2018 january 1 - 5 weekly classroom web activity · 2017. 4. 21. · ghb and rohypnol. fun facts...

2018 January 1 - 5 Weekly Classroom Web Activity

Fun Facts Challenge: National Drug & Alcohol Facts Week Event this Month — NIDA Drug Epidemic, Prescriptions and the Brain

Language Arts Social Studies Art

Here’s Your Challenge!

1. Pick one of the famous people struggling with addiction.

2. Read the biography provided by your teacher.

3. Write a short essay describing how the famed person’s life may have been different had they not used drugs.


1. Continue Planning your event for National Drug and Alcohol Facts Week.

2. Confirm the location for the event.

3. Contact PTO to see if they would like to schedule a speaker or assembly for the event

4. Follow Up on the promotional items order from the NIDA link found in the Teacher’s Toolbox. Next week will be a good week to begin handing out flyers to promote the event.

5. Feel free to contact Steered Straight to see if we have any resources, speakers or assembly availability for your event


Make Flyers for the National Drug and Alcohol Facts Week Event being planned by students and social studies teachers. Use the link provided in the Teacher Toolbox for some ideas and inspiration.

Fun Facts Teacher Toolbox Gather biographies of 3-5 famous people struggling with addiction.

Fun Facts Teacher Toolbox Promote Event

https://teens.drugabuse.gov/national-drug-alcohol-facts-week/promote-events#ui-accordion-1-header-1

856-691-6676

Feel free to make the call in front of the students to teach them how to utilize community resources.

Fun Facts Teacher Toolbox Promote Event

https://teens.drugabuse.gov/national-drug-alcohol-facts-week/promote-events#ui-accordion-1-header-1

856-691-6676

Health Science/Math Geography


1. Learn the risk factors.

2. Write a list that counters these risk factors to live by.


1. Follow Up on the promotional items order from the NIDA link found in the Teacher’s Toolbox. Next week will be a good week to begin handing out flyers to promote the event.

2. HAND OUT ANY FLYERS YOU MAY HAVE MADE OR ORDERED.

3. Register for Drug and Alcohol Chat Day to be held January 22, 2018. Students will be given the opportunity to talk to scientist about the way drugs affect our bodies. Call in to voice your opinions from your area.

Here’s Your Challenge! .

Register for Drug and Alcohol Chat Day to be held January 22, 2018. Schools around the Nations will be participating. Call in to voice your opinions from your area.

Fun Facts Teacher Toolbox Guide students as they create a list of positive interventions that will help them reduce risk factors that may lead to substance abuse.

Fun Facts Teacher Toolbox

Event Promotional Items https://teens.drugabuse.gov/national-drug-alcohol-

facts-week/promote-events#ui-accordion-1-header-1

Drug & Alcohol Chat Day Registration https://teens.drugabuse.gov/national-drug-alcohol-

facts-week/chat-with-scientists

Fun Facts Teacher Toolbox Click the link to and register your class so your students will be heard from your part of the country. https://teens.drugabuse.gov/national-drug-alcohol-

facts-week/chat-with-scientists

https://teens.drugabuse.gov/

EVENT REGISTRATION AND PLANNING LINK:

https://teens.drugabuse.gov/national-drug-alcohol-facts-week/plan-your-event

2018 January 8 - 12 Weekly Classroom Web Activity Fun Facts Challenge: National Drug & Alcohol Facts Week Event this Month — NIDA

Drug Epidemic, Prescriptions and the Brain



1. Pick one of the drugs listed in your teacher’s toolbox.

2. Research the drug you have selected to learn about.

3. Write a 5-8 paragraph essay answering the following questions:

How does this drug affect your perception? How does this drug affect your attitude? How does this drug affect your esteem? How does this drug affect your goals? Why have you chosen not to use drugs?


Order free promotional material

for your event.


Download some free material from the National Institute of Drug and Alcohol site. The link is provided in the Teacher Toolbox. Explore the site to see if the site will inspire your class to make a collective mural for National Drug and Alcohol Facts Week event coming up in just two weeks.


