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Cigarettes Are Like a Stick of Dynamite

Grade Level: 6

Subject(s): Health
Reading
Science
Learner Outcomes:

Students will understand that tobacco causes damage to many areas of the body.
Students will see vivid proof of the ways that smoking can alter a person's life and
         well-being.
Students will be able to define addiction and hear from young smokers who
         wished they never begun their addiction to nicotine.
Students will be aware of the many dangerous chemicals that exist in tobacco.
Students will learn many reasons to avoid tobacco use.
Students will view information from Tobacco Explorer CD and access information
         from the Hands Off Tobacco CD.

Duration: Two Days (43 minutes periods)

Materials:

Your Health textbook by Harcourt Brace pages 262 - 281
Garden hose wrapped in red tape
Soft damp sponge/dry hard sponge
Two balloons (one intact and one with holes in it)
Coffee stirrers and drinking straws
Stopwatch or watch that allow you to count seconds

Technology Tools and Courseware:
Computer
Projector Device
Power Point Presentation
Internet Access
Printer
Tobacco Explorer CD
Hands Off Tobacco CD

The Tobacco Explorer CD is available through the WV Library Commission at
1-800-642-9021 ext. 8.
It can also be checked out at the Marion County Health Department.
This CD may also be available for loan at your state library or local health department.
The Hands Off Tobacco CD is available at Fairmont General Hospital
(Monongah Middle School's Partner in Education)
Acceptable Use Policy signed for all participating students.

Procedure: Day 1 43 minutes
Secure all materials required for this lesson.
Do the following activities after introducing the harmful effects of tobacco using
Your Health textbook pages 262 - 281 or from the resources that are used at your school.
Show the power point presentation of the Unit Preview.
View the harmful effects of tobacco use on the Tobacco Explorer CD.

Steps to view CD

Click on the menu item Health and Physiology
Click on Body Damage
Click on the body parts to view pictures and read the information on the effects of tobacco use
Click on the main menu box
Click the main menu item Health and Physiology
Click on addiction and go to What is addiction? Read the definition and listen to the comments made by five people on addiction. Then read the facts on nicotine and view the cycle of addiction.
Click on the main menu box
Click on main menu item Health and Physiology
Click on Chemicals of Tobacco and view the information on 19 chemicals found in tobacco

Procedure: Day 2 (43 minutes)
Show students the garden hose wrapped in red tape to represent a normal blood vessel. Compare it to the plastic straw, which represents the blood vessel after it has been constricted by nicotine. Which vessel can carry more blood and do its job better? (the bigger one)
Compare the feel of the soft, damp sponge, which represents normal lung tissue, to the dry hard sponge which represents how tar affects the lung tissue.
Blow up the intact balloon and let the air out to demonstrate how alveoli are suppose to work. Try to blow up the balloon that has holes in it, representing a broken alveolus.
Demonstrate how people with lung cancer or emphysema feel.
Distribute the straws and coffee stirrers and direct students to jog in place for one to two minutes.
After jogging, have students breathe through the straws for just a few moments.
After another minute or so, ask students to try to breathe through the coffee stirrers. (To modify this activity to simulate emphysema more realistic. students inhale the normal way and exhale only through the straw or stirrer.
Teacher Alert: Any child with respiratory problems should not participate in this activity.

Modifications:
Make special adjustments for students with special needs according to their IEP. Students with IEPs may require special seating, shortened assignments or materials read orally.

Enrichment Activities:
View the following site for additional information on the harmful effects of tobacco use.
Ask Boyz II Men
Click on Boyz II Men to Answer Your Smoke-free Questions
Click on Boyz II Men Free Poster: Smoke-free: It's the New Evolution

Tobacco Worksheet
Click on back to Lesson Plans Search
Click on Topic down arrow and select Health/Safety
Click Grade Level 6
Click Go
Narrow Your Search to smoking
Click Go
Select any of the following worksheets and print
            Effects of Tobacco Use
            The Surgeon General Warning
            Cigarette Smoking Fact Sheet
            Vocabulary Review of Smoking Terms
            Cigarette Smoking Worksheet