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Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how resilient your genes are, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matters if you're not breathing properly. There is nothing more essential to our health and wellbeing than breathing: take air in, let it out, repeat 25,000 times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences. Science journalist James Nestor travels the world to figure...
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
Describes the various parts of the human respiratory system and then explains how that system brings fresh oxygen into the body and carries carbon dioxide to the lungs to be expelled.
7) Breathing
Author
Series
Publisher
F. Watts
Pub. Date
1984.
Language
English
Description
Presents simple concepts relating to air and breathing, and ends with three easy experiments on breathing for children to try.
16) Breathe
Author
Publisher
Magination Press, American Psychological Association
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
AD 560L
Language
English
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Description
In an introduction to mindfulness, a mother teaches her young son about breathing exercises and explains how helpful deep breathing can be whenever he feels nervous or has trouble sleeping.
Publisher
Disney Educational Productions
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Bill Nye gets aerobic about the importance of respiration when he jogs, bikes, swims, and scuba dives. Discover how to measure how much air each breath contains and make a model lung in a nifty home experiment. See a demonstration of how cigarette smoke can infiltrate and injure lungs.
Author
Series
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
1995.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes how the respiratory system works and discusses the nasal canals, the pharynx and the larynx, the vocal cords, the lungs, pulmonary ventilation, the interchange of gases, and the role of the brain.