Marijuana, Cocaine, Heroin, Oxy Codeine, Ecstasy


Order FREE Material for Event https://teens.drugabuse.gov/national-drug-alcohol-

facts-week/promote-events https://teens.drugabuse.gov/national-drug-alcohol-

facts-week/order-free-materials


Collective Class Mural https://teens.drugabuse.gov/national-drug-

alcohol-facts-week/order-free-materials



• People use drugs for many reasons: They want to feel good. Taking a drug can feel good for a short time. That's why people keep taking them—to have those good feelings again and again. But even though someone may take more and more of a drug, the good feelings don't last. Soon the person is taking the drug to keep from feeling bad.

• They want to stop feeling bad. Some people who feel very worried, afraid, or sad use drugs to try to stop feeling so awful. This doesn't help their problems and can lead to addiction, which can make them feel much worse.

• They want to do well in school or at work. Some people who want to get good grades, get a better job, or earn more money might think drugs will give them more energy, keep them awake, or make them think faster. But it usually doesn't work, may put their health at risk, and may lead to addiction. Write a three-paragraph essay that will give your peers some ideas of healthier

alternatives to using drugs.

Here’s Your Challenge! Write the effects of each of the different kinds of prescription medications. Opioids

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Stimulants

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Depressants

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Here’s Your Challenge! Check your state specific site for material

that may be available as well.

Here are some keywords to look for.

State Anti-Drug Poster State Drug Campaign

Fun Facts Teacher Toolbox Help student understand the reasons people begin to use drugs. Guide them as they critically think about the errors behind this type of reasoning.


How Does Prescription Drug Abuse Affect Your Brain?

In the brain, neurotransmitters such as dopamine send messages by attaching to receptors on nearby cells. The actions of these neurotransmitters and receptors cause the effects from prescription drugs. Each class of prescription drugs works a bit differently in the brain:

Prescription opioid pain medications bind to molecules on cells known as opioid receptors—the same receptors that respond to heroin. These receptors are found on nerve cells in many areas of the brain and body, especially in brain areas involved in the perception of pain and pleasure.

Prescription stimulants, such as Ritalin, have similar effects to cocaine, by causing a buildup of dopamine and norepinephrine.

Prescription depressants make a person feel calm and relaxed in the same manner as the club drugs GHB and rohypnol.


When prescription drugs are taken as directed, they are usually safe. It requires a trained health care clinician, such as a doctor or nurse, to determine if the benefits of taking the medication outweigh any risks for side effects. But when abused and taken in different amounts or for different purposes than as prescribed, they affect the brain and body in ways very similar to illicit drugs.

When prescription drugs are abused, they can be addictive and put the person at risk for other harmful health effects, such as overdose (especially when taken along with other drugs or alcohol). And, abusing prescription drugs is illegal—and that includes sharing prescriptions with family members or friends.






As you watch the “Mouse Party” presentation, write the one way each drug interrupts the synapse of the mouse’s brain to make it feel high. 1. Heroin ___________________________

2. Ecstasy __________________________

3. Marijuana ________________________

4. Methamphetamine _________________

5. Alcohol __________________________

6. Cocaine __________________________

7. LSD ____________________________

Here’s Your Challenge! NIDA Web-Interactive Events

Use these fun and educational web interactives with individuals or as part of an event utilizing a large screen for group participation.

National Drugs & Alcohol IQ Challenge

Test their knowledge! Every year NIDA uses the latest science to create an interactive quiz that challenges what students know and helps SHATTER THE MYTHSTM, SM around drugs and drug abuse.


NIDA Web-Interactive Events

1. Use these fun and educational web interactives with individuals or as part of an event utilizing a large screen for group participation.

Drugs & Your Body: It Isn’t Pretty Developed in partnership with Scholastic Inc., this experience will ‘show’ students the ugly truth about how drug abuse can damage to their body. From acne to addiction to disease and death, this interactive features animations, audio clips, and videos that will engage and educate

2. Design a poster that shows how the kind

of damage drugs can cause the body.

