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Grade 9 - Personal Development (Substance Abuse Prevention)
Ninth graders evaluate peer, cultural, mass media, and social influences related to substance use and abuse. Define available support and describe use refusal skills.
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Healthy Living: How Does this Web Site Impact Medicare?
Learners assess information on the Health Canada Web site and determine whether such information should be paid for with tax dollars, and whether the publication of such information has an impact on Medicare.
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Boating Safety
Students are introduced to the safety procedures to follow while boating. After taking a quiz, they complete open-ended questions about boating accidents in Illinois. They discuss as a class how those accidents could have been prevented.
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Themes Quiz
In this online interactive reading comprehension quiz worksheet, students respond to 5 multiple choice questions about themes from Doyle's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Students may check their answers on this timed quiz.
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Taking a Closer Look (Critical Viewing)
Students explore persuasive writing in advertisements. In this advertisements lesson, students evaluate tobacco advertisements for persuasion techniques. Students then create a counter advertisement against smoking.
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Student Led Staff Development: A Teen's Definition of Crisis
Students research an area that is relavent to their age level that concerns them. They work together to create a presentation to give to the faculty. They must use technology in their presentations.
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Keith Haring: Art Representing Social Issues
Learners discuss Keith Haring posters that were created to represent different social issues. They, in groups, create a poster that represents a social issue that affects their lives.
Indiana University
Indiana Prevention Resource Center: Drug Information
Specific drugs and drug related issues are defined and discussed on this page, which also contains several downloadable publications.
Partnership for Drug-Free Kids
National Youth Anti Drug Media Campaign: Above the Influence
The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy created Above the Influence to decrease drug and alcohol use among teenagers through education, current events reporting, skills training, shared personal narratives, animated...
Other
Streetdrugs.org: Education Resources
Detailed information about individual drugs. Targets students, parents, teachers, law enforcement officials, and health professionals.
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Kids Health: What You Need to Know About Drugs
Students are curious about drugs and this is a simple site that delves into what they need to know: what drugs are good and what drugs are harmful, what are illegal drugs, like heroin and marijuana, and why are they illegal. The authors...
Other
National Crime Prevention Council: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs
Site provides great information for parents wanting to talk with their children about drugs and alcohol. Provides realistic and reasonable tips.
Other
Department of Health and Human Services: Straight Talk About Alcohol
Learn the effects of alcohol and ways to say no in a no-nonsense approach.
Other
Global Youth Network: School Based Education for Drug Abuse Prevention [Pdf]
This resource provides a conceptual basis upon which teachers, policy makers, and school administrators can make decisions about school-based drug prevention programs in order to achieve greater success in educational settings.
Other
Bio Ethics Education Project (Beep): Human Health
The tutorial explores human health. Topics included are genes, vaccination, health risks, and drugs in sports. The resource consists of articles,additional resources, and activities.
Utah Education Network
Uen: 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.
National Institute on Drug Abuse
National Institute on Drug Abuse: Brain Power! The Nida Junior Scientist Program
This program uses scientific techniques to examine how drugs effect the brain. Its ultimate goal is to present students with the negative effects of substance abuse and show the benefits of staying substance free. Each of the lessons...
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Do something.org
Do Something is a nationwide network of young people who know they can make a difference in their communities and take action to change the world around them. As part of Do Something, young people are asked what they want to do to make...
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Arizona Bar Foundation: Law for Kids
Have a question about the law? Go to this site dedicated to teaching children about the law and to encouraging law-abiding behavior. Topics include driving laws, "Teen trouble", drug and alcohol laws, and more.
USA Today
Three Factors Threaten Teens
Learn main reasons why teenagers experiment with illegal drugs, alcohol, and cigarettes. This article provides statistics about teen drug abuse, discussion questions, and a writing activity.
Live Wire Media
Good Character: Teaching Guides for Middle School
Although these teaching guides are designed to be used with a video series called "Big Changes, Big Choices," most of the material here can be used without the videos. The topics covered in this series include both life skills and...
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Streetlaw: Careers in the Law
If you are interested in being an attorney, corrections officer, court reporter, forensic scientist, police officer, judge or government agent, check out this description of several legal careers. Learn about salary, required education,...