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Alcohol Abuse Lesson Plans

1. Alcohol and Advertising- Students will identify the reasons alcohol is harmful to your body.
2. 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.
3. Alcohol Ball- To teach students that alcohol use can cause blurred vision and poor coordination.
4. 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.
5. Alcohol Use, Abuse, and Alcoholism- Students also explore the frequencies of alcohol use, abuse, and alcoholism in the population.
6. Driver Education: Drinking & Driving - Explain how alcohol affects the mental & physical abilities.
7. 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.
8. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome- To teach students that pregnant women absolutely should not drink alcohol.
9. Life in the 20's - WW 2 - The students goals are to figure out how they would live if they were facing the great depression and WW2.
10. 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.
11. "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.
12. Tongue Talk- To teach students that alcohol causes slurred speech.
13. Understanding Alcohol- A complete unit from the NIH.
14. 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.