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Drugs, the Body, and YOU!

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The Process:
Do these activities in order.  Use your detective skills to complete them.  Have fun on your hunt for the correct clues!  Good Luck!

You are a detective.  You will look for clues on five different kinds of drugs.  These drugs are as follows:
  • Alcohol
  • Tobacco
  • Marijuana
  • Methamphetamines
  • Inhalants. 
The key clues you need to find are the following:
    1.) Clues on how these drugs affect you
    2.) Clues how these drugs become a habit, or in other words why are they addictive
    3.) Clues on what they look like
    4.) Clues that explain how people act when they are addicted to these drugs.
Then you will make a report about all five of these drugs.  Also make a 'Say No to Drugs' pamphlet on all of these drugs and why they are bad for you.
To be able to reach this activity, you will need to click on the words that say Activity One and it will take you to that page.

Trace yourself onto a piece of butcher block paper.  Then use the information on the 5 drugs from Activity One, they are as follows:
  • Alcohol
  • Tobacco
  • Marijuana
  • Methamphetamines
  • Inhalants
Here is what you will be doing:
  1. What effects do those drugs cause on the body?  
  2. Then write out what effects the drugs cause onto your traced body. 
  3. Write the information on the part of the body that is affected and how it makes you feel.

To be able to reach this activity, you will need to click on the words that say Activity Two and it will take you to that page.
Write about a time when you were really sick.  Write what symptoms you had that made you feel really sick such as the following:
  • Vomiting
  • Diarrhea
  • Fever
  • Chills
  • Nausea
  • Fatigue
  • Dehydration
To be able to reach this activity, you will need to click on the words that say Activity Three and it will take you to that page.




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By:
Abigail Arbogast
Ashley Bowman
Abigail Bowman
 For:
Middle Level Curriculum
University of Northern Iowa
 Professor:
Dr. Jean Schneider
 Teaching Assistant:
Shanel Winfield
 Created for:
Central Middle School,
Waterloo, Iowa
 Date completed:
December 1, 2004