Decision-Making

UNIT 2: Substance Use & Abuse

Decision-Making

Priority Standard(s)

HEK.5a - identify health-related situations

HEK.5b - use a decision-making model in a health-related situation

HEK.5c - identify people who can assist in problem-solving and decision-making

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 demonstrate skills for making wise decisions. I will use refusal skills to avoid harmful behaviors.

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PRE-INSTRUCTIONAL ACTIVITY

Rain Sounds

Rain Rain Go Away | The Singing Walrus

OPENING (Engage)

Talk About It

Today we are going to learn about treating others the way we want them to treat us.

We just heard the "Please & Thank You Song."

Why is it important for us to say "please" and "thank you"?

How does saying "please" and "thank you" have anything to do with how we want others to treat us?

Whenever you are in a situation to make a choice about how you are going to treat someone, please remember to:

"Treat others as you want them to treat you."

Vocabulary Strategies

communicate - to show or tell something

We are going to read the heading above each picture below and discuss each picture, one by one.

Be Fair

How are these children showing fairness?

Be Caring

How is this child showing caring?

show respect

How are these children showing respect?

Be a good citizen

How is this child being a good citizen?

Be RESPONSIBLE

How is this child being responsible?

Be Trustworthy

How is this child being trustworthy?

We're going to use the puppets to explore the 6 ways to show good character by presenting the following scenarios:

1. Frog and Elephant are playing. Frog has 2 treats. What should Frog do?

2. Elephant sees someone wearing clothing very different from hers. Should she smile, or should she laugh and point?

3. Frog can walk his pet at only one time of day. Elephant asks Frog to play at that time. What should Frog do?

4. Frog sees paper on the ground near a trash can at the park. What should he do?

5. Elephant borrows a book from Frog. A page gets torn. What should she do?

6. Frog scrapes his leg and starts to cry. What should Elephant do?

WORK PERIOD (Explore/Explain/Extend/Elaborate)

Be a Good Citizen

Be Responsible

Be Trustworthy

Be Caring

Be Fair

Show Respect

1. When Frog shares his treats, what character trait is he showing?

2. When Elephant shares a smile when seeing someone wearing clothes very different from her, what character trait is she showing?

3. When Frog decides to walk his pet instead of playing with his friends, what character trait is he showing?

4. When Frog sees paper on the ground near the trash can at the park, he picks it up and throws it in the trash can. What character trait is he showing?

5. When a page gets torn in a book Elephant borrows from Frog, she apologizes, and repairs or replaces Frog's book. What character trait is she showing?

6. When Frog scrapes his leg and starts to cry and Elephant helps him, what character trait is she showing?

CLOSING (Evaluate)

Practice Healthful Habits

Choose one of the 6 character traits and make a pledge, or promise, to try to show good character by practicing that trait. Give an example of how you will practice the good character trait you choose.

RESOURCES / INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS

• 10 cones

• 10 shoulder folders

• Numbers 1-10 for shoulder folders

• tongue depressors

• paper

• pencils & crayons

• list 6 Character Traits on the board

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