Drug & Alcohol Awareness & Prevention

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A Gateway to Where?
This lesson helps upper elementary children to learn that marijuana is considered a gateway drug and what that means.

Be Smart, Don't Start!
These class activities will help students simulate shortness of breath as an effect of cigarette smoking and determine reliable sources of health information about tobacco.

Calling It Quits
Students will obtain information from a prepared questionnaire, work in groups to analyze the results, and research and describe methods of quitting that would benefit particular smokers.

Clean Air is Healthy
Students role-play various scenarios to practice communicating ideas clearly, using "I" statements, and communicating respectfully and assertively.

Decisions About Tobacco and Health
Students will use various scenarios to practice decision-making skills.

Drugs and Violence Education
The Texas Prevention Guide infuses research-based prevention education into the core and enrichment curricula to provide students with consistent, firm, no-drug-use, and no-violence messages in all areas of education.

First Grade Plus
This location is an educational website where primary teachers will find free materials to supplement their drug prevention curriculum featuring Tuckertown and its fascinating cast of animal characters.

No Form of Tobacco is Safe
After reviewing risks of all forms of tobacco products and the ads that promote those products, students create either a song/music video or a TV commercial designed to convince middle school students not to use tobacco in any form.

People We Trust
This lesson plan helps students to identify the appropriate persons from whom a child can safely take medicine.

Substance Abuse Influences
This activity shows that substance abuse education is more effective if it focuses on processes of decision making rather than problems.

Teens Against Substance Abuse for Teachers
This site includes lesson plans and worksheets for teachers to utilize to teach students about drug prevention.

The Magic Bullets
When faced with choices concerning drugs and alcohol, students will utilize the anti-addiction values of the story shared available to them to assist them in making sensible choices on their own.

Unsafe in Any Form
Students will write editorials advocating for a tobacco free environment at home, at school, or in the community.

You Can't Judge A Book By Its Cover
This lesson helps young children understand that how something is packaged is not necessarily the way it really is.