Mr Kiernan’s S4 class having a ‘wheeze’ in Biology

Check out the pictures from our recent lung dissection.

What can you identify?

Bottom lobe of lung showing bronchioles in cross-section.

Mmm….nice.

A fully inflated lung (with heart still attached)

Trachea showing rings of cartilage (and mucus!!)

Check out the pictures from our recent lung dissection.

What can you identify?

Play video clip below to see us trying to get a tune out of a lung!

2 Responses to “Mr Kiernan’s S4 class having a ‘wheeze’ in Biology”


  1. 1 David Gilmour Sep 8th, 2008 at 12:58 pm

    In the last episode of BBC’s Don’t Die Young there’s some great footage of a smoker’s lung, complete with tumour. It’s available for the next 3 days on iPlayer here:
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00db1l9

  2. 2 fkelly Sep 8th, 2008 at 2:55 pm

    Excellent stuff!!

    How do you get unslashed lungs?

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