Available At: District Extension Offices (Amarillo, Lubbock, Vernon, Dallas, Overton, Fort Stockton, San Angelo, Stephenville, Bryan, Uvalde, Corpus Christi, Weslaco) and Urban County Extension Offices (Harris, El Paso, Travis, Dallas, Tarrant, Bexar) except where noted.

Breast Cancer: With Breast Model/ Bilingual (1995)
Smoking and Youth: Spanish and English (1995)
Testicular Cancer: Bilingual (1995)
Smokeless Tobacco: With Mr. Dip Lip Model/ Bilingual (1995)
Where’s the Fat?: With 5 lb. Fat Model/ Spanish and English (1995)
Skin Cancer: Spanish and English (1993)
Lose the Fat with Small Changes (available at District Extension Offices only):  Spanish and English (1996)
Exhibit board - 2 new boards (1997)
Real Men Get Screened (available at all County Extension Offices) (1999)
Don’t Get BURNED by Indoor Tanning (available at all County Extension Offices) (1999)
Can You Afford the REAL COST of Using Snuff or Chew? (available at all County Extension Offices) (1999)

Available At: District Extension Offices (Amarillo, Lubbock, Vernon, Dallas, Overton, Fort Stockton, San Angelo, Stephenville, Bryan, Uvalde, Corpus Christi, Wesleco)

Low Fat Express Curricula: A nine lesson nutrition curriculum appropriate for  audiences that are culturally diverse and have limited literacy skills. It helps families modify their eating habits with a message that is simple, practical, and relevant. Included with the nine lessons are a cookbook, activities, handouts, models, and visual aids. (1996)

Multi-type breast models: An average breast with no lumps, an average breast with lumps, a dense-tissue breast with no lumps, and a fibrocystic breast with lumps are mounted on a piece of heavy plastic, for women to feel the difference in the breasts for themselves. (1996)

Three-Dimensional Food Pyramid with Food Models: Duplicates real foods in  flexible, tough, vinyl plastic. Great for use in demonstrations of: Nutrition values of food portions, calorie values and weight control, principles of menu planning, identification of foods, and for the correct sizes of food portions. (1996)

Smokeless Tobacco Flip Chart: Highlights the dangers of smokeless tobacco-  including deadly  mouth cancers, severe dental problems, and dangerous heart conditions. (1996)

Medical Hazards of Smokeless Tobacco Display and carrying case: This very  graphic display delivers an amazing series of images that show how “smokeless” is the most harmful nicotine induction vehicle. It defines what smokeless tobacco is, and then tells how it is used. It also demonstrates some oral health problems and displays additional dangers of smokeless tobacco. (1996)

Smoking Effects and Hazards Display and overheads with carrying case: This  display shows why tobacco is America’s #1 health problem. It helps viewers understand the initial and long-term effects of nicotine and smoke by-products on the human body. Dispels myths about smoking while showing how to quit, step by step, and how to avoid getting started in the first place. (1996)

Death of a Lung: The first model in this display shows, regular contours and  healthy color of the normal, nonsmoker’s lung tissue. The second model depicts the soft, irregular shape and blackened color of tissue from an  emphysematous lung, with collapsing air sacs within the lung wall like the ones that will eventually smother the smoker. In the third model, cancer of the lung appears as a large, whitish-gray mass. (1996)

Second Hand Smoke Demo: This model collects the tars in secondhand smoke  from a cigarette smoked in an enclosed chamber. The residue collected on a filter measurably demonstrates how much cancerous smoke a nonsmoker’s lungs absorb from someone else’s cigarette. (1996)

Project 4-Health Tobacco Action Club Leader’s Manual with video: This award-winning, classroom-tested curriculum includes a 140 page teacher’s resource book and a 15-minute video centered around six experience-based activities for presentation by adults or older teens acting as youth mentors. Grades 4-8. (1996)

1996 Smokeless Tobacco Prevention Competition Youth Video:
 The following counties presented skits pertaining to smokeless tobacco:
 Fort Bend County presents “Perils of Pearl White”
 Polk County presents “Kickin with Kee Kee”
 Deaf Smith County presents
   “Choices That Are Affecting Our Youth Today”
   “Diperella”
   “Nursery Rhymes, Story Times With the Nanny”

