ADDICTION PROJECT
OBJECTIVES
Students (team of 2) will:
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give a report based on the Drugs & Alcohol section of www.kidshealth.org;
and
create a PowerPoint presentation that warns of the dangers of drugs and
alcohol
PROCEDURE
1. Prepare a team report and a PowerPoint presentation on drugs and alcohol
based on material found on the Web site www.kidshealth.org. The reports
should include background information and focus on addiction and
overcoming an addiction. In your report also try to answer the following
questions:
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Alcohol has been and remains a serious problem for teens, as
have drugs. Discuss the reasons you think this is so.
Is it true that once a person is an addict, he or she is an addict
forever? Support your opinion with facts.
Have you ever said that you were addicted to something such
as candy, television, video games? Discuss the implications of
this statement with regard to substance addiction.
Is there a difference between drug abuse and drug addiction?
2. Visit the site www.kidshealth.org, click on "Enter Teens," and then select
the section on Drugs & Alcohol.
3. Note the four categories on the Drugs & Alcohol page: Tobacco, Alcohol,
Drugs, and Getting Help.
4. Review the articles "Smoking: Cutting through the Hype"; "Alcohol";
"What Teens Should Know about Drugs"; and "Dealing with Addiction."
5. Base your reports on these articles.
6. When you have finished preparing your reports, create a PowerPoint
presentation with a message related to your assigned subject. Include
eye-catching illustrations (images with text) and short, clever messages.
What to hand in (via email):
1. Word document (Font: Normal, Arial. Size: 12):
a. The report
b. A list of any additional websites that you found useful (For each
Web site you should note the name, URL, and a list of interesting
facts about it)
c. A list of the medical words with their definitions
d. A list of the academic words with their definitions
2. PowerPoint presentation
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Format of your Word Document:
Last name/first name/student number/email: 1. ___________________
2. ____________________
Collaborative Report: (essay, max 4000 words)
Websites consulted (list of additional websites)
List of Medical words (max 20)
Format:
Example
in
TERM
context
…
catheter
Word class
information
…
hemodialysis
…the victim can
be
saved
by
regular use of a
renal
hemodialysis
machine.
noun
…
…
…
List of Academic words (max 10)
Format:
Example
in Word
class
TERM
context
information
approach
….
…
formula
…Coca-Cola’s
patented
formula.
noun
…
…
….
Dictionary
definition
…
A
treatment
used
to
cleanse
the
blood
of
patients
whose kidneys
are defective
…
Dictionary
definition
…
A list of the
substances
used to make
a medicine
…
Greek
translation
…
αιμοκάθαρση
…
Greek
translation
…
συνταγή,
τύπος
…
EXTENSION
You will get extra credit for submitting articles you have found on the Internet
related to your topic. These should be submitted along with their sources, a fiveto-eight-sentence summary on the article, and a three-to-five-sentence personal
reflection on why you chose the article you did and further presented to the class.
A possible starting point is the Discovery Health Web site <http://health.discove
ry.com/> or the NBC portal at <http://www.msnbc.com/news/HEALTH_Fro
nt.asp?0dm=B---H&ta=y>. These sites offer daily highlights related to health
issues.
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