Smoke vs Lungs
This activity is about air pollution and how to easily demonstrate to kids the impact of the pollution in our lungs.
- Discuss with kids about the Impact of Climate Change on Human Healt
- Ask them if they know any situation or example or even if they have heard about someone being ill because of the pollution!
- Have they ever discuss about climate changes with their families and do they believe in Air Pollution as one of the main cause of death.
- Watch the video together with kids about ‘smoking’ and see what it causes to lungs.
- Explain to kids that this is so similar with the air we breathe in when the air is polluted.
- If possible, make the experiment with the kids and discuss after what kids saw during the experiment and after it.
Video source
Air pollution and its effects!
Before starting the activity with kids, please check the video on the ‘Source’ where you can get some questions and ask the kids the same ones.
For this activity there are 2 videos which will ease the understanding of air pollution to kids.
You can make discussing with kids about the Air pollution and its effects on human health. After that, you can show the videos to kids and it will help them to better understand the concept of the Air pollution and its effects on Human Health.
Video source
Source 1: https://youtu.be/AV6Rx8uvUjk
Source 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=58&v=n3DM5scRpns&feature=emb_title
Global warming and the effect on people
Global warming has also a bad impact of people’s health. Do this activity with kids and see how much they know about Global warming.
- Brainstorm about Global warming and its effects
- Watch the video from ‘Bill Nye’ where he makes simple experiments and explain the effects of climate change
- If possible, make the experiment with kids so they can see the real effect
- Discuss with kids what they saw in the video and how they could work on preventing those things from happening
- Give them homework to check different experiments on the internet about
- Climate Change and Human Health