Smokeless Tobacco Prevention Youth Peer Education Program: This program gives youth the opportunity to learn more about the basic facts of smokeless tobacco and the influence of peers, role models, and the tobacco industry on tobacco use. Youth will develop a statement or message to influence other youth NOT to start or continue using smokeless tobacco products. (1996)

Camera ready copy of the Lose the Fat with Small Changes Exhibit pages in a  notebook: A notebook containing sixteen color computer generated foods prepared three different ways, from low fat to high fat. The fat grams for each dish can be found on each individual page. (1996)

Teacher Resource Packet; Slip Slop Slap A Skin Care Kit for primary grades K-2: Teaching material for primary school teachers about the effect of sunlight on the skin and its relationship to skin cancer. This packet provides factual information about measures individuals can take to protect their skin and also suggests educational strategies through which the factual information can be imparted to school children. (American Cancer Society, 1996)

Teacher Resource Packet; Slip Slop Slap A Skin Care Kit for grades 3-4: Teaching material for primary school teachers about the effect of sunlight on the skin and its relationship to skin cancer. This packet provides factual information about measures individuals can take to protect their skin and also suggests educational strategies through which the factual information can be imparted to school children. Informs youth of the importance of prevention and early detection of skin cancer. (American Cancer Society, 1996)

Teacher Resource Packet; Slip Slop Slap A Skin Care Kit for grades 5-6: Teaching material for primary school teachers about the effect of sunlight on the skin and its relationship to skin cancer. This packet provides factual information about measures individuals can take to protect their skin and also suggests educational strategies through which the factual information can be imparted to school children. Informs youth of the importance of prevention and early detection of skin cancer. (American Cancer Society, 1996)

Starting Free Good Air For Me Preschool Smoking Prevention Package: This packet is designed especially with the developmental needs of preschool children in mind. It features five colorful story books, three hand puppets, a bright poster for your classroom, stickers and home activity sheets. This package offers everything you’ll need to enchant and delight your children at the same time that you help them form positive attitudes about growing up smoke-free. (American Cancer Society 1996)

STAT’s Spit Tobacco Speakers guide and slide Supplement
 1/district, urban office, state library
 This is a resource for preparing and delivering  presentations aimed at preventing/reducing tobacco use for children and teens and thereby reducing their future cancer risk.  Target audiences are students, 4-H members,  PTAs, school committees, and other organizations.  Includes professionally produced color slides, instructional text, and fact sheets. (1997)

STAT’s Speakers Guide and Slide Collection (tobacco)
 1/district, urban office, state library
 A comprehensive look at spit tobacco including an historical perspective, statistics, marketing practices, health effects and important messages youth need to know to reduce their use and thereby their future cancer risk. (1997)

Take Action! Teen Voices for Change video
 1/district, urban office, state library
 Follow three groups of teens as they advocate for change and plan and conduct activities that address a variety of tobacco issues.  Includes a brochure on how to use the video for recruitment and training along with a list of additional resources. (1997)

Death in the West video
 1/district, urban office, state library
 The film increases perception of the hazards of smoking  and discourages young viewers from beginning to smoke, thereby reducing their risk of cancer in the future.  A classroom tested curriculum guide is included..Grades 4-adult. 32 minutes. (1997)

Mr. Dip Lip
 1/district and urban office
 Gross them out with Mr. Gross Mouth!  This hinged model of the teeth, tongue, and oral cavity accurately shows the effects of using smokeless tobacco.  A bottle of tobacco juice games with each model, and instructions show how to make the tongue “spit.”  This model is three times actual size and is mounted on a wooden base. (1997)
 

Tobacco: Biology and Politics curricula
 1/district, urban office, state library
 History of tobacco  and a detailed description of how nicotine affects the body and causes a deadly addiction.  Invaluable in teaching students the lifelong risks of tobacco.  For added emphasis, a 40 image slide show ,overhead transparencies and accompanying script, and a video complement the program. (1997)

