- About the Lungfish Challenge
- Who Can Enter?
- Prizes
- Task Checklist
- Submit Your Entry Here
- Teachers’ Note
About the Lungfish Challenge
The Lungfish Challenge is a fun activity for Year 7 and 8 students. The challenge is to create a rap, song, magazine advertisement or video on the theme Being Smokefree, Being Auahi Kore. It’s something you can work on at school (ask your teacher how), and then send to Lungfish to win prizes!
It needs to:
- Appeal to young people up to 15 years of age.
- Contain a smokefree fact or slogan from the Being Smokefree, Being Auahi Koreschool programme you have worked with at school.
- Have a positive message about being Auahi Kore or Smokefree.
The message you choose could be about:
- Young people choosing not to smoke.
- Young people encouraging their friends to be smokefree.
- Informing young people about what is in cigarettes and cigarette smoke.
- Telling young people why the tobacco industry needs people to smoke.
- Showing how few people actually smoke, compared to how smoking is portrayed in some media.
- Families choosing to have smokefree homes or smokefree areas in their homes.
- Young sports people choosing not to smoke or choosing to quit smoking to improve their fitness.
If you choose to make a video, rap or song, it should be no more than 30 seconds long so it can be played on the website. If you choose a magazine advertisement, it can be scanned and emailed to Lungfish as a Word document or a PDF.
Get creative and have some fun!
Who Can Enter
Anyone from Year 7 to Year 8 who has done the Being Smokefree, Being Auahi Kore programme can enter the Lungfish Challenge. Ask your teacher how. (Tip - show them this website)!
Prizes
Lungfish has lots of goodies he’s just waiting to give away. There are prizes for you, your classmates and your teacher! All you need to do is enter the Lungfish Challenge and if Lungfish is impressed with your entry, he’ll send something your way. He might even put your entry on this website for everyone in the WORLD to see!
Task checklist
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1 | Complete a unit of work on Being Smokefree, Being Auahi Koreso you have some facts and ideas for the challenge. |
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2 | Decide who is in your group and give the group a name. |
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3 | Set up a way to store all the information about your group’s challenge. |
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4 | Decide if you are going to make a rap or song, a magazine advertisement or a video. |
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5 | Brainstorm a number of ideas that you can develop into your challenge entry. |
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6 | Work together to choose ONE idea to develop as your challenge entry. |
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7 | Present this idea to your teacher and some students to see if they think it is a good idea. |
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8 | As a group, agree on what you are going to do. You may want to change or modify your idea for the challenge entry after getting feedback from your teacher and students. |
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9 | Work out all the things you will need to do to develop your idea, who will do them, and when they need to be done by. |
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10 | Make a timeline or a list of tasks to do and when you need to do them by. |
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11 | Make a list of what you need. For example; what you might have to purchase or borrow, what equipment you may have to book, and what resource people you might need to help you. |
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12 | If you need to purchase things, make a budget. |
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13 | Meet with your teacher to discuss your ideas and planning, get approval for your budget, and the OK to proceed with design and construction of your challenge entry. |
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14 | Make the product — agree on a final design, make it and trial it with your classmates or other students. |
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15 | Modify the product after feedback if you need or want to. |
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16 | Complete the final product. |
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17 | Present the product to your school community and parents. |
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18 | Gain your class/school’s support to send your Lungfish Challenge to the Lungfish website. |
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19 | Wait to find out if your material is to be promoted on the Lungfish website and receive Lungfish prizes. |
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Submit Your Entry Here
If your class or teacher has agreed that your Lungfish Challenge entry is to be submitted to Lungfish, you can do that here. If Lungfish likes what he sees, your entry might appear on this website and you, your classmates and teacher will receive some great Lungfish prizes! Go on - show us what you’ve got!
All entrants should firstly fill in the form below then.....
If your entry is a print advertisement, then please email your entry to challenge@lungfish.co.nz stating your School Name and Class in your Email. You may also post your entry at the address below.
Videos and Music must be sent via post to:
Lungfish Challenge
C/- Health Sponsorship Council
PO Box 2142
Wellington
Please state your school and class name with your entry.
Notes About Accepted Formats
Video entries must either be in Standard VHS format delivered on Tape, or alternatively Digital Video on DVD or CD, in DVD Video, Mpeg, AVI, or Quicktime formats (see you teacher for more information).
If the entry is a video, please fax a written permission (with signatures) from all people appearing in the video (if under 18 years old parents or caregivers to sign) to agree to the entry’s publication on this website. Address fax to ‘Lungfish Challenge’ 04 472 5799.
Song, or Rap entries must be delivered on CD or Tape in either Recorded Tape, CD Audio, WAV, or MP3 format (see your teacher for more information).
Privacy
By submitting your entry you agree to have the entry and your names appear on this website.
Entry Form
Teachers’ Notes
The Lungfish Challenge is an integral part of the Year 7 and 8 Being Smokefree, Being Auahi Kore teaching and learning programme.
Being Bmokefree, Being Auahi Kore was developed in May 2005 for use with the Health and Physical Education curriculum. The programme is cross-curricula with activities provided for English, Mathematics and Technology. Practicing teachers and tobacco control experts contributed to the development of the resource.
Being Smokefree, Being Auahi Kore is available in PDF format from the Smokefree Schools website.
The Lungfish Challenge is designed for students to review their learning about Being Smokefree, Being Auahi Kore, and to promote being smokefree to other young people.
Help us provide you with even better Smokefree school resources! Send us your feedback on Being Smokefree, Being Auahi Kore, The Lungfish Challenge and the Lungfish website!