Fun Facts Teacher Toolbox Click the link for a fantastic interactive view of drugs effects on mice for study. NIDA

http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/addiction/mouse/

Fun Facts Teacher Toolbox Click this link to explore these educational interactive links below: https://teens.drugabuse.gov/national-drug-alcohol-facts-week/plan-your-event

Fun Facts Teacher Toolbox Click this link to explore these educational interactive links below: https://teens.drugabuse.gov/national-drug-alcohol-facts-week/plan-your-event





“Choose Your Path” Videos

• These interactive videos help students think through what they would do if offered a prescription drug by a friend. Featuring high-drama situations teens might be familiar with, the videos prompt them to choose what the main character will do.




Drugs & Your Body: It Isn’t Pretty

Developed in partnership with Scholastic Inc., this experience will ‘show’ students the ugly truth about how drug abuse can damage to their body. From acne to addiction to disease and death, this interactive features animations, audio clips, and videos to engage and educate.


1. Watch the mouse party presentation. 2. List the type of “mouse party” that is

most problematic down to the least mentioned mouse party in your geographical area.

Fun Facts Teacher Toolbox Click this link to explore these educational interactive links below:

https://teens.drugabuse.gov/national-drug-alcohol-

facts-week/plan-your-event

Fun Facts Teacher Toolbox Click this link to explore these educational interactive links below:

https://teens.drugabuse.gov/national-drug-alcohol-

facts-week/plan-your-event

Fun Facts Teacher Toolbox Click the link for a fantastic interactive view of drugs effects on mice for study. NIDA

http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/addiction/mouse/






You’ve been learning a lot about the effects of drugs over the past weeks. Now let’s see how well it has stuck. Raise your hand to answer the quiz questions to help your class pass the Drug IQ Challenge. Feel free to write the questions in the space below for later review. 1. __________________________________

2. __________________________________

3. __________________________________

4. __________________________________

5. __________________________________

6. __________________________________

7. __________________________________

8. __________________________________

9. __________________________________

10. _________________________________


Consider reprinting these NDAFW BINGO

cards to use for the event this week.

Play a game or two just to try it out first!

Directions can be found on the site posted in the Teacher’s Toolbox below.


Here at Steered Straight, we do all we can to help keep teens informed about the woes of substance use and abuse. That does not leave much room for creativity at times.

Help us out! Show us your creativity and send us your logo suggestions. Put your design cap on and design a logo that you feel would compete with the one they are currently using.

Feel Free to Show off your Design at the Event this week or mail them to our office. We would love to see them!


Interactive Drug IQ Challenge

https://teens.drugabuse.gov/quiz/national-drug-alcohol-facts-week/take-iq-challenge/2016

Fun Facts Teacher Toolbox Print the reproducible from the link below. Figure out a way to implement the game into the National Drug Facts Week event planned this week.

NDAFW BINGO https://teens.drugabuse.gov/sites/default/files/

NIDA_NDAFWBingo2017_Cards.pdf


Find some additional Steered Straight marketing material. Share it with the

class and discuss some of the design pros and cons.

Logo suggestions can be sent to: P.O. BOX 579

Vineland, NJ 08362-0579


Here’s Your Challenge! 1. Explore the site in the link below 2. Write down a fact that you learned about

alcohol while exploring the cite 3. Share that information with a classmate.

They may have missed the memo!

Here’s Your Challenge! Research and write the physical side effects of each of the commonly abused prescriptions drugs listed below. Opioids: ____________________________

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Depressants: ________________________

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Stimulants: _________________________

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Here’s Your Challenge! .

Research each state to see if it has been effected by the heroine epidemic Color the states on the map below that are affected by the drug epidemic in red.

If your map is completely red, then you now know why this is called a National Drug Epidemic.


Click the link below. There are lots of information, games and resources you can share with them that may be handy in times to come.

FACTS ABOUT ALCOHOL

https://www.toosmarttostart.samhsa.gov/tweens/facts/ SAMHSA


Commonly Abused Prescription Drugs

There are three kinds of prescription drugs that are commonly abused. Visit our separate Drug Facts pages to learn more about each of these classes of drugs:

Opioids—pain relievers like Vicodin, OxyContin, or codeine

Depressants—like those used to relieve anxiety or help a person sleep, such as Valium or Xanax

Stimulants—like those used for treating attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), such as Adderall and Ritalin


A drug is a chemical substance that can change how your body and mind work. Drugs of abuse are substances that people use to get high and change how they feel. They may be illegal drugs like marijuana, cocaine, or heroin. Or they may be legal for adults only, like alcohol and tobacco. Medicines that treat illness can also become drugs of abuse when people take them to get high—not because they're sick and following their doctor's orders. People can even abuse cough or cold medicines from the store if they ignore the directions and take too much at one time


2018 January 29 – February 2 Weekly Classroom Web Activity Fun Facts Challenge: National Drug & Alcohol Facts Week Event this Month — NIDA




1. Write 2 facts you learned about inhalants while watching the episodes.

2. Write two facts you have learned about

ecstasy while watching the episodes. 3. Write two facts you have learned about

Opioids while watching the episodes.


