1. Bell Ringer Pick up your pre-test located on the chair
Begin working quietly on your own.
Please note, you may not know the answers, but do your very best!!!

2. Break Time
Water
Bathroom
Sharpen Pencils

3. Alcohol SOLS
SOLS: 6.1D
Students will identify and apply learned refusal skills to every day life.
6.2E
Students will identify the short-term & long-term effects of alcohol on the body.
6.4D
Students will acknowledge risky behaviors associated with alcohol use.

4. What is Alcohol? Alcohol is a DRUG.
Alcohol is a Depressant, which mean is slows down the brain.

5. What Happens When People Drink?
Step 1:
Alcohol enters directly into the bloodstream
Step 2:
Alcohol affects the brain & spinal cord
(which control ALL body functions)
Step 3:
Messages to the brain are blocked
Step 4:
Perceptions, emotions, movement, vision, and
hearing do not work properly.

6. Vocabulary Words Disease Alcohol use is abused (too much/too often)
BAC – Blood Alcohol Content (or Concentration)
The amount of alcohol in a persons blood
Legal limit in VA for operating vehicle is .08
ADDICTION –
Physical / Psychological need for a drug
TOLERANCE-
Body gets used to substance and needs more to get effects
ALCOHOLISM-
Disease
Alcohol use is abused (too much/too often)

7. Short Term Effects of Alcohol
Impairs concentration
Slows reflexes and reaction time
Impairs reaction time
Reduces coordination
Slur Speech
Causes drowsiness
Distorted vision and hearing
Alters emotions
Poor decision making skills

8. Long-Term Effects

9. Long-Term Effects

10. Long Term Effects of Alcohol
Kills brain cells
brain cells that are lost are lost for good
Nervous system disorders
Memory loss
Cardiovascular disease
Cancer
Fatigue

11. Many teens don’t realize that alcohol can kill them.
BINGE DRINKING
Many teens don’t realize that alcohol can kill them.
Binge Drinking: Consuming a large amount of alcohol in a short amount of time.
-Drinking Games
-Beer Bongs

12. Is it the #1 Drug abused by kids?
IF ALCOHOL IS…
Illegal for anyone under the age of 21 to use or purchase
Then Why…
Is it the #1 Drug abused by kids?
Media / Music

13. WHAT KIDS HAVE TO SAY
TO LOOK COOL
CURIOUS
PEER PRESSURE

14. Just Say NO NOT EVERYONE IS DRINKING ALCOHOL
“Be yourself, because the people who mind don’t matter.
And the people that
matter, don’t mind.”
-Dr. Seuss

15. How to say NO to Peer Pressure
Say no firmly
Tell why
Offer another idea
Promptly leave

16. VIDEO CLIP

17. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Table of Contents 2. How Much Do You Know. 3
TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Table of Contents 2. How Much Do You Know? 3. Lesson Quiz th Grade Alcohol Notes 5. Drunk Driving Chart