Grade Level(s):   5-6

Subject(s):   Health, Math, Language arts

Learner Outcomes:

• Students will define peer pressure and discover how it can be negative, as well as positive.
• Students will improve decision-making ability concerning smoking.
• Students will further develop personal values and attitudes about smoking.
• Students will calculate the cost of smoking and discover how much money a person could save by stopping. 
• Students will keep a journal utilizing Microsoft Word or another word processor.

Materials:

• Powerpoint Presentation - Pressure to Smoke 
• Handouts (linked in lesson)

• Multi-media computer with internet connection 
• Microsoft Office  (Word & PowerPoint)
• Data Projector
• Calculators

• Some of the handouts may be printed ahead of time for student use.

• Use the PowerPoint presentation Pressure to Smoke to introduce students to various sources of peer pressure and steps to  saying "no".
• Stop for discussion after each slide.
• Students will create a slide using PowerPoint  to create a cartoon in which they show themselves or imaginary characters using steps to act against peer pressure.
• Slides can be combined to do a class presentation where each student presents their slide.
• Discuss the cost of cigarettes with students.   Have students research the cost of various brands of cigarettes.  Each student should pick at least two brands.
• Review the process of calculating the cost by using days, weeks, months, etc.
• Students will complete the chart and determine  the cost of cigarettes daily, weekly, monthly, etc.
• In their Word journals, students will write about things they could buy with smoking money if they do not smoke.  Starter sentence:  "__________brand of cigarettes costs $_________a year.  I could buy  _______ with this money.

• Students with special needs may choose to calculate the cost of one cigarette brand.
• Students may work in pairs to assist students with IEPs and/or 504s..

• Have students visit the Kids Health for Kids site for more information on dealing with peer pressure. 
• Students may research the price of cigarettes in other countries for comparison.

* A rubric may be used.

• Competed PowerPoint slides
• Completed sheet on cost of using cigarettes
• Journal entries  ( rubric used to grade journal upon completion of the unit)

• Health:  5.4.1, 5.4.2, 5.5.4, 5.5.6, 6.4.2, 6.5.1, 6.5.2, 6.6.2
• Math:  5.11, 5.16, 6.9, 6.10, 6.14 
• Language Arts:  5.14, 5.59, 5.60, 5.64, 6.14, 6.54, 6.63, 6.64 

• Health Standard 9 Understands aspects of substance use and abuse 
• Health Standard 2 Knows environmental and external factors that affect individual and community health 
• Math Standard 3 Uses basic and advanced procedures while performing the processes of computation 
• Math Standard 9 Understands the general nature and uses of mathematics 
• Language Arts Standard 1 Uses the general skills and strategies of the writing process 
• Language Arts Standard 4 Gathers and uses information for research purposes 
• Language Arts Standard 8 Uses listening and speaking strategies for different purposes 
• Language Arts Standard 9 Uses viewing skills and strategies to understand and interpret visual media 

• Your Health Grade 4 Teacher's Edition, Harcourt Brace 1999.
• Kids Health for Kids 
• Three Feathers Tobacco