Unit Title: Performance and Image
Enhancing Drugs
Activity:
Drug Effects – Part One
Level:
Year 10, VELS Level 6.5
Lesson:
10.1
Length:
Double lesson
This lesson plan is part of a series of lesson plans developed for use at Maribrynong
Secondary College (MSC) through a partnership between Sports Medicine Australia (SMA)
and MSC. These lesson plans can be used as they are or altered to suit the school
environment you are working in.
Key Objectives:
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To increase knowledge of the physical effects of performance and image enhancing
drugs (PIEDs)
To provide a basis for investigating the other harmful effects (social and emotional)
of PIEDs
Key Concepts:
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PIEDs can be detrimental to a person’s physical, social and emotional health
Key Idea:
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An investigation into the physical effects of PIEDs on the human body
Essential Questions:
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What constitutes physical health?
Why is physical health important?
What impact on physical health can taking PIEDs have in the short, medium and
long term?
Content:
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Different types of performance and image enhancing drugs
The physical effects PIEDs have on the human body
The healthy alternatives to enhancing performance
Processes:
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Identification of PIEDS used in sport
Group exploration of
 PIEDs used in specific sports
 How specific PIEDs impact performance
 Healthy choices to enhance performance
 Health risks associated with taking PIEDs
Sports Medicine Australia’s Community Sport Anti-Doping Program
Phone: 03 9674 8777
Email:cleanedge@vic.sma.org.au
Terminology and Definitions:
PIED – Performance and image enhancing drug
Physical health- the health of your physical body
Good physical health is when you are free of illness, injury and disease.
Poor physical health is when you are ill, injured or diseased.
Possible ways performance and image enhancing drugs can effect your physical health
include:
• Blood pressure & heart, Kidney damage, Liver damage, Stunting of growth, Headaches,
Infertility, Abnormal growth of body
Activities:
Drug Effects: Part One
Assessment:
Write a letter to a friend who might be taking or thinking about taking PIEDS, exploring
physical, social and emotional effects of the selected PIED and some options for them to
enhance their performance cleanly to be the best that they can be (to be completed across 3
lessons). You can use pictures and drawings in the letter.
Resources:
http://www.cleanedge.com.au/Content/Pub/ContentDetail.asp?lngContentID=166
Information and links for fact sheets and other forms of information about PIEDs
http://www.cleanedge.com.au/Content/Pub/ContentDetail.asp?lngContentID=217
Videos from professionals on “clean” ways to enhance performance
Video pages include links to more information
Performance and image enhancing drugs – Dr Bronwyn King
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Eat like an athlete – Lisa Sutherland - Sports Dietician
Train like and athlete – Dr Robyn Daly - Exercise Phsyiologist
Drink like and athlete – Lisa Sutherland - Sports Dietician
Think like an athlete– Jacqui Louder - Sports Psychologists
What to do before physical activity – Alicia Tang – Physiotherapist and Sports Trainer
What to do during physical activity – Alicia Tang – Physiotherapist and Sports Trainer
What to do after physical activity – Alicia Tang – Physiotherapist and Sports Trainer
Injuries – Katrina Macdonald - Physiotherapist
Energy Products and Supplements – Lisa Sutherland - Sports Dietician
http://www.cleanedge.com.au/Content/Pub/ContentDetail.asp?lngContentID=234
Fun and Games
The sporting adventures of Mark Settgo explores the options for enhancing performance.
http://www.100percentme.co.uk/store/1116254336.600.pdf
Fact sheets about:
Steroids, Diuretics, Peptide hormones & Analogues (includes EPO and hGH), Beta Blockers,
Narcotic Analgesics, Alcohol, Cannabis, Tobacco, Blood Doping, Supplements
http://www.asada.gov.au/substances/facts/index.htm
Fact Sheets about:
Alcohol , Amino acids , Anabolic agents , Androstenedione , Aranesp , Artificial oxygen
carriers and plasma expanders , Beta-2 agonists , Beta blockers , Betel nut (Arecoline) ,
Blood doping , Caffeine , Cannabinoids , Chemical and physical manipulation , Citrus
aurentium , Clenbuterol , Clomiphene , Colostrum , Creatine , DHEA , Diuretics , Dynepo
Ephedrine , EPO (Erythropoietin) , Equine growth hormone (eGH) , Finasteride ,
Glucocorticosteroids , HMB , Hormones and related substances , Human growth hormone
(hGH) , IGF-I , Insulin , Interleukins and Interleukin-3 (IL-3) , Local anaesthetics , Nandrolone
Narcotics , Norandrostenedione , Repoxygen , Stanozolol , Stimulants , Testosterone to
Epitestosterone Ratio , THG , Tribestan
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Activity 1: Drug Effects (part one)
As a class brainstorm – What are some PIEDS used in sport.
Examples include:
Steroids
Diuretics
Peptide hormones & Analougues (includes EPO and hGH)
Beta Blockers
Narcotic Analgesics
Alcohol
Cannabis
Tobacco
Blood Doping
Supplements
Hurdle: In groups of 4 investigate the following for a selected PIED from the class brainstorm
list.
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What sports has the PIED been detected in or banned from?
How does this PIED impact sport performance?
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What are the health risks associated with this PIED for short, medium
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and long term health outcomes?
What healthy choices enhance performance in the same way as this
PIED?
This can be done as a list, a picture with animations, or another format that can be put up in
the classroom and the information will be presented to the class in a 4 minute presentation.
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Sports Medicine Australia’s Community Sport Anti-Doping Program
Phone: 03 9674 8777
Email:cleanedge@vic.sma.org.au
Other students to take notes during their class mates’ presentations and write down any
questions they might have. Notes should be in 4 columns – How performance is enhanced,
sports where used, negative physical effects, alternative options. Each group member is to
present.
The notes that they have and the information posted around the class room will be used for
the assessment.
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