Grade Level:  6

Subject:  Health, Science, Language Arts

Learner Outcomes:

• Students will be able to define cardiovascular disease.
• Students will be aware that CVD is the leading cause of death in America.
• Students will recognize that tobacco affects all areas of the CVD system and not just the heart.
• Students will understand secondhand smoke is a contributing factor in CVD disease.
• Students will develop a better awareness that smoking can lead to premature deaths.
• Students will view cardiovascular system and model of pumping heart.

Materials 

• poster paper
• colored pencils
• markers
• journals

• Computer with Internet
• Adobe Acrobat Reader
• Electronic encyclopedia

• Make sure all materials are gathered and ready before class begins.
• Have computer lab ready. 
• Students can enter poster contest if they desire.
• Click on contest site for information about poster and/or poetry contest.
• Get permission from principals of both schools and science teacher.

• Take students to computer lab and access the Encarta and/or Britannica to locate and define CVD.
• Access sites to find leading cause of death in America.
• Compile facts that tobacco affects all areas of the cardiovascular system.
• Review sites that show effects of secondhand smoke on the cardiovascular system.
• Emphasize the fact that smoking causes premature deaths in people.
• Provide art materials to do heart poster contest.
• Give students opportunity to write poem and enter in the contest.

• Make necessary adjustments for students with special needs according to their IEP.

• Can use the poem and/or poster as enrichment.

• Teacher observation of computer lab.
• Check journal.
• Define CVD.

• Health 6.20, 6.21, 6.24, 6.25
• Science 6.17, 6.77, 6.78
• Language Arts 6.22, 6.23, 6.24

• Language Arts:  9.  Uses viewing skills and strategies to understand and interpret visual media.
• Health:  9.  Understands aspects of substance use and abuse.
• Science:  5.  Understands the relationships among organisms and their physical environment.

• Visit Oceana High School science lab to view model of pumping heart and cardiovascular system.
• Encyclopedia Encarta
• Encyclopedia Britannica
• Science texts
• Health texts

• Larry Mathis
• Vickie Mathis
• Connie Stickler
• Oceana Middle School