NAME: _______________________ DATE: ____________________

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Activity 3
Just Go with the Flow!
Objectives:
 Describe blood flow and gas exchange within the heart, circulatory system, and lungs
 Explain the mechanism of how the respiratory and circulatory systems work together
Materials:
Paper strips Rope or ribbon
Marking pen Chalk
Procedure:
1. Perform the activity with your group mates (7-8 persons).
2. Assign and label different areas in the outdoor setting as: lungs, left atrium, left ventricle,
arteries, capillary, veins, right ventricle, and right atrium.
3. Using the marking pen, write down the word oxygen on as many paper strips as you can and
place them in the lung area. The capillary area should have papers with carbon dioxide written
on them.
4. Use the chalk to mark and define the different areas such as what is given in the diagram
below. Assign some members of your group to stand still on the different marked areas.

Figure 5. Illustration of the gas exchange activity

5. Choose two members from the group to take the trip around the different posts. Let the
partners start the tour in the lung area and together pick up a paper labeled as oxygen from
another member standing at his post. They should carry the strip of paper to the heart, passing
through the left atrium, and then to the left ventricle. As the partners go to every station, they
must leave a trail of rope or ribbon held by another member in a designated area, until the path
of the journey is completely traced.
6. Partners must run along the chalk marks representing the arteries into the capillary area.
7. Tell the partners to exchange the strip of paper representing oxygen for a piece of paper
representing carbon dioxide with a member in his designated area.
8. Make the partners run along the chalk marks representing the veins into the heart area, first
to the right ventricle, then to the right atrium.
9. The partners must then run back into the lung area where the process begins again. When
there are no more strips of paper, the activity is over. The leader may want to keep placing new
papers into designated areas to keep the game going on longer.
10. After the activity, record your observations and answer the guide questions.
Guide Questions:
Q9. How do the heart and the lungs work together?
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Q10. What takes place when you inhale and exhale?
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Q11. What does blood deliver to every part of the body?
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Q12. Why is oxygen important to your body?
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Q13. How will you describe the sequence of oxygen, carbon dioxide, and blood flow in your own
words?
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