Title: LESSON 1

Grade Level: 5th Grade

Subject Areas:  Language Arts, Science, Health, Technology

Learner Outcomes:

• Students will describe effects of tobacco use.
• Students will identify diseases caused by tobacco use.
• Students will identify valid sources for information about tobacco's effects.
• Students will identify toxins in tobacco.
• Students will create an advertisement depicting health effects of tobacco use.

Materials:

•   Your Health by Harcourt Brace (Adopted Fifth Grade Text Logan W.V.)
•   KWL chart transparency
•   poster board
•   markers

• Computer with internet access
• Software program with spell check and other editing tools
• Printer and printing supplies
• Overhead projector

Attachments: KWL Chart, Vocabulary List
                       Rubric-completed projects and criteria.
Procedures:

Day 1

1.  Proceed by asking students what they know about tobacco and what they would like to know.
2.  Display KWL chart and record answers. Use KWL chart throughout the lessons to record information into the learned column.
3.  Divide class into small groups to research health risk of tobacco use. Have students record information and source on index cards. Display index cards on bulletin board. Have students view site Smoking Stinks.
4.  Discuss information students discovered. Record in the learned column of the  KWL.
5.  Discuss any questions students may still have about tobacco's effects.

Day 2

1. Ask volunteers or call on students to read the textbook pages 244-251 or the resources used at your school.
2. Ask students to write about their reasons for not smoking. This can be done in  a Health journals or as homework.

Day 3

1.  Review tobacco's effects on the respiratory system.
2.  Assign small group of students a topic to research (smoking, chewing, dipping, or sniffing). Instruct students to list toxins used to produce the tobacco products. Use to record information.
3.  Add the list to the bulletin board displayed on Day 1.

Day 4

1.   Instruct students to type a letter to a friend about the dangers of using tobacco and to use at least 5 of the vocabulary words in the letter. Remind student to use correct punctuation and acceptable letter format. Display sample friendly letter if needed. Software program with spell check and other editing tool will be used.
2.  Ask volunteers to share letters with class.
3.  Encourage students to mail their letters. Supply students with stamps and envelopes to mail letter wish.

Modifications:

• small group and small group instruction
• study buddy/ peer tutoring
• KWL, /organization charts

• Students can make a "Just Say No To Tobacco" poster and display posters in their community.
• Students can draw a picture of what a healthy lung and one of a smokers  lung.

• Rubric 1 Persuasive Writing
• Completed projects and criteria.

       Language Arts: 5.52, 5.56, 5.62, 5.95, 5.97, 5.100
       Science: 5.3, 5.7, 5.10,
       Health: 5.1, 5.20, 5.21, 5.22
       Technology: 5.72, 5.79

National Standards:
 

Health

9)  Understands aspects of substance use and abuse.

Writing

1) Uses general skills and strategies of the writing process.
4) Gathers and uses information for research purposes.

Reading

5)  Uses general skills and strategies of the reading process.

Self-Regulation

1) Set and manages goals.
2) Consider risks.

Life Skills

1) Contributes to the overall effort of a group.
5) Demonstrates leadership skills.

Technology

2)  Knows the characteristics and uses of computer software programs.
3)  Understands the relationships among science, technology, society, and the individual.

References/Sources:

• http://www.teach-nology.com
• http://www.kidshealth.org
• http://www.school.discovery.com/lessonplans/k-5.html
• http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/search/index.htm
• http://www.tobaccofreekids.org

Team Members:

Katharine Ellis
Toni Simpson
Elizabeth Jones

Man Central Middle School
Logan County, WV

Overview

Lesson 1

Lesson 2

Lesson 3

Lesson 4

Lesson 5