1. If you or someone you know needs information on treatment and where you can find it, you can call: Substance Abuse Treatment Facility Locator at 1-800-662-HELP or visit www.findtreatment.samhsa.gov.

2. Pat yourself on the back for the wonderful job bringing Drug and Alcohol awareness to your school through the event you planned last month.

3. Marijuana is the gateway to many of the drugs you discussed at the January event. February is National Marijuana Awareness Month and I think you have one more event in you for the year. Are you up for the challenge?

4. Check your Teacher Toolbox for contacts to get started.


1. Click the link found in the Teacher’s Toolbox.

2. Fact #4 says that Marijuana DOES NOT MAKE YOU MORE CREATIVE!

3. Draw a collage of some of the things and activities that make you feel good without having to use drugs.

4. Be proud of your natural creative ability!


Substance Abuse and Neuroscience http://reconstructors.rice.edu/

Explore these futuristic and interactive

episodes through drug education! Your class will love it!


Contact Steered Straight for Marijuana X Movie and presentation booking availability. 856-691-6676


https://teens.drugabuse.gov/blog/post/10-things-you-can-learn-about-marijuana-

drugs-health-blog


Here’s Your Challenge! Learn how hard it is to quit smoking weed so you know why you should never start!

Does marijuana produce withdrawal symptoms when someone quits using it? Yes. The symptoms are similar in type and severity to those of nicotine withdrawal—irritability, sleeping difficulties, anxiety, and craving—peaking a few days after regular marijuana use has stopped. Withdrawal symptoms can make it hard for someone to stay off marijuana. What if a person wants to quit using marijuana? Researchers are testing different ways to help marijuana users stay off the drug, including some medications. Current treatment programs focus on counseling and group support systems. There are also a number of programs designed especially to help teenagers.


Write the correct drug type next to the sets listed in the teacher toolbox.

Choose from the following choices:

Opioid • Depressant • Stimulant Prescription drug abuse is when someone takes a medication that was prescribed for someone else or takes their own prescription in a way not intended by a doctor or for a different reason—like to get high. It has become a big health issue because of the dangers, particularly the danger of abusing prescription pain medications. For teens, it is a growing problem:

• After marijuana and alcohol, prescription drugs are the most commonly abused substances by Americans age 14 and older.

• Teens abuse prescription drugs for a number of reasons, such as to get high, to stop pain, or because they think it will help them with schoolwork.

• Most teens get prescription drugs they abuse from friends and relatives, sometimes without the person knowing.

• Boys and girls tend to abuse some types of prescription drugs for different reasons. For example, boys are more likely to abuse prescription stimulants to get high, while girls tend to abuse them to stay alert or to lose weight.


Research Some states have legalized marijuana, which makes it legal to grow under strict regulation. Find out which state grows the most marijuana. Then research to find out if that state has the most recovery centers per person ratio. Do you believe there is a correlation and what does it imply?

Fun Facts Teacher Toolbox February is National Marijuana Awareness Month. This is a good time to begin discussing marijuana addiction and symptoms.

Fun Facts Teacher Toolbox Set 1: Hillbilly heroin, oxy, OC, oxycotton, percs, happy pills, vikes

Set 2: barbs, reds, red birds, phennies, tooies, yellows, yellow jackets; candy, downers, sleeping pills, tranks; A-minus, zombie pills

Set 3: Skippy, the smart drug, Vitamin R, bennies, black beauties, roses, hearts, speed, uppers

Fun Facts Teacher Toolbox Guide students as they explore the implied correlation between increased need for recovery centers and legalization of marijuana


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