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Edmentum's Red Ribbon Week Topical Resource Packet
Edmentum's Red Ribbon Week Topical Resource Packet
From October 23 to 31, schools around the United States will observe Red Ribbon Week®, the largest and longest-running annual campaign dedicated to drug prevention. Beyond spreading awareness on the dangers of drug and alcohol use, Red Ribbon Week also presents an excellent opportunity to teach students about the benefits of building lifelong healthy habits, physically, mentally, and emotionally.
To help you recognize this important campaign in the classroom, Edmentum is offering a free Red Ribbon Week Topical Resource Packet, stuffed with activities, critical thinking questions, posters, and fact sheets designed to engage your students in constructive conversations on developing positive habits.
Red Ribbon Campaign
Red Ribbon Campaign
RedRibbon.org is the nation's largest and longest-running drug-use prevention campaign.
Their 2024 Parent / School Planning Guide is available to you and includes ideas activities, morning announcements, coloring sheets, contests, crossword puzzles and more.
Natural High: RRW Lesson Plans
Natural High is a nonprofit organization committed to empowering youth to make healthy decisions and live a drug-free life. For Red Ribbon Week, they have designed a five-day online drug prevention curriculum built around videos of prominent people telling their stories. Each video also has a set of discussion questions and activities that can be performed within a class period or over the course of a few days. The lesson plans can be found starting on page 16 in the linked PDF. The accompanying videos and additional resources can be found on https://www.naturalhigh.org/playlists/red-ribbon-week-2024/ .
(For grades 4-12.)
The Stanford Tobacco Prevention Toolkit provides curriculum covers topics related to nicotine, e-cigarettes, and vaping.
The You and Me, Together Vape-Free curriculum includes a two-lesson elementary school version, approximately 50 minutes each. Every lesson provides activities, online quiz games, and worksheets in addition to presentations, resources, and other materials aimed at addressing key factors associated with youth e-cigarette use, including changing adolescents’ attitudes towards and misperceptions about e-cigarettes; increasing their refusal skills to pulls of flavors, marketing, and social media; reducing stress and depression which have been linked to e-cigarette initiation and use; improving coping; and decreasing intentions and actual use of all e-cigarette products.
Other Fun Activities:
Other Fun Activities:
Decorate your door (or your classroom!).
Have a "Wear Red Day"! Other dress-up days could include "Peace Out to Drugs" (peace signs and tie dye), "Team Up Against Drugs" (sports jerseys), Lei Off Drugs (Hawaiian leis or shirts), or "Our School Chooses to be Drug Free" (school spirit gear!). (Credit: Diary of a Not So Wimpy Teacher)
Incorporate Red Ribbon Week into your morning announcements.
Have a coloring contest with your students - this printout says, "Your Future is KEY."
Have students design Red Ribbon week bookmarks.
Have students make a peer pressure concept wheel with strategies on how to resist peer pressure.
Paint rocks with drug-free slogans and leave them around campus or in the community!
Use chalk to draw drug-free art and messages outside.
Pledge to Stay Drug-Free!
Pledge to Stay Drug-Free!
"Link Up to be a Drug Free School" - For their pledge, students can sign strips of red paper and staple them together to create a chain!
Orange County Red Ribbon Week Toolkit
Within this tool kit, you will find in-person and virtual activity ideas and county-wide Red Ribbon Week events, workshops, and trainings to host for your school site, along with programs and resources to support your youth-led Red Ribbon Week efforts. You can find the toolkit here: ocde.instructure.com/courses/1212
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