First Grade Curriculum Resources

Standard of Learning

1.2 The student will explain that good health is related to health-promoting decisions. Key concepts/skills include:

personal hygiene, including care of one's teeth
personal safety behaviors;
the harmful effects of misusing medicines and drugs;
sleep habits;
physical activity and healthy entertainment;
proper nutrition.

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Understanding the Standard

The student will understand that misusing medicines and drugs can be harmful.

Essential Knowledge and Skills

The student will:

define a drug. (something that changes the way your mind or body works)
explain the function of medicines. (drugs used to treat an illness or injury)
define over-the-counter medicines. (a medicine that you can buy without a doctor giving you a prescription)
identify rules for the safe use of medicine. (take medicine only with permission from a trusted adult and follow the instructions on the medicine labels)
describe why drugs are harmful if misused. (too much medicine can turn into a harmful poison in the body and if that happens you should tell an adult and call 9-1-1)

Sample Lessons

Al's Pals: Kids Making Healthy Choices
Grades preK-3
Resiliency-based early childhood curriculum to develop personal, social, and emotional skills. Includes expressing feelings appropriately, using kind words, caring about others, using self-control, thinking independently, accepting differences, making friends, solving problems, coping, making safe and healthy choices, and preventing substance abuse. 46 interactive lessons plus booster lessons.
Sponsor: Wingspan LLC
Contact: http://www.wingspanworks.com

An Ounce of Prevention
Provides information on some simple things individuals can do to prevent getting sick. Background information on infectious diseases, personal hygiene, taking care of pets, antibiotic use, food borne illness and immunizations are also provided.
Sponsor: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Contact: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/op/index.htm
Free

Be a Germstopper
Encourages healthy habits to prevent the spread of illness in schools and at home. Provides links and resources for teachers on food safety, hand washing, the flu and nutrition.
Sponsor: CDC
Contact: http://www.cdc.gov/germstopper/index.htm
Free

Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE)
Grades: K-5
Police officer led program of classroom lessons that teaches youth how to resist peer pressure and live drug- and violence-free lives. Includes active learning strategies. Focuses on decision-making skills. Includes 9 lessons.
Contact: http://www.dare.com

Glo Germ
Hand washing lesson plan that teaches about disease transmission, germs and how frequent hand washing helps to prevent illness.
Sponsor: Glo Germ
Contact: http://www.glogerm.com
Free

LifeSkills Training
Grades: K-5
Model substance abuse prevention and competency enhancement program focusing on the major social and psychological factors causing substance use and abuse. Teaches drug resistance skills, personal management skills, and general social skills. Focuses on self-esteem, decision-making, influence of media, stress, communication, and assertiveness issues.
Contact: http://www.lifeskillstraining.com
Cost

People We Trust
Grades K-3
In addition to learning the difference between medicines and harmful drugs, students will also need to learn about safe behaviors for acquiring medicines. In this lesson, they will take part in activities which will help them learn the people in their lives they can trust to give them medicines.
http://www.acde.org/educate/k3plan2.htm
Sponsor: American Council for Drug Education
Free

Protecting You/Protecting Me
Grades 1-5
Model 5-year alcohol use prevention curriculum designed to reduce alcohol-related injury and death. Includes student's intentions not to drive with an impaired driver; focuses on risks of using alcohol; and includes parental involvement.
Sponsor: Mothers Against Drunk Driving
Contact: http://www.pypm.org
Cost

Quills Up—Stay Away!
Grades K-1
Young children are at greatest risk for unintentional poisonings – and that’s why we’ve created the Quills Up – Stay Away! A Poison Awareness Program featuring Spike, the porcupine puppet. The program, designed for preschool children, makes it easy and fun to teach this important topic. Quills Up! Includes a video and classroom activities as well as educational materials for parents/caregivers – because getting parents and other adults involved is critical to poison prevention.
http://www.1-800-222-1222.info/poisonPrevention/preschool.asp
Sponsor: American Association of Poison Control Centers
Free

Texas Department of Health
This lesson will help children recognize that personal health decisions and behaviors affect health throughout life. Following this lesson students will be able to identify and practice personal health habits that help individuals stay healthy. Sponsor: Texas Department of Health
Contact: http://www.dshs.state.tx.us/kids/lessonplans/default.shtm
Free

Lesson Ideas

Using student handouts and magazine pictures, students identify pictures that show when to use medicine and who can safely give medicines.
Students do a variety of activities that help them identify things that are always dangerous and things that can be both safe and dangerous, depending on how they are used

Additional Instructional Resources

Al-Anon/Alateen - http://www.al-anon.org
American Council for Drug Education - http://www.acde.org
TheAnti-Drug.Com - http://www.theantidrug.com
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control - http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc
The Cool Spot - http://www.thecoolspot.gov
DEA State Fact Sheets - http://www.dea.gov/pubs/state_factsheets.html
Do Bugs Need Drugs? - http://www.dobugsneeddrugs.org/teachers/index.html
Drug and Violence Prevention - http://dave.esc4.net
Family Guide to Keeping Youth Mentally Healthy and Drug Free, SAMSA - http://family.samhsa.gov
Federal Drug Data Sources - http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/drugfact/sources.html
Get Smart Virginia - http://www.vdh.state.va.us/epi/getsmart/index.asp
Global Youth Network - http://www.unodc.org/youthnet
Henry the Hand - http://henrythehand.com
Inhalant Abuse - http://www.inhalant.org
Monitoring the Future - http://www.monitoringthefuture.org
Mothers Against Drunk Driving - http://www.maddva.org or http://www.madd.org
National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information - http://ncadi.samhsa.gov/
National Health Service, UK - http://www.buginvestigators.co.uk/
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration - http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov
National Inhalant Prevention Coalition - http://www.inhalants.org
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism - http://www.niaaa.nih.gov
National Institute on Drug Abuse - http://www.nida.nih.gov or http://www.drugabuse.gov
National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign - http://www.mediacampaign.org
Parenting is Prevention - http://www.parentingisprevention.org
Parents' Resource Institute for Drug Education (PRIDE) - http://www.pridesurveys.com/
Partners for Substance Abuse Prevention - http://www.samhsa.gov/preventionpartners
Partnership for a Drug-Free America - http://www.drugfreeamerica.org
Poison Control Center - (800) 222-1222
Risk Watch – http://www.nfpa.org/riskwatch/about.html
"Safe Use of Medicines" - http://www.healthteacher.com
Save the Antibiotic - http://www.savetheantibiotic.com/public_html/index2/index2.html
SAMSA Model [Drug Prevention] Programs - http://modelprograms.samhsa.gov
School Health Nurse
Straight Scoop News Bureau - http://www.straightscoop.org
Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD) - http://www.saddonline.com
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) - http://www.samhsa.gov
U.S. Department of Education, Safe & Drug-Free Schools Program - http://www.ed.gov/offices/OESE/SDFS/
U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, National Criminal Justice Reference Service - http://www.ncjrs.org
U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention - http://www.ojjdp.ncjrs.org
Virginia Center for School Safety - http://www.dcjs.virginia.gov/vcss/index.cfm
Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, Education Section - http://www.abc.state.va.us
Virginia Department of Education, Safe & Drug-Free Schools Program - http://www.safeanddrugfreeva.org
Virginia Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse Services (Office of Substance Abuse) - http://www.dmhmrsas.virginia.gov
Virginia Department of State Police - http://www.vsp.state.va.us
Virginia Tobacco Settlement Foundation - http://www.vtsf.org

Assessment Ideas

The student will:

explain how medicines help people.
create a set of safety rules for taking medicines.
develop an emergency plan for a friend who has taken too much medicine.

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