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• Use, Misuse or Abuse - Students individually complete a Background Knowledge Inventory and brainstorm as a class the reasons people use drugs. Guided by several student handouts, students discuss drug use situations to determine misuse or abuse and then use scenarios to help assess harmful effects of drug misuse and abuse.
• No Call for Alcohol - After a discussion of the effects of alcohol on the body, students practice taking a stand, making persuasive arguments, and using refusal skills. Students work independently to create a fictional pressure situation involving alcohol or other drugs. These situations are then distributed among groups of students who create role plays using a different refusal strategy for each scenario.
• Risks and Challenges - A lesson plan that uses a variety of resources, students explore different situations that involve people overcoming personal fear, apprehension, facing a risk, meeting a challenge, making a crucial choice, etc. Their consideration of such situations through discussion and group work will lead to a crafted piece of poetic writing and a static image.