Alcohol Abuse Lesson Plans
- 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.
- "About
Alcohol"- After students complete this section, they will be able
to define key words, alcohol, depressant, intoxicated, problem drinking,
alcohol dependence, withdrawal.
- Alcohol
and Advertising- Students will identify the reasons alcohol is harmful
to your body.
- 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.
- 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.
- Alcohol
Ball- To teach students that alcohol use can cause blurred vision
and poor coordination.
- 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.
- Alcohol
Use, Abuse, and Alcoholism- Students also explore the frequencies
of alcohol use, abuse, and alcoholism in the population.
- Don't
Drink To That- In this lesson, students simulate the effects of
alcohol on their vision and motor skills.
- 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.
- Fetal
Alcohol Syndrome- To teach students that pregnant women absolutely
should not drink alcohol.
-
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- "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.
- Tongue
Talk- To teach students that alcohol causes slurred speech.
- Understanding
Alcohol- A complete unit from the NIH.
- 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.
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