Overview of Lessons (Take from RWK 2 Page Layout)
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Lessons 1 and 2
25 One of the goals of Click City is to give students a fun, engaging way to learn the truth about tobacco. Each lesson overview has an interesting piece of information about tobacco that you can post on a bulletin board, use as a discussion starter, or as a starting point for other research and writing activities.
Click City Lesson 1
1 in 8 trees chopped down in the Optional Lesson 1 Follow-up Class Activity world are for Social Skills – Brainstorm with your students where tobacco they might be exposed to secondhand smoke. production. Talk about things they can do to avoid being around secondhand smoke. In many communities cigarette butts make up Optional Lesson 1 Journal Writing 40% of litter.
If your students keep a personal journal you may want to encourage them to write a reflective entry related to the activities in Lesson 1. Here are a couple of suggestions to get them started. 1. Some of the things I liked about this lesson are . . . Some things I would change about this lesson are . . . 2. If I could make a new law about secondhand smoke for my town it would be . . .
Adaptations for English Language Learners and SPED Students:
Have an instructional assistant or volunteer demonstrate to ELL and SPED students how to use Click City, and then have the assistant observe to determine if the student can do the activities independently or will need ongoing help.
TEACHER NOTE: Some students may want to take notes while doing Click City lessons. As note taking will add onto the time it takes to complete the booster lessons, please ask your students not to bring paper and pencil with them to the computer.
25 Click City Lesson 1 Overview
Vocabulary
Diagnosis Symptoms Plaque Chart Asthma Second Hand Smoke
Activity Objectives Risk Factors Description
Avg: 4 min.
Introduction Navigate Students are shown the and Tutorial Click City on town and introduced to the computer their buddy.
Students practice using the mouse and arrow keys to get around Click City.
Activity Objectives Risk Factors Description
Avg: 2 min.
Secret Find out what Subjective Students go to the Cyber Survey classmates norms; Booth and take a survey Part 1 think about Normative assessing their intention using tobacco social images to use tobacco when regarding older and their social tobacco use. images of smokers.
26 Activity Objectives Risk Factors Description
Avg: 7 min.
Mystery Learn about Perceptions Students use clues to Game the health regarding the solve a mystery. The clues problems health effects give students information caused by of secondhand on why a person who is inhaling second smoke (SHS) exposed to second hand hand smoke. smoke gets sick.
Activity Objectives Risk Factors Description
Avg: 12 min.
Dr. Time Learn that Physical Students visit a doctor’s smoking even a consequences; office, interview 3 little can cause Cumulative patients who smoke or health risk chew tobacco, and make problems. a diagnosis of their health problems due to tobacco use.
27 Click City “Nicotine is Lesson 2 “Nicotine is addictive. We are, addictive. We are, then, in the then, in the business of business of selling nicotine – selling nicotine – Optional Lesson 2 Follow-up Class Activity an addictive drug Art and Social Studies – Have students find and paste an addictive drug effective in the pictures of smokers onto a blank page and write a few effective in the sentences describing what the advertiser did in the release of stress picture to make the smokers look cool. Display pictures release of stress mechanisms.” and have a discussion about ways that smokers really mechanisms.” Brown & Williamson, aren’t cool. Brown & Williamson, 1963 1963
Optional Lesson 2 Journal Writing
If your students keep a personal journal you may want to encourage them to write a reflective entry related to the activities in Lesson 2. Here are a couple of suggestions to get them started. 1. If I could tell the tobacco companies what I think about smoking I would say . . . 2. Being addicted to something means . . .
Adaptations for English Language Learners and SPED Students:
Preview the vocabulary with students: nicotine, physical addiction, mental addiction, withdrawal, cravings. Write the words, pronounce them, and then have students say the words. Then link the words to something that students are familiar with to help develop their background knowledge.
Have students do the follow-up activity located in the appendix to review and reinforce the key concepts in Lessons 1 and 2. 28 Click City Lesson 2 Overview
Vocabulary
Nicotine Physical Addiction Withdrawal Cravings Mental Addiction
Activity Objectives Risk Factors Description
Avg: 5 min.
Secret Find out what Subjective Students guess how their Survey classmates norms; classmates responded to Part 2 think about Normative the Secret Survey Part 1. using tobacco social images They are given feedback regarding on their classmates’ tobacco use. actual responses from the survey.
Activity Objectives Risk Factors Description
Avg: 7 min.
Addiction Find out why Perception of In the Addiction Lab 201 nicotine is addiction; students see 4 addictive Emphasizing experiments that show that once you different aspects of start smoking addiction (including you can’t physical and mental avoid addiction). addiction.
Activity Objectives Risk Factors Description
Avg: 6 min.
Addiction Reinforce Perception of In this game students race Road concept that addiction; a car, trying to avoid people become Emphasizing cigarettes, but find out addicted to that once you that even they can’t avoid tobacco as start smoking addiction, once they start soon as they you can’t smoking. They see begin using it avoid testimonials from smokers addiction. who want to quit but can’t.
29 Activity Objectives Risk Factors Description
Avg: 6 min.
Make a Decrease Subjective Students make a friend Friend favorable norms; similar to them. Students images of kids Normative and their friend go to a who smoke; social images party, an arcade, a pool. Change regarding They meet kids who perceptions of tobacco use. smoke. They “discuss” their peer’s that kids who smoke are images of not exciting or cool. smokers
Activity Objectives Risk Factors Description
Avg: 6 min.
Scavenger Review the Summary In this review activity, Hunt information activity students use clues to find from Lessons 1 each location on the map. and 2 on the When they find the effects of correct location, they tobacco use hear a message summarizing what they learned in the activity.
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