Tobacco Facts
Title: Tobacco Facts
Grade Level(s): 5-6
Subject(s): Health, Language Arts, and Math
Learner Outcomes:
- Students will
use a graphic organizer to gather prior knowledge of tobacco.
- Students will use the internet to learn and write definitions for key words.
- Students will use the internet to gather information about tobacco.
- Students will conduct a survey.
- Students will use the internet to gather facts on use of tobacco in West Virginia.
- Students will keep a Microsoft Word journal throughout the unit.
- Students will enter their survey data in a spreadsheet and chart results.
Materials:
Technology Tools/Courseware:- Multimedia Computer with
Internet access.
- Microsoft Office Software
- Each student will need a
KWL chart.
- Definitions for the key words:
- Tobacco - a plant that has large leaves that have been smoked in many forms for at least 2,000 years.
- Nicotine - a poisonous ingredient found in products made from dried leaves of the tobacco plant such as cigarettes, pipe tobacco, cigars, and chewing tobacco.
- Addictive - to be dependent on (often withdrawal symptoms occur when substance is not used).
- Smokeless tobacco - tobacco without smoke.
- Each student will need 5 copies of the 10 question survey.
- Students will discuss through a KWL chart what they already know about smoking and what they would like to know about smoking.
- Students will go to the C.O.S.T . web site to finish their KWL chart (complete what they learned).
- Students will stay on the C.O.S.T . web site to find the definitions for the following key words: tobacco, nicotine, addictive tobacco, and smokeless tobacco.
- Students will conduct a 10 question survey to 5 different adults. (These adults should be smokers.)
- When the students return the surveys the results will be entered into Excel or another spreadsheet and charted. The spreadsheet is listed as sheet 1 and the bar graph is listed as chart 1.
- Students will go to The Toll of Tobacco on West Virginia to view and discuss tobacco use in West Virginia.
- The teacher will lead a discussion on the tobacco use in West Virginia.
- Students will keep a journal utilizing Microsoft Word or another word processing program on a daily basis to write something they learned that day concerning smoking.
- All written text will be read to any student receiving special services or on a 504 plan as needed. Students may work with a peer as stated in their IEP.
- Students will listen to a tutorial about smoking from the National Library of Medicine
- Students will complete a KWL chart.
- Students will interview five adults that smoke.
- Students will chart their results on a spreadsheet . Students will complete journal entries on a daily basis ( rubric used to grade journal upon completion of the unit)
- Health: 5.1.6, 5.4.3, 6.1.2, 6.7.2
- Language Arts: 5.8, 5.16, 5.26, 5.33, 5.64, 6.6, 6.18 , 6.20, 6.23, 6.66 Math: 5.23, 5.54, 5.55, 6.24, 6.56, 6.58, 6.59
- Health Standard 2 Knows environmental and external factors that affect individual and community health
- Health Standard 3 Understands the relationship of family health to individual health
- Health Standard 9 Understands aspects of substance use and abuse
- Language Arts Standard 4 Gathers and uses information for research purposes
- Language Arts Standard 7 Uses reading skills and strategies to understand and interpret a variety of informational texts
- Language Arts Standard 9 Uses viewing skills and strategies to understand and interpret visual media
- Math Standard 3 Uses basic and advanced procedures while performing the processes of computation
- Math Standard 6 Understands and applies basic and advanced concepts of statistics and data analysis
- Math Standard 9 Understands the general nature and uses of mathematics
Carolyn Falin
Bonita Miano
Diana Nash
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