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Breaking News English: Drinking Wine Can Rot Your Teeth
In this English worksheet, students read "Drinking Wine Can Rot Your Teeth," and then respond to 1 essay, 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 10 true or false questions about the selection.
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Self-Esteem Activities Using Puppetry
Puppets provide a wonderful way for your students to explore self-esteem and other issues.
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World Cancer Day
In this World Cancer Day worksheet, students complete activities such as reading a passage, phrase matching, fill in the blanks, correct words, multiple choice, spelling, sequencing, scrambled sentences, writing questions, survey, and...
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Drugs in Schools: Preventing Substance Abuse
Learners evaluate substance abuse problems at their school and then create solutions for the problems.
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Risk Taking Behaviors
Tenth graders listen to a presenters introduction and write questions they hope to have answered during the presentation. They listen to a presentation and record notes. They participate in small group discussion and complete...
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Facts into Action
Students role play chosen scenario about smart decision making. In this drug awareness lesson, students discuss the danger associated with drug abuse. They practice how to make careful choices when faced with a difficult situation.
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Illegal Drugs And Harmful Substances
Students have a general discussion what illegal drugs and harmful substances are, some reasons people use them, and how those people's behavior changes.
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Tobacco Addiction
Fourth graders research nicotine addiction. In this tobacco lesson, 4th graders explore the reasons people become addicted to smoking. Students examine the health risks caused by nicotine addiction and create anti-smoking posters.
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ESOL Transportation and Travel
Students identify safe driving practices and discuss new vocabulary to go along with it. They compare and contrast safe driving practices in the U.S. and the students' native countries.
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Build Your Own Weather Station
Studens experiment with temperatures. In this science lesson, young scholars make their own weather station by heating one bottle and keeping the water in another bottle at room temperature.
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Soil Organisms
Students work together to collect soil samples from different locations. In the samples, they identify the macroorganisms and classify them. They identify the conditions that affect how macroorganisms grow. They also analyze and identify...
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Promoting Inquiry Throught Computer-Based Labs
Student Teachers are given the opportunity to examine how to use a computer-based laboratory for inquiry. The practice is done to teach future teachers how to use these tools so they can be ready for use in the classroom environment.
Rice University
Rice University: N Squad: Alcohol and Body Systems
Three problem-solving detective games involve players in investigations of the effect of alcohol on the body's digestive, circulatory, and nervous systems.
National Institutes of Health
Alcohol: Separating Fact From Fiction
Learners can use this site to observe the effects of alcohol on mice and discuss the ways in which alcohol harms and impairs the body. An online lesson, "Alcohol; Separating Fact From Fiction," has students watch video clips, engage in...
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Mind: Understanding the Psychological Effects of Street Drugs
Information about the dangerous psychological effects of drugs and alcohol.
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Community Resource Center
The Adverse Effects of Alcohol on Reproduction
This article, in which the author discusses how, by consuming alcohol, a pregnant woman can harm her unborn child, provides information on specific deformities associated with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) as well as overviews of how...
Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic: Alcoholism
This Mayo Clinic site explores what alcoholism is, what it does to the body, and how it can be treated. Content includes information on seeking medical advice, coping skills, and more.
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Yahoo! Health: Alcohol Abuse
This article from Yahoo! Health briefly defines "alcohol use" and describes the physical and mental effects alcohol has on the body. Read brief write-ups on the history of alcohol use and on underage drinking. Click on hyperlinked...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Role of Alcohol Abuse in Pancreatitis
This is a five-question quiz related to pancreatitis and alcohol abuse.
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Focus Adolescent Services: Alcohol and Teen Drinking
This organization is dedicated to helping to prevent alcohol abuse among teens. Insightful articles, quizzes, and links to other information are provided.
PBS
Pbs: In the Mix Educators: Alcohol "Targets" Lesson Plan
Here is a simple guideline for a two-period lesson through which young scholars "Compose a collage of alcohol ads," and participate in activities that will help hone their critical thinking skills and their views about alcohol and...
American Academy of Family Physicians
Aafp: Alcohol Related Problems: Recognition and Intervention
This article from the American Family Physician journal offers information on identification of alcohol-related problems, health risks, and treatment. A patient-information handout is linked.
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Do It Now: Children of Alcoholics
This site looks at the problems of children of alcoholics and what they can do to get help.
Aetna Intelihealth
Aetna: Inteli Health: Alcohol Withdrawal
Explore the effects of alcohol withdrawal, or "The changes the body goes through when a person suddenly stops drinking after prolonged and heavy alcohol use." This article is organized into several brief sections including: "Symptoms,"...