Smoking Aerobics
Grade Level: 6-12
Subject: PE and Health
Learner Outcomes: How smoking tobacco affects physical activity
Purpose: The purpose of this activity is to show how smoking tobacco affects a person's everyday physical activity.
Materials needed:
Technology Tools/Courseware:
Teacher notes:
Safety: Any students that have heart problems or asthma should
not do this activity.
Special Requirements: Reserve the gymnasium for this
lesson.
Parent, building resource: none
Procedure:
1.Step Aerobics: Do a ten-minute step aerobic routine with the
students. Any routine will do, as long as it is rigorous and gets
their heart rate up.
2. Using the stethoscopes has the students check their heart rate. Anything can be used to help them understand that their heart rate has gone up.
3. Discussion: Have the students fill out the first two questions on the worksheet, which are provided next.
a. Write any two factors you know about smoking.
b. Write down your two most favorite physical activities.
4. Mind Map what the students answered for question one and discuss. Each student can come up and write their own answer on the board.
5. Smoking Aerobics: Each student needs a straw and a step. They will do the same exact aerobics routine from the beginning of class. The difference is they will be using straws to breath in and out. The straws represent how a smoker feels when doing physical activity.
6. Have the students check their heart rate again to see if there is a difference compared to the first time.
7. Finish worksheets by answering question three and four that are provided next.
a. Write two feeling words you experienced when doing aerobics while breathing through the straw.
b. How can smoking affect your two favorite physical activities you wrote down in question two?
Discuss answers as a class.
Modifications: none
Enrichment Activities:
Just Say No
1-800-258-2766
National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information
1-800-729-6686
Nicotine
Free Teens
-also to on line quiz at this site
If you will graduate from high school in the year 2000, you can
ask your teacher if your class can join the Smokefree Class of
2000. It's a group of kids who have promised to stay smoke-free
forever! For more information, write:
SFC 2000
20 North Wacker Drive, Suite 1240
Chicago, IL 60606-2969
Or call 1-800-562-4447
Evaluation: Successful completion of
online quiz and
finishing the worksheets.
Rubric
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West Virginia Instructional Goals and Objectives:
PE.7 Evaluate the relationship of nutrition and physical activity
to wellness and maintenance of
desired
personal health qualities. H, HE.55
PE.9 Analyze the impact of drugs, tobacco, and alcohol on
physical performance. (e.g. lung
capacity,
coordination, etc.); formulate personal strategies to stay
drug-free
HE.5 IP,PHW,R,TAD,NPA
Give examples of decisions that affect a person's quality of
life..
National
Standards
Health
Understands the short- and long-term consequences of safe, risky, and harmful behavior
Understands the impact of personalhealth behaviors on the functioning of body systems
promote achievement of health goals throughout life (e.g., following
a personal nutrition plan to reduce the risk of disease, periodically
self-assessing physical fitness)
References:
Just Say No
1-800-258-2766
National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information
1-800-729-6686
Nicotine
Free Teens
-also do on line quiz for stress at this site
Authors:
Janie
Bolyard
Eva
Robinson
Diane
Smith
Grafton High School