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The impact of smoking

Keeping healthy

Unit Summary

This unit examines how diet, exercise, drugs, and lifestyle impact body function. It focuses on planning scientific enquiries, controlling variables, taking precise measurements, and recording complex data. Emphasis is on presenting findings, drawing conclusions, and evaluating scientific evidence.

Lesson Summary

You will learn to describe the impact of smoking, including vaping, on the human body.

Key Notes

  • Nicotine is a highly addictive drug found in tobacco.
  • Smoking can make it more difficult for blood to move around the body and deliver oxygen to the muscles.
  • Smoking can lead to a number of diseases, including heart and lung disease.
  • Vaping is considered to be less harmful than smoking, but still not safe.
  • Information about the dangers of smoking can be researched using secondary sources of information.

Vocabulary To Learn

  • impact: The impact of something is the effect it has.
  • nicotine: Nicotine is an addictive, toxic drug.
  • addictive: Something addictive is something that is very hard to stop doing because your body craves more.
  • drug: Drugs are substances that change the way our bodies work.
  • lungs: The lung is an organ that mammals use to breathe. Mammals have two lungs.

Common Mistakes To Avoid

  • Pupils may think that vaping is a safe and healthy practice, or a 'cleaner' version of smoking.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

1. Explain the scientific idea in this lesson using two key points.

Nicotine is a highly addictive drug found in tobacco. Smoking can make it more difficult for blood to move around the body and deliver oxygen to the muscles.

2. Define this scientific word and use it in context. 'impact'

The impact of something is the effect it has. Include the word in a full scientific explanation, not as a single label.

3. Correct this common scientific misunderstanding.

Mistake: Pupils may think that vaping is a safe and healthy practice, or a 'cleaner' version of smoking. Correction: Explain that, although vaping is less harmful to the body than smoking, it still has an impact on the body and, as a new practice, we are not yet fully aware of the long term effects.

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