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Vaping Prevention & Education

LESSON PLAN: THE RISKS OF VAPING MAGAZINE

splayed pages of The Risks of Vaping Magazine

Objectives

Students will analyze informational texts to gather evidence about the risks of vaping and then create a persuasive, anti-vaping infographic/poster for a teen audience.

Standards: 6th-12th grade

CCSS ELA

  • RI.6-12.1 Cite evidence to support text analysis
  • RI.7.9 Analyze how two texts present information
  • SL.6-12.1 Engage in collaborative discussions
  • RST.6-10.7 Express quantitative information visually
  • W.6-12.1 Write arguments to support claims
  • W.6-12.2.D Use domain-specific vocabulary

NGSS

  • Practice: Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information
  • Crosscutting Concept: Cause and Effect: Mechanism and Prediction
  • Core Idea: MS/HS-LS1.B Growth and Development of Organisms

National Health Education Standards

  • #7: Avoid or reduce health risks
  • #8: Advocate for personal, family, or community health

LESSON PLAN: The Risks of Vaping Magazine


Activities: Reading Activity, Nonfiction Text Analysis, Create a Poster or Infographic

Students will analyze informational texts to gather evidence about the risks of vaping and then create a persuasive, anti-vaping infographic/poster for a teen audience.

NONFICTION TEXT ANALYSIS

  1. Share The Risks of Vaping magazine with your students and discuss key facts about how vaping can affect their health. Use the questions included in step 3 of the Project: "Vaping's Not Our Thing" page to guide the discussion.
  2. Ask: Why do you think the teens from the videos of the magazine chose to share their experiences? How do their first-person accounts support the scientific information in the text?
  3. Help remove the stigma around seeking help for vaping by using person-first language. For example, instead of saying "addict", use the phrase "a person with nicotine addiction."

READING ACTIVITY

  1. Ask students, individually or as pairs, to read the article, Ask the Doctor: Teens and Vaping.
  2. Have students respond in writing to the questions at the bottom of the sheet. Then, discuss as a group to address any misconceptions.
  3. Discuss how this text compares with the article The Scary Truth About Vaping from the student magazine.
  4. Writing Extension: Have students write a persuasive essay synthesizing the information in the texts they read.

CREATE A POSTER OR INFOGRAPHIC

  1. Challenge your students to help keep their fellow teens safe by creating a persuasive poster to hang up around school. They’ll take what they have learned to create a poster or infographic that aims to convince their peers to avoid or quit vaping.
  2. Refer to the Project: "Vaping's Not Our Thing" and Project Rubric pages to help students self-assess and refine their posters as they work.
  3. Optional: Share and discuss examples of posters and infographics, such as those found on FDA's Tobacco Education Resource Library.
  4. Display posters in the halls and around your classroom or share them over small-group video calls.