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Healthy Choices are
Best for Me! |
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Your Health is not a
Game of Chance |
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Healthy Decisions: OTC and
Prescription Medicines |
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Students will compare and contrast the positive and negative consequences of making healthy choices about medicines. The lesson will reinforce following school and family rules for medicine use and always asking for help from a trusted adult to take medicine. |
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The purpose of the lesson is to reinforce making healthy choices and the consequences of unhealthy choices. We will use a "Game of Chance," or "Roll of the Dice" activity to show the risks and consequences of making healthy or unhealthy decisions. |
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Students will compare and contrast OTC and prescription medicines. The lesson will reinforce home and school rules for taking, storing and disposing medicines in the context of learning about prescription medicines. |
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Healthy Decisions Detective |
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Your Mission?
Making Healthy Choices |
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Stop, Think, & Choose to Make
Healthy Decisions |
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Students will apply the steps to making a healthy decision in the role of Detective H.S. (Healthy, Safe) Decision. As Detective H.S. Decision, students will use the steps of making a healthy decision, identify consequences of the decision, and determine if the decision is healthy, safe and respectful. |
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Students will pose as a Secret Agent and complete a series of case files that require a healthy decision to complete the mission. The missions will require students to "think ahead," and determine if places, people or things could lead to unhealthy decisions. |
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The Stop, Think, Choose model will be used to help students think about the alternatives and possible consequences before making a choice. Students will play a board game where they will review key concepts, identify consequences of decisions and apply the decision-making skills. |
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Refuse to Use |
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Being Confident & Assertive to
Make Healthy Choices |
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Don't Give in to Peer Pressure:
Make Healthy Choices |
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The focus is on standing up for yourself and the healthy decisions you make. Students will learn to practice the four aspects of assertive communication including: looking at the person, stating the decision firmly but politely, walking away if pressured continuously, and telling a trusted adult about an unhealthy/unsafe situation. |
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The lesson will develop assertive communication skills and strategies to be confident and stand up for yourself and your healthy decisions. Students will think about what they will say in a situation, and then practice being assertive in delivering the message with a peer. |
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Students will practice the "Three Nos and a Walk" refusal technique. Students will apply the refusal technique in two different scenarios. The teacher will debrief the scenarios to reinforce positive influences on healthy choices, and being assertive to make healthy choices. |
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Advocating to be Drug-Free |
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Lesson 4 is a lesson enhancement. This lesson could be added as an extension to another lesson or it can be a separate stand-alone lesson if time allows. Students are asked to share what they have learned about healthy choices and express that in a creative manner using a RAFT (Role, Audience, Format, Topic). |