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Resources
Tangible Resources
Pen, paper
Human Resources
Construction industry H&S specialist
Preparation
Arrange construction industry professionals to visit (and bring different types of masks).
Goals, messages & concepts
Specific goals
- Students will see that filters can be found in their everyday lives.
- Students will understand how masks are used as filters.
Specific messages
- Filters are part of our everyday lives.
- Masks use ‘filtering’ to protect people (and protect others) against fumes, Covid and other diseases.
Main terms
- filtration
Practices & skills
STEM practices
- Constructing explanations and designing solutions
- Engaging in argument from evidence
- Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information
- Planning and carrying out investigations
Soft skills
- Teamwork and collaboration
Management skills
-Course of activity
step 1
Students will go on a treasure hunt around the school looking for different filters that are already in place - e.g. fans, masks, extractors, coffee filters, etc.
step 2
Students will then examine different face masks, trying to work out who would wear them, where and why.
step 3
A construction industry visitor will come to talk about mask wearing in relation to Health & Safety. They will explain different circumstances where a mask may be worn, and how they can be used to filter out the air pollution we would otherwise breathe.
step 4
Students will draw diagrams of the different masks and add any information from the visitor in the form of a poster. They should relate this to their work on lungs as filters in Learning Unit 2.