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Drugs, Risks and the Nervous System Lesson PlanDrugs, Risks and the Nervous System Lesson Plan
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Baylor College
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6th - 12th
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Science
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45 mins
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2013
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Drugs, Risks and the Nervous System

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In cooperative groups, middle schoolers contemplate the probability of 18 different situations occurring. After they make predictions, they compare them to the actual risk factors. This eye-opening exercise demonstrates that the odds of problems related to drug use are greater than the odds of many other events. As part of a larger unit on brain chemistry, this can be used in your human body systems or in your health and controlled substance unit.

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drug abuse, drugs, Substance Abuse, the central nervous system, human body systems

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drug use, nervous system, Substance Abuse, science

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