Minnesota Smoking Prevention Program (MSPP)
The Minnesota Smoking Prevention Program (MSPP) is a school-based curriculum designed for students in 4th or 5th grades. The goals of the program are to prevent students from beginning to use tobacco, to help students stop using tobacco if they have experimented with it, and to help students influence friends and family members to stop using tobacco.
MSPP is specifically designed to help adolescents in the following five ways:
1. To learn why people start using tobacco
2. To discover that nonuse of tobacco is normative behavior
3. To practice skills from resisting peer pressure to use tobacco
4. To recognize covert messages in tobacco advertising
5. To determine their own personal reasons for not using tobacco
Peer leaders are an essential component of MSPP. They lead many of the activities throughout the six-session curriculum.
Gateway VISION presents MSPP as six developmentally appropriate classroom sessions for grades 4 through 5. Educational strategies include cooperative learning groups, large-group discussions, interviews, role-play, media use, writing reports, and setting goals. Activities are designed to actively engage students, rather than to lecture to them. Each session is 45 to 50 minutes long, fitting well into a normal class period.
In a typical lesson, students may participate in a small, peer-led group discussion, analyze mock social situations and identify influences to use tobacco, practice resistance skills, participate in role-plays, create anti-tobacco advertisements, or make personal public commitments to establish their intention not to use.
To request a series of MSPP presentations, please info@tobaccofreewashington.org or call 724-222-6511 or 1-866-904-FREE (3733).
MSPP is specifically designed to help adolescents in the following five ways:
1. To learn why people start using tobacco
2. To discover that nonuse of tobacco is normative behavior
3. To practice skills from resisting peer pressure to use tobacco
4. To recognize covert messages in tobacco advertising
5. To determine their own personal reasons for not using tobacco
Peer leaders are an essential component of MSPP. They lead many of the activities throughout the six-session curriculum.
Gateway VISION presents MSPP as six developmentally appropriate classroom sessions for grades 4 through 5. Educational strategies include cooperative learning groups, large-group discussions, interviews, role-play, media use, writing reports, and setting goals. Activities are designed to actively engage students, rather than to lecture to them. Each session is 45 to 50 minutes long, fitting well into a normal class period.
In a typical lesson, students may participate in a small, peer-led group discussion, analyze mock social situations and identify influences to use tobacco, practice resistance skills, participate in role-plays, create anti-tobacco advertisements, or make personal public commitments to establish their intention not to use.
To request a series of MSPP presentations, please info@tobaccofreewashington.org or call 724-222-6511 or 1-866-904-FREE (3733).
