Elena Beslis 4/5/2016

Year Level: Year 8I

Lesson Number: 1

Date: 4/5/2016

Unit Title: Drugs and body systems

Lesson topic:
Legal and illegal drugs
Expected Learning:
- Introduction to
drugs
- Legal and illegal
drugs
- Investigating drugs
using Drug Free
app

VCAA
Victorian Curriculum link within body systems
unit for Health:
Health and Physical Education / Levels 7 and 8 /
Personal, Social and Community Health / Being
healthy, safe and active
Content descriptions:
Investigate and select strategies to promote health,
safety and wellbeing
Elaborations:

Investigating reasons why young people choose

to use or not use drugs, and proposing strategies
to make informed choices (AD)

Researching a variety of snack and lunch

options, and evaluating nutritional value, value for
money and sustainability impacts to create a
weekly menu plan (FN)

Researching
opportunities
in
the
local
community to participate in regular physical
activity and examining how accessible these
opportunities are for students (HBPA)

Proposing
and
practising
strategies
for
celebrating safely, including assertiveness, refusal
skills,
planning
travel
arrangements
and
contingency plans (AD, FN, RS, S)

Examining strategies for safe practices in

different environments, including home, transport
and aquatic environments (S)

Materials
Required/location/spe
cial considerations

Health classroom
Laptops
Drug Free app
Large butchers
paper
Coloured textas
Flexibook/workboo

Management Strategies

Student engagement to maintain concentration

Respect student whilst they are talking to gain
respect back (vise versa)
Move students if necessary to minimise
distraction
Encourage all answers to encourage
engagement

Learning intention:
(Students will learn)

Success
Whole Group:
criteria:
(5 minutes)
(After
Tuningthis
in engaging
lesson, student
students
interest.
will be
able
Learning
to) intentions, success criteria,
Elena Beslis 4/5/2016
Legal and killegal drugs, why people
Be
able to explain
legal
illegal
breakdown
of the what
lesson
andand
homework
Legal
Illegal
take drugs and the culture behind
drugs
are and
give a thorough
displayed
on board.
- Alcohol
- Cocaine
drugs.
presentation on a chosen drug which
- Tobacco
- Marijuana
they have researched
- Prescription
- Ecstasy
Formative assessment: To
- Methamphetamines
drugs
Engage
demonstrate current understanding
- Heroin
- LSD
Fosters positive relations
and how much students have
Stimulates interest and curiosity
understood in current and previous
Supports students to make
lessons, create a mind map on the
connects to past learning
board beginning with DRUGS
experiences
Explore
Teacher
presents
challenging
tasks
Provides
tools and
procedures
Challenges
misconcepti
ons

Whole Group: Shared Experience (10 minutes)

Explain
Provides
opportunitie
s for
students to
demonstrate
their current
level of
understandi
ng
Assists
students to
represent
their ideas

Whole Group: Explicit Teaching (10 minutes)

Elaborate
Refining
students
understandi
ng
Build the
students
ability to
transfer and
generalise
their
learning

Unit question: How do drugs affect the digestive

system and its organs?
Small group (20 minutes)

Brainstorm as a class and collaborate ideas

List the different legal and illegal drugs?
*For this activity you can ask students to be the scribe
and write answers on the board in a table format:

Students to copy into workbooks

Discuss what makes these legal/illegal

Download Drug Free application to either mobile,

laptop or Ipad
- Enter current lessons homepage
- As a class, read and discuss lesson 2 our drug
culture and lesson 3, why do people take drugs?
- Answer questions on the app within the lessons
after group discussion

*As students have now been introduced to new information

they have the opportunity to demonstrate their
understanding as well as help consolidate by completing the
lesson worksheets on the application.

Drug Free - mobile, laptop, iPad app

Students are to explore the Drug Free application
and find their way around the virtual classroom
where the lessons will be found under current lesson
Students read
- In pairs students use application to investigate a
drug