What is cancer?
What do you know about cancer? In class write down on the whiteboard every statement you believe to be true about cancer. Now discuss each one as a class and use the internet to see if you can find out if it is true or false. Have you discovered anything you didn't know? For example - do you think you can get cancer if you don't smoke? Megan has thyroid cancer which is a really rare form of cancer and is not caused by smoking but smoking can cause lots of cancers including lung cancer. In pairs use the internet to find out what smoke does to your lungs and the rest of your body. Make a poster giving five good reasons not to smoke - use bright colours and bold words to get your message across.
Thyroid cancer has plagued Megan (right) since she was 21
More on the WCRF
www.wcrf-uk.org
Watch Jules' video
www.youtube.com
Smoking stinks
www.kidshealth.org
About thyroid cancer
www.cancerhelp.org.uk
More on lung cancer
Primary lesson objectives
Primary curriculum links
Science at key stages 1 and 2 (Year 5) Unit 5A: Keeping healthy Section 9: Drugs, tobacco, alcohol and health
Overwhelming very strong and powerful
Positivity an attitude where someone always looks at the good side of things rather than focusing on the bad side
Resolutely showing great determination
Summit the very top of the mountain
Tumours masses of cells growing in or on a part of the body where they should not