For Hispanic Youth  Mirame/Look At Me!
 1/district and state library
 Reach Hispanic Kids with video sessions, group discussion guides, hands on activities and take home exercises.  Teach 9-13 year olds the consequences of healthy and unhealthy behaviors. (1997)

Enough Snuff-Self Help Guide for Quitting
 2/district/urban/state office
 50 page manual effective in helping snuff or chewing tobacco users quit.  The guide describes easy to follow steps that have proven successful with chewers and dippers alike. (1997)

Available at TAEX Audio Visual Library

1996 Smokeless Tobacco Prevention Competition Youth Video:
 Fort Bend County presents “Perils for Pearl White”
 Polk County presents “Kickin with Kee Kee”
 Deaf Smith County presents
  “Choices That Are Affecting Our Youth Today”
  “Diperella”
  “Nursery Rhymes, Story Times With the Nanny”
“Spit Tobacco Kills: The Extreme Danger of Chewing and Dipping Tobacco”,  27  minute film with curriculum.
“Breast Self Examination A Special Touch”, American Cancer Society
“Startling Consequences of Smoking” (its effect on the organs of the body are shown  with life-size, hand-painted models in a permanently mounted carrying case display).
“Slip Slop Slap A Skin Care Kit for primary grades K-2", to accompany Teacher
Resource Packet; American Cancer Society
“Slip Slop Slap A Skin Care Kit for grades 3-4”, to accompany Teacher Resource
Packet; American Cancer Society
 

“Slip Slop Slap A Skin Care Kit for grades 5-6", to accompany Teacher Resource Packet;  American Cancer Society
“Starting Free Good Air For Me Preschool Smoking Prevention Package”,
  American Cancer Society
Project Safety “Sun Awareness for Educating Today’s Youth”, Elementary Schools; The  University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and the Texas Cancer Council (1996)
Project Safety “Sun Awareness for Educating Today’s Youth”, Middle School   Sciences: The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and the Texas Cancer Council (1996)
“The Feminine Mistake: The Next Generation” (1997)
“Hugh McCabe: Coach’s Final Lesson”, includes teacher’s guide. (1997)
“Smokin’ Sam (English)” (1997)
“Smokin’ Sam (Spanish)” (1997)
“Mouseology” (1997)

Exhibits:
Breast Cancer: With Breast Model/ Bilingual (1995)

Teaching Resources:
Multi-type breast models: An average breast with no lumps, an average breast with lumps, a dense-tissue breast with no lumps, and a fibrocystic breast with lumps are mounted on a piece of heavy plastic, for women to feel the difference in the breasts for themselves. (1996)

Videos:
“Breast Self Examination A Special Touch”, American Cancer Society

SKIN CANCER

Exhibits:
Skin Cancer: Spanish and English (1993)

Teaching Resources:
Teacher Resource Packet; Slip Slop Slap A Skin Care Kit for primary grades  K-2: Teaching material for primary school teachers about the effect of sunlight on the skin and its relationship to skin cancer. This packet provides factual information about measures individuals can take to protect their skin and also suggests educational strategies through which the factual information can be imparted to school children. (American Cancer Society, 1996)

Teacher Resource Packet; Slip Slop Slap A Skin Care Kit for grades 3-4: Teaching material for primary school teachers about the effect of sunlight on the skin and its relationship to skin cancer. This packet provides factual information about measures individuals can take to protect their skin and also suggests educational strategies through which the factual information can be imparted to school children. Informs youth of the importance of prevention and early detection of skin cancer. (American Cancer Society, 1996)

Teacher Resource Packet; Slip Slop Slap A Skin Care Kit for grades 5-6: Teaching material for primary school teachers about the effect of sunlight on the skin and its relationship to skin cancer. This packet provides factual information about measures individuals can take to protect their skin and also suggests educational strategies through which the factual information can be imparted to school children. Informs youth of the importance of prevention and early detection of skin cancer. (American Cancer Society, 1996)

Videos:
“Slip Slop Slap A Skin Care Kit for primary grades K-2", to accompany Teacher Resource Packet; American Cancer Society

