Objectives Grades 4-6
Lesson One
Students will be able to:
- Define asthma as a condition that causes difficulty
with breathing.
- Explain that asthma can be controlled to allow
children to be active and healthy.
- Describe asthma as a condition that affects the
airways in the lungs.
- Explain that asthma cannot be caught like a cold or
infection.
- Describe the airways in the lungs as the part of
the respiratory system affected by asthma.
- Describe four signs and symptoms of an asthma
episode such as coughing, wheezing, and shortness of breath, and chest
tightness or chest pain.
- List four things that can make asthma worse such as
exercise, cigarette or other tobacco smoke, pollens, animals, colds, flu, and
cold air.
Lesson Two
Students will be able to:
- State that asthma can be controlled when someone
with asthma avoids the things that can make his/her asthma worse.
- Describe children with asthma as active, healthy
people who can run, play, and go to school.
- Identify the things classmates can do to help a
child who has asthma such as not tease, include the child with asthma in
activities, and remind the child to take his/her medicine, stay calm in case of
an emergency, get help if needed.
- State that children who think they or a friend
might have asthma can seek help from the people they live with, the school
nurse, a doctor, or teacher.
Lesson One Grades 4-6
Lesson Two Grades 4-6
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