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This unit plan is intended for the grade four Health and Physical Education - Healthy Living strand. Specifically, this unit will focus on education about smoking and tobacco use. Cross-curricular links to the Media Literacy curriculum will also be made during this unit.
Jukes writes in "Attributes of Digital Learners" that students
In lesson one, students are provided with an introduction to the unit, and a means of asking any questions they may have about the topic. Students will explore a website and play an online game in order to learn more about the topic.
In lesson two, students will learn the health effects of smoking. Students will be given the opportunity to explore a website in order to find the information asked of them.

This unit plan is intended for the grade four Health and Physical Education - Healthy Living strand. Specifically, this unit will focus on education about smoking and tobacco use. Cross-curricular links to the Media Literacy curriculum will also be made during this unit.
This unit plan includes four lessons, all of which use some for of technology in presenting the material, and for the students to demonstrate their learning. In the article "Engage Me Or Enrage Me", Mark Prensky writes that even the most engaging old-school style of teacher will not engage most of today's students, and that students' short attention spans are only short for the old ways of presenting information. Ian Jukes writes that students today are neurologically different from students 100 years ago. Today's students prefer to access media from a variety of sources, and prefer pictures, sounds and video to text. They prefer learning that is relevant, instantly useful and fun.
a website and play an online game in order effects of smoking. Students will be given the opportunity to explore a website in order to find the information asked of them.
Lesson three will explore how tobacco companies advertise their products. Students will view advertisements in video and still pictures, and will create their own version of a persuasive poster or print advertisement.
In contrast, lesson four will focus on anti-smoking PSAs, and students will create a storyboard for their own version of an anti-smoking PSA.
By the end of this unit, students will have had the opportunity to view and use several diffierent kinds of technology applications, and will have fulfilled the curriculum requirements related to smoking in the Health and Physical Education curriculum, as well as some curriculum expectations from Media Literacy in the Language curriculum.

Technology Integrated Unit Plan
This unit plan is intended for the grade four Health and Physical Education - Healthy Living strand. Specifically, this unit will focus on education about smoking and tobacco use. Cross-curricular links to the Media Literacy curriculum will also be made during this unit.
This unit plan includes four lessons, all of which use some for of technology in presenting the material, and for the students to demonstrate their learning. In the article "Engage Me Or Enrage Me", Mark Prensky writes that even the most engaging old-school style of teacher will not engage most of today's students, and that students' short attention spans are only short for the old ways of presenting information. Ian Jukes writes that students today are neurologically different from students 100 years ago. Today's students prefer to access media from a variety of sources, and prefer pictures, sounds and video to text. They prefer learning that is relevant, instantly useful and fun.
In lesson one, students are provided with an introduction to the unit, and a means of asking any questions they may have about the topic. Students will explore a website in order to learn more about the topic.
In lesson two, students will learn the health effects of smoking

Have students use Bitstrips for Schools to create a sample of a script for an anti-smoking PSA. Review rubric before beginning work on their strips
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x-Lesson 2 - Health Effects of Smoking-Big Ideas:x-Lesson 1 - Introduction to Smoking and Tobacco-Big Ideas:Big Ideas:
Students will examine tobacco advertisements and look at ways that companies make smoking look appealing to consumers
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x-Lesson 2 - Health Effects of Smoking-Procedure:-Before (Activation):x-Lesson 1 - Introduction to Smoking and Tobacco-Procedure:-Before (Activation):Before (Activation):
examples of tobacco advertisements:
Examples -More Doctors Smoke Camels
Kool cigarette ad
1967 Pall Mall ad

