How Breathing Works
Your child knows we breathe air into our lungs. The lungs take in oxygen, which the body needs to live. We breathe out carbon dioxide as waste.
In curriculum terms
Know that we breathe air into our lungs through the nose and mouth, that our lungs take in oxygen from the air which our body needs to stay alive, and that we breathe out carbon dioxide as waste
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How to tell they’ve got it
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Try this together
After running around, can your child notice their faster breathing and explain that their lungs are taking in air that the body needs?
Where this sits on the map
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Curriculum alignment
Where this fits in the official school curriculum — our best automated guess, not yet checked by a person.
This skill sits outside the F–6 Australian Curriculum — no candidate code matched (v0.1). No NSW K–6 outcome code matched (v0.1). No Victorian Curriculum 2.0 code matched (v0.1).