Drug Education Program
Overview of the Drug Education
Program Prep to Year 6 2009
Level 1 Prep
Lessons…
- Compare what you do when you feel healthy to when you feel ill.
- Describe any illnesses you have had.
- Identify common medications and their alternatives and discuss their safe use.
- Identify people and services that help you when you are ill.
Level 2 Year 1 and 2
Lessons…
- Discuss health conditions that are common in the age group eg asthma. Diabetes, colds, allergies…
- Discuss remedies, medications, home care.
- Sort into groups from: prescriptions/ doctors, chemists, supermarkets, home remedies.
- List health services.
- Sort into safe and risk groups.
- Who dispenses medicines?
- Where should they be kept?
- Read packages and find warnings.
- Describe responses to emergencies. Eg 000
Level 3 Year 3 and 4
Lessons…
- Formulate and practise action plans for emergencies related to drug incidents.
- Discuss health concerns for smoking, syringes, poisons, and chemicals and strategies to address them.
- Talk to family members and friends about health issues.
- Collect advertisements and products related to health, identify their appeal, how they influence people’s choice.
- Compare information on labels; develop a set of criteria for use in selecting.
- Practise assertive ways to deal with harassment.
- Contribute to a list of ways of describing people-both positive and negative. Consider how these affect feelings and self esteem.
- Discuss how opinions and views change the way you behave.
- Participate in challenging activities (role-play, games…) and discuss how it feels to meet these challenges.
Level 4 Year 5 and 6
Lessons…
- Research effects of cigarettes and alcohol …
- Discuss affects on different roles, attitudes and relationships.
- Analyse rules and behaviour.
- Identify physical, social and emotional changes. (You Can Do IT).
- Explore skills associated with negotiating friendship and social pressures.
- Identify support in times of need.
- Compare the advantages and disadvantages of drugs in a Healthy Lifestyle.
this site can help you identify and access relevant information on:
- effective drug education
- managing drug use issues
- managing drug-related incidents in schools.
REDI - http://www.deewr.gov.au
A key feature of the REDI site is a comprehensive database of information about resources, policies and materials for drug education and incident management.
