Drugs & Medicine

UNIT 2: Substance Use & Abuse

Drugs & Medicine

Priority Standard(s)

HEK.1a - identify healthy behaviors

HEK.1b - recognize potentially harmful substances

HEK.1c - identify safety hazards

HEK.2a - identify how family, peers, and cultural factors influence personal health and well-being

HEK.3a - identify types of trusted adults and professionals as resources for health information

HEK.3b - identify specific health professionals in the school and community

HEK.7b - demonstrate healthy behaviors that prevent injuries

HEK.8b - encourage peers to make positive health choices

Supporting Standard(s)

Essential Question(s)

1. What is poison?

2. What is an inhalant?

3. What are drugs?

4. What are medicines?

5. Why should you not take someone else's medicine?

6. Why should you not take medicine unless administered by a trusted adult?

7. What is the difference between over-the-counter and prescription medicine?

8. What should you do if someone offers you illegal drugs?

9. Why should you say no to illegal drugs?

10. Why is tobacco bad for you?

11. Why should you not consume alcohol?

Big Idea(s)

1. Poison is a substance that causes illness or death when it gets in the body.

2. An inhalant is a poison that is breathed in through the nose or mouth.

3. Drugs are something that changes the way your body acts or feels. When used as prescribed or directed, medicines are drugs that are legal. There are also drugs that are illegal or against the law.

4. Medicine is what you take when you are sick to get well. When used as prescribed or directed, medicines are drugs that are legal.

5. You should never give your medicine to someone else or take someone else's medicine. Medicine that helps one person might make someone else really sick.

6. You should not take medicine unless administered by a trusted adult. The most important part of taking medicine is following the directions. The directions tell you the dosage, which is how much medicine to take and how often to take it. Directions might tell you to take medicine with food, what time to take it, or keep it in the refrigerator. Or you might need to stay out of the sun. A trusted adult is one who takes care of making sure you know what the directions are and how to follow the directions when taking your medicine.

7. Over-the-counter medicines are medicines you can buy from a store without a prescription from a doctor. Prescription medicine is medicine that your doctor writes a prescription or order for that your trusted adult takes to a pharmacist to fill.

8. If someone offers you illegal drugs you should say "no" and walk away. If you see someone with illegal drugs at school or in your community, tell a trusted adult right away. Trusted adults in your community and at school want and need to keep everyone safe.

9. You should say "no" to illegal drugs because they are dangerous, can harm your growing body (lungs, heart, brain), can be addictive (a person's body needs more and more just to feel okay), and they are against the law.

10. Tobacco is bad for you because there is a drug called nicotine in it. Nicotine is a chemical that makes you feel hyper or tingly for a short time. Nicotine can be addictive, which means that when people use it more, their bodies and minds need more just to feel okay. Tobacco comes in many forms: cigarettes, cigars, chewing tobacco (loose leaf, plug, pouch, twist), pipes, and vape pens.

11. You should not consume alcohol because alcohol use in the teenage years or younger has been related to a wide range of health and social problems. Alcohol use during childhood has been related to increased health risks (including alcohol-related injuries), involvement in violence, risky behaviors, and it can affect the normal development of vital organs and functions, including the brain, liver, bones, and hormones.

LEARNING TARGET / SUCCESS CRITERIA

I will define drug and medicine. I will discuss purposes and correct uses of medicines. I will use medicine in safe ways.

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PRE-INSTRUCTIONAL ACTIVITY

Using & Keeping Medicine Safe | Michigan Medicine

OPENING (Engage)

Talk About It

Show empty prescription and over-the-counter medicine containers.

What are these?

What are the differences?

Vocabulary Strategies

medicine - something you take when sick to get well 

drug - something that changes the way the body acts or feels

Let's see if you understand these 2 words. Would you please use each one in a sentence that shows you understand the meaning of both words?

Where is the medicine in the picture below?

Why?

Some people, like the child below, have trouble breathing sometimes.

How will the medicine help his body?

Some medicines have to be ordered by a doctor.  This type of medicine is call prescription medication.

The picture below is of a pharmacist helping someone understand what their medicine is, what it is for, and how to take it. 

Your doctor orders the medicine and the pharmacist fills the order for you.

Some medicines can be bought in a store without being ordered by a doctor. These medicines are called "over-the-counter" medicines.

The picture below is of a person shopping for the right "over-the-counter" medicine, reading what it is for, and how to take it.

Even when buying "over-the-counter" medicines, an adult can ask the pharmacist for advice when trying to find the right "over-the-counter" medicine.

Just as there are rules to follow at home and school, there are rules to follow when taking medicines.

These rules include:

• take medicine only from a trusted adult

• don't take medicine on your own

• take only medicine that belongs to you

• take only the correct amount of medicine

• take your medicine at the correct time and in the correct way

This items in the picture below are of candy and medicine. Some medicines look like candy. If you ever find something that looks like candy, you should take it to a trusted adult.

WORK PERIOD (Explore/Explain/Extend/Elaborate)

Math

Count 1-20 Song | The Singing Walrus

Pharmacists are adults who have special training in properly dispensing medicines. Pharmacists fill prescriptions by counting out the exact number of pills a doctor orders. Pair up and decide who will be the pharmacist and who will be the adult having their prescription filled. The tongue depressors will be the "pills" and the cards (numerals 1-20) will be the prescription.

Life Skill - Help Others Be Healthy

With your partner, you will take turns being "doctor" and "prescribing" ways to be healthy. When you are the "doctor", you should tell your "patient":

• that medicine is something you take when you are sick to get well,

• that drugs are something that changes the way your body acts or feels, and

• one rule for taking medicine safely.

CLOSING (Evaluate)

Find the Medicines

Please number 1-8 down the left side of your individual white board. Write either an "M" for medicine or an "F" for food next to the next 8 pictures. Identify each picture as "M" for medicine or "F" for food.

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Medicine Rules

Please number 1-6 down the left side of your individual white board. Draw a happy face for each child who is following medicine safety rules. Draw a sad face for each child who is not following medicine safety rules.

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RESOURCES / INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS

• empty medicine containers - prescription & over-the-counter

• tongue depressors (25 per group)

• cards numbered 1-20

• individual white board

• dry-erase markers

DCSD Board-Approved Instruction Materials

• Health & Wellness: Teacher's Edition (New Edition) - Grade K. Macmillan/McGraw-Hill. 2008.

• Health Big Ideas Book - Grade K. Macmillan/McGraw-Hill. 2008.

• Life Skills Book - Grade K. Macmillan/McGraw-Hill. 2008.

• Health Masters - Grade K. Macmillan/McGraw-Hill. 2008.

• Transparency Book - Grades K-2. Macmillan/McGraw-Hill. 2008.

Technology

• Google Sites - HPE website

• Chromebook

• large video screens for whole-class viewing

• sound system for sharing of audio