 Dig Deeper
Our companion CD, entitled Dig Deeper, offers six in-depth activities that promise to uncover the truth about tobacco. These open-ended projects feature full-color animation, live video, and other interactive features to engage students' critical thinking skills around the tough issues of tobacco use.
Dig Deeper is a tobacco use prevention CD-ROM aimed at 5th and 6th grade students. Perfect for schools or home, Dig Deeper provides in-depth facts, skills building, and behavioral knowledge of tobacco use. The six multi-media activities will provide hours of fun while teaching students about tobacco.
 Set in the newsroom of Dig Deeper, a web-based news organization, the CD-ROM puts students in the role of reporter to investigate the "whys" of tobacco use. As you race around town, you'll be collecting information and creating articles for a web-based newspaper called "The Scoop on Tobacco." Not only will you be writing for this paper--you'll be graphing data, drawing ads, coloring comics, and even editing video for this multi-media project. At the end, you can see all your work published on your very own website!
Available from _______________, Dig Deeper offers teachers and parents ways to get students thinking more deeply about tobacco use and to more firmly entrench prevention through behaviors and skills.
The following materials are designed to help teachers and parents make full use of Dig Deeper in their classrooms and homes.
Frequently Asked Questions
 This FAQ answers questions regarding the use of the Dig Deeper CD.
Activity Descriptions
 We've provided an overview of each of the six Dig Deeper activities, as well as descriptions of their learning objectives.
Content Matrix
 See what health education standards each of our Dig Deeper activities cover in this content matrix. The matrix features content areas in personal behavior, societal factors in tobacco use, as well as connections to standard content areas in the middle school curriculum.
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