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(Note: A text description of the information presented by the game's graphic is included below.)

Let's draw the path that air takes inside your body:

• Choose the SMALL brush size.
• Starting at the top at number "2" and using the BLUE paint, connect the EVEN numbers to see the path where you breathe IN.
• Then start at the bottom at number "1" and using the YELLOW paint, connect the ODD numbers to find the path where you breathe OUT!
• Click here to clear the whole page.

Text Description of Graphic

The graphic shows a picture of air entering into the body through the nose, and traveling into the lungs. It includes the following notes:

• The inside of your nose is full of smell receptors.
• Air moves your vocal cords so you can speak.
• Food goes to your stomach through another tube.
• After air gets to your lungs, it moves from there into the bloodstream.
• Your ribs protect all the organs in your chest. Can you feel your ribs move in and out as you breathe?
• Carbon Dioxide also leave the blood from the lungs and is expelled when you exhale.

My Health My World Explorations for Children and Adults is a publication of the Division of School-Based Programs, Department of Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine , and was made possible by a grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Thanks to Baylor for allowing NIEHS to reproduce portions of those articles here on the NIEHS Kids' Pages! And remember to visit their My Health My World Adventures In Education Website for more information.

Example of Completed Airways Drawing

The blue line is oxygen going in, and the yellow line is carbon dioxide going out.

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