KS3 Smoking Teacher Notes
Introduction
This section covers several aspects of smoking within the KS 3 Science and Personal, Social and Health Education syllabuses. The intention is to provide online content and activities for pupils, along with additional teacher support in the form of suggestions and ideas for classroom work and downloadable activity sheets.
The pupil content begins with an introduction on the basic facts about smoking and leads the student through to consider how smoking affects the body together with strategies for giving up.
The content and structure of the unit has been designed to complement the National Curriculum for England and Wales and the DFES Schemes of Work. This flexible approach enables teachers to direct pupils to key content relevant to their teaching approaches but also, introduce pupils to new topics and extending activities for both online and offline work.
Curriculum references
National Curriculum
KS3 Science Sc2.1 Cells (c)
KS3 Science Sc2.2 Breathing (i)
KS3 Science Sc2.2 Health (m)
KS3 PSHE 2.d
KS3 PSHE 2g
KS3 PSHE 4h
DFES Standards Schemes of Work
KS3 Science Unit 9b 'Fit and healthy'
Classroom Applications
Introduction
Class discussion to establish basic knowledge and perceptions, attitudes and experience of smoking. For example, consider the effects of smoking on 'fitness'.
The Facts
This section can be used to support any classroom discussion and group work.
Learning outcomes
- Smoking related disease can kill.
Extension work
If 13 people are killed per hour how many people die from smoking related diseases per day?
How many people will die this month?
Class Discussions on the economic impacts of smoking and smoking related disease.
The Breathing System
The key aspects of the effects of smoking are related to the breathing system and can be introduced through a review of the physiology of the UPPER AND LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT activity.
Learning outcomes
- To understand the physiology of the Upper and Lower Respiratory Tract.
- Revision of lung function and cell structure (unit 8B).
Extension work
Using the accompanying worksheets on the upper and lower respiratory tracts, pupils can review their knowledge of online learning.
Why are these cells important?
This section reviews specialised cells and focuses specifically on the two key cells that are affected by smoking.
Learning outcomes
- Identify and describe how ciliated cells are adapted to their function.
- Identify and describe how goblet cells are adapted to their function.
Extension work
Review other sites around the human body where ciliated cells may be present and their function eg. Lining the oviduct to waft the egg towards the uterus, or where mucus may be secreted eg. Nasal cavities.
What's in smoke?
A brief resume of the three major components of smoke - NICOTINE, CARBON MONOXIDE and TAR.
Learning outcomes
- Explain the short term and long-term harmful effects of smoke components.
- Explain the harmful effects of smoke components, eg. Nicotine is addictive and narrows blood vessels, affecting blood pressure while accelerating the heart; tar causes lung cancer; carbon monoxide replaces oxygen in the blood.
Extension work
Draw and annotate a diagram of an alveolus to emphasise the role of the blood in the transport of some of the components of smoke.
Describe, with reasons, the likely effects of smoking on the development of a foetus. (Unit 7B)
Set up a smoking machine to compare the amount of tar trapped from a filter-tipped cigarette and a non filter-tipped one. Temperature of smoke can also be measured to link into the effects on cilia for next screen.
Smoking and your lungs
A visual reminder of the affect of smoking on the lungs.
Learning outcomes
- Describe the effects of cigarette smoke on tissues of the lungs and gaseous exchange.
Extension work
Research the effects of emphysema.
Compare the structure of an alveolus of a healthy lung to that of someone suffering from emphysema.
What happens inside the lungs
This section can be used to initiate a classroom debate on the negative aspects of smoking and the influence of peer pressure whilst at school.
Learning outcomes
- Describe the effects of cigarette smoke on tissues of the lungs and gaseous exchange.
Extension work
Students are tasked to research into attitudes towards smoking 30 years ago, 60 years ago and today. Look at data on key issues such as disease, social structure and lifestyle. This work could extend to discussions with older relatives.
The benefits of not smoking
This section covers the immediate to long-term benefits in not smoking.
Learning outcomes
- Describe how ideas about smoking have changed as evidence has accumulated.
Extension work
Produce a poster or leaflet encouraging people to give up smoking.
Give it up
This section looks at the strategies available to stop smoking and so avoid the long-term effects.
Learning outcomes
- To be able to appreciate that through knowledge about the effects of smoking, attitudes towards smoking have changed.
Extension work
Find data referring to the incidence of lung cancer between males and females over the last 60 years.
Appreciate that the general trend now is that male cancer is going down, but female cancer is continuing to increase.
Investigate the arguments for why teenage girls/young women have a higher incidence of smoking than teenage boys/young men.
Summary
A brief synopsis of the information covered.
The web game
A true/false game to consolidate the information covered and test student knowledge. If the facts have not been successfully processed, the student is guided back into the study topic.
Useful web links
Downloads
Pupil Section Exe Files
These are versions of the pupil material for this topic that you can download and use offline. Simply save the .exe file to your desktop and double-click it.
Smoking
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