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Secondary

This part of the program builds on the attitudes, skills and knowledge developed in the elementary program. It is organized around three major, inter-related components:

1. Career and Personal Planning Lessons

Each grade level has a series of activity-oriented lessons designed to help students make healthy choices about tobacco use.

The learning outcomes are integrated with existing BC curricula, so when delivering any of the lessons, teachers are also teaching the prescribed learning outcomes of the Career and Personal Planning 8 – 12 Integrated Resource Package.

Now Available!

To meet the Ministry of Education's new CAPP requirements, a new resource has been completed. The information in grades 10 through 12 has being revised and packaged into one binder for grade 10 that complements the new Planning 10 Integrated Resource Package.

As with the other secondary modules of bc.tobaccofacts, the classroom lessons are congruent with Planning 10-prescribed learning outcomes. And just like the original modules of bc.tobaccofacts, all the information teachers require to present the lessons is included: facts, handouts, overhead transparency masters and evaluation suggestions.

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2. Activities

The teen-centered, fun activities are short-term projects to be used with teens on special days such as:
- National Non-Smoking Week (3rd week of January)
- World No-Tobacco Day (May 31st)
- National Drug Awareness Week 3rd week of November)

They involve teens in activities that will contribute to fewer youth choosing to use tobacco and help support teen smokers in quitting.

Examples:
- Sponsor an event to raise money for a quit smoking project,
- Challenge another school to see which one can get the most students to quit smoking, and
- Invent a trivia game and have classes compete for prizes.

3. Projects

These long-term projects lead to social action to prevent teen tobacco use. They benefit youth by building knowledge, skills and awareness of tobacco-related issues and they give them the opportunity to take their message out to the community. They can be used to fulfill the CAPP work experience component and are suitable for leadership classes, applied skills classes, alternate schools or youth organizations outside the school setting.

Examples:
- Create and produce puppet plays and present them at elementary schools,
- Design, make and display quilts with an anti-tobacco theme,
- Write children’s books and distribute them to libraries and business offices, and
- Construct web sites and produce videos.

4. Tobacco Backpack

The Tobacco Backpack includes fact sheets about tobacco prevention and cessation. The teaching strategies section describes the variety of techniques used throughout the resource. Useful organizations, phone numbers and web pages are listed in Contacts/Resources. Three cessations brochures suitable for photocopying are also provided.

5. Supplementary Resources

Additional support for teachers includes two videos, one for Grades 4 to 7 and one for Grades 8 to 12, that provide an orientation to using the resources. Please contact Centre for Addiction Research BC for your free copy. Also, orientation workshops may be arranged by contacting the Regional Tobacco Reduction Coordinator via the local health unit.

TEACHERS
Learn how schools are fighting tobacco misuse. Download bc.tobaccofacts newsletters:

bc.tobaccofacts – Sep 2002 issue

bc.tobaccofacts – Aug 2002 issue

bc.tobaccofacts – Jan 2002 issue

bc.tobaccofacts – Mar 2001 issue

bc.tobaccofacts – Jan 2001 issue

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