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Dee Singleton
Grade Level: 7th or 8th grade
Subject Area: Health
Topic: Tobacco and Peer Pressure
Subject Standards: 8.1.1, 8.1.4, 8.6.1, 8.6.2
ISTE Standards: IV.
Students use a variety of media and formats to communicate information and
ideas effectively to multiple audiences.
V. Students use technology to locate, evaluate, and
collect information from a variety of sources. VI. Students employ technology
in the development of strategies for solving problems in the real world.
Directions:
Use the links
provided to help you become more knowledgeable about tobacco and peer pressure.
1. When do most people start using
tobacco?
2. About _______ kids start smoking
every day.
1. Why is smoking particularly harmful for a teens body?
Why?
2. Describe how the ingestion
of nicotine results in an almost “immediate kick” and then discuss what it
does to the central nervous system?
3. When someone smokes, especially someone with asthma,
he or she may cough, wheeze, and feel short of breath. This
is because smoke:
4. Nicotine reaches the brain ____ seconds after it is
inhaled.
5. As we talked about in class, smokeless tobacco is NOT a
safe alternative to smoking. In fact,
some of the consequences
of chewing and spitting tobacco include:
6. Teens are especially at risk for addictions
because:
7. Fill-In-The-Blank: According to the Surgeon General,
only ____ percent of adolescents have smoked in the last 30 days. And only _____ percent are “frequent”
smokers. So that means most kids, _____
percent, are smart enough NOT to smoke.
8. As we talked in class, most people give into peer
pressure at some time. But why? List 3 reasons why…
1.
2.
3.
Follow-up
Activity:
Interview a smoker or a former smoker (someone that used to smoke, but has quit). Ask them any three (3) questions from this activity to see if they know the correct answer. Then ask them some questions on your own (advice they have, how they feel about smoking bans, what they don’t like about smoking, has it affected their health, etc.) After you have enough information, type a one page paper (double spaced, 1” margins, 12 font, name and period in upper right corner) about your findings from the questions above and your own questions.