Lesson Plans for Alcohol and Drug Prevention
Topic:
·
Drug and Alcohol
Abuse
·
Personal Value
and Communication
Grade Level:
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4th
and 5th
National Standard and
·
National
Standards: 5 and 7
·
Grouped
·
HE3-4:5
o
“Using
Appropriate Communication (e.g. Refusal skills, “I” messages)
·
HE5-6:5
o
“Demonstrating
refusal and negotiation skills to enhance health”
Description of Teaching
Strategy:
·
Ask students to
complete statements about drugs and alcohol.
·
Tell the students
to answer the questions honestly because the teacher will not be collecting
them. This will give the students more freedom to explore themselves because no
one else will be seeing their answers.
·
Students should
complete statements with personal, value related answers.
·
Statements to be
completed:
o
For me, smoking
is…
o
For me, drinking
alcohol is…
o
If I saw another
student using drugs, I would…
o
If I saw my best
friend using drugs, I would…
o
Some people start
drinking alcohol because…
o
Drugs are…
o
The best reason
for not taking drugs is…
o
One thing I don’t
believe about drugs is…
o
If I made the
laws about drugs, I would…
o
People who take
drugs…
o
If I was offered
drugs I would…
Assessment ideas:
·
After giving the
students enough time to respond to the majority of the questions, have a
discussion. Here are some sample questions:
o
How did the
questions make them feel?
o
What was there
reaction?
o
Did they have any
questions of their own?
·
Encourage
volunteers, but do no choose non-volunteers for this discussion because you do
not want to make the children uncomfortable
·
Remind the
students to keep the sheets and to think about these issues again because they
are important.
Resources Used:
Materials Needed:
Processing Question:
·
What can you do regarding substance abuse?
Worksheet:
Alcohol and Substance Abuse
For me, smoking is…__________________________________
For me, drinking alcohol is…_________________________________
If I saw another student using drugs, I would…___________________________
If I saw my best friend using drugs, I would…_______________________
Some people start drinking alcohol because…_______________________________
Drugs are…_____________________________
The best reason for not taking drugs is…__________________________
One thing I don’t believe about drugs is…___________________________
If I made the laws about drugs, I would…___________________________
People who take drugs…_______________________
If I was offered drugs, I would…_____________________________
Topic: Cigarette
Smoking
Grade Level: 3-4
National
Standards:
1: Students will comprehend concepts
related to health promotion and
disease prevention.
3: Students will demonstrate the
ability to practice health enhancing
behaviors and reduce
health risks.
6b: Students will demonstrate the
ability to use decision making skills to
enhance health.
3.7b: Evaluate the consequences of
decisions
1.12.a.
Reflect on personal experience, or the experience of an imagined
character, using
patterns of cause/effect, comparison, and classification.
3.5.b.
Describe relationships between personal health behaviors, alcohol,
tobacco, and other
drug use, and individual well-being
Activity:
Materials:
-empty dish
detergent bottle with cap
-cotton balls
-one cigarette
-lighter
-clay
Procedure:
-Begin
with a discussion about what children know about the effects
of smoking
cigarettes
-Explain
activity while preparing detergent bottle
(fill bottle
loosely with cotton balls to represent a person’s lungs, replace cap and place
cigarette in cap, secure with clay)
-Take children outside to open field
-Squeeze air out of bottle and light
cigarette
-Continue squeezing bottle and
releasing and explain to students
that this
simulates a person inhaling
-Put out cigarette
-Ask questions
(What happened? How to the cotton balls
look? Do you think people who smoke have lungs that look like that? How does
that make you feel?)
-Take children
back inside and have them write a letter to someone they care about explaining
the activity they did and encourage them to be proud of not smoking.
Assessment:
Children can be assessed on their
level of participation during the activity. The kinds of questions they ask and
how they answer the question you pose as a teacher. Also, when reading the
letters they write the teacher can be aware of what kinds of connections they
are making and the depth of understanding about what they did.
Resources:
Health
Education Elementary and Middle School Applications by
Susan
Telljohann, Cynthia Symons and Beth Pateman
http://www.state.vt.us/educ/new/html/pubs/framework.html
http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/00-2/lp2192.shtml
Note:
Research shows that children identify best
when learning about short term effects and consequences because it seems more
real and more like it can happen to them.
Context: Health
Topic: Effects of smoking on the body
Grade: 6th
1.11 a, b, c –
Clearly define a significant problem, issue, topic, or concern; Make an
assertion or judgment, or propose one or more solutions; support proposals, as
appropriate, thought definitions, descriptions, illustrations, examples from
experience.
1.12 aa – Relate personal experiences to concepts,
patterns, and ideas.
3.5
bb – Explain the relationship between positive health behaviors and the
prevention of injury, disease, alcohol, tobacco,
and other drug use, and premature death, and develop a personal plan for
health.
