Health+Education+Task

**Task Overview**
This task aims to support teachers in educating students about the negative implications of smoking. We have created an authentic learning task designed to be taught over 5 -50 minute long lessons, with the potential to extend children who are academically excelling. Activities may be modified to accommodate students with learning disabilities or from ESL backgrounds. By completing this task, students learn about the effects of smoking and why they should help their peers to realise the importance of avoiding potentially negative outcomes.

Students first discuss their own prior knowledge, thoughts and feelings in relation to smoking during a short mat session, ideas are then brainstormed on the board and saved for future reference. This is followed by an introduction to smoking and it's effects on the body via an interactive whiteboard activity. Some specialist vocabulary is featured in this activity and students are encouraged to look up defintions of difficult words at home or if time permits during the lesson. Students will then watch a one or two short [|anti-smoking advertisement videos] aimed to give them a strong sense of the dangers of smoking and the need to promote awareness. A basic worksheet will be completed by students on what they have learnt in the lesson. Students are to be encouraged to go home and further research smoking and it's effects.

Over the next 2 lessons students form groups of 4 to research the effects of smoking online using sites recommended by the class teacher to build on their existing understanding of smoking.Teachers are to follow up any group research sessions with a brief whole class brainstorming exercise of ideas to ensure all students benefit from the sessions and are taking in enough relevant information. Teachers must also follow up with the difficult definitions students were asked to look up the day before to make sure student understanding is sufficient. Brainstorming activities done on the interactive white board can be printed out by the teacher for students to reference.

By lesson 3 teachers will introduce students to the OxyGen website, a resource rich completely interactive website aimed at educators and students promoting awareness of the dangers of smoking and its effects on our bodies. Teachers will allocate the entire lesson to the website which students will be free to navigate in their groups playing games, watching videos and reading facts. This will be followed up by an activtity sheet derived from website content.Teachers are to print one worksheet off per group. This activity will take approximately 50 minutes.The lesson plan, student activity sheet and accomanying answer sheet for this activity can be found on the OyxGen website under 'Resources for schools'. If time permits follow up with a quick class discussion/brainstorm.

On lesson 4 groups will be ready to start work on an anti-smoking poster using what information/ resources (including online images and slogans) they have gathered in previous lessons. Teachers may wish to take this opportunity to show students websites with examples of anti-smoking slogans to get an idea of persuasive language they can use on their posters. Students are to be shown a tutorial video on how to create a digital poster or 'glog' using "Glogster". The teacher must ensure each group is registered with a Glogster account before this lesson. Groups will play around with the Glogster site to get familiar with it.

By lesson 5 all this research will culminate in the creation of their digital poster using Glogster, which once completed will be uploaded to students' Tumblr accounts and the school website. It is a great idea for teachers to print out the posters for students to display around the school to promote an anti- smoking campaign. This will allow children to form ownership of their own learning. Students may also wish to present their posters at a school assembly to promote their anti-smoking campaign.