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Classroom Resource

Project ALERT Core Lesson 5: Social Pressures to Use Drugs

Subject Area

Health Education

Grade(s)

6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12

Overview

Each day, America’s teenagers are bombarded with misleading messages about drugs. Glamorized by media and endorsed by peers, the consequences of drug use and experimentation are dangerously disguised, and often hidden altogether. The reality is that drug use can alter a teen’s life forever. That’s why every student should be given the tools to make a decision against using drugs - and the best place to give them those tools is your classroom.

This resource is lesson 5. To access videos and lesson materials: https://www.projectalert.com/account

    Health Education (2019) Grade(s): 6

    HE19.6.7.2

    Describe practices to avoid to reduce health risks to self and others.

    Health Education (2019) Grade(s): 7

    HE19.7.1.2

    Predict the risk of injury or illness if engaging in unhealthy behaviors.

    Health Education (2019) Grade(s): 7

    HE19.7.2.2

    Explain how communities can affect personal health practices and behaviors.

    Health Education (2019) Grade(s): 7

    HE19.7.2.3

    Describe how the media can send mixed messages about health.

    Health Education (2019) Grade(s): 7

    HE19.7.2.5

    Discuss how risky choices influence the likelihood of unhealthy behaviors, including tobacco use increasing the risk of using other drugs and peer pressure to consume alcohol.

    Health Education (2019) Grade(s): 8

    HE19.8.1.3

    Create a plan for eliminating personal unhealthy behaviors.

    Health Education (2019) Grade(s): 8

    HE19.8.2.4

    Explain how societal perceptions influence healthy and unhealthy behaviors.

    Health Education (2019) Grade(s): 8

    HE19.8.2.5

    Give examples of how substance abuse can increase the likelihood of other health risk behaviors.

    Health Education (2019) Grade(s): 8

    HE19.8.5.2

    Critique the positive and negative outcomes of a health-related decision.

    Health Education (2019) Grade(s): 10 - Health Education

    HE19.HE.2.1

    Analyze the influence of external factors on health beliefs and behaviors.

    Health Education (2019) Grade(s): 10 - Health Education

    HE19.HE.5.2

    Develop a thoughtful decision-making process in health-related situations.

    Health Education (2019) Grade(s): 10 - Health Education

    HE19.HE.7.1

    Analyze the role of individual responsibility for enhancing health.

    Health Education (2019) Grade(s): 10-12 - Leaders in Health Advocacy

    HE19.LHA.2.1

    Analyze how health risk behaviors in the local school and community are influenced by family, peers and other factors.

    Health Education (2019) Grade(s): 10-12 - Leaders in Health Advocacy

    HE19.LHA.5.1

    Identify decision-making skills used in situations that put adolescents and teens at risk.

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    Project ALERT
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