ND Curriculum Initiative

Subject & Standards

Health: 3. Effect of External Factors on Health. 4. Communication Skills to Enhance Health.. 6. Access, Use, and Evaluate Health-related Information.

Understandings & Goals

Enduring Understanding: 1. How to find accurate information about a Street Drug through research on the internet. 2. How to design and make a pamphlet on the computer. 3. How to insert pictures from the internet source.  4. How Street Drugs affect the human body. 5. How addictive are they?  6. Can you easily be rehabilitated from using them?  7. Are these also regulated for medicinal purposes?
Goal(s): 1. Students will gain knowledge by researching a street drug.  2. Students will demonstrate ability to make an informational pamphlet on a Street Drug. 3. Students will present the research, orally in class, on the Street Drug they researched.  4. Students will gain knowledge on a variety of different Street Drugs from presentations.  5. Students will become aware of the variety of street drug that are being used by society.

Questions Answered

Essential questions: 1. What type of sites make good resources?  2. How do you narrow down a search for accurate information?  3. What to do if a web site is blocked?  4. What are the guidelines that the students will need to know to make a pamphlet and poster.
Objectives: 1. The students will research a specific drug for specific information.  2. The student will arrange information into a six column pamphlet following guidelines.  3. The student will give oral presentations to the class on the drug they researched.  4. The student will insert illustrations from internet sources into their pamphlet.  5. The students will differentiate the different street names for their drug.  6.The student will be evaluated on a completed pamphlet, poster and oral presentation.

Assessment

What quiz and test items (e.g. simple content-focused questions that require a single, best answer) will provide evidence of understanding?
A comprehensive test will be given that covers the information presented in class, on the different Street Drugs, and also information added by the teacher. This test will consist of multiple choice, true and false, and short answer questions.
What academic prompts (e.g. open-ended questions or problems that require students to think critically and then to prepare a response / product / performance)will provide evidence of understanding?
The student will design both a pamphlet and a poster answering the following questions and any other that they may conceive:  1. How is the drug used?  2. Who uses it?  3. What is the chemical makeup of the drug if known?  4. What are the side effects?  5. How does one purchase this drug?  6. Is the drug also used for medicinal purposes?  7. Why and what for?  8. Is a person able to rehabilitate from this drug?  9. What are some of the common street names for this drug?
What performance tasks and projects (e.g. complex challenges that are authentic, mirror the real world and require a performance or product) will you include that will provide evidence of student understanding?
The student will design and make a pamphlet and a poster designed from the information researched and present that information to the class orally.
What other evidence (e.g. observations, work samples, dialogues, student self-assessment) of understanding will you collect?
I will observe student’s work habits at the computer and help them stay on task so at the end of this unit they will turn in a Pamphlet, a Poster, give an oral presentation and write a written test on the information

Instructional Strategies

The students will use part of the inquiry-based learning and the project-based learning with this Unit. This project has the students locating and collecting information on their drug. They will have to interpret and write about the drug they have researched. They will have to compare the information they have research for validity. The students will then have to plan, organize and arrange the information gathered into a visually appropriate pamphlet and poster. The student will give an oral presentation to the class. The students will be given guidelines to follow as far a font size and acceptable fonts, but they will do their internet research and create their pamphlet and poster with guidance from the teacher when necessary.