Process
Ok it's time!
Let’s jump into this investigation and see what are specialists find out about this life or death case.
- Step1: Print out and complete the Getting Started Worksheet. Place in your folder when finished.
- Step 2: Print out and use the Issue Report Outline to gather facts for your report.
- Step 3: Now, you will publish your Issue Report. Be sure to edit and proof read the information that you have compiled on your Issue Report. Then, using that information and Microsoft Word, type your Issue Report. Click here Issue Report Outline to see an example of a Published Issue report.
- Step 4: Hey, I bet you thought you were on your own. Don’t forget we are a team. I have supplied each group with websites and key questions, at the bottom of the page. Use these resources to gather information for your Issue Report Outline.
Statisticians' Websites
http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/watch/house/smoking.html
http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/grow/drugs_alcohol/poll_tobacco.html
http://www.bam.gov/sub_yourbody/yourbody_smoking.html
http://www.tobaccofreekids.org/research/
http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/NN/B/C/F/T/_/nnbcft.pdf
http://pbskids.org/itsmylife/body/smoking/
Statisticians' Key Questions How many people die in a year from smoking? When do kids usually start to smoke?
How much money can you save by not smoking? How many chemicals are found in cigarettes? Doctors' Websites
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/sgr/sgr_2004/sgranimation/flash/index.html http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/watch/house/smoking.html
http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/htbw/lungs.html http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/htbw/index.html
http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/NN/B/C/F/T/_/nnbcft.pdf
http://www.teenquit.com/index2.asp http://pbskids.org/itsmylife/body/smoking/
Doctors' Key Questions
What does it mean to have an addiction? What is cancer? How does smoking affect your ability to play sports? How does smoking affect your body?
Counselors' Websites http://www.bam.gov/sub_yourlife/yourlife_choices.html
http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/watch/house/smoking.html http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/grow/drugs_alcohol/poll_tobacco.html
http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/feeling/friend/peer_pressure.html http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/NN/B/C/F/T/_/nnbcft.pdf
http://pbskids.org/itsmylife/body/smoking/ Counselors' Key Questions
Why do kids your age smoke? What are five reasons not to start smoking? Why should people quit and why is it so hard to quit? What do you do when someone asks you to smoke?