Lesson Plan 4- Strand 3: Individual and community health (Stage 4)

Rationale:
The aim of this learning task is to further develop student’s knowledge and understanding in areas of drug use, especially tobacco, alcohol and cannabis. Through using small expert group activities students are able to learn and bounce of each others ideas, they are also able to develop skills in cooperation, interaction and decision making which are all essential life skills. The debate allows for deeper understanding by presenting different perspectives around the topic areas and the discussion questions provide structure for learning around key areas and ideas.

Outcomes
4.6 – A student describes the nature of health and analyses how health issues may impact on young people


Students learn about
Drug Use:
Classification
Reactions
Influences
Short and long term effects
Prevalence
Consequences

Students learn to:
Describe the short and long term effects of:

- Tobacco

- Alcohol

- Cannabis

Learning experiences

Students will be split into small groups of 4 or 5 (6 groups all up).

(2 groups alcohol)
(2 groups Tobacco)
(2 groups Cannabis)

Each group will be given fact sheets of one of the drugs (Tobacco x2, Alcohol x2, Cannabis x2). Using expert groups each student will read a section of the card. As a small group they will than discuss the short and long term effects of the drug.

The teacher will than nominate a positive and a negative group. The 2 groups will than debate for their side whether their nominated drug has positive or negative impacts on society using the fact sheets information and the questions below to guide learning.

Higher Order Thinking Questions:
1. What factors influence whether or not a person will use drugs? And why?

2. Analyse the impact on society if there were no laws about the amount of consumption of these specific drugs? I.e. if there was no law against serving people who are too intoxicated.

3. Would you allow cannabis to be legalised for medicinal purposes only in all of Australia. Why or why not?


Stimulus:
Reading material - Fact Cards, used from dug information kit -
Drug Information. (1992). Centre for Education & Information on Drugs and Alcohol.