Content Area: Health and Physical Education

 

Index: 2.3C Grade 6 CPI 2

 

Standard: 2.3 - Drugs & Medicine

 

Strand: C - Dependency/Addiction and Treatment

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator:  2 -  The student will identify ways to quit using alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs and discuss factors that support an individual to quit.

 

Grade: 6

 

Sample Activities:

 

·        GETTING HELP: COMMUNITY RESOURCES - Divide the class into small groups and give each group a local telephone directory. Using the directory, students list agencies that may be able to provide help to students and their families impacted by the use of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs. Students contact the community agencies for more information and present the results of their investigation. Using the information compiled, students organize a database of community agencies and resources and publish the information as a fact sheet, pamphlet, or as a feature article in a school or community newsletter.

 

·        GETTING HELP: SCHOOL RESOURCES - Ask students the following question: “If you have a problem, where do you go for help?” The entire
class compiles a list using a whip around, pass option activity. Invite a panel of helping professionals including the school counselor, substance awareness coordinator, social worker, DARE officer, psychologist, and school nurse. Panel members discuss their role as a member of the student assistance
team. After the presentation, divide the class into small groups and assign each group a situation involving the use of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs. Each group brainstorms where students can go for information and help about the problem and develops a role-play of their assigned situation. Discuss each group’s presentation. Students rate each presentation, focusing on how well the problem was resolved. Examples of situations for this activity might include the following:
-        Someone’s brother is smoking marijuana.
-        Someone’s baby-sitter drinks the parent’s beer.
-        Someone’s father drinks and drives.
-        Someone’s mother dies from an overdose of sleeping pills.