Education at school provides an opportunity to master not only basic knowledge in the field of exact and humanitarian sciences, but also to obtain information useful for life. In view of the increased number of smokers among very young schoolchildren in elementary and senior grades, they began to spend classroom hours on the dangers of smoking. Its main goal is to convey to students the negative consequences that smoking causes. How to build a classroom about the dangers of smoking, what is worth telling about and when is it better to do this is described in this article.
The history of the appearance of the International Day for quitting
Usually a classroom hour on the dangers of smoking is held as part of International Smoking Cessation Day. The date of this day changes annually, as it is celebrated on the third Thursday of November. In 2017, the date of the International Smoking Cessation Day and, as a result, the information hours on the dangers of smoking for schoolchildren is November 16. For the first time, people began to pay attention to this event in 1977. The decision to celebrate International Smoking Cessation Day came from the American Cancer Society. In their opinion, the introduction of this holiday will reduce the prevalence of tobacco dependence, will involve many people in the process of combating smoking and will lead to informing society about the irreversible consequences of smoking. In order to convey the necessary information to the students as accurately and timely as possible, a decision was made without fail to arrange a class hour about the dangers of smoking.
Classroom structure
Before you understand what to talk about and what to discuss at the classroom hour, you need to decide on its subject and name. The most common topics, if you need to briefly talk about the dangers of smoking, are: "I don’t smoke and I don’t advise you!", "Tell your solid" NO "smoking," Smoking - harming your health. " Thus, in the first case, it is necessary to focus on the positive aspects of a non-smoker and share your experience, in the second you should tell more about how to cope with this addiction and the third topic will reveal all the negative effects of cigarettes on the body. Those who are allowed time can try to reveal all aspects at once. In this case, such a topic about the dangers of smoking as “Smoking is a million against and not a single one” is suitable. The main stages of the classroom include:
1. Definition of goals and objectives.
2. Information gathering and preparation.
3. Conducting an information hour on the dangers of smoking for primary school students or adolescents.
- Introduction by the teacher.
- An appeal to the audience explaining the harmful effects of smoking in nature.
- Presentation of the report prepared by the student.
- A quiz about the dangers of smoking.
- The final word of the class teacher.
4. Analysis of the event.
These stages are basic, but it is obvious that before forming a plan for his event, the class teacher should evaluate the audience and decide on its addition or withdrawal of any component. It should be understood that the classroom hour on the dangers of smoking for adolescents will be more fulfilled, deeper and more serious than this event organized for elementary school students.
Goals and objectives
The story about smoking and its effect on health should first of all lead to the formation in the minds of students of a negative image of a smoker. To achieve this goal, the following tasks must be completed:
- reveal the very concept of smoking and reveal its essence;
- instill anti-smoking skills;
- to introduce schoolchildren to a healthy lifestyle.
The methodological development of the classroom about the dangers of smoking must necessarily include the process of creating a presentation. Slides should demonstrate unhealthy looking smokers with experience, namely, a change in the color of his teeth, the appearance of bruises under his eyes, loose and well-groomed skin. Also on one of the slides you can reflect the price of cigarettes. In figures, it is also recommended to demonstrate how much money a smoker spends per year to buy them, and what kind of cool game console or modern mobile phone could be bought for these funds. So the price of cigarettes will seem even higher, and the desire to purchase them will decrease significantly. It is planned that after a conversation about the dangers of smoking, schoolchildren must understand the harm done to them, develop the ability to not give in to provocations and give preference to a healthy lifestyle.
Preparatory stage
In order to maximally correctly and correctly convey to the audience the whole truth about the dangers of smoking for schoolchildren, it is necessary to use reliable sources. Of course, the network has a ton of information that can really be used as a basis. But in order to penetrate deeper into the problem, it is necessary to study books on the dangers of smoking. As recommended, you should read:
- “Stop smoking” - specific recommendations from M. Stoppard.
- “The weapon of genocide” is a demonstration of obvious things that harm humanity from a forecasting and analytical center.