“Slip Slop Slap A Skin Care Kit for grades 3-4”, to accompany Teacher Resource Packet; American Cancer Society

“Slip Slop Slap A Skin Care Kit for grades 5-6", to accompany Teacher Resource Packet; American Cancer Society

Project Safety “Sun Awareness for Educating Today’s Youth”, Elementary   Schools; The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and the Texas Cancer Council (1996)

Project Safety “Sun Awareness for Educating Today’s Youth”, Middle School Sciences: The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and the Texas Cancer Council (1996)
 
 

NUTRITION

Exhibits:
Where’s the Fat?: With 5 lb. Fat Model/ Spanish and English (1995)

Lose the Fat with Small Changes (available at District Extension Offices only): Spanish and English (1996)

Teaching Resources:
Low Fat Express Curricula: A nine lesson nutrition curriculum appropriate  for audiences that are culturally diverse and have limited literacy skills. It helps families modify their eating habits with a message that is simple, practical, and relevant. Included with the nine lessons are a cookbook, activities, handouts, models, and visual aids. (1996)

Three-Dimensional Food Pyramid with Food Models: Duplicates real foods in flexible, tough, vinyl plastic. Great for use in demonstrations of:  nutrition values of food portions, calorie values and weight control, principles of menu planning, identification of foods, and for the correct sizes of food portions. (1996)

Camera ready copy of the Lose the Fat with Small Changes Exhibit pages in a notebook:  A notebook containing sixteen color computer generated foods prepared three different ways, from low fat to high fat. The fat grams for each dish can be found on each individual page. (1996)

Exhibits:
Smoking and Youth: Spanish and English (1995)

Smokeless Tobacco: With Mr. Dip Lip Model/ Bilingual (1995)

Can You Afford the REAL COST of Using Snuff of Chew? (1999): all county offices

Teaching Resources:
Smokeless Tobacco Flip Chart: Highlights the dangers of smokeless tobacco- including deadly mouth cancers, severe dental problems, and dangerous heart conditions. (1996)

Medical Hazards of Smokeless Tobacco Display and carrying case: This very graphic display delivers an amazing series of images that show how “smokeless” is the most harmful nicotine induction vehicle. It defines what smokeless tobacco is, and then tells how it is used. It also demonstrates some oral health problems and displays additional dangers of smokeless tobacco. (1996)

Smoking Effects and Hazards Display and overheads with carrying case: This display shows why tobacco is America’s #1 health problem. It helps  viewers understand the initial and long-term effects of nicotine and smoke by-products on the human body. Dispels myths about smoking while showing how to quit, step by step, and how to avoid getting started in the first place. (1996)

Death of a Lung: The first model in this display shows, regular contours and healthy color of the normal, nonsmoker’s lung tissue. The second model depicts the soft, irregular shape and blackened color of tissue from an emphysematous lung, with collapsing air sacs within the lung wall like the ones that will eventually smother the smoker. In the third model, cancer of the lung appears as a large, whitish-gray mass. (1996)

Second Hand Smoke Demo: This model collects the tars in secondhand smoke from a cigarette smoked in an enclosed chamber. The residue collected on a filter measurably demonstrates how much cancerous smoke a nonsmoker’s lungs absorb from someone else’s cigarette. (1996)

Project 4-Health Tobacco Action Club Leader’s Manual with video: This award-winning, classroom-tested curriculum includes a 140 page teacher’s resource book and a 15-minute video centered around six experience-based activities for presentation by adults or older teens acting as youth mentors. Grades 4-8. (1996)

1996 Smokeless Tobacco Prevention Competition Youth Video:  The following counties presented skits pertaining to smokeless tobacco:
  Fort Bend County presents “Perils of Pearl White”
  Polk County presents “Kickin with Kee Kee”
  Deaf Smith County presents
   “Choices That Are Affecting Our Youth Today”
   “Diperella”
   “Nursery Rhymes, Story Times With the Nanny”

