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Lesson 5 Organizer
Activity 1: Sleepiness and Driving—What You Don’t know Can Kill You
What the Teacher Does
Procedure Reference
Give each student a copy of Master 5.1, Good and Bad
Sleep Habits. Have students write their own lists of good
and bad sleep habits.
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Step 1
Summarize the class responses on the board.
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Step 2
Ask the class to suggest consequences of bad sleep habits
and list them on the board.
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Step 3
Give to each student a copy of Master 5.2, Newspaper
Articles, and Master 5.3, Memo from the Governor. Instruct
the class to read them.
• Explain that they will assume the role of sleep specialists
hired by the governor to help with an important
project.
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Steps 4 and 5
Instruct each student to prepare a list of three questions
about sleep.
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Step 6
Divide the class into student teams and instruct each team
to select their top five sleep questions.
• Have each team select a spokesperson.
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Step 7
= Involves copying a master.
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