Lesson Three

Title

BREATHING FROM STRENGTH

Subject

Resilience

Author

Donna Backues

Grade level
Time duration

7-11
2 hours

Overview

Through singing, color theory, painting, breathing exercise and inquiry,

children will become more aware of their bodies and will learn about what
smoking can do to their lungs.

Objective

Children will learn the effects of smoking on the lungs

Materials
Activities and procedures

Name tags/Bouncy Ball/Tempera paint/brushes/white paper/Percussion

Instruments/Printout of Motto/Paper with rules/embellishments/glue
GREETING & INTRODUCTION
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Greet children with a handshake as they enter

Direct them to find their name tag and let new children create one
with markers only & emoji stickers
Circle up and introduce yourself again for new children and bounce
a small ball to another student to catch and say their name then say
their favorite color. Then that child bounces to someone else and so
on.
Obwisana Song with percussion eggs (review song first then motion)
Say Motto and have children repeat it back
Rules review

PAINT MIXING SESSION

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Give each child a piece of a paper, a brush, a rag, a water cup, plate
with paint and a plate for a palette
Demonstrate the proper way to clean the brush
Teach students about primary colors and then show how to mix
secondary colors
Mixed colors are painted in circles to make a small color wheel
Teach students how to mix values by starting with white and adding
small additions of one other color
Let students make lots of different colors variations

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Then have the students make sad, dull colors and add these colors to
the weak lungs on the body silhouettes from Day 2.
Then have the student make happy colors and add them to the strong
lungs.

BREATHING EXERCISE to relax

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Come together in a circle

Hand out a pinwheel to each child
Instruct the children to breathe in deeply and hold it for 2 seconds
(signal this by holding a finger up for each second) then have them
breathe out slowly and completely making the pinwheel spin as long
as they can.
Repeat this 2 more times

FILLING THE LUNGS

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Show the children a picture of the good lungs

Show the children a picture of the bad lungs
Divide the groups into the same 2 groups as before
Show the group the embellishments that can be used to glue onto the
lungs (one pile is full of bright colors, the other is full of dark and
dreary colors)
Remind the children to use enough glue demonstrate first
Tell group 1 to make the strong lungs look bright and cheerful
Tell group 2 to make the weak lungs look sad and dull
Hang the papers side by side if possible, if not just leave on the
ground and take a photo with the children surrounding it.

INQUIRY 2
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Closing Ritual

Ask the children to describe what they see

Ask them which lungs would be able to move the pinwheel the
longest

REPEAT MOTTO
SING CLOSING SONG (Day O adaptation)
De-O, de-e-e-O
Sudah waktu ayo kita pulang
De, wi se de-e-e-O
Sudah waktu ayo kita pulang
De, wi se de, wi se de, wi se
Sudah waktu ayo kita pulang
Sudah waktu ayo kita pulang
Sudah waktu ayo kita pulang