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.
• Nicotine Addiction and Quitting
  The activities in this lesson will help students understand why tobacco is addictive and how and why people quit using tobacco.
• Uppers, Downers and All Arounders
  This lesson will help students to understand how alcohol, tobacco and other drugs affect the human body and can impair an individual's actions.

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