- The Easy Way to Quit Smoking is a bestseller based on real-life events from Allen Carr's life.
Of course, the main work in preparation for the classroom is assigned to the teacher, but children should also not be left indifferent. Students should be invited to find interesting information on this topic and present it in a report format. It can be either unusual facts from life, or funny poems, or fascinating scenes. For greater clarity, you should instruct the guys to break into groups, each of which will have to bring a wall newspaper on a given topic to the event. On average, there are about four posters on topics:
- The appearance of the smoker and the appearance of the non-smoker.
- One pack of cigarettes is ...
- Harm to health.
- 10 reasons to quit smoking.
The more illustration material there is, the higher the likelihood that the classroom hour on the dangers of smoking will really bear fruit.
What should the teacher say at the beginning of the conversation
The first thing a class teacher should read is the epigraph to the lesson. It is worth remembering that it should be bright, sonorous and memorable. As a good option, you can consider the following examples: “Tobacco isn’t a fellow mind” or “If you start smoking tobacco, you will be an enemy to your body”. After this, we should proceed to the essence of the problem, based on the fact that the dangers of smoking have been known for a long time. The following words will be clear and good for delivering the necessary information: “Hundreds of years ago, people realized that smoking leads to irreversible consequences in the body’s work. Identifying the smoker has always been very simple - he is tormented by a strong cough and shortness of breath. It is proved that when you are in a room where someone smoked, it becomes not only difficult to breathe, but also almost impossible to think logically. A huge number of experiments on animals have been carried out in history. As a result, it was found that nicotine is harmful to a living organism. The main argument against smoking was that one drop of nicotine easily kills three horses at once. The human body, of course, receives nicotine in smaller doses, but even a minimal effect leads to serious health problems. ” Having interested the listeners, forcing them to reflect on interesting facts, we can proceed to a detailed explanation of the harmful consequences.
Speech on the harmful effects
Everyone has their own understanding of the word cigarettes. Health hazard, despite this, is incredibly serious from them. Words that are more associated with cigarettes and their negative aspects are presented below:
- Nicotine is a poison that causes nerve palsy. It acts on the principle of blocking the cardiovascular and respiratory center of the brain.
- Cancer - this disease is caused by more than forty substances contained in inhaled by smoking. The most harmful is benzopyrene, the use of which is also practiced by scientists setting up experiments on the formation of cancerous tumors in rats.
- Harmful substances - ammonia, hydrocyanic acid, tar and CO cause particular harm to the smoker's body.
- Pneumonia and bronchitis - smoking weakens the protection of epithelial cells, which leads to infection of the bronchi or lungs.
- Shortening the life span - if a smoker smokes one pack of cigarettes a day, then his life expectancy decreases. One smoked cigarette equates to the loss of twelve minutes of life.
- Dependence - if a smoker reduces the number of cigarettes smoked and his body stops receiving the usual share of nicotine, then it becomes irritable, his level of concentration and working capacity decreases. As a result, his body begins to demand an increase in the number of cigarettes consumed.
As for smoking schoolchildren, smoking destroys their nervous system, lowers hearing, impairs memory, creates poor mental and physical condition, leads to poor grades and slow consideration. Scientists have proven that the female body is more susceptible to the negative effects of tobacco, smoking leads to coarsening of the voice and withering of the skin.
A report that can be offered to one of the students
Modern scientists in the process of studying smokers have come to the conclusion that an increase in the number of smokers leads to an irreversible increase in the number of dangerous diseases.
Another fact that scientists have found is that smokers who are addicted to tobacco before the age of fifteen die because of lung cancer five times more often than people who started smoking at the age of over twenty-five. Also, angina, heart attack, stomach ulcer and all the same lung cancer are considered to be frequent smokers diseases.
Tobacco is so bloodthirsty that it harms absolutely every human organ. The main victims are the bladder, kidneys, glands and blood vessels of the genital organs, liver and brain.
