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This Decision Making unit plan also includes:
- Work Cards (.pdf)
- School Handbook
- Lesson Plan
- Activity
- Worksheet
- Assessment
- Student Reference
- Reading Passage
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Think it through! That's the big takeaway from a series of lessons about decision-making. Young scholars engage in a series of exercises and activities designed to urge them to look at options, the pros, and cons of a course of action, and weigh those options carefully.
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Instructional Ideas
- Organize a district-wide in-service program based on the School Handbook linked in the Included Materials section of this review
- Educators may also use the School Handbook independently as a basis of their own substance abuse education program
- Post the six steps of the decision making process and the six needs chart prominently in the classroom
Classroom Considerations
- The 113-page packet is one of seven resources in the "On My Own Two Feet" substance abuse education series
- The 18 lessons are designed to be used in order
- Requires copies
- While the focus is on decision making about drug use, the process is appropriate in any decision-making situation
Pros
- Instructors are provided with a grid that lays out the aspects of each lesson
- Pupils practice a six-step decision-making process
Cons
- None