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"Targets"
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Source site:   PBS

Groups of students will compose a collage of alcohol ads and caption them according to what they believe the "real message" is. They will explain their collage and caption rationale to the class. Discussion will follow the presentations as to the targeted age group and messages the media attempts to portray. Students will then redo their captions with alcohol facts mentioned in the video, but not intimated in the advertising. Teachers need to use "Educators" ink button on the bottom of the page and then chose "targets" to utlize this lesson.

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Alcohol and Driving: When to Say No
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Source site:   NIH Office of Science Education, Bethesda, MD

Students investigate how drinking alcoholic beverages affects the blood alcohol concentration (BAC). They then explore how gender, body weight, metabolism, and drinking patterns change BAC. Finally, students watch driving simulations in a Web-based activity and consider how mental and physical functions are impaired by drinking alcohol.

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Alcohol Myths
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Source site:   Media Awareness Network

In this lesson, students explore positive messages about drinking that are promoted and reinforced in ads for alcohol. A key component of this exploration includes understanding the consequences of drinking.

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Alcohol: Separating Fact from Fiction
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Source site:   NIH Office of Science Education, Bethesda, MD

In this lesson, students obtain a clearer understanding of their knowledge about alcohol; recognize that their attitudes, beliefs, and knowledge about alcohol may be different from those of their peers; identify areas where their understanding of alcohol is incomplete or even wrong; and gain experience with scientific methods, such as observation and inference.

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Don't Drink To That! Raising Awareness About the Risks of Driving While Intoxicated
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Source site:   The New York Times

In this lesson, students simulate the effects of alcohol on their vision and motor skills. Then, after doing additional research on the dangers of driving while intoxicated, students create an educational activity that might convince a particular target audience not to use alcohol and/or drink and drive.

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More Harm Than Good? Exploring the Debate Behind the "Harm Reduction" Approach to Drug Use
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Source site:   The New York Times

In this lesson, students learn about the controversial harm reduction approach to drug use and debate the various sides to this approach.Students will respond to a scenario involving a "harm reduction" approach to teenage drinking.

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Risky Business: Investigating Connections Between Teens' Movie Viewing Restrictions and Their Use of Tobacco and Alcohol
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Source site:   The New York Times

In this lesson, students learn about a recent Dartmouth study that connected teenagers' movie viewing restrictions with their tobacco and alcohol usage. They then conduct their own research in tobacco and alcohol use among teenagers by devising surveys to be distributed and analyzed in their own school setting.

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Role-playing Through a Puppet Show
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Source site:   TheAntiDrug.com, National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign

The purpose of this activity is to enhance students' personal and social skills to promote positive lifestyle choices and resist drug use. By developing and conducting a puppet show, students will practice effective communication and resistance skills that support their commitment not to use drugs.

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Role-playing Through Cartoons
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Source site:   TheAntiDrug.com, National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign

The purpose of this activity is to enhance students' skills to resist drug use. By creating cartoons, students will practice effective communication and resistance skills that support their decision not to use drugs.

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Using Alcohol: Setting Limits
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Source site:   NIH Office of Science Education, Bethesda, MD

Students consider whether a legal limit for alcohol use should be imposed for all public activities, not just driving. Students will be able to identify how different BACs, including low ones, affect a person’s functioning

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