Alcohol Abuse Lesson Plans

1. A Drink Is a Drink, but People Are Different- Students investigate what is meant by a drink in reference to an alcoholic beverage. Demonstrations using food coloring and water illustrate that various types of alcoholic drinks contain the same amount of alcohol although the total volume of liquid is different.
2. "About Alcohol"- After students complete this section, they will be able to define key words, alcohol, depressant, intoxicated, problem drinking, alcohol dependence, withdrawal.
3. Alcohol and Advertising- Students will identify the reasons alcohol is harmful to your body.
4. Alcohol and Driving: When to Say No- 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.
5. Alcohol Addiction and Its Effect on the Body- This lesson should be done as part of a unit on health or substance abuse. Students will need to know about the human body and be familiar with what substance abuse really means.
6. Alcohol Ball- To teach students that alcohol use can cause blurred vision and poor coordination.
7. Alcohol: Separating Fact from Fiction- For teachers with Web access, the first lesson of the module begins by having students watch two short video clips of mouse activity.
8. Alcohol Use, Abuse, and Alcoholism- Students also explore the frequencies of alcohol use, abuse, and alcoholism in the population.
9. Don't Drink To That- In this lesson, students simulate the effects of alcohol on their vision and motor skills.
10. Drug & Alcohol Use in the Work Place- This lesson plan is aimed primarily at supervisory personnel. It's focus is on recognizing the signs of a worker's substance abuse problem. Word format.
11. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome- To teach students that pregnant women absolutely should not drink alcohol.
12. No Call for Alcohol- After a discussion of the effects of alcohol on the body, students practice taking a stand, making persuasive arguments, and using refusal skills.
13. Responding to Alcohol: What’s Important?- Students explore the effects of alcohol on the motor activity (movement) of mice by analyzing data from three experiments.
14. Substance Abuse Influences- There is no other area in the schools today that commands more public attention than that of substance use and abuse. This particular activity shows that substance abuse education is more effective if it focuses on processes of decision making rather than problems.
15. "Targets"- 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.
16. Tongue Talk- To teach students that alcohol causes slurred speech.
17. Understanding Alcohol- A complete unit from the NIH.
18. Using Alcohol: Setting Limits- Students consider whether a legal limit for alcohol use should be imposed for all public activities, not just driving. Students use the knowledge from previous lessons and evaluate new information to decide whether such a limit should be established and, if so, what BAC limit to impose.