Lesson Four:
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:
- Straws
- steps for aerobics
- Pulse meters or stethoscopes
- (Styrofoam cups can be used as stethoscopes)
- Cotton balls
- Rubber band
- Live Tobacco Free worksheets
Technology Tools/Courseware:
- Stethoscope
- Heart rate monitors
- Internet, optional
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
20 North Wacker Drive, Suite 1240
Or call 1-800-562-4447
Evaluation: Successful
completion of online quiz and
finishing the worksheets.
Rubric
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Online quiz |
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Worksheet |
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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
http://www.nicotinefreekids.com/
-also do on line quiz for stress at this site
Authors:
Janie Bolyard
Eva Robinson
Diane
Smith