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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.
Here’s Your Challenge!
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
Here’s Your Challenge!
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
Here’s Your Challenge!
1. Learn the risk factors.
2. Write a list that counters these risk factors to live by.
Here’s Your Challenge!
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
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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
Language Arts Social Studies Art
Here’s Your Challenge!
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?
Here’s Your Challenge!
Order free promotional material
for your event.
Here’s Your Challenge!
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.
Fun Facts Teacher Toolbox
Marijuana, Cocaine, Heroin, Oxy Codeine, Ecstasy
Fun Facts Teacher Toolbox
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
Fun Facts Teacher Toolbox
Collective Class Mural
https://teens.drugabuse.gov/national-drug-
alcohol-facts-week/order-free-materials
Health Science/Math Geography
Here’s Your Challenge!
• 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.
Fun Facts Teacher Toolbox
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.
Fun Facts Teacher Toolbox
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.
https://teens.drugabuse.gov/
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2018 January 15 - 19 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!
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.
Here’s Your Challenge!
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
Health Science/Math Geography
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.
“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.
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.
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.
Here’s Your Challenge!
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/
https://teens.drugabuse.gov/
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2018 January 22 - 26 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!
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. _________________________________
Here’s Your Challenge!
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’s Your Challenge!
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!
Fun Facts Teacher Toolbox
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
Fun Facts Teacher Toolbox
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
Health Science/Math Geography
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: ____________________________
___________________________________
___________________________________
Depressants: ________________________
___________________________________
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Stimulants: _________________________
___________________________________
__________________________________
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.
Fun Facts Teacher Toolbox
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
Fun Facts Teacher Toolbox
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
Fun Facts Teacher Toolbox
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
https://teens.drugabuse.gov/
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2018 January 29 – February 2 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. 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.
Here’s Your Challenge!
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.
Here’s Your Challenge!
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!
Fun Facts Teacher Toolbox
Substance Abuse and Neuroscience
http://reconstructors.rice.edu/
Explore these futuristic and interactive
episodes through drug education! Your class will love it!
Fun Facts Teacher Toolbox
Contact Steered Straight for Marijuana X Movie and presentation
booking availability. 856-691-6676
Fun Facts Teacher Toolbox
https://teens.drugabuse.gov/blog/post/10-things-you-can-learn-about-marijuana-
drugs-health-blog
Health Science/Math Geography
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.
Here’s Your Challenge!
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.
Here’s Your Challenge!
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
https://teens.drugabuse.gov/