respiratory System Model !

Respiratory System Model

       In my daughter's school, the teachers don't stress out the kids by giving marks or grades  for projects and that I guess makes it all the more relaxed and a fun learning experience for the children! My daughter loves to make 3 D models and dioramas for her school projects and really likes to put in a lot of work!

Lungs Model

 Though the topic was respiratory system , we decided to just concentrate on the parts beyond the trachea!

Respiratory System Model- Alveoli

        Though I know most of my blogger friends will be least interested in a detailed tutorial of how to make a model of the Respiratory system...sharing a few steps all the same as  a lot of folks do google up such topics. Hehe yes... my blog stats tell me  a lot of people come to my blog searching about various such school project topics!!]
Making the Lungs, Trachea and Bronchi

Lung Model

We used big sponges to make the lungs and used regular scissors to snip off the excess sponge and shape it. Our lungs are actually life size though simplistic in shape!

Lung Model

There was some flexible plastic piping at home and this was perfect to make the trachea and bronchi and it was also helpful to explain to my daughter about the cartilaginous tissue forming these tubes!

Trachea and Bronchi Model

 We used an adhesive called Fevibond to stick one short piece of the tubing to a longer piece and thence form the point of bifurcation of the trachea into the bronchi.

Respiratory System Model

It was super easy to insert the "bronchus" into each  sponge "lung" by simply twisting the pipe in and securing with fevibond glue.

Lung Model

The part my daughter enjoyed the most was painting the lungs!

Making the Air Sacs [Alveoli] 

Making a  Model of Alveoli

 Alveoli [ tiny air sacs] are the endpoint of the respiratory system where the gaseous exchange takes place and we used tiny styrofoam [thermocol] balls and light weight air-drying clay to make the bunches of alveoli!

Model of Alveoli

We used plastic straws to make the " bronchioles" which  led to the alveoli, poked the straws into balls of clay and stuck the thermocol balls onto the clay.

Model of Alveoli

Coming back to the lungs...here are the painted lungs.

Making a Lung Model

And here is the model after attaching the tracheo-bronchial tree!

Respiratory System Model

To add charm to the model, my daughter  die-cut glitter foam letters  to form labels for  the parts.

Respiratory System Model

She was so proud that amongst all the models and charts the children had brought, her science teacher chose to keep her model in the showcase of their science lab so that junior and even senior children could see it!
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