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Using the State Curriculum: Health, Grade 1

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Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs:

Health:

Standard 2.0 Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs

Students will demonstrate the ability to use drug knowledge, decision-making skills, and health enhancing strategies to address, the use, non-use, and abuse of medications, alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs.

Topic

A. Medicine

Indicator

  • 1. Identify appropriate uses of medicine.
Objectives
  1. Define the term drug.
  2. Define the term medicine.
  3. Describe the functions of medicines.

Topic

B. Tobacco

Indicator

  • 1. Identify how tobacco use harms health.
Objectives
  1. List products containing tobacco.
  2. Describe the harmful effects of tobacco such as hard to breathe, bad breath, stained teeth, cause disease.

Topic

C. Alcohol

Indicator

  • 1. Identify the physical effects of using alcohol.
Objectives
  1. Distinguish alcohol as a drug.
  2. Identify products containing alcohol.
  3. Recognize that alcohol is unhealthy and illegal for children.