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Before (Activation):
Use Smart Notebook software and Smartboard or media cart and have students provide points to complete a T-Chart with the pros and cons of smoking (pros according to the advertisements)
Brainstorm - use Smart Notebook or Kidspiration to create a mind map - Now that students have seen ads for tobacco companies, what would they say/do in their own anti-smoking ad (what messages, visuals, etc)?
x-Lesson 2 - Health Effects of Smoking-Procedure:-During (Minds-On):x-Lesson 1 - Introduction to Smoking and Tobacco-Procedure:-During (Minds-On):During (Minds-On):
View a numberselection of anti-smoking PSA , Goofy's "No Smoking"Anti-smoking PSA (and others)
Discuss (review since this likely would have been covered before) what elements make these effective ads with respect to how they get their message across to viewers
x-Lesson 2 - Health Effects of Smoking-Procedure:-After (Consolidation):x-Lesson 1 - Introduction to Smoking and Tobacco-Procedure:-After (Consolidation):After (Consolidation):
.Students will complete the Smoking Information sheet, basedHave students use Bitstrips for Schools to create a sample of a script for an anti-smoking PSA. Review rubric before beginning work on information from the website. Students may be given access to the website in order to complete this worksheet, or asked to complete from memory.their strips
x-Lesson 2 - Health Effects of Smoking-Assessment:x-Lesson 1 - Introduction to Smoking and Tobacco-Assessment:Assessment:
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x-Lesson 2 - Health Effects of Smoking-Resources:x-Lesson 1 - Introduction to Smoking and Tobacco-Resources:Resources:
Canadian Lung Association website
Youtube VideoYoutube Videos
Bitstrips for schools

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Before (Activation):
View a number of anti-smoking ads and PSAs
Examples:
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Visit the Canadian Lung Association website
Using media cart or Smartboard screen, teacher can navigate information portionsView a number of siteanti-smoking ads and discuss the harmful substances in cigarettes and why/how they harm the body (see this page and this page)
View the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlC1ZgOXCjs which shows the effects of smoking on the lungsPSAs
Examples: Star Wars PSA , Goofy's "No Smoking"
x-Lesson 2 - Health Effects of Smoking-Procedure:-After (Consolidation):x-Lesson 1 - Introduction to Smoking and Tobacco-Procedure:-After (Consolidation):After (Consolidation):
.Students will complete the Smoking Information sheet, based on information from the website. Students may be given access to the website in order to complete this worksheet, or asked to complete from memory.

Students will examine ads and PSAs encouraging viewers not to smoke
x-Lesson 2 - Health Effects of Smoking-Curriculum Expectations:x-Lesson 1 - Introduction to Smoking and Tobacco-Curriculum Expectations:Curriculum Expectations:
x-Lesson 2 - Health Effects of Smoking-HealthHealth and Physical Educationx-Lesson 1 - IntroductionEducation
C2.3 Demonstrate the ability to Smokingmake and Tobacco-Healthsupport healthy, informed choices about smoking, using their understanding of factors that affect decisions about smoking and Physical EducationHealtha variety of personal and Physical Education
C1.4 Identify substances found in tobacco productsinterpersonal skills and smoke and describe their effects on health
C3.2 Describethinking processes
Media Literacy:
1.1 identify the shortpurpose and long term health effectsaudience for a variety of first-media texts
1.2 use overt and second-hand smoke on smokersimplied messages to draw inferences and on people around them.construct meaning in media texts
1.5 identify whose point of view is presented or reflected in a media text, citing supporting evidence from the text, and suggest how the text might change if a different point of view were used
x-Lesson 2 - Health Effects of Smoking-Procedure:x-Lesson 1 - Introduction to Smoking and Tobacco-Procedure:Procedure:
x-Lesson 2 - Health EffectsBefore (Activation):
View a number of Smoking-Procedure:-Before (Activation):x-Lesson 1 - Introduction to Smokinganti-smoking ads and Tobacco-Procedure:-Before (Activation):Before (Activation):
When students arrive, have the following pictures on the screen:
Car exhaust (carbon monoxide)
Nail polish remover (acetone)
Rat poison (arsenic)
Mothballs (napthalene)
Discuss - would you put these things into your body? Why not?PSAs
Examples:
x-Lesson 2 - Health Effects of Smoking-Procedure:-During (Minds-On):x-Lesson 1 - Introduction to Smoking and Tobacco-Procedure:-During (Minds-On):During (Minds-On):
Visit the Canadian Lung Association website

x-Lesson 2 - Health Effects of Smoking-Curriculum Expectations:x-Lesson 1 - Introduction to Smoking and Tobacco-Curriculum Expectations:Curriculum Expectations:
x-Lesson 2 - Health Effects of Smoking-Health and Physical Educationx-Lesson 1 - Introduction to Smoking and Tobacco-Health and Physical EducationHealth and Physical Education
choices about soking,smoking, using their
Media Literacy:
1.1 identify the purpose and audience for a variety of media texts