Elena Beslis 4/5/2016

Year Level: Year 8I

Lesson Number: 2

Date: 6/5/2016

Unit Title: Drugs and body systems

Lesson topic:
Drugs in our culture
How drugs affect the
digestive system
Expected Learning:
- Reintroduction of
drugs
- How drugs affect
our digestive
system and organs
- How different
cultures use drugs

Materials required
ALTERNATE LOCATION:
Library or computer lab

Laptops/computers
Drug Free app
PowerPoint
Flexibook/workboo
k
Work sheets

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)
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)
Elena Beslis 4/5/2016

How drugs affect the digestive system

and what are culturally acceptable
drugs within communities

Engage
Fosters positive relations
Stimulates interest and curiosity
Supports students to make
connects to past learning
experiences

Success
Whole Group:
criteria:
(15 minutes)
(After
Tuningthis
in engaging
lesson, student
students
interest.
will be
able
Learning
to) intentions, success criteria,
- Explainofhow
drugs
can
breakdown
the different
lesson and
homework
affecton
our
digestive system and
displayed
board.
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- Identify cultural drugs
Formative assessment:
To demonstrate current understanding
and how much students have
understood in current and previous
lesson:
1) Form a group discussion on
legal and illegal drugs.
2) Students to present their
posters on drugs

Explore
Teacher
presents
challenging
tasks
Provides
tools and
procedures
Challenges
misconcepti
ons
Explain
Provides
opportunitie
s for
students to
demonstrate
their current
level of
understandi
ng
Assists
students to
represent
their ideas

Whole Group: Shared Experience (5 minutes)

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

Unit question: How do drugs affect the digestive

system and its organs?
Small group (20 minutes)

What do we already know about drugs in different

cultures?
For example: Kava is a non alcoholic drug substance
used in Fiji

Whole Group: Explicit Teaching (10 minutes)

Web read on how drugs affect the bodies digestive

system
http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/healthlibrary/
conditions/digestive_disorders/medications_and_
the_digestive_system_85,P00389/

*As students have now been introduced to new information

they have the opportunity to demonstrate their
understanding as well as help consolidate by filling in a
worksheet on a digestive system diagram and explaining
what drugs affect us in different ways

Summative assessment task:

- Students are to create a PowerPoint
presentation on cultural drugs.
- Students will be working in pairs to complete
this assignment, collaborating ideas and sharing
knowledge.