Health Education - 6th Grade
Lesson Plans

Strand 4: SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION (SAP)

Students will develop skills to educate themselves about the consequences of substance use and practice ways to resist negative peer pressure.

Standard 6.SAP.3:

Recognize potential physical, mental, emotional, and social short and long-term consequences of alcohol, tobacco, nicotine, and other substance use.

• Alcohol: Knowing the Facts!
  Students will identify the effects of alcohol on body organs and on performance, as well as identifying reasons for not using alcohol.
• Consequences of Tobacco & Nicotine Use
  Students will predict possible consequences of substance use and analyze how social messages regarding the use of alcohol, tobacco/nicotine and other drugs may misrepresent the negative effects of each.
• Dangers of Tobacco
  Students will learn the vocabulary words associated with tobacco and the negative effects tobacco has on the human body.
• Dangers of Alcohol Use
  Students will learn vocabulary words associated with alcohol and the effects it has on the human body.

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