Things You Might Not Know About Tobacco Steven Leffert Zane Grey High School CTAP 295 Teaching With Technology

Things You Might Not Know About Tobacco

Steven LeffertZane Grey High School

CTAP 295 Teaching With Technology

Steven Leffert, Zane Grey High SchoolThings You Might Not Know About TobaccoCTAP 295 Teaching with Technology

Hi, I’m Steve Leffert, the Science, Math, and Health teacher at Zane Grey High School in Reseda, CA. Zane Grey is a continuation high school with an enrollment of about 60 students that have been unsuccessful at the comprehensive high school. They do their work on an individual contract basis, with assistance from me.

My lesson web address is: http://ctap295.ctaponline.org/~sleffert/student/

My e-mail address is:[email protected]

Steven Leffert, Zane Grey High School

Things You Might Not Know About TobaccoCTAP 295 Teaching with Technology

This is a Science lesson (Standards 1a, 1d, and 1m) on some of the lesser known dangers of tobacco use.

Students will use technology to gather this information and draw conclusions about tobacco and its use.



• Create a standards based lesson for my students to work on in class and at home if they have internet access

• Teach my students how to use the computer for gathering information from various web resources and draw conclusions from the information

• Use PowerPoint and Excel

• Create web pages

Expectations



The skills and knowledge I gained from this course• Graphing and Spreadsheet creation with Excel• Web page creation with Netscape Composer• Linking pages with the various assignments• PowerPoint• Uploading, downloading and editing techniques

Outcomes



• Students learned to follow links to various parts of the assignment

• Students learned there is more to the internet than just “surfing”

• Students learned to copy and paste from the web to a Word document

• Students met state standards

Successes



• Students learned to search for relevant information

• Students saw that their survey data was quite similar to national data

• Students learned some additional hazards of tobacco use

• Students learned to draw conclusions based on information they found on the internet

More Successes



• Students had no prior knowledge of Excel• Students had poor typing skills• Students had difficulty analyzing the data from

some of the web sites• Small number of students were in the test

group

Shortcomings



Student Data

All students showed some improvement from pre-test to post-test

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Pre-Test Standard 1d

Post Test Standard 1d



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Student Survey Standard 1a

Student Survey Standard 1d

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Additional Data

Grades from the Tobacco Use Survey Assignment



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Death and Taxes Standard 1a

Death and Taxes Standard 1d

Death and Taxes Standard 1m

Additional Data

Grades from the Death and Taxes Activity



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New York StateLaw Standard 1m

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Grades from New York State Law Activity



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TobaccoSettlementAgreement Standard 1m

Additional Data

Grades from Tobacco Settlement Agreement Activity



Analysis RevisionStudents had difficulty with copy, paste and spell checking their work

Students will have a lesson on computer basics before the assignment is given

Students had difficulty with spreadsheet and graph creation with Excel

Tobacco Use Survey will be done as a group for the part involving the spreadsheet and creation of the graph

Students had trouble analyzing the data in the Death and Taxes Activity

Once data is downloaded and printed out students will work as a group to “brainstorm” for answers

Revisions Needed



Conclusion

As Tobacco Use Prevention Education Coordinator I am always looking for new approaches to the issue of tobacco. The idea of having a customized lesson that would make the students think about that subject while learning to use the technology readily available in my classroom intrigued me. I had to present some new information to them while meeting the needs of their standards based instruction. I wanted to create a variety of lessons using several skills including typing, editing, spreadsheet construction, graphing, internet searching and just following links on the web to important sites.



Conclusion Con’d

I had to learn the basics of designing web pages as well as Excel. At times I was frustrated by my own lack of knowledge with that program. However, because of this class I was forced to learn and reinforced it by showing it to my students. Most of them never had a basic computer class and had difficulty with some of the assignments because of this.

My students are enthralled with computers, but not for their educational value. The lesson I created had been quite a challenge for them. But I believe they have a new insight into the vast world of the internet and what they can learn with access to it.

I would like to create other standards based lessons utilizing the web, even if the assignments themselves aren’t on the internet. I also want to check out some of the lessons created other teachers in this class.

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Things You Might Not Know About Tobacco Steven Leffert Zane Grey High School CTAP 295 Teaching With Technology