Utah Education Network
Uen: Uppers, Downers and All Arounders
This lesson will help students to understand how alcohol, tobacco and other drugs affect the human body and can impair an individual's actions.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Tobacco 101
This lesson plan will help learners understand the short and long term effects of using tobacco as well as why it is addictive.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian: National Museum of the American Indian: Queen of America
Pocahontas is that rare historical figure who captivated people in her own time and in every generation that followed. Take a closer look at the story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith in this Frieze of American History from the...
Aetna Intelihealth
Aetna: Inteli Health: Gallbladder and Bile Duct Cancer
This site from Intelihealth provides a thorough overview of gallbladder and bile duct cancer. Includes information on symptoms, treatment, prevention, and much more.
Aetna Intelihealth
Aetna: Inteli Health: Pancreatic Cancer
This site from Intelihealth provides a thorough overview of pancreatic cancer. Includes information on symptoms, treatment, prevention, and much more.
Aetna Intelihealth
Aetna: Women: How to Quit Smoking
Article relating facts specific to women about the effects of smoking. Offers tips such as completing a "Why I Want to Quit Smoking," list to help them quit and offers advice to help them break the habit.
Digital History
Digital History: Life in Early Virginia
A good description of the use of indentured servants in early Jamestown as a labor force to cultivate tobacco, the cash crop that saved the colony.
University of Washington
Neuroscience for Kids: Nicotine
At this site learn about the dangers and effects associated with tobacco use and nicotine. Read about how nicotine effects the body and brain and how a nicotine addiction is very difficult to break.
Aetna Intelihealth
Aetna: Inteli Health: Kids and Smoking
Gives reasons why kids pick up smoking despite what we know about tobacco. Good information about the social pressures that lead them to begin.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Smoking Section
Learn various perspectives on the issue of smoking in public places in New York City in this video segment from New York Voices.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Smoking Prevention Campaign
Study facts about tobacco and smoking, survey peers' attitudes about experiences with smoking and create a schoolwide smoking prevention campaign.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: The Best Birthday Present Ever
Gather basic facts about tobacco addiction, including cigarette ingredients, physical effects, tobacco advertising and how to quit. Present a clear and logical written argument based on the facts learned.
Other
American Council on Science and Health
The American Council on Science and Health provides headline health news as well as publishes its latest findings on important health and environmental topics.
Library of Virginia
Virginia Memory: Tobacco Counterblast
In this lesson, students look at why King James I thought that smoking tobacco was a dangerous habit.
US Department of Agriculture
Usda: Agricultural Marketing Service
Home page for the Agricultural Marketing Service of the USDA, links to product and commodity marketing information and job opportunities.
National Institute on Drug Abuse
Nida: Information on Common Drugs of Abuse
A comprehensive look at common drugs, including a link to each drug where you can find research reports, infofacts, publications, and notes.
National Institute on Drug Abuse
Nida: Behavioral Problems Related to Maternal Smoking
This resource provides information about the dangers of smoking while pregnant, and the affects on children in the future.
Curated OER
Kids Health: Smoking Stinks
This four-page article provides general information on cigarettes, nicotine, and smoking by providing simple responses to questions such as "Why Are Smoking and Smokeless Tobacco So Bad for You?" and "What Happens When a Kid Tries...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Smoke and Mirrors
Students develop a persuasive peer-to-peer case against smoking, with the goal to understand how language usage can influence perception, attitudes and behavior.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Tobacco Information and Prevention Source
Homepage for all the information you will ever need on tobacco use in the United States, including how to quit. Special links for teens (TIPS 4 Teens)
Other
A History of Jamestown, Virginia
A comprehensive history of the colony of Jamestown, Virginia. Includes a very nice timeline and historical background.
Read Works
Read Works: Is Big Tobacco Out to Hook Kids?
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the addictive nature of tobacco and the dangers teens face due to tobacco marketing strategies. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Your Body: Operation: Flame Out!
Tells the story of how, as tobacco became more popular, it changed human health, and what the CDC did to fight the epidemic.
Akron Children's Hospital
Akron Children's Hospital: Kidshealth: Smoking Stinks
Find out the reasons kids start smoking, why it is bad for you, and how you can encourage your friends to quit in this article for kids. Includes a brief video. [1:39]