Harmful Effects of Tobacco
Title: Harmful Effects of Tobacco
Grade Level(s): 5-6
Subject(s): Language Arts, Health, and Science
Learner Outcomes:
- Students will identify harmful ingredients in tobacco (smoking and smokeless).
- Students will develop an awareness of secondhand smoke and its effect on the body.
- Students will identify diseases caused by smoking.
- Students will identify valid sources for information about tobacco smoke and its effect on the respiratory and circulatory system.
Materials:
- Body System Charts (Respiratory and Circulatory)
- Free Materials from American Heart Association (AHA), American Lung Association , & American Cancer Society
- Call Guest Speaker (such as AHA representative, local physician or nurse, etc.)
- Graphic Organizer
- Multimedia Computer with internet access.
- Microsoft Office Software
- Overhead projector with transparencies ( circulatory and respiratory)
Teacher
Notes:
- Call or write to the American Heart Association for free materials.
- Call or write to the American Cancer Society for free materials.
- Call or write to the American Lung Association for free materials.
- Guest Speaker: get someone from an area hospital, a cancer survivor, or someone from the Heart, Lung, or Cancer Society.
- Hand out a Graphic Organizer .
- Have students complete it as they work through the lesson.
- Introduce lesson and new vocabulary words
- Using the Internet, have students do a search on harmful effects of tobacco on the body and write a report .
- In groups of 2-3, students will choose a topic that they have researched on the harmful effects of tobacco.
- Using the web site healthteacher.com students will become familiar with smoking terminology.
- Students will view a transparency on the Respiratory System
- Will review the structures of the Respiratory System.
- Use activity number 4 on how tar affects the cilia.
- On a daily basis, in their Microsoft Word journals, students will write down vocabulary words, questions, concerns, and any other item on smoking they would like to keep .
- Bring in guest speakers, hand out any free information to students.
- Make any adjustments for students who have special needs according to their IEP's or 504s.
- Students will participate in the Great American Smokeout in November.
- Students will read reports on the intercom and do a special presentation at the PTO meeting that month.
- Reports on Harmful Effects of Tobacco (rubric for reports)
- Able to access websites on tobacco.
- Daily Journals ( rubric used to grade journal upon completion of the unit)
- Completed Graphic organizer
Health: 5.1.5, 5.2.1, 5.6.1,5.6.2, 6.1.2, 6.6.2, 6.4.2
Language Arts: 5.8, 5.16, 5.64, 6.20, 6.23, 6.66
Science: 5.9, 5.25, 5.63 , 6.3, 6.7, 6.9
National Standards:
- Health Standard 3 Understands the relationship of family health to individual health
- Health Standard 8 Knows essential concepts about the prevention and control of disease
- Health Standard 9 Understands aspects of substance use and abuse
- Language Arts Standard 4 Gathers and uses information for research purposes
- Language Arts Standard 5 Uses the general skills and strategies of the reading process
- Language Arts Standard 10 Understands the characteristics and components of the media
- Science Standard 4 Understands the principles of heredity and related concepts
- Science Standard 5 Understands the structure and function of cells and organisms
- American Heart Association
- American Cancer Society
- American Lung Association
- Kid's Health
- Healthteacher.com
- Your Health Grade 5 Teacher's Edition Harcourt Brace
Carolyn
Falin
Bonita
Miano
Diana
Nash
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