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You Decide

 

 

Should Smoking Be Banned in Public Places, II

 

PRINT RESOURCES: NON-FICTION

Burning Money: The Cost of Smoking, Amy Thomas

http://www.amazon.com/Burning-Money-Smoking-Tobacco-Deadly/dp/1422208087/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265724445&sr=8-1

Details other costs of smoking that kids don't often think about, like deaths due to smoking related fires, cancer, and lung disease as well as how much it costs our government to help care for people who suffer from these effects.  Horn Book reviewer says information in this series is fine but "hokey cartoons" and an "onslaught of statstics" make for a less than perfect book. New for 2009 and for grades 4-6, so worth checking out.

 

Cash Crop to Cash Cow: The History of Tobacco and Smoking in America, Mary Meinking

http://www.amazon.com/Cash-Crop-Cow-History-Tobacco/dp/1422208117/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265724971&sr=8-1

From the same series as Burning Money listed above, this is the history we so needed to fill in the unit.  Gr 4-6.

 

False Images, Deadly Promises: Smoking and the Media, Ann Malaspina

http://www.amazon.com/False-Images-Deadly-Promises-Smoking/dp/1422208125/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265725223&sr=1-1 

No specific review on this book from a series that covers health, social and psychological effects of smoking.  This book on Smoking and the Media is relatively newly published and on a topic that is crucial to understanding the tobacco industry today.  For grades 4-6.  Other titles in the Deadly Drug series includes: No More Butts, But All My Friends Smoke, Born to Smoke, But Smoking Makes Me Happy, Thousands of Deadly Chemicals, Smokeless Tobacco, and Teenagers and Tobacco. 

 

Rethinking Globalization, Bill Bigelow and Bob Peterson

http://www.rethinkingschools.org/publication/rg/index.shtml

This book has lesson plans and teaching strategies for teaching about the roots and impacts of Globalization, including the impact of cash crops and its impact on poor nations.  The Rethinking Schools website also has lots of information for on a variety of teaching topics, around the issues of social justice.

 

Smoke Screen: How Advertisers Cloud the Truth, New Mexico Literacy Project

http://www.nmmlp.org/store/smoke_screen.html

Created for Middle School and up, this one page fold out might be a tad too high of a reading level - but maybe not.  For a buck each, a great deal and good information in a catchy layout.  

 

Toad overload : a true tale of nature knocked off balance in Australia, Patricia Seibert

http://tinyurl.com/yg9dfdm

The true story of what happened in Australia after huge toads were brought to the country to eat beetles that were infesting the important sugar crop.  The poision-squirting toads multiplied and became a huge problem.  Shows the delicate balance of nature and potential problems with cash crops.

 

 

 

PRINT RESOURCES: FICTION

Bat 6, Virginia Euwer Wolff.

http://tinyurl.com/ylmje7h

This is a side-line subject to yur study, but if you are looking to link with the debate on discrimination and individual rights, this might work as a bridge.  The novel takes place in a small town in Oregon where, during an annual softball game, one girls bigotry against one of theJapanese-American players surfaces.  The novel unfolds as each of the 21 6th grade girls voice their opinions. A good read and a way to get lots of opinions viewed on one issue.

 

Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type, Doreen Cronin

http://www.amazon.com/Click-Clack-Moo-Cows-That/dp/0689832133/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265640889&sr=1-1

When the cows on Farmer Brown's farm get ahold of a typewriter, they use their new typing skills to demand a better life.  A funny, quirky picutre book that shows that even cows can stick up for their rights.

 

Courage, Bernard Waber

http://www.amazon.com/Courage-Bernard-Waber/dp/0618238557/ref=pd_sim_b_7

Courage can take many forms - from tasting a new vegetable to saying goodbye.  This book might be a great way to talk about the ways we are courageous, which includes defending our rights.

 

If You Had to Choose, What Would You Do? Sandra McLeod Humphrey

http://www.amazon.com/You-Had-Choose-What-Would/dp/157392010X/ref=pd_sim_b_48#noop

 

Something Beautiful, Sharon Dennis Wyeth

http://www.amazon.com/Something-Beautiful-Sharon-Dennis-Wyeth/dp/0440412102/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265640463&sr=1-1

A young girl finds a way to make her world a little more beautiful by taking action.  I like this book as an introduction for kids about their potential role as active citizens who really can make a difference.

 

Virginia Bound, Amy Butler

http://www.amazon.com/Virginia-Bound-Amy-Butler/dp/0618247521/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265638564&sr=1-1 

Two children are kidnapped from England and sold as indentured servants.  They are shipped to colonial Virginia and working on their master's tobacco farm.  This historical fiction chapter book is spot on your topic and a  great way to incorporate literature into your study.

