Grade Levels:  2nd and 3rd
 

Subjects
             Health
             Language Arts
             Math
 

Learner Outcomes:

                            1.  Students will learn the Surgeon General’s Warnings about Smoking.
                            2.  Students will learn that Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) is a dangerous cancer causing agent.

Duration 40 minutes
 

Materials
                  Worksheet, Danger! Caution! Warning!
                 The Surgeon General’s Warnings
                 Your Health,  Harcourt Brace
                  Video, Not Just Blowing Smoke,  GTR Productions. 1998 (10 min)
 

Technology Tools

                     VCR, Television
                     Computer/ Internet

Procedure

                 1.   Introduce vocabulary, Environmental Tobacco Smoke, warning, caution, Surgeon General
                 2.   Read orally and discuss pages 176, 177 in Your Health.
                 3.   Read orally and discuss The Surgeon General’s Warning about smoking.
                 4.   Survey/create a graph.  Students will survey family members, neighbors, or others to see if they
                       do or do not  smoke, or used to smoke.  Students will create an individual bar graph.  Student’s
                       results will  be used to create a class bar graph.
                5.  Students will work with a partner and complete the worksheet, Danger! Warning! Caution!
                6.  Students will write a poem as an acrostic, by listing each letter of “Environmental Tobacco Smoke” vertically,
                     and beginning each line with the letters, in order.  Poems will be put into a class book for all students to read.

Modifications
                    Write the acrostic poem with a partner.
                    Work on internet exploration with a partner.

West Virginia Instructional Goals and Objectives
                  Health; 3.23, 3.24, 3.25, 3.26, 2.24, 2.25, 2.26
                  Language Arts; 2.21, 2.51, 2.109, 3.21, 3.30, 3.31 3.46,
                  Math; 2.25, 2.26, 3.28, 3.29
                  Computer/Technology; 2.121, 3.96, 3.99

National Standards
                Health
               1. Comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention.
               2. Practice heath-enhancing behaviors and reduce health risks.
               3. Use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health.
               4. Access valid health information and health-promoting services.

               Language Arts
              1. Uses the general skill and strategies of the reading process.
              2. Uses listening and speaking strategies for different purposes.
              3. Uses a wide range of strategies as they write and use different writing process elements appropriately to
                  communicate with different audiences for a variety of purposes.

              Math
             1. Understand numbers, ways of representing numbers, relationships among numbers, and number systems.

Evaluation/ Assessment   Journal Writing:  Have you ever been in a room where ETS bothered you?
                                                                 In your Health Journal write about ways other people's smoke affected you.
                                                                 Tell what you might have done to solve the problem. Writing Model will be used
                                                                 for evaluation.
 

References
          Our Health, Harcourt Brace
           http://tobaccofreekids.org
           http://www.teachervision.com
           http://www.education-world.com
           http://www.hbschool.com

Enrichment 
                Watch the video, Not Just Blowing Smoke
                Read Aloud, Smoking Stinks, Kim Gosselin, Jaylo Books
                Read more on the internet about Environmental Smoke and Air Pollution
 
 
 
 

Authors:
Fairdale Elementary School
Sandra Canterbury
Stephanie Justus
Drucilla Perry
 
 

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