Health Education I (7-8)
Lesson Plans

Strand 4: SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION (SAP)

Students will learn how substances affect the developing brain, practice ways to resist peer pressure, and examine consequences of substance use.

Standard HI.SAP.4:

Investigate potential short and long-term consequences (for example, physical, mental and emotional, social, legal, financial) of alcohol, tobacco, nicotine, and other substance use, including the misuse of prescription drugs.

• Drugs in Society
  Students will identify types of drugs, the short and long-term effects, and identify strategies for maintaining a drug-free lifestyle.
• How Alcohol Damages a Teen's Developing Brain, Part 1
  This lesson will help students understand how the brain develops during adolescence and how alcohol affects the adolescent brain differently than an adult brain.
• How Alcohol Damages a Teen's Developing Brain, Part 2
  This lesson helps students understand how alcohol damages the brain, as well as identify the risks of binge drinking, alcohol poisoning, and alcoholism.
• Reasons for Me to Be Alcohol Free
  Students will identify the effects of alcohol and how it impairs function, as well as reasons to be alcohol-free.
• Spit (Smokeless) Tobacco
  This lesson will help students identify the short- and long-term effects of smokeless tobacco use.
• This is your brain. . .this is your brain on drugs.
  

  Students will use the iPad to create a public service announcement on the dangers of alcohol, drugs, and tobacco. They can use an app like iMovie to create the 30 second commercial.

• Truth About Tobacco
  Students will identify the short- and long-term effects of tobacco use.

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