 

 

DVD/CD-ROM RESOURCES

A Talk With Your Kids About Smoking, Patrick Reynolds  

http://tinyurl.com/ykhfqk2

Grandson of the Phillip Morris empire talks to kids about the harmful effects of smoking.  Produced in 2005 by the Foundation for a Smokefree America. 

 

Black Gold, Oxfam

http://www.newsreel.org/nav/title.asp?tc=CN0190&s=

This movie is about the unjust conditions of coffee farming workers and the impact of a cash crop on a local economy.   You might want to watch this just for your own understanding of cash crop impacts and perhaps show clips to students to help widen the scope of their debate on smoking.

 

Equal Rights for All, American History for Children

http://tinyurl.com/yk36mgy

From the DVD series American History for Children, this program is highly lauded by reviewers and teachers alike.  

 

Making a Killing: Philip Morris, Kraft, and Global Tobacco Addiction, Kelly Anderson and Tami Gold

https://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2215/t/9547/shop/item.jsp?storefront_KEY=629&t=&store_item_KEY=2283

Produced in 2000, this 30 minute DVD highlights the tobacco industry's practice of marketing to children.  The video also looks at the economic, not just the health, impacts on nations worldwide. It is on your topic, but worth watching to make sure your students will understand it.  I think so, especially if you go slowly and discuss it as they go along. 

 

The U.S. Constitution & Bill of Rights

http://tinyurl.com/yh96vkh

A DVD that examines the history of these important documents by learning about the framers, the passage through Congress, and and why these landmark ideas are still so important to the fabric of our nation today.  I don't think it is as strong as the American History for Children series, but if you are looking for additional titles, this may be a good choice.

 

 

CURRICULUM RESOURCES

Citizenship: Do your share to make your community a better place, Susie Wilde

http://search.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.wcls.org:2048/login.aspx?direct=true&db=noh&tg=UI&an=415085&site=novelist-live 

This is a annontated bibliography of picture books you could use to teach about rights and responsibilities for citizens. 

 

Creating Counter-Ads, New Mexico Literacy Project

http://www.nmmlp.org/media_literacy/counter_ads.html

A lesson plan on how to teach kids to create a "counter-ad" that uses advertising techniques to create parody ads.  A fun way to cap off a study of smoking and the media.  Look at other lessons that lead up to this one on their website which will help you teach advertising techniques, decoding ads and other aspects of media education:  http://www.nmmlp.org/media_literacy/index.html

 

Blowing Away Big Tobacco's Big Lies: Media Literacy for Tobacco Prevention, New Mexico Literacy Project

http://www.nmmlp.org/store/big_tobacco.html

Helps kids understand and interpret tobacco advertising.  It "is a data CD (not a CD-ROM) containing over 250 media examples (pictures and movie clips) with printable discussion guides for teachers..." 

 

 

ONLINE RESOURCES

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Tobacco history, KRT News Graphics 

http://tinyurl.com/ylhcjf4

Nice visual that show the significant dates in the history of tobacco.

 

A Letter to Granddad, The Tobacco Farmer,

http://tinyurl.com/yjxob9p 

A folksy letter written as an editorial to the New York Times in 1995 introduces readers to a young boy whose family owned a large tobacco farm in the South.  Though they made their living off of tobacco, the grandfather tells the young boy "Don't you ever smoke. You hear me? Promise. Mustn't even try it. They get you hooked."

 

 

          Do Not Need a WCLS Card to Access

How a Bill Becomes a Law, Social Studies for Kids 

http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/government/howabillbecomesalaw.htm

Basic process written in a few paragraphs about how a bill becomes a law.  Vocabulary words have links to their definitions. 

 

New Mexico Media Literacy Project

http://www.nmmlp.org/index.html

Don't be misled by the name, this is not just for New Mexico.  NMMLP is a well-regarded creator of educational curriculum on media literacy. 

Media Literacy for Prevention

http://www.nmmlp.org/store/ML_prevention.html

Has ads, movie clips and other examples of how the tobacco, alcohol and food industries market themselves.

           Media Literacy Toolkit 

http://www.medialiteracytoolbox.com/tobacco-p-65.html

Another option is to download a copy of a lesson that includes clips, ads etc.

 

 

U.S. FDA Regulation of Tobacco, Corporate Accountability International 

http://www.stopcorporateabuse.org/us-fda-regulation-tobacco 

In June 2009, President Obama signed a tobacco regulation bill into law that allows the FDA to regulate tobacco.  Here is some information on the bill from a website that promotes restricting the tobacco companies.

 

 

 

 

 

    

 

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