Unit: Substance Use and Abuse

Lesson Plan 2

Brian Yensen

Unit: Substance use and abuse

Lesson: Peer Pressure skills

Date: January 23, 2003

Grade: 9th

Time: 45 minutes

National Health Education Standards: Students will comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention.

West Virginia IGO: HE.43 SD,IP,PHW,R,NPAAnalyze the factors that influence decisions dealing with the use of tobacco, alcohol and other drugs; recall and demonstrate effective refusal skills to impact risky situations.

Objective: Students will identify 5 out of 7 of the ways to say no to alcohol and tobacco on a group project.

Materials/Resources: Group project sheet, group scenarios.

Attention Getter: 5 min.

·  One at a time, the students will stand up and say their name, and then state their favorite movie and why they like it. Go around the room for everyone to get a chance to go once.

Procedures/Methods:

·  The teacher will first introduce the new unit that will begin today with peer pressure resistance skills.

·  Now the teacher will move on to why peer pressure resistance skills are so important in trying to stay healthy long into your life.

·  Next, the teacher will identify the seven main peer pressure resistance skills.

·  First, there is the act confident way. This way is very effective in resisting peer pressure. This is easily done by stating you answer very quickly and loudly to make it seem that you are very sure of your answer.

·  Second, there is the method of having a friend along. This is another very effective way. There is safety in numbers, having a friend along will make you more confident to say no to the peer pressure.

·  Third, there is the using of humor. This can be done by making any kind of joke about the environment you are in, something that happened at school, or at home.

·  Fourth, there is the method of making an excuse. For example, someone asks if you want a cigarette, you could say I am late for basketball practice, or band practice.

·  Fifth, there is the plan your exit method. This is when you just do not put yourself in a position to be pressured to do something you do not want to do.

·  Sixth, there is the suggest an alternative method. Once again, this is very good at turning down peer pressure. Very easily done by saying lets go pass a football, when someone asks if you want a rub of snuff.

·  Lastly, there is the delay your decision method. This will disinterest the peer pressurer and they will leave you alone. If you take a long time to answer, the person trying to pressure you into doing something will lose interest and not care anymore.

·  Now the teacher will give out the group scenarios and put every student in a group to make sure that all students get their participation and completion points.

·  The teacher will give the groups five minutes to decide what there resistance strategies will be and how they will use them.

·  After five minutes is up each group will take turns reading their scenario aloud and explaining which strategy is the best.

·  After each group goes, the teacher will ask if anyone has another idea about how they could have resisted the peer pressure.

·  Once these group scenarios are done, the students will stay in their groups and will now complete the group assignment.

Evaluations:

·  The teacher will now pass out the group project sheets. On this sheet, the groups of students will work together to identify all seven of the ways to say no to alcohol and tobacco.

·  After all groups are done, the teacher will go over the projects and will ask the students to verbally recite the seven ways, one at a time, by volunteers raising their hands.

SCENARIOS

Scenario 1: Two boys on the baseball team ask Johnny if he wants a rub of snuff. What could he do?

Scenario 2: On the way home from school, Susan and Michelle run into Michelle’s older sister and she offers the girls a cigarette, what could they say?

Scenario 3: Bill and Ted are at Bills house after school. His dad is in the room watching TV and suddenly leaves the room with a cigarette in the ashtray still burning. Bill says to Ted, “just take a quick puff, I do it all the time” what should Ted do?

Scenario 4: Sara and Dana are riding in Dana’s mom’s car on the way to a school dance. On the way there, Dana’s mom offers the two of them a puff on her cigarette to calm them down since they are both very nervous. What should they say to Dana’s mom?

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GROUP PROJECT

Directions: Work as a team to complete the blanks below.

Name all seven ways to resist peer pressure.

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