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Content Area: Health and Physical Education
Index: 2.3B Grade 2 CPI 1
Standard: 2.3 - Drugs & Medicine
Strand: B - Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs
Cumulative Progress Indicator: 1 - The student will define drug and give examples of harmful and/or illegal drugs.
Grade: 2
Sample Activities:
· HOW DRUGS CAN AFFECT MORE THAN ONE PART OF THE BODY - Students locate their hearts by putting their hands on their chests. Ask the students where the blood goes after it is pumped through the heart. Using diagrams or anatomical models, explain how the blood travels around the body. Students place one hand over their stomach and the other hand over an ear. Explain that if they were to take medicine for an earache, it would enter the bloodstream near the stomach and the blood would carry the medicine to all parts of the body. Reinforce that drugs change the way the body works. Remind students that the body is like a machine where all the systems and parts must work together. A change in one system can cause a change in another. Demonstrate this using dominos to show the action of drugs affecting the body. Using tape, put the name or picture of a body part on each domino. Sequence the dominos in the order medicines or other drugs pass through the body. Stand the dominos upright in the correct order. Place a domino marked “drug” at the beginning of the line and let it fall. Point out all the body parts that the dominos knocked down (or that were affected by the drug). Discuss the activity with students. Allow small groups to realign the dominos, and perform the exercise again. Conclude the activity by asking students what might happen to the body if one organ or system is damaged by alcohol, tobacco, or other drugs. Reinforce the concept that children should not take medicines without adult supervision because they do not know what changes the medicines might cause.
· REACHING FOR GOALS - Write the word goal on the chalkboard, and ask students to define it. Focus the class on current goals and how things can sometimes interfere with those goals. Explain to the class how using drugs might interfere with achieving a goal. Direct each student to select a favorite activity and set a goal related to that activity. Students write how the use of alcohol, tobacco, or other drugs might interfere with the attainment of that goal. Divide the class into groups with similar goals, and have each group discuss what needs to be done to meet the goal. Each group lists three things they can do to improve their enjoyment and performance in those activities and shares the lists with the class.
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WISH STAR - Tell the class to think about what they might like to
be when they grow up. Discuss how the use of substances might interfere with
attaining that dream. Divide the class into small groups and assign each group a
career (e.g., pilot, teacher, police officer, racecar driver, dancer). Ask each
group to think how the career might be affected if the person uses drugs.
Provide students with trigger questions such as the following:
· HEALTHY VS. UNHEALTHY - In pairs, students trace a body outline on a large sheet of paper. Students insert premade pictures of healthy body organs (e.g., brain, heart, lungs, stomach, kidneys, liver). Using markers, each pair makes the changes they think occur when organs are damaged by the use of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs. Discuss the body tracings and labels. Next, post preselected magazine or newspaper ads for alcohol and tobacco products above the chalkboard. Students brainstorm the harmful effects of each substance and list those effects on the chalkboard below the appropriate picture (e.g., damaged lungs; black, stained teeth; car crash). Summarize the many ways alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs can harm the human body.
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