Health · Week 14 · Safety, Substances, and Community Health
Everybody's Doing It? Check the Data
Students guess what percent of high schoolers vape, compare their guess with national survey data, and discuss how believing everybody does it creates pressure.
- Students will
- Students clarify myths regarding the scope of alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use among adolescents and analyze the role of norms on use.
- SEL skill
- Understand how norms and other people's perspectives shape pressure
- What it looks like
- Students consider how peers, families, and communities shape what feels normal and recognize that most teens make healthy choices.
- Content focus
- Myths about the scope of substance use and the role of norms
- Format
- Data talk
Social awareness
Social awareness means understanding other people's perspectives and showing empathy, including for people from different backgrounds. More social awareness activities
What you get
A teacher guide with what to say, step by step, plus student pages and a supports page for students with diverse learning needs, including those with IEPs. Print or Project it, or assign it in Google Forms and Google Docs for Google Classroom. Your first 10 activities are free.
Standards
- 1.10.A: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs, Standard 1 (Essential Health Concepts), item 1.10.A
- 2.2.A: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs, Standard 2 (Analyzing Health Influences), item 2.2.A
- Student page: Health journal page
- CA Health overarching standard: Standard 1: Essential Health Concepts
- CA Health overarching standard: Standard 2: Analyzing Health Influences
More social awareness activities for Health
- Green Flags, Red Flags Social awarenessStudents read short texts between imagined friends and family members, sort behaviors into green flags and red flags, and explain how each one feels from the other person's side.
- Blueprint for a Kinder Campus Social awarenessStudents walk an imagined school day through the eyes of different students, spot moments where someone could feel left out, and design small actions that build a respectful campus.
- Behind the Highlight Reel Social awarenessStudents compare an imagined influencer's polished posts with what likely happened off camera and discuss how feeds can shape how teens feel about themselves and others.
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RoseThread Connect activities are drafted with the help of AI and shaped by educators. Students never have to share anything personal. Our five SEL skills are informed by CASEL's SEL Framework; RoseThread Learning is not affiliated with or endorsed by CASEL.