Students are introduced to the D.A.R.E. Program and the D.A.R.E. Decision-Making Model. Students practice skills used in decision-making and reflect on their learning in their D.A.R.E. Planner.
LESSON 2: Tobacco and You
This lesson focuses on normative beliefs about the use of tobacco by youth. Tobacco facts are used to design tobacco-warning labels, which are shared with the class. Journal entries reflect the learning.
LESSON 3: Smoke Screen
Students apply tobacco and marijuana facts in a variety of situations using the D.A.R.E. Decision-making model. Students are introduced to the purpose of advertising. Journal entries reinforce discussions of the effects tobacco has on the body.
LESSON 4: Alcohol and You
Students work through a normative belief activity about the use of alcohol by youth. Decision-making skills are reinforced as students work together solving a variety of situations. Students' journal entries in D.A.R.E. Planners reinforce skills.
LESSON 5: The real truth
Students are given the opportunity to examine alcohol ads in their environment and apply their learning in a relay race. Inhalents and their dangers are examined. Journaling processes the new learning.
LESSON 6: Friendship Foundations
In teams, students examine friendship and peer pressure in situational dilemmas using the D.A.R.E. Decision-Making model. Journal entries in D.A.R.E. Planner reinforce new learning.
LESSON 7: Putting it together
Students work with partners to apply assertiveness skills in a think/pair/share methodology. D.A.R.E. Planner journaling is used to process new skills.
LESSON 8: Personal Action
Student teams practice decision-making skills as they examine the role of personal peer pressure in their lives. Students review their D.A.R.E. Planner entries to assist in creating a personal D.A.R.E. report.
LESSON 9: Role Models
One boy and one girl from the high school senior class who have chosen to remain free of tobacco, alcohol and other drugs, is chosen to be role models for the D.A.R.E. class. The role models share with the students why they choose to stay drug free and some activities they are involved in to help them remain drug free. There is a question/answer involvement with the students.
LESSON 10: Practice! Practice! Practice!
Students have the opportunity to apply assertive refusal skills along with facts in a spiraling competition. Personal affirmations about healthy choices are shared from D.A.R.E. reports.
LESSON 11: Culmination
Students are given the opportunity to reflect on what they have learned and have social time with their fellow classmates during a pizza party. Students receive D.A.R.E. graduation certificates, T-shirts and special prizes.