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"Targets"
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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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"The Dangers of Drug Abuse"
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In this lesson students will be able to evaluate the health hazards of illegal and legal drugs.
Be able to evaluate and explain why it is important to stay drug-free.
Be able to interpret knowledge about drug abuse,
and describe the short-term and long-term health risks of using drugs
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"The Drug Dope Show"
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In this lesson students work in teams using a "talk show" format to research drug types, the addiction/recovery processes, and effects of drug abuse on society, family, friends, work, school. They will also explore techniques for resisting peer pressure.
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Addiction
Alcohol Addiction and Its Effect on the Body
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In this lesson students will conduct research on alcohol addiction and its affect on the liver. The goal of the lesson is to create a classroom environment where students may discuss how alcohol affects individuals, their bodies, and their behavior.
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Alcohol and Driving: When to Say No
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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
Alcohol: Separating Fact from Fiction
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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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All Choked Up By Smoking Statistics: Analyzing Statistics and Creating Graphs in the Mathematics Classroom
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In this lesson, students use the article 'More College Students Are Smoking, Study Says' as a springboard for discussion on the reasons why people smoke cigarettes and investigate different methods of graphing statistics by using the data provided in the article.
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Anti-Drug Advice to a Peer
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The purpose of this activity is to reinforce students' decisions to be drug-free by discussing the negative consequences of drug use; the positive consequences of being drug-free; the fact that most youth do not use drugs; and learning resistance skills to say no to drugs. By writing a response to a "Dear Peer" letter, students will strengthen their commitment to be drug-free and communicate an anti-drug message to others.
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Clearing the Smoke About Cigarettes: Creating Anti-Smoking Ad Campaigns Geared Towards Kids
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In this lesson, students explore the many causes and effects of cigarette smoking in order to create anti-smoking campaigns geared towards other students.Students list reasons why people smoke and reasons why people should not smoke; evaluate whether any of the reasons why people smoke are justifiable and why people smoke when they know that smoking is hazardous behavior
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Constant Craving: How Drugs Interact with the Nervous System
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In this lesson, students investigate the ways that various addictive drugs interact with the human nervous system.
Explore possible genetic relationships between drug addiction and the nervous system by reading and discussing, "Genetic Studies Promise a Path to Better Treatment of Addictions."
Research a specific drug and explore how it interacts with the nervous system.
Create short plays to educate peers about the effects of drugs on the nervous system.
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Creating Anti-Drug Poetry or Songs
Cycle of Addiction
Deadly Highs: Substance Abuse
Designing PSAs / Anti-Drug Ads
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The purpose of this activity is to enhance students' commitment to be drug-free by reinforcing positive consequences and learning resistance skills not to use drugs. By creating anti-drug ads/PSAs, students will have an opportunity to communicate an anti-drug message to others
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Do You Believe This Camel?
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This lesson shows how tobacco advertising creates a deceptive image of the consequences of smoking. Students begin by taking a critical look at some tobacco ads that ignore the health hazards and promote smoking as a desirable, fun activity, and compare these ads to mock advertisements that "tell it like it is." Students discuss how tobacco marketers target young people.
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Don't Drink To That! Raising Awareness About the Risks of Driving While Intoxicated
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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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Drugs and Terror: Teacher Lesson
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This lesson plan is designed to help students learn more about the link between the illegal drug use in the United States and acts of terrorism and terror around the world. Students will learn about the different aspects of the war on terrorism, examine the emerging information about "narco-terrorism" and explore how decreasing American drug use could have impact on reducing terror in the world.
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Fighting Fire with Fire: Learning About the Effects of Drugs and Drug Treatment Programs in the Science or Health Classroom
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In this lesson plan, students use a New York Times article about a radical form of drug treatment being currently tested on heroin addicts as a springboard for research on the effects of various drugs. Students then create informational pamphlets to be distributed throughout the school community.
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Freedom to Smoke
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In this lesson, students explore their beliefs and values about independence – and how cigarette advertising exploits peoples’ desires for greater freedom. Students identify the activities, lifestyles and role models that define the “independent” man and woman in our society. They then analyze ads that associate smoking with images of independence.
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Gender and Tobacco
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In this lesson, students explore gender-related influences on smoking. They discuss the numbers of male and female smokers in Canada and around the world, and the strategies used by tobacco companies to reach both men and women. In separate groups, male and female students explore and discuss the relationship between smoking, the tobacco industry, tobacco marketing, and their gender, by deconstructing and analyzing tobacco ads from magazines for men, for women, and for a general audience.
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High-Risk Areas: Understanding the Motivation Behind Drug Abuse Behaviors that Put People at Risk for Contracting H.I.V.
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In this lesson, students create concept maps exploring the 'causes' of drug abuse that, in Siberia and around the world, often lead to the contraction of H.I.V. Students then develop 'solutions' papers that expound upon possible solutions to a 'cause' of the spread of H.I.V. in Siberia.
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Image Gap
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This lesson helps students understand how self-image can influence lifestyle choices. Students begin by identifying those qualities they admire most in peers, and by comparing their self-image with these qualities. They learn to identify self-image "problems" and develop positive strategies for dealing with these problems.
