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FREE FOR K-12 TEACHERS, STUDENTS, AND DISTRICTS
Alcohol Education: Safe and Smart
Bring Strategies to Prevent Teenage Drinking to Your Classroom
- Alcohol and the Brain and Body
- Bystander Behaviors
- Challenging Common Myths
- Peer Pressure
- Talking to Parents
- Underage Drinking Laws
- Values and Goal-Setting
Overview
Drinking in high school doesn’t just put students at risk; it threatens the ability of schools to achieve their educational objectives. Alcohol Education: Safe and Smart takes a public health approach to alcohol education in schools, incorporating evidence-based prevention methods to create meaningful results.
Through this scalable online program, schools can reach all students with a consistent message and empower them to make safer and healthier decisions about alcohol.
At-A-Glance
Grade Level
8-12Length
5 lessons; 25-35 minutes each: 2-3 hours total
Languages
Efficacy
Pre and Post-Exams and Behavioral Surveys
In this introduction to the course, students assess their values and goals and investigate common social myths about
drinking culture.
The media and other external influences play a large role in shaping our perceptions. Through a thoughtful analysis,
students learn to recognize and challenge these influences.
Alcohol affects our brains and bodies in potentially disastrous ways. This lesson arms students with simple, yet
effective, knowledge about BAC.
The media and other external influences play a large role in shaping our perceptions. Through a thoughtful analysis,
students learn to recognize and challenge these influences.
As students learn in this concluding lesson, alcohol consumption can affect relationships with others, including family
members. Students end by creating an action plan of concrete steps to take moving forward.
In this introduction to the course, students assess their values and goals and investigate common social myths about
drinking culture.
The media and other external influences play a large role in shaping our perceptions. Through a thoughtful analysis,
students learn to recognize and challenge these influences.
Alcohol affects our brains and bodies in potentially disastrous ways. This lesson arms students with simple, yet
effective, knowledge about BAC.
The media and other external influences play a large role in shaping our perceptions. Through a thoughtful analysis,
students learn to recognize and challenge these influences.
As students learn in this concluding lesson, alcohol consumption can affect relationships with others, including family
members. Students end by creating an action plan of concrete steps to take moving forward.