About This Lesson
The Skin Cancer Foundation’s Sun Smart U is a free interactive program on making sun-safe choices and preventing skin cancer. Meets middle and high school National Standards and can be taught in 1-2 classes. Students learn the importance of a proper sun protection regimen and the dangers of tanning through a True/False activity to gauge skin cancer knowledge, real-life videos of young woman’s melanoma experience, animated “Sun Smart Steps” and skin type/celebrity match quiz. PowerPoint, whiteboard formats SMART/Promethean available. Find full lesson plan at http://www.skincancer.org/education.