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Descriptive Information
Skill Emphasis (NHES): Interpersonal Communication (IC)
Grade Level: 6th
Content Area of Health: Tobacco Use Prevention
Content Descriptor & Sub-Descriptor(s):
1. Short-Term and Long-Term Risks of Tobacco Use
1.1
addictive effects of nicotine
1.2
short-term effects of tobacco use
1.3
harmful effects of tobacco use
1.4
risks of different types of tobacco
2. Influences on Tobacco Use
2.1
Internal influences
2.2
Family influences
2.3
peer influences
3. Choosing to be Tobacco Free
3.1
How to make a personal commitment not to use
3.2
Strategies to resist peer pressure to use
3.5
Ways to support others to be tobacco free
3.7
Healthful alternative to tobacco use
3.8
Resources to quit using tobacco products
3.9
The difficulty of stopping tobacco use
Title of Lesson: All About Tobacco
PA Standard (Health & PE): 10.1.6.E. and 10.2.6.E.
Curricular Connections: N/A
Adolescent Risk Behavior (if applicable): tobacco use
Behavioral Objective(s)
Cognitive: Students will be able to identity and use various refusal skills when asked to
smoke a cigarette.
Cognitive: Students will be able to determine various health problems smoking can cause
as well as how many chemicals are in one cigarette.
Affective: Students will value other classmates opinions, stories, and comments about
smoking.
Skill-Based: shows progression through a decision-making process
- identifies the decisions to be made
- considers the options and consequences
Brief Outline of Todays Lesson
1. Bell Ringer: Why do people smoke?
2. Introduction to the Lesson
3. Content & Instructional Strategies
Tobacco
Facts
Costs
Health effects
Who it affects
4. In-Class Learning Activity
5. Final Thoughts/Conclusion to the Lesson
6. Classroom Management & Materials
Expanded Outline of Todays Lesson
1.Introduction to the Lesson (Set Induction): Hello boys and girls. Today we will be
continuing our lesson on tobacco. I will hand back your drugs, medicines, and tobacco
quizzes before the end of class. If you have any questions about your quiz score, you can
ask me after class. We will learn some refusal skills that you may have to use in your life,
complete a worksheet, and once you completed this sheet, I have a crossword for you all to
complete.
2.Bell Ringer (Instant Activity): My Reasons for Not Smoking
Before we start talking about ways to say, No to tobacco, I want to my students to
brainstorm why they believe people start smoking. Students should share their prior
knowledge and some students may include: peer pressure, stress, weight loss, boredom,
curiosity, etc.
3.Content &
I. Fast Facts
a.
b.
c.
Instructional Strategies:
Every 72 seconds, someone dies from a smoking related illness.
1 out of 3 smokers will eventually die from a tobacco related disease.
More people die from tobacco related illness than from AIDS, car accidents,
illegal drugs, murder and suicides combined!!!
d.
e.
f.
g.
Classroom Management
o For Content Delivery: Tobacco Power Point
o
Content References
Heit, P. and Meeks, L. (2005). Health and Welness .
E.McCallion. (2014). Radnor Middle School. Health.
Activity Reference(s)
L. Purvis (2014). The Pennsylvania State University.
Appendices
See Tobacco Power Point, Like a Broken Record worksheet, and Tobacco Crossword
worksheet