Junior High Health Education
Tobacco, Alcohol, and Other Drugs
Overarching Question:
How can tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs affect my wellness?
National Health Standards:
Students will demonstrate the ability to use decision-making skills to enhance health
Students will demonstrate the ability to advocate for personal, family, and community health
Priority Benchmarks:
Identify and explain influences that lead to tobacco, alcohol, and other drug use
Advocate the benefits of remaining drug, alcohol, and tobacco free
Concepts/Content
Skills
Categories of Drugs
Addiction and Tolerance
Influences on use of Tobacco, Alcohol, and other
drug use
Effects on Health Triangle
Dealing with Peer Pressure situations
Effective Communication
Relationship between goal-setting and chemical use
Natural Highs
Compare/Contrast
Understand
Identify and Explain
Identify and Explain
Demonstrate
Demonstrate
Analyze
Identify and Explain
Guiding Questions:
What are the effects of tobacco, alcohol, and other drug use on my personal health triangle?
What is the difference between addiction and tolerance?
How does remaining chemical free influence my personal health?
How can chemical use prevent me from reaching my goals?
How does the community influence my decision-making?
How can I get high without using tobacco, alcohol, or other drugs?
How can I effectively communicate in a peer pressure situation?
What can I do to advocate for the benefits of natural highs?
Formative Assessment Ideas:
Categories of Drugs
Use a Venn Diagram comparing stimulants, depressants, hallucinogens, and narcotics (can do inhalants as
well).
Use a chart of similarities and differences between the categories.
Addiction and Tolerance
Quick write to determine if they understand what addiction and tolerance really mean.
Influences
Have them make a small poster with all the influences. Or a graphic organizer..
Effects on Health Triangle
Graphic organizer using the 5 areas of health and having them write 1 or 2 effects in each area from the
use of ATOD.
Peer Pressure/Communication
Role play of have students write a script using effective communication and a various way to deal with not
taking the drugs.
Use Have I Got a Deal For you- plastic bag activity dealing with refusal skills.
Goals and Chemical Use
Have students write out all their long term goals and then write a short sentence of how ATOD use could
impact those goals.
Natural Highs
Poster or presentation of natural highs.
Have individuals come in with a brown bag with all their natural highs in the bag (inside the bag can be
pictures, words, or whatever) to describe the natural highs the student has.
District Curriculum Recommendations
Drug/Alcohol ball
Choosing Not To Use: Alcohol, Tobacco and other Drugs
Homeless to Harvard- parts around drug use and effects
Have I got a deal for You—bag activity
Teaming up on technology: lesson for health education
Natural High Curriculum binder and DVD
Brain Scans binder and DVD
Teen Truth: Drug and Alcohol abuse binder and DVD
Substance Abuse Pack power point pack
Chicken Soup stories
Scholastic book- True Confessions
TASKS/ASSESSMENTS:
Summative Assessment:
Letter writing ECA
Scholastic Book: Dealing with friends and peers- Your
Space
Scholastic Book: I did it without thinking
Relationships Communication Challenge: mini lesson
Activities that Teach- 3 book series
This is your life! Hands on Health binder curriculum
Fatal Vision Goggles
Foundations for a drug free world booklets, curriculum
and DVD
Draft Updated 6/21/12