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English Vocabulary Skills: AWL Sublist 5 - Exercise 5a
In this online interactive English vocabulary skills worksheet, students answer 10 matching questions which require them to fill in the blanks in 10 sentences. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Home Living / Daily Living: Safety Terms
Being able to recognize safety signs in your environment is a great start to staying safe. Kids with severe to moderate disabilities work to recognize and identify safety terms and signs. They use flashcards and decreasing prompts to...
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Helping Adolescents Deal with Peer Pressure
Designed by a mental health center, this presentation is meant to educate educators how to help teens face peer pressure. Tips are provided for identifying at-risk youth and bullying situations. This would be a poignant topic to include...
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Acting Out
Sixth graders investigate peer pressure, gangs, drinking, and using drugs. In small groups, they conduct research, develop, edit, and write a three-minute script, and perform the script for the class.
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Depression and Cannabis
In this current events worksheet, students read an article about cannabis reducing depression and complete eight true or false questions, 10 synonym matching questions, and a cloze activity based on the article.
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Harmful objects
First graders identify safe ways to report harmful objects. In this harmful objects lesson plan, 1st graders identify objects that can harm them. They then identify objects that are not safe verses ones that are safe, and are taught...
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Prescription Stimulants
Students study ADHD and how prescription drugs can help. In this behavior therapy and drug abuse lesson plan students read articles and complete a worksheet.
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ESL Sign Activity
For this ESL signs worksheet, students fill in blanks to complete things that would be written on signs. Students may click on an answer button to check and correct.
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Breaking News English: Kate Moss Axed over Drug Scandal
In this English worksheet, students read "Kate Moss Axed over Drug Scandal," and then respond to 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.
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Kids Health: Smoking Stinks
This four-page article provides general information on cigarettes, nicotine, and smoking by providing simple responses to questions such as "Why Are Smoking and Smokeless Tobacco So Bad for You?" and "What Happens When a Kid Tries...
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Kids Health: Smoking: Cutting Through the Hype
This three-page article examines why teens smoke and why cigarette smoking is not only a harmful, but also a deadly habit. Also provided is information on quitting smoking and staying tobacco-free.
National Institute on Drug Abuse
Nida: Behavioral Problems Related to Maternal Smoking
This resource provides information about the dangers of smoking while pregnant, and the affects on children in the future.
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Department of Health and Human Services: Straight Talk About Smoking
Girls' Health is a matter of fact resource in teaching girls the dangers and facts of tobacco use and abuse. Take a quiz to see where you stand in your knowledge of tobacco.
eSchool Today
E School Today: Drugs, Alcohol & Smoking
Learn the dangers of drugs, alcohol, and smoking. Find out myths and truths and strategies to avoid problems.
Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic: Chewing Tobacco: Not a Safe Product
At this site from the Mayo Clinic, you can read about smokeless tobacco and the dangers associated with it. This article includes information on how smokeless tobacco can cause the same problems,such as addiction, cardiovascular disease,...
National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health
Smokeless Tobacco and Cancer: Questions and Answers
This website provides brief responses to several questions about smokeless tobacco and the risks associated with its use including: "What harmful chemicals are found in smokeless tobacco?," and "What about using smokeless tobacco to quit...
Read Works
Read Works: Is Big Tobacco Out to Hook Kids?
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the addictive nature of tobacco and the dangers teens face due to tobacco marketing strategies. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading...
Library of Virginia
Virginia Memory: Tobacco Counterblast
In this lesson, students look at why King James I thought that smoking tobacco was a dangerous habit.