Smoking Alternatives
Title: Smoking Alternatives
Grade Level(s): 5-6
Subject(s): Health, Language Arts, and Math
Learner Outcomes:
- Students will use the internet to find nontraditional alternatives to smoking.
- Students will create a web page illustrating their choice of an alternative to smoking.
- Students will enter their five top choices of alternatives to smoking on a spreadsheet and chart results.
- Students will continue with their journal.
Materials: Web page rubricTechnology Tools/Courseware:
- Multimedia Computer with
Internet access.
- Netscape Composer or other web authoring software
- Microsoft Office
- The teacher will want to preview the web sites prior to allowing the students on the internet .
- The teacher will want to review/ teach web authoring before the students create their web page.
- Teacher should have prior working knowledge of Microsoft Excel.
- The teacher will lead a discussion on what influences young people to smoke (based on information learned in this unit) and alternatives they can choose instead of smoking.
- The students will use the internet to explore nontraditional alternatives to smoking.
- The students will go to the web sites Elementary Corner and Fitness online to view different sports and games as an alternative to smoking.
- The students will choose their five top alternative activities to smoking from information obtained on the web sites visited.
- The top five alternative activities will be put on a class spreadsheet using Excel or other spreadsheet software. The spreadsheet is listed as sheet 1 and the pie chart is listed as chart 1.
- The class will create a pie chart using the information from their spreadsheet.
- Each student will create a web page and illustrate his/her top choice of an alternative to smoking .
- The students will continue with their journal in Microsoft Word.
- 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.
- Guest speakers can be invited to present their alternatives to smoking to the students.
- A field trip could be taken to a local health and fitness center for the students to participate in various fitness activities.
- Students will complete their spreadsheet and chart .
- Students will complete their web page. (See Grading Rubric ).
- Students will complete their journal ( rubric used to grade journal upon completion of the unit) .
- Health: 5.2.1, 5.4.4, 6.1.2, 6.4.3
- Language Arts: 5.8, 5.16, 5.26, 5.64, 6.6, 6.18, 6.20, 6.66 Math: 5.23, 5.54, 5.55, 6.24, 6.56, 6.58, 6.59
- Health Standard 3 Understands the relationship of family health to individual health
- Health Standard 7 Knows how to maintain and promote personal health
- 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
Carolyn Falin
Bonita Miano
Diana Nash
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