The heart also does not remain without damage. Smoking makes him perform fifteen thousand more cuts. Oxygen nutrition and enrichment with other important substances are also deteriorating. Tobacco causes blood vessels to constrict, which leads to a weakening of memory and, as a result, a decrease in student performance.
Quiz
After listening to a lot of interesting material prepared by the teacher and students, knowledge should be consolidated. The best way to do this would be a cognitive quiz. It can include a variety of questions on this topic. The following tasks can be taken as a basis:
- Question: "What is the substance that makes up the greatest harm to the human body?" - Answer: "Polonium 210 is a radioactive metal that constantly smokes a smoker. 300 cigarettes smoked are equivalent to daily x-rays for a whole year."
- Question: "What can I buy for my money spent on cigarettes during the year (clarification: the average cost of a pack of cigarettes is 30 rubles, a smoker uses one pack a day, spends 10,950 rubles a year)?" - The answer for each student will be different.
- Question: "When did tobacco appear in Russia, and what sanctions did Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich Romanov apply to smokers?" - Answer: "In 1585, the British brought tobacco to Russia through Arkhangelsk. If a smoker was first caught with a cigarette, he was punished with 60 blows on his heels. A second hit caused his nose or ears to be cut off."
- Question: “Continue correctly the phrase that was popular during the reign of Peter I:“ He who smokes tobacco is worse ... ”” Answer options: 1) goats, 2) pigs, 3) gray wolf, 4) dogs. The correct answer: 4) dogs.
conclusions
The first thing that every student should understand is that the negative effects of smoking are not accidental. Nobody succeeds in avoiding them. The opinion that this will not affect a specific person, because he smokes only one or two cigarettes a day, is deeply mistaken. Tobacco does not spare anyone.
Smokers live a few years less than non smokers. The great and very talented doctor S.P. Botkin, finding himself on his deathbed, noted with regret that if it were not for smoking, he could have lived another ten years at least. Nobody wants to lose such precious time. Therefore, in order not to lead the body to an undesirable dependence on nicotine, it is better not to start smoking.
Those who still decide to spend a lot of money on cigarettes should only sympathize. They can not only be left without a brand new phone or fashionable sneakers, but they can also get an unhealthy complexion, withered skin, yellow teeth and a hoarse voice. Nervousness and irritability will become their best friends not only due to the effects of nicotine, but also because of the lack of the ability to smoke everywhere. In Russia, a law is in force according to which smoking is prohibited on the territory of the Sports Palaces, swimming pools, gyms, medical and educational institutions, resorts, sanatoriums and vehicles. Due to the inability to consume the required dose of nicotine, smoking schoolchildren become not only nervous, but also the most lagging in the classroom.
If students do not want to remain in the ranks of losers, then they urgently need to take care of themselves. Books and a well-known way to replace cigarettes with sweets will help quit smoking. Having said goodbye to the pernicious habitual, a person begins to breathe deeply and live a completely new, brighter and more saturated life.
Analysis of the event
The most important indicator of a successful classroom hour is the reduction in the number of smokers in the classroom. A conversation with students is considered effective, after which academic performance improves, the number of latecomers and truants is reduced. Also clear evidence that the student quit smoking is an improvement in his appearance and the absence of a previously familiar cough. It is very difficult to find out exactly how many people have learned information and started to work on themselves. But if all the students are always in the classroom, no one runs away and calmly prepares for a new lesson, this is already a very large indicator of the success of the classroom. It should be understood that one conversation held on International Smokers Day does not fix the situation. In order to constantly support the theme of combating smoking and to focus on it, it is recommended that all posters prepared by children for classroom hours be placed in the office. So that children are very enthusiastic about creating a wall newspaper, you can motivate them with a subsequent contest. So, after a month, the teacher can vote and choose the best job for which the student will receive a symbolic gift. The participation of the class teacher in the life of his students is one of the important factors in the formation of their right goals and thoughts. The teacher must be the second mother. Therefore, sometimes scolding smokers for such a bad habit will not be amiss. In addition, it is necessary to continue working not only with students, but also with their parents. So dealing with addiction will be even easier.