Drug+education+for+secondary+schools

=Drug Education=

__Drug education in a culturally diverse school__ __By Lauren Kearns__

@http://www.schools.nsw.edu.au/media/downloads/schoolsdrug/learning/yrk12focusareas/druged/culturaldiverse.pdf

This resource is useful for teachers to extend their knowledge when presenting classes related to drug education. It explores whether cultural differences effect the use of drugs. It provides teachers with an informed view into how to teach drug education with a variety of cultures. It explains which groups are at a higher risk and how to present this information to the class. This resource also explores how to teach ESL students so they can fully understand the concepts being covered e.g. using visual aids, graphs, working with the ESL teachers, breaking down the tasks for simpler instructions etc.

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 * Smoking Aerobics**

//Laurina Neumann//
 * Purpose of Activity**: To show how smoking affects a person's everyday physical acivity


 * Suggested VELS levels**: 4-6

Do a ten minute step aerobic routine with the students. Any routine will do, as long as it is rigorous and gets their heart rate up Have the students check their pulse. Questions:
 * Activity:**
 * Write any two factors you know about smoking.
 * Write down your two most favorite physical activities.

Mind Map what the students answered for question one and discuss. Each student can come up and write their own answer on the board.

Smoking Aerobics: Each student needs a straw and a step. They will do the same exact aerobics routine from the beginning of class. The difference is they will be using straws to breath in and out. The straws represent how a smoker feels when doing physical activity. (**Note**: Please be careful with this portion of the lesson for safety reasons. Make sure students are very careful with the straw as they do this).Have the students check their pulse again to see if there is a difference compared to the first time. Finish by asking the students how they felt when they experienced exercising with a straw? How can smoking affect your two favorite physical activities you decided upon?

Discuss answers as a class. This lesson is a great way for students to actually experience the effects of smoking. Students spend most of their time in class writing down or dicussing the impact but actually having the students actively engaged in a fun activity means the learning is going to be much more meaningful. @http://www.cannabisknowtherisks.com.au/ //Janita Trickey// This is an Australian resource that is an interactive game that reinforces the dangers and effects of cannabis use and is most suitable for secondary students, specifically 7-10. This game can be played individually or in groups of up to five students. It generates discussion about the risks of cannabis. Students are engaged because of the bright colours, cheerful sounds and the goal to try and beat their friends. It is a great way to conclude a lesson on cannabis as it tests students’ knowledge. It is important to realize that whilst at the moment the statistics used in this resource are relevant, this game with eventually become out dated and the statistics won’t be correct.

@http://ndri.curtin.edu.au/research/shahrp/ Cathleen Farrelly SHAHRP is a school-based curriculum __#|program__ that aims to reduce the alcohol-related harm that young people experience in alcohol use situations. The SHAHRP longitudinal study assessed the behavioural impact of the program which resulted in statistically significant impact on alcohol use, risky alcohol use, and exposure to alcohol-related harms.

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(Priscilla Tuohey) This is an Australian site that has some great interactive __#|activities__, this site would be suitable for Year 7 students and provides them with information on the short term and long term effects of smoking. There are [|anti-smoking campaigns] that the students can watch and vote on, [|interactive autopsies] showing the health effects on the body (the students liked the gore in this) as well as an activity were students can upload a __#|photo__ of themselves and add smoking health effects to their face (wrinkles, mouth cancer etc.)

This site has information on __#|quitting smoking__ and dealing with peer pressure to smoke. There is also [|resources for your school] to assist with curriculum and fact sheets that you can download as well as links to [|Quitline and advertisements] for smoking from 1971 onwards.

This is an interactive American website that provides onlines education that address many different types of drugs such as alcohol, marijuana, ecstacy, herion, cocaine and many more. It includes information about each drug, the short term and long term effects of each drug, and [|quizzes] where students can test their knowledge of drugs and their effects. It provides many [|real life documentary's] to watch, from people who have experienced the addiction of different drugs during teenage years, where they reflect and talk about how it negatively impacted their life. As alot of these people in the documentaries are young or talking about their high school experience, it makes it easy to relate to for secondary school students. This website includes several useful [|resources for teachers] such as information kits, free booklets, prevention activities etc. It also includes up-to-date and factual and scientific information on drugs. An interactive site that is engaging and educational for secondary students on drug education.
 * [|DRUG-FREE WORLD]**