Drew Health Ambassadors – Fall 2007
In collaboration with ENVS 408: Urban Asthma Epidemic
Grade Level: 3rd – 5th
Asthma Lesson Plan 3: The Medical Residents of PresbyterianHospital
Aim: Students will develop a rapport with residents and learn about the doctor-patient relationship.
Learning Objectives:
- Students will learn how to speak with their family doctor, specifically about Asthma, but also generally.
- Residents will describe how patients are screened for Asthma, and what students can expect when they are tested.
- Students will learn about medications that help with asthma, how they work, what side effects are involved, and who should take them.
Materials:
Healthy snack
Markers, crayons, colored pencils, colored paper
Folders
Storyboard – decorated with “team name”
Storyboard materials (pieces of colored paper, stickytack, white cards)
Handouts/worksheets
Diagrams or illustrations of lungs or similar visual aids
1. Introduction (5 minutes)
Penn students will lead elementary students in a discussion about the triggers they found as part of their assignment.
2. Residents’ Introduction (10 minutes)
Each resident will introduce himself/herself, stating his/her name, hometown, and one “fun fact.”
The residents should then talk about their jobs, i.e. describe what it means to be a physician, what they do on a daily basis, and what a routine doctor’s visit is like. The purpose of this portion is to develop a rapport with the students. They should know that going to the doctor is not scary, and become comfortable with the residents.
3. What is asthma? (5-10 minutes)
Residents should take 5 or 10 minutes to describe, in 3rd-5th grade terms, what asthma is, and take any questions accordingly.
4. Large Group (15 minutes)
With diagrams, residents will describe what physically happens to your lungs during an attack.
· What are the symptoms of an attack? (Cough, chest tightness, shortness of breath, wheezing)
· What actually happens to your lungs/airways when an attack is occurring?
Residents should collaborate on this presentation, creating visual aids to help children understand, and designate 2-3 people to have speaking roles.
To explain the tightening of the airways, it may help to have children make an “O’ with hands, and then squeeze their hand into a fist. This demonstrates the difficulty of passing air through such a small space.
If possible, on that same website, there is audio of a person breathing normally, and a person breathing during an attack.
5. The Inhaler (5 minutes)
Residents will show an inhaler, describe what it does, and explain how it is used.
6. Nebulizer (5 minutes)
Same as above, using a nebulizer instead.
7. Storyboard & Conclusion
Same as previous weeks.
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