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4-H Project: Your Lungs With Tobacco - Your Lungs Without Tobacco!
What you needMaterials for your three-dimensional lung could be clay, dough, papier-mache, or polyfoam, or draw the lungs and add some color medium. Your model can then be displayed on a poster board that is surrounded by illustrations of the effects of tobacco on human lungs. If you would like your display to have more detail and information on how the lungs work and the effects of tobacco use, visit Kidshealth (Click on "Kids", then click "my body", click either shockwave or non-shockwave version, then click on "lungs"). You can also check out some of the above Web sites, or contact your local health department or anti- tobacco coalition. Ways to shareThis tobacco use prevention project would be an educational exhibit/display that tells what you did and learned through the experience and documented in a record book or notebook. From your lung display/model, you could also incorporate a presentation/demonstration project. Check with your local county Extension office and fair book guidelines to determine how best the above exhibits would fit fair projects and rules. Various adjustments may need to be made. For other ideas for presentations/demonstrations to do at the fair, malls or health fairs, check out some of the community service activities from the "Get a Kick out of Life...Give Back! Calendar" (4-H1554) available from your county Extension office or the MSU Bulletin Office. Contact InformationFor more information on how to get involved as a youth or volunteer, contact your county MSU Extension office or: Janet Olsen, Program Leader Email: olsenj@msu.edu Copyright
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Make
a model of what a human lung would look like and label the parts.
You might want to make two lungs — one that is healthy and
one that shows the effects of tobacco use (blackened with tar and
other chemical agents from cigarette smoke). You can also add a
whitish area that simulates a cancerous tumor. A healthy lung has
a light pink color to it with a few black specks, which are caused
by breathing normal amounts of carbon particles from air pollution.