Community and Health - Drug & Alcohol Counsellor
Secondary
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Numeracy
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Information and Communication Technology Capability
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Critical and creative thinking
Cooperative
Learning Activity
Teacher
- The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare [AIHW]
conducts and reports on Australian Health every 2 years. The AIHW notes
on their website the updated version of their reports,
here. Please use and direct students to use the latest report.
1. In groups of 3 - 4 students,
investigate the following summary from the report (published 16 July 2020) by the Australian Institute of Health & Welfare [AIHW] or the latest biennial report directed by your teacher.
2. Looking at only the Summary, you are to collect all the facts and figures of the survey results and convey them in a way that teenagers will understand. You will notice that there are Data Visualisations but these can be confusing. You are to create graphs that will display all the information in a clear and conscise way.
3. What was the most astonishing fact or figure that you yourself discovered and, what was the group's fact or figure?
Vaping:
how safe is it? The Chemistry
Secondary
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Literacy
Cooperative
Learning Activity
1. In groups of 3 - 4
students, you are
to read and take notes on the article from
The
Conversation 8 August 2018 using the
Cornell Note-taking Method.
Make
sure you note down any questions that arise from reading the article.
2. List the facts and figures from the article. Share and compare with another group. Any differences?
3. Write up the chemical formulas for the following chemicals. Research and place an image of each chemical next to your chemical formula.
a. Aldehyde
b. Dopamine
c. benzo[a]pyrene
d. N’-nitrosonornicotine (NNN)
e. propylene glycol
4.
As a class, discuss the question:
Vaping: how safe is it?