Smokeless Tobacco Prevention Youth Peer Education Program: This program gives youth the opportunity to learn more about the basic facts of smokeless tobacco and the influence of peers, role models, and the tobacco industry on tobacco use. Youth will develop a statement or message to influence other youth NOT to start or continue using smokeless tobacco products. (1996)

Starting Free Good Air For Me Preschool Smoking Prevention Package: This  packet is designed especially with the developmental needs of preschool children in mind. It features five colorful story books, three hand puppets, a bright poster for your classroom, stickers and home activity sheets. This package offers everything you’ll need to enchant and delight your children at the same time that you help them form positive attitudes about growing up smoke-free. (American Cancer Society 1996)

STAT’s Spit Tobacco Speakers guide and slide Supplement
 1/district, urban office, state library
 This is a resource for preparing and delivering  presentations aimed at preventing/reducing tobacco use for children and teens and thereby reducing their future cancer risk.  Target audiences are students, 4-H members,  PTAs, school committees, and other organizations.  Includes professionally produced color slides, instructional text, and fact sheets. (1997)

STAT’s Speakers Guide and Slide Collection (tobacco)
 1/district, urban office, state library
 A comprehensive look at spit tobacco including an historical perspective, statistics, marketing practices, health effects and important messages youth need to know to reduce their use and thereby their future cancer risk. (1997)

Take Action! Teen Voices for Change video
 1/district, urban office, state library
 Follow three groups of teens as they advocate for change and plan and conduct activities that address a variety of tobacco issues.  Includes a brochure on how to use the video for recruitment and training along with a list of additional resources. (1997)

Death in the West video
 1/district, urban office, state library
 The film increases perception of the hazards of smoking  and discourages young viewers from beginning to smoke, thereby reducing their risk of cancer in the future.  A classroom tested curriculum guide is included..Grades 4-adult. 32 minutes.  1997)

Mr. Dip Lip
 1/district and urban office
 Gross them out with Mr. Gross Mouth!  This hinged model of the teeth, tongue, and oral cavity accurately shows the effects of using smokeless tobacco.  A bottle of tobacco juice games with each model, and instructions show how to make the tongue “spit.”  This model is three times actual size and is mounted on a wooden base.  (1997)

Tobacco: Biology and Politics curricula
 1/district, urban office, state library
 History of tobacco  and a detailed description of how nicotine affects the body and causes a deadly addiction.  Invaluable in teaching students the lifelong risks of tobacco.  For added emphasis, a 40 image slide show ,overhead transparencies and accompanying script, and a video complement the program.  (1997)

For Hispanic Youth  Mirame/Look At Me!
 1/district and state library
 Reach Hispanic Kids with video sessions, group discussion guides, hands on activities and take home exercises.  Teach 9-13 year olds the consequences of healthy and unhealthy behaviors. (1997)

Enough Snuff-Self Help Guide for Quitting
 2/district/urban/state office
 50 page manual effective in helping snuff or chewing tobacco users quit.  The guide describes easy to follow steps that have proven successful with chewers and dippers alike. (1997)
 

Videos:
1996 Smokeless Tobacco Prevention Competition Youth Video:
  Fort Bend County presents “Perils of Pearl White”
  Polk County presents “Kickin With Kee Kee”
  Deaf Smith County presents
   “Choices That Are Affecting Our Youth Today”
   “Diperella”
   “Nursery Rhymes, Story Times With the Nanny”
“Spit Tobacco Kills: The Extreme Danger of Chewing and Dipping Tobacco”, 27 minute  film with curriculum.
“Startling Consequences of Smoking” (its effect on the organs of the body are shown  with life-size, hand-painted models in a permanently mounted carrying case display).

“Starting Free Good Air For Me Preschool Smoking Prevention Package”, American  Cancer Society

“The Feminine Mistake: The Next Generation” (1997)

“Hugh McCabe: Coach’s Final Lesson”, includes teacher’s guide. (1997)

“Smokin’ Sam (English)” (1997)

“Smokin’ Sam (Spanish)” (1997)

“Mouseology” (1997)

TESTICULAR CANCER

Exhibits:
Testicular Cancer: Bilingual (1995)