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Prevention Is Primary
Program Overview
Student Lessons- Grades K-3 Grades 4-6 Grades 7-8
Length of lessons- Kindergarten and 1st grade- 30 minutes
Second and third grade- 40 minutes
Week 1 Drug Information
During this lesson the students:
¨ learn age appropriate information about drugs and their effects on the mind and body,
¨ have an opportunity to ask questions about drugs.
Week 2 Feelings
During this lesson the students:
¨ begin to explore reasons why people use drugs,
¨ identify comfortable and uncomfortable feelings,
¨ learn how using drugs will change feelings only temporarily,
¨ identify activities they can be involved in that will change uncomfortable feelings in a
healthy way.
Week 3 Problem Solving
During this lesson the students:
¨ discuss healthy ways to solve problems without using drugs,
¨ learn the consequences of drug use to solve or deal with a problem.
Week 4 Advertising
During this lesson the students:
¨ consider places where advertising exists,
¨ examine magazine ads and identify the drug the advertiser is promoting,
¨ learn about techniques advertisers use to encourage people to buy their product.
Week 5 Refusal Skills
During this lesson the students:
¨ learn a variety of refusal skills they can employ when they are offered a drug,
¨ participate in role-plays that take place in a number of different settings and with
different age groups of people pretending to offer a drug.
Week 6 Self-image
During this lesson the students:
¨ learn the components of a healthy self-image and its role in helping people make
healthy choices,
¨ consider the special qualities and characteristics they possess that are part of the way
they see themselves.
Week 7 Review
During this lesson the students:
¨ recall what they have learned during the previous lessons,
¨ have a final chance to ask questions of the PIP Prevention Educator.
Length of Lessons- 40 minutes
Week 1 Introduction to Drug Information
During this lesson the students:
¨ learn the definition of the word drug,
¨ learn information about the five most commonly used drugs in the United States,
excluding medicines,
¨ get answers to questions they have about other drugs.
Week 2 Communication
During this lesson the students:
¨ understand the relationship between the media and its impact on drug use,
¨ critically examine advertising for products that contain drugs,
¨ discuss the influence advertising has on the target audience.
Week 3 Feelings
During this lesson the students:
¨ identify comfortable and uncomfortable feelings,
¨ reflect on the cause for the presence of the feelings,
¨ discuss how drug use masks feelings and inhibits the development of coping skills,
¨ learn the meaning of the word alternative,
¨ investigate specific healthy ways to change uncomfortable feelings.
Week 4 Self-esteem
During this lesson the students:
¨ develop respect for individuality and self- acceptance,
¨ identify factors that contribute to a positive self-esteem,
¨ understand the connection between self-esteem and decisions regarding drug use.
Week 5 Values
During this lesson the students:
¨ identify individual values,
¨ recognize how alcohol and other drug use can change values,
¨ develop an awareness of how to keep values strong,
¨ discuss how values affect the decision making process.
Week 6 Information On Alcoholism
During this lesson the students:
¨ develop an awareness of alcoholism as a disease,
¨ examine how alcoholism affects families,
¨ learn how family members can cope when alcoholism exists in a family.
Week 7 Peer Pressure
During this lesson the students:
¨ gain an awareness of how peer pressure can be used to influence decisions,
¨ understand the role of peer pressure in making decisions about drug use,
¨ learn and practice techniques to resist negative peer pressure.
Week 8 Decision Making
During this lesson the students:
¨ understand that all decisions have positive or negative consequences,
¨ identify alternative solutions to problems,
¨ gain an awareness of how other people affect one’s decisions,
¨ examine how the use of drugs may affect one’s ability to make healthy decisions.
Week 9 Drug Information Review
During this lesson the students:
¨ recall what they have learned during the previous lessons,
¨ have a final chance to ask questions of the PIP Prevention Educator.
Student Lessons Grades 7 and 8
Length of each lesson- 40 minutes
Week 1 Drug Information
During this lesson the students:
¨ arrive at a definition for the word drug,
¨ identify the five most commonly used drugs,
¨ learn factual information about drugs
¨ receive answers to their questions about drugs.
Week 2 More Drug Information
During this lesson the students:
¨ share areas of further interest with the instructor
¨ receive clarification and reinforcement regarding drug information
Week 3 Communication
During this lesson the students:
¨ identify legally advertised drugs,
¨ critically examine a number of advertising techniques,
¨ understand the relationship between the media and its impact on drug use.
Week 4 Assertiveness/Decision Making
During this lesson the students:
¨ understand the decision making process,
¨ gain an awareness of how other people affect one’s decisions,
¨ learn the characteristics of assertive responses.
Week 5 Values
During this lesson the students:
¨ identify individual values,
¨ recognize which values take priority over others,
¨ recognize how alcohol and other drug use can change values.
Week 6 Alcoholism
During this lesson the students:
¨ develop an awareness of alcoholism as a disease,
¨ examine how alcoholism affects the entire family,
¨ understand that family members can’t cause, control or cure another person’s
alcoholism,
¨ learn how family members can cope when alcoholism exists in a family.
Week 7 Alcohol Information
During this lesson the students:
¨ learn accurate information about the effects of using alcohol,
¨ learn how relationships can be affected by alcohol use,
¨ understand the role of peer pressure in making decisions about alcohol use.
Week 8 Self-esteem/Goals
During this lesson the students:
¨ identify goals they have for their future,
¨ become aware of challenges or obstacles they may face in achieving goals,
¨ find strengths in themselves that will help them overcome challenges,
¨ understand the relationship between self-esteem and drug use.
Week 9 Drug Information Review
During this lesson the students:
¨ review information covered during the nine week program,
¨ have a final opportunity to ask questions.