This article describes an easily made physical lung model for teaching about lung ventilation. It has rectified some major shortcomings of the bell-jar balloon model by having a fluid-filled “pleural cavity,” a dome-shaped “diaphragm,” and an inflated “lung” at rest. The model can be used to tackle some misconceptions about ventilation as well as to learn some difficult concepts such as the negative pleural pressure and pneumothorax.
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16 September 2020
An Improved Physical Lung Model for Teaching Lung Ventilation
Kwok-Chi Lau
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The American Biology Teacher
Vol. 82 • No. 6
August 2020
Vol. 82 • No. 6
August 2020
Lungs
model
ventilation