Higher:
Can explain and present their findings to others using scientific language
Middle:
They are able to use their knowledge of the risks to health to support their arguments for not smoking
Lower:
Is able to identify the short and long-term risks to the health of smoking
Higher:
Explains the wider impacts of alcohol and drug misuse
Middle:
Can describe the consequences of drinking alcohol and taking drugs
Lower:
Is able to explain what addiction is
Lesson Recap Starter: Think back to the last lesson. Explain the difference between your blood pressure and your pulse.
Lesson Starter: Explain how smoking damages your health and the health of those around you.
Encourage children to come up with a list of damaging effects of smoking.
Presentation - Starter Slide.
Answer questions and take part in activities during the presentation.
Key Concept:
During this unit, each lesson contains a key concept question housed in the '30 Second Challenge' slide. To help children master this content so the knowledge moves from their short term memory to their long term memory, at the beginning of the follow on lesson the question from the previous lesson is revisited.
The questions covered during this unit include:
1. What is the function of blood?
2. What is the function of blood vessels?
3. Explain how your heart moves blood around your body.
4. Explain the difference between your blood pressure and your pulse.
5. Explain how cigarettes harm your body.
6. What are the different food groups? Explain what you can do to eat a balanced diet.
Presentation
Expert Film: Dr Randhir Seewoodharry Buguth gives information about smoking and the damaging effects he has seen on people's mouth, teeth and gums.
How we deliver the Gatsby Benchmarks:
2 - Learning from career and labour market information: Pop along to Developing Experts career’s zone to find out about jobs in your area.
4 - Linking curriculum learning to careers: This unit showcases careers that relate to heart and health. Access our 360° virtual work tours.
7 - Encounters with Further and Higher Education: Pop along to Developing Experts career’s zone to find out about training providers in your area.
Presentation - Expert Film.
Anti-Smoking Campaign
Watch the Lesson Assignment film and use the handout to help children plan for the task.
Children, in groups of between 4 and 6, to produce an anti-smoking campaign. The campaign should contain three main elements:
- A poster
- A health/information leaflet
- A TV/Radio Advert
Encourage children to work through the planning sheets on the handout and listen to each other's ideas. Also, encourage the use of persuasive/emotive language in their campaigns.
When completed, groups can present to each other, and listening groups can use the third page of the handout to assess each other's groups. Potential to create a class anti-smoking display.
As pupils to peer review the presentations from each other groups for:-
Anti-Smoking Campaign
Handouts
Paper / pens / craft materials
Children evaluating each other's campaigns using the scorecard on page 3 of the handout.
Quiz
With their talk partners, the children are to go through the quiz at the end of the presentation and answer the questions.
Handout - Page 3
Quiz in presentation
Can the children describe the short and long-term effects of smoking on human health and lifestyle?
Do the children use scientific vocabulary when describing the health risks of smoking?
Do the children use scientific facts to support their arguments against smoking?
Quizzes in pupil zone.
Unit knowledge organiser / test in unit docs area.
Smoking is dangerous for my health because…
A cigarette contains...
Some short-term effects of smoking are...
Longer-term effects of smoking include...
The Science Behind the Science
Smoking tobacco causes 28% of cancer deaths in the United Kingdom. It increases the risk of cancer of the lungs, mouth, nose, throat, voice box and sinuses. It also leads to other serious lung and heart conditions. Even people who only smoke lightly (up to 4 cigarettes each day) are more likely to die prematurely compared to non-smokers. Second-hand smokers (e.g. people with spouses who smoke) are also more likely to develop health problems. Smoking is the biggest preventable cause of cancer in the world.
There are over 5,000 different chemicals in tobacco smoke, 70 of which have been proven to promote or cause cancer. Many of the chemicals damage DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) or negatively impact the ability of our bodies to remove toxic substances. Examples of harmful chemicals found in smoke are: nicotine, carbon monoxide, benzene, ammonia, formaldehyde, arsenic and lead. Nicotine acts as a stimulant and is highly addictive.
Smoking causes a build-up of tar in the lungs. This can lead to coughing, wheezing, chest infections and asthma in the short term due to irritation of the airways and damage to tissue in the respiratory system. In the longer term, this can lead to emphysema, pneumonia, other chronic infections and cancer.
Recognise the impact of diet, exercise, drugs and lifestyle on the way bodies function.
The study of the characteristics, systems, and behaviours of humans and other animals, and of plants; the interactions and relationships between and among them, and with the environment.
Finding things out using a wide range of secondary sources of information.
Identify scientific evidence that has been used to support or refute ideas or arguments
Grade 5 Health and Hygiene
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