Content Area: Health and Physical Education

 

Index: 2.3B Grade 12 CPI 1

 

Standard: 2.3 - Drugs & Medicine

 

Strand: B - Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator:  1 - The student will investigate tobacco use as a contributing or causative factor in the incidence of cancer, heart disease, emphysema and other lung diseases, and stroke.

 

Grade: 12

 

Sample Activities:

 

·        TOBACCO USE: WHAT HAPPENS - Using anatomical models or computer images, students discuss the short and long-term effects of tobacco use on the body. (Be sure to include information on smokeless tobacco as well as cigars and cigarettes.) Based on the effects noted during the anatomical model display, students predict the effects of second hand smoke on infants and children.

Variation: Focus on the impact of other substances, such as cocaine or alcohol.

Variation: Invite a guest speaker (e.g., a pathologist, mortician) to discuss the effects of the use of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs on the body. The speaker should focus the presentation on the current drug of choice.