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Lesson Plan 4
Topic:
Tobacco
Objectives: By the end
of this lesson, students will be able to:
- identify
techniques for quitting smoking
- relate to the
experience of a smoker
Grade
Level: 9
Curriculum Area: Health I
Internet Focus: E-mail
Summary of Project: Students
are to obtain the e-mail address of a friend or family member who
smokes cigarettes or used to smoke cigarettes. Using their school
e-mail account, students will send a questionnaire to the person they
selected by sending an attachment of a Word document that contains the
following questions:
1.
How long have you smoked or did you smoke cigarettes?
2. At what age did you begin smoking?
3. What was the reason you first tried smoking cigarettes?
4. What physical changes do you notice while you are
smoking?
5. How do you feel when you have not been able to smoke
for a few hours?
6. Have you ever tried to quit smoking and failed? Why do
you think you did not succeed?
7. How much do you spend or did you used to spend on
cigarettes in one week?
8. Do you feel people look at you differently because you
smoke? In what ways?
9. Which members of your family smoke or used to smoke
cigarettes?
10. Do any of the family members you listed above have health
problems that can be attributed to smoking cigarettes?
Students will print these responses for a class discussion.
Assessment:
Students will be asked
to write a brief essay describing what they found about the experience
of a person who smokes. They are to consider the following:
Knowing what you now now, if you have not already, would you consider
smoking cigarettes? Why or why not? Please site specific reasons
to support your response. If you are a smoker, can you see similarities
between yourself and the person you interviewed? What are they?
Suggested Web sites:
http://www.quitnet.com
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/how2quit.htm
http://www.trytostop.org
http://www.lungusa.org/partner/quit
http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/tobacco
Extension: Using
the
suggested Web sites, students are to design a pamphlet using Publisher
that lists guidelines for quitting smoking.