Teaching Strategy: I feel that visuals tend to have a big
effect on a person. Tobacco smoking is a health related issue that needs to get
taught about in a child’s life so that they will not engage in this behavior as
they grow older and have to deal with pressures from society. They need to
understand the consequences and dangers that smoking can have on a person’s
life so I have come up (with help from a site below) with a lesson plan that
has addressed these issues and will make it easy to understand.
This activity will allow students to
see the difference between a non-smoker and a smoker as it pertains to their
health. The students need to know about the different parts of the body
(internal) and that is why this activity is aimed towards 6th
graders. It is also starting to become relevant to their life and they need to
be aware of dangers especially during this time.
The first visual
is comparing the blood vessels of a smoker and non-smoker. In this
demonstration I will use a hose and a straw to represent the vessels and
explain to the students that the “hose” is from a person who does not smoke and
the straw is a visual of a smoker’s blood vessel and it is smaller because it
is restricted by the nicotine that has been taken in from smoking. Because of
this restriction, they are unable to carry as much blood through the body
compared to the blood vessels of someone who chooses not to smoke.
Smoking also
affects how a person breathes and many times people develop emphysema because
of it. During the lesson I will use both a regular straw and a coffee stirrer
to demonstrate what it is like to breathe after smoking has taken over your
lungs and breathing. Within this activity, the students will jog in place for
about a minute so that they can build up their heart rate. After doing so, I
will ask them to breathe through their straw or coffee stirrer. They will feel
how difficult it is and this will give them an idea of what it would be like to
have emphysema.
A third visual
that I would use would be to demonstrate the effects that smoking has on a
person’s alveoli which are small air sacs in the lungs where oxygen and carbon
dioxide is exchanged. In order to do this I will use two balloons. I will blow
up the first one and then let the air out which will show the students how the
alveoli normally work. The other balloon will have holes in it so when I try to
blow it up it will not work. This will show the students deteriorated alveoli
which develop when a person smokes and because of this, the exchange between
oxygen and carbon dioxide is hindered.
Assessment Ideas: After the demonstration I will give the
students an assignment to do to test out their new knowledge. I want them to be
able to take what they have learned and make it personal to their own life. In
order to do this, I will have the students write a letter to someone that they
know who or made up who smokes. Within this letter, I would like them to use
information that they have taken from class and explain to the person that they
are writing the letter to of the harmful effects that smoking has on a person’s
body and how they are hurting themselves by doing so. This will allow me to see
how much the students have learned from my lesson and a way for me to assess
them.
Resources Used:
Books: Health Education – Elementary and
Middle School Application
~ Pateman, Symons,
Telljohann
Websites: http://www.thesolutionsite.com/lesson/8601/lesson1.html
Phoebe Markle
Saying No To Drugs, Alcohol and Tobacco
Time: One class period
Age Level: Fifth Graders
National VT Standards
Targeted:
Standard 5: Students will demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health. Performance Indicators: 1. demonstrate effective verbal and non-verbal communication skills to enhance health. 5. demonstrate communication skills to build and maintain healthy relationships.
Standard 6: Students will demonstrate the ability to use
goal setting and decision-making skills to enhance health. Performance Indicators: 1. demonstrate the ability to apply, a
decision-making process to health issues and problems individually and
collaboratively.
Materials: Handouts on what a
drug/alcohol/and tobacco are. A list of ways
kids can refuse drugs or large paper and markers for creating a list through
brain storming.
Lesson Objectives: To provide
students with information on how to recognize
harmful situations and substances. To provide students
with helpful strategies
to avoid these situations or remove themselves from them. Students
will
also improve on role playing skills and communications skills while working in
groups.
Vocabulary list: Substance,
peer-pressure, resistance, the names of different
types of drugs/alcohol/and tobacco.
Procedure: The class starts
with students in their seats. Students are
prompted to discuss what these substances are and list them,
they can be
written on the board or a sheet of large paper. Once all three have been
fully
listed students should be made aware that they will all have to make a decision
at some point involving their involvement with these harmful substances.
The
class will be prompted to discuss peer-pressure and how it is applied.
Then
either a list should be distributed or a list should be made by the class
discussing ways to say no to illegal substances and peer-pressure. These
methods include suggesting an alternative activity, walking away, broken record
(continuing to say NO every time asked to partake), explaining you can get in
real trouble, and avoiding the situation. Students will then be broken up
into
small groups of three or four and given circumstances in which peer-pressure is
provided. Examples of the situations are: At a sleepover party
someone brings
out a bottle of alcohol. After a sports practice a friend wants to sneak
off
to smoke a cigarette or a joint. At the store a peer wants to steal a
form of
alcohol or tobacco. There are many options and these can be pre written
on
pieces of paper handed out to each small group or the teacher can come up with
them on the spot. All members of each group should take a turn being the
person who resists peer-pressure and each member should use a different method.
Assessment: If there is time at the end of the lesson students can
discuss what
was hard about resisting and what methods seem to work best.