Tuesday's Class

Tuesday's "science" class was different then any other one. Instead of science we did wellness, because on Monday (actual wellness class) we had presentations from Davide and Karin and then we had a guest speaker, that smokes, to speak to us about how smoking is bad for you and that we schouldn't start smoking. We didn't get to the smoking commercial things on Monday,as Ms.D. wanted, because our guest speaker took a long time speaking to us. So we had to talk about the smoking commercials today instead of science class.

First we handed in our super hero project (which was science homework) because instead of last Friday it was due today. Then we went straight to the smoking commercials and Ms.D. gave us the rubric so that we can follow what she is reading and so that she can explainstuff that we need to do. Ms.D. also told us that we're gong to be using the program Audacity to record our commercials. Ms.D. also gave us a guide to using this program so that we know how to use it, but she said that it is easy to use anyway. Then we went to our smoking packet and we talked about what smoking can do to you:

• stained teeth
• stale smell in hair
• halitosis (bad breath)
• stuffy nose
• skin wrinkles
• lung cancer
• deadened taste buds
• heart disease
• damaged cilia (little hairs in your nose, ears, and other places in your body, that get damaged by the smoke of the cigarette
• mouth cancer
• irritated throat
• chronic bronchitis
• increased heartbeat
• emphysema (you can't breath so you have to carry oxygen around)
• stained, yellow fingers
• stroke ( when it happens it means that the blood to the brain can't go and you loose your arm, leg, etc.)
• less oxygen to lungs
• odor of smoke in your clothes

Then when you flip the page over there's a Brain Pop activity that we had to fill in and here are the answers from 1st to last:

1. 
   

   

   The picture above is showing an example of a tobacco plant.

   illness
2. tobacco
3. oxygen
4. tar
5. lungs
6. cancer
7. nicotine
8. heart
9. drug
10. help
    



And then when you turn the page over, you will find a "What is Nicotine?" activity and here yre the answers, again from 1st to last:

1. liquid
2. tobacco
3. cigarettes
4. pipes
5. cigars

6. smokeless (chewing) tobacco
7. lungs
8. chewing
9. stomach
10. mouth

And then next in the packet there is just information and the next activity is "Up in Smoke" which was homework for Monday, because you had to go on the internet and search this to actually answer these.



Next, we went back to the commercials, but we were interrupted by the PTA, because they gave us donuts because it was Mardi Gras (which ment Fat Tuesday). Ms.D. started showing us a cigarette ad from the 1960's which you can find here, as we were eating the donuts. When we finished eating, Ms.D. showed us the grose commercials from Australia, because Australia has too many smokers so they want them to stop smoking. And the only way to make them stop is to start putting these grose commercials on T.V. :


• Anti-Smoking Artery
• Anti-Smoking Mouth Cancer
• Anti-Smoking Stroke
• Anti-Smoking Tar in Lung
• Anti-Smoking Rotten Lung

So these are the 5 websites that we watched in class. And here is a link to Moodle so that you can see the homework sheet, the smoking radio commercial sheet, and the guide to using Audacity.



The picture above is showing lungs from a non-smoker and a smoker. The one on the left is from a person who has died who was not a smoker. The right one is from a smoker who smoked for many years.

AND THE NEXT SCRIBE IS....(DRUMS)......VALENTINA