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Topic: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Drugs

Grade Level: Second

District Health Standard: Explain the difference between legal and illegal drugs.

Lesson Summary: The students will identify legal and illegal drugs while they complete the KWL chart, read informational text and participate in center activities.

Textbook Connections:  
McGraw Hill Health 2nd Grade Chapter 8 Lesson 25 pg. 68, Lesson 26 pg. 70, Lesson 27 pg. 72
McGraw-Hill Web-Linked Activities

Materials:
KWL chart, art media materials for posters, props for drama center for injured person and sick person, empty prescription bottles and over the counter medicine bottles, pictures of legal and illegal drugs.

Technology: 
Internet Connection

Instructional Input:
This lesson may be implemented in October during Red Ribbon Week.

1.  Begin the lesson with students and teacher completing a KWL (What I Know, What I Want To Know, What I Learned) chart to activate prior knowledge. Correct any misconceptions the students share. A web or Kid Inspiration (software) could be used to help students organize Safe and Unsafe Drugs.

2.  Define legal  and illegal Drugs.  Help students explain the difference between them. Identify legal (safe) and illegal (unsafe) drugs the students included in the web.   Discuss that even safe drugs can be used unsafely. Safe items should be safe for the body, safe to use in the body and on the body, and given to the child by a trusted adult.  Identify unsafe substances. Discuss how substances may be safe for sometimes but unsafe at other times.  (For example, glue and medicines.) 

3.  Discuss the importance of medicines, why medicines are given to them, and who should give them medicine.  Show some examples of legal medicines, different types of medicines - pills, liquids, creams, and sprays. 

4.  Role - play being sick, being a caregiver, being injured. 

Learning Centers:

1. Medicine Sort Center: Provide pictures and/or medicine bottles (empty) for students to sort into legal and illegal categories. (based on Health learning standard.)

2. Drama Center: Provide props for role playing an injured person, a sick person, doctors office, emergency visit, etc.

3. Poster Center:  Supply art media materials for making poster of Legal and Illegal Drugs.  (based on Health learning standard.)

4. Technology Center:  Most of the web sites that have been included need teacher assistance for second graders.  KidPix (software program) or Paint (Microsoft) could be used to draw (like the poster center) legal drugs or graph legal drugs from the medicine sort center.

Websites:

Brain Pop
http://www.brainpop.com/health/nervous/drugabuse/index.weml

The Facts about Drugs
http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/pubs/straight/cover.htm

NIDA goes to School
http://www.nida.nih.gov/GoestoSchool/NIDAg2s.html

D.A.R.E. website
http://www.dare-america.com/index_3.htm

Authors: Shonda Haught, Shawn Henderson, Neva Sedorcek, Jerry Drinnen