| Grades | Influences on AODA Conceptualization | Effects of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse | Rules About Alcohol and Other Drugs | Keeping Safe From Alcohol & Other Drug Abuse |
| 5-8 |
A. What are my beliefs and attitudes about alcohol and other
drugs? B. What are my most valued sources of AODA information and influence? C. Are my beliefs, including stereotypes and biases, enabling me and others to deny or see the truth about AODA? D. How do my beliefs, including stereotypes and biases, influence my behavior regarding alcohol and other drugs? E. For whom am I a valued source of AODA information and influence? F. What are my least valued sources of AODA information and influence? G. What is my criteria for deciding to believe or reject AODA information? H. How much has what I already have learned about alcohol and other drugs influenced my behavior and attitudes regarding AODA? |
A. How have other people's use of alcohol and other drugs affected
me? B. What new AODA effects am I aware of now that I am older? C. How are effects of alcohol and other drugs on mind and body related to individual differences (such as age, weight, or gender)? D. How does alcohol and other drug abuse affect family and peer relationships? E. What impact has AODA had on our school and community? F. What effect has AODA had on the activities my friends and I do together? G. What effects of alcohol and other drugs signal misuse, abuse, or dependency? |
A. What criteria do I use to label rules (including AODA rules) as fair or
unfair? B. How do labels influence my ability to follow rules? C. How do consequences for breaking specific AODA rules change as people get older? D. How might alcohol and other drugs affect my ability to follow the rules my family, friends, school, and community have set for me? E. How might alcohol and other drugs affect my ability to follow the rules I have set for myself? F. What changes are occurring in the rules that my peers, family, school, and community set for me concerning alcohol and other drugs? G. How do my rules concerning alcohol and other drugs compare with rules for these substances in other cultures and communities? H. How do my internal rules differ regarding tobacco, alcohol, and illegal drugs? I. What are some spoken and unspoken rules regarding tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs? J. Are all rules about alcohol and other drugs consistent among situations, people, and groups? |
A. What skills and attitudes am I practicing to keep myself safe and help
others to keep safe from AODA? B. What myths about AODA risks are promoted culturally? By my peers? By me? C. What groups, individuals, or organizations can help me assess my risk or others' risk for AODA? D. What is the danger in denying personal risks for AODA? E. How strong is my ability, my friends' abilities, and my family's ability to make safe and healthy choices regarding alcohol and other drugs? F. How do alcohol and other drugs affect my ability to keep myself and others safe and healthy? G. What responsibility to others do I have to make safe choices about alcohol and other drugs? H. What social systems exist to develop positive skills and attitudes in citizens and help those with AODA-related problems, intervene with problems? |
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Potential Integration Areas: | Health, Developmental Guidance, Social Studies, Art, Language Arts, Reading, Speech, Foreign Language, Family and Consumer Education | Health, Developmental Guidance, Art, Science, Physical Education, Social Studies, Speech, Math, Family and Consumer Education | Health, Developmental Guidance, Social Studies, Art, Language Arts, Speech, Foreign Language, Physical Education, Family and Consumer Education | Health, Developmental Guidance, Art, Science, Physical Education, Social Studies, Speech, Math, Family and Consumer Education |
Courtesy of the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (1992)