Cellular respiration is a process in which sugar gets broke down into the cell to release energy. This process will be producing carbon dioxide and water as it's by product. This process is similar to breathing process. In breathing process you take inside oxygen gas. Various organisms do cellular respiration so it can make energy. Cellular respiration equation is of great importance. Cellular respiration equation is: one molecule of glucose along with six oxygen gas molecule gets converted into six molecules of carbon-dioxide along with six molecules of water. In this reaction, chemical energy gets released. All cells transform glucose that is food energy into chemical energy. This gets released in form of ATP that is adenosine triphosphate.

ATP is required to perform work and in organism body it is in form of cells. Cells can grow and make molecules through this ATP. Photosynthesis reaction is just opposite to cellular respiration. In photosynthesis, plants make use of sun so that it can make food. All Plants produce glucose and oxygen. Carbon dioxide and oxygen get exchanged during these reactions. Cellular respiration and photosynthesis form part of that processes that will balance concentrations of oxygen gas and carbon-dioxide gas. Cellular respiration equation generates 38 molecules of adenosine triphosphate, better known as ATP. Cellular respiration performs basic function of generating energy in human body and in animals.

Cellular respiration has four stages which are as follows: Glycosis, transition reaction, citric acid cycle or Krebs cycle and electron transport chain. It is during last stage that most energy gets generated. If any body is lacking in sugar then it can make use of proteins and fats. If oxygen gas is in short amount in body, then anaerobic respiration can be done for a shorter period of time. Process of cellular respiration is very difficult and involves number of technical explanations to be done. In order to teach children you should keep this process simple and easy. You can do a research online and you should consult encyclopedias. Best method of explaining this process to children is to draw picture of each and every stage and then explain every detail you can ask children to keep a work book with them and jot down all important points. You can also break difficult words into simpler words.