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Is There a Doctor in the House? Evaluating Teens' Sources of Health-Related Information
Lung Disease
Marijuana: Help someone kick the habit
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In this lesson, students assess why youth smoke pot and discuss solutions.
Students will:
1. Define substance abuse.
2. Assess how they and their friends have been affected by marijuana.
3. Evaluate how pot users are hurting themselves.
4. Explore how teens can stay away from or stop smoking pot.
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Medical Marijuana: Legitimate Use or Legalized Abuse?
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In this lesson students will use cooperative learning activities to discuss opinions about medical marijuana use and see both sides of the issue.
Students will use decision making skills and strategies to render their own decision about the U.S. Supreme Court case related to medical marijuana use
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Mirror Image
More Harm Than Good? Exploring the Debate Behind the "Harm Reduction" Approach to Drug Use
Most Youth Don't Use
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The purpose of this activity is to enhance the perception that most adolescents are not using drugs. By estimating and graphing drug use trends among eighth graders and examining recent survey statistics, students will recognize that most youth do not use drugs.
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Prescriptions for Disaster? Creating Public Service Campaigns About Prescription Drug Abuse Among Teens
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In this lesson, students share opinions about prescription drugs and prepare public service campaigns to inform peers and adults about the dangers of prescription drug abuse. Students identify methods to communicate and distribute their campaigns.
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Redefining Addiction: Considering Addiction as a Chronic Medical Illness and Learning to Treat Addicts Accordingly
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In this lesson, students learn about how addiction can have both physiological and behavioral effects. They then synthesize their knowledge by creating a sensitivity training session for counselors working with teenagers who are addicted to drugs.
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Risky Business: Investigating Connections Between Teens' Movie Viewing Restrictions and Their Use of Tobacco and Alcohol
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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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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
Saying No!
Selling Tobacco
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In this lesson, students explore how tobacco advertising has evolved over the past sixty years. They begin by discussing advertising techniques used by the tobacco industry; and then they compare ads from the 1940s, '50s, '60s, '70s and '80s, with more recent tobacco advertising.
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Setting Goals: How Drugs Can Get in the Way
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The purpose of this activity is to enhance students' decisions to be drug-free by reinforcing the negative consequences of using drugs and emphasizing the positive consequences of living drug-free. By setting goals for the future and evaluating how drugs can keep them from attaining goals, students will strengthen their own commitment to be drug-free.
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Smoke Signals
Smoke Signals: Exploring the Economic and Health-Related Impacts of a Smoking Habit
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In this lesson, students estimate the amount of money a non-smoking teen spends in a week, a month, and a year, and compare it with the expenses of a teen who smokes one, two, and three packs a day. They then research other reasons that teens should not smoke, and create an ad campaign geared toward young people emphasizing the financial and health benefits of not smoking.
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Smoking
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Students will be able to do the following:
1. Understand some of the physical dangers of smoking
2. Understand that various factors influence their decision making
3. Understand the different advertising strategies that tobacco companies use
4. Discuss personal responsibilities regarding smoking
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Special Treatment: Developing Substance Abuse Treatment Programs Geared to Teenagers
Substance Use, or Abuse? Exploring Medicinal Benefits of Controlled Substances
Thinking Like a Tobacco Company: Grades 4–6
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In this lesson, students learn how the tobacco industry exploits the needs, wishes and desires of various target audiences in order to foster brand loyalty. Students explore how the tobacco industry creates a false image of the effects of smoking in order to make smoking appear to be a desirable activity. Assuming the roles of marketing personnel in a tobacco company, students suggest ways to exploit teenage girls, teenage boys, and adults.
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Thinking Like a Tobacco Company: Grades 7-9
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In this lesson, students learn how the tobacco industry targets the needs, wishes and desires of young people in order to sell cigarettes. Students begin by looking at the reasons why the tobacco industry needs to recruit "replacement" smokers.
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This Is Your Brain on Pot: Creating Informational Print Advertisements to Inform Teenagers about the Physiological Effects of Marijuana Addiction
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In this lesson, students learn about the causes and effects of marijuana addiction and research how THC affects different areas of the brain. They then synthesize their knowledge by creating print advertisements that inform teenagers about the physiological dangers of marijuana addiction.
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Tobacco Advertising in Canada
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In this lesson, students explore the ways in which tobacco products are marketed. Students explore the ways in which tobacco companies use sponsorship, promotions, retail displays, awards, clothing and collectibles as a way to reach consumers - despite advertising restrictions. Students also discuss which of these strategies are most likely to influence teens, and the relationship between advertising and other factors that may contribute to smoking. The lesson concludes with a neighborhood 'tobacco audit' conducted by students to determine whether or not tobacco is promoted locally.
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Tobacco is Bad News
Tobacco Labels
Up in Smoke: Considering Arguments Surrounding Antismoking Legislation
Using Alcohol: Setting Limits
Where There's Smoke, There's Fire: Developing Smoking Policies for the Workplace: A Health and Language Arts Lesson
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In this lesson, students explore the impact of smoking in various workplaces. Acting as the owners and managers of different types of business locations, students develop smoking policies and defend them by responding to students portraying smoking and non-smoking patrons and employees.
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