Operationalizing the Health Education Standards Standard Identify and describe a learning activity for your topic. 1. Comprehend concepts Make a PowerPoint of tobacco. Identifying the statistics and population use also the problems associated with using this product. No more than 10 slides 2. Analyze the influences of… Watch Television for an hour and record the number of commercials/TV shows that demonstrate using tobacco as being cool or pleasing to other viewers. Write a response in a discussion board and reply to at least two of your peers. 3. Access valid information Research information on tobacco, Write a research paper using at the minimum if 4 scholarly sources and identify a clear thesis and content on tobacco. Give facts and examples to back up your theory. 4. Interpersonal communication Conduct a questionnaire on campus or in your community about tobacco if it should be banned from the states or not. Gather your information and present your results to the class in either a power point, paper or some other interesting way top present your data. 5. Demonstrate Decision Making Skills Since the indoor air act recently passed here in Bowling Green, there has been a lot of talk about the loss of business in restaurants and bars. Students will do a survey with food business owners to see if sales have gotten worse or better since the law was enacted. The information will be put into a report and shared with other business owners to help them decide whether the law is costing them money. 6. Demonstrate Goal Setting Skills Students will identify a specific goal they have for themselves or a loved one dealing with tobacco and will implement a program in ways to help them achieve their goal. 7. Practice Health Enhancing Behavior Each person will partner up with someone who uses tobacco and challenge them to a 30 day trial where they don’t do that habit for thirty days. After the thirty days write a paper on the pros and cons of the experiment and see if practicing a behavior for 30 days will it change the habit/behavior. 8. Advocate for Personal Health Develop a PSA for smoking. Make sure you are very knowledgeable on the subject so that your message is very clear Group topic: ___Tobacco______________________ Standard Identify and describe a learning activity for your topic. 1. Comprehend concepts 2. Analyze the influences of… 3. Access valid information 4. Interpersonal communication 5. Demonstrate Decision Making Skills 6. Demonstrate Goal Setting Skills 7. Practice Health Enhancing Behavior 8. Advocate for Personal Health A. Claims (1) What is the author’s main claim (thesis)? Is it clearly stated fairly early in the essay?Does the thesis reflect the purpose of the essay? (2) What are his subsidiary claims (minor points) or the claims that he uses to support his main claim? Are they clear and valid? Are they related to the main claim?  B. Evidence (1) What kind of evidence does the author use? (.

1. Operationalizing the Health Education Standards
Standard
Identify and describe a learning activity for your topic.
1. Comprehend concepts
Make a PowerPoint of tobacco. Identifying the statistics and
population use also the problems associated with using this
product. No more than 10 slides
2. Analyze the influences of…
Watch Television for an hour and record the number of
commercials/TV shows that demonstrate using tobacco as being
cool or pleasing to other viewers. Write a response in a
discussion board and reply to at least two of your peers.
3. Access valid information
Research information on tobacco, Write a research paper using
at the minimum if 4 scholarly sources and identify a clear thesis
and content on tobacco. Give facts and examples to back up
your theory.
4. Interpersonal communication
Conduct a questionnaire on campus or in your community about
tobacco if it should be banned from the states or not. Gather
your information and present your results to the class in either a
power point, paper or some other interesting way top present
your data.
5. Demonstrate Decision Making Skills

2. Since the indoor air act recently passed here in Bowling Green,
there has been a lot of talk about the loss of business in
restaurants and bars. Students will do a survey with food
business owners to see if sales have gotten worse or better since
the law was enacted. The information will be put into a report
and shared with other business owners to help them decide
whether the law is costing them money.
6. Demonstrate Goal Setting Skills
Students will identify a specific goal they have for themselves
or a loved one dealing with tobacco and will implement a
program in ways to help them achieve their goal.
7. Practice Health Enhancing Behavior
Each person will partner up with someone who uses tobacco and
challenge them to a 30 day trial where they don’t do that habit
for thirty days. After the thirty days write a paper on the pros
and cons of the experiment and see if practicing a behavior for
30 days will it change the habit/behavior.
8. Advocate for Personal Health
Develop a PSA for smoking. Make sure you are very
knowledgeable on the subject so that your message is very clear
Group topic: ___Tobacco______________________
Standard
Identify and describe a learning activity for your topic.
1. Comprehend concepts
2. Analyze the influences of…

3. 3. Access valid information
4. Interpersonal communication
5. Demonstrate Decision Making Skills
6. Demonstrate Goal Setting Skills
7. Practice Health Enhancing Behavior
8. Advocate for Personal Health
A. Claims
(1) What is the author’s main claim (thesis)? Is it clearly stated
fairly early in the essay?Does the thesis reflect the purpose of
the essay?
(2) What are his subsidiary claims (minor points) or the claims
that he uses to support his main claim? Are they clear and
valid? Are they related to the main claim?
B. Evidence
(1) What kind of evidence does the author use? (e.g., facts,

4. statistics, examples, personal experience, expert testimony,
analogy, etc.)
(2) Is the evidence sufficient, specific, relevant, and
convincing?
C. Audience
(1) What kind of audience does the author address? Is it
general, specific, academic, etc.? What are his assumptions of
the audience?
(2) Does he effectively address the audience? Does he close the
gaps between you, as audience, and himself, as writer?
D. Tone
(1) What is the author’s tone or voice? How does he seem to
feel about the topic? Is it academic, persuasive, informal,
sarcastic, informative, optimistic, etc.?
(2) How do you know? What context clues, word choice, or
emphasis reveals this tone to you? How does it contribute to the
argument?
E. Organization
(1) How is the text organized? Does the author use attention
getters/hooks, headings, subheadings, counterargument,
rebuttal, graphs, questions, conclusions, etc.?
(2) Is the organization effective? Is it logical,
chronological, confusing, creative, etc.?
F. Do they present an opposing point of view?
Operationalizing the Health Education Standards
Standard
Identify and describe a learning activity for your topic.
1. Comprehend concepts

5. 2. Analyze the influences of…
3. Access valid information
4. Interpersonal communication
5. Demonstrate Decision Making Skills
6. Demonstrate Goal Setting Skills
7. Practice Health Enhancing Behavior
8. Advocate for Personal Health
Topic: ___________________________________________