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Introduction:
* Students will analyze health related concepts and understand the
importance of making healthy life choices early on in life.
Content area and grade level:
* Drugs and Their Effects on the Nervous System, was designed for
8th grade students. This Webquest focuses on the negative
consequences of using drugs, alcohol, and tabacco.
* Computer with internet access, calculator, paper and pencil.
Evaluation:
* The students will be evaluated on the math activity questions based
on the rubric found on the Evaluation Page.
Resources:
* The information used to create this Web quest came from various
web sites and are listed on the Resources Page.
on the importance of developing healthy, substance-free lifestyle habits
early in life.
* Understands and applies basic and advanced concepts of
statistics and data analysis.
Benchmark (3rd. Ed.)
* Reads and interpret data in charts, tables plots, and graphs
Benchmark, Standard 1 (3rd. Ed.)
* Uses a variety of strategies in the problem solving process
Benchmark (3rd Ed.)
* Uses a variety of strategies to understand problem solving
situations and processes.
What we want the students to KNOW:
1. Short-term and long term effects of drug use/abuse
2. The difference between drug use and drug abuse
3. Statistics and other facts regarding drug use/abuse
4. The influence of drugs on a person's body, specifically the
nervous system
5. Resources individuals can connect in order to seek help with drug
dependency issues.
What we want the students to DO:
1. Create an anti drug campaign poster to include:
A. Know how to access resources for help with drug
dependency
B. Facts about drug use
C. Short and long term effects of drug use/abuse
2. Calculate and work with statistics regarding smoking related
causalities.
The national standards and benchmarks on this page were provided by McRel and condensed by Jessica Duncan, Kira Bowles,
and Matt Krapfl for this Web Quest.
Answer Key for Alarming Smoking
Statistics and Related Activities
Answer Key for Brain Map Activity
Answer Key for Abuse Resources Activity
This
page was created by:
Matt Krapfl