Tobacco Unit: Creative Way to Teach this Subject-92 PPt Slides/10 Docs

Many teens have had tobacco education for years so this is a fresh approach to reiterate the negative effects of the number one preventable killer of adults in the United States!

There is nothing canned about these lessons. This unit has been "kid tested" (just last week actually!)

This 5-6 day Tobacco unit includes 58 pages of teacher directions (including 32 pages of 10 different documents for students) and 3 separate PowerPoints to walk you and your students step-by-step through this fun and interesting unit. The unit includes:

1. A 47-Slide PowerPoint that starts with the top 10 ad appeals advertisers use to get teens to buy their products (Promises, Excitement, Star Power, Etc.) to teach the dangers of tobacco. You will discuss the 5 questions to ask when looking at ads and also use the Top 10 Ad Appeals handout to learn what appeals advertisers use.

2. Students will follow up with an interactive activity where they analyze 15 ads (included in a separate 30-slide Guess the Ad PowerPoint presentation) and guess the appeals used.

3. The following day students will themselves become tobacco advertisers and design a cover for a cigarette pack using at least one ad appeal. Before they do this project you will make sure they understand the dangers of tobacco and chew so they will realize just how manipulative they'll have to be to get teens to use a product that everyone knows is bad for them! The PowerPoint will walk you through the lesson, with graphic slides to show tobacco dangers. This PowerPoint includes:

1. Tobacco dangers (nicotine, addiction, carbon monoxide, tar, cancers, pregnancy)
2. Chewing Tobacco dangers
3. Secondhand smoke dangers and protections
4. Tobacco addiction and Quit tips
5. $ spent on tobacco

4. The next day is spent learning about Habits using a 15-Slide PowerPoint, students will understand why the brain has habits and how to break the bad ones. Students will take a survey to see what bad habits they have, and then fill in a worksheet and calendar to set goals to chosse one bad habit to break, or one healthy habit to add.

5. The last days of the unit students will make Quit Smoking Brochures You can do this project in class, a computer lab, or as homework. It includes brochure directions and 8-pages of resources for students to use.

6. Also included in this unit:
1. An anonymous teen survey to collect statistics from your students on how many of them have already tried alcohol, tobacco, and other risky behaviors.

2. A Parent-Teen Communicator Homework sheet

3. A Substance Final Test

My students really enjoy this unit, and they always come up with some of the most creative and funny cigarette packs.

Included in both Word and PDF formats.

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