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Safe Use of Medicines
Grade Level:  Grades K-1
Content Area:  Alcohol and Other Drugs
 
Synopsis

Using student handouts and magazine pictures, students will identify pictures which show when to use medicine and who can safely give medicines.

 
About this Lesson
Key Concepts

What medicine is

Why medicine is used


 
NHES Alignments

  • Demonstrate behaviors to avoid or reduce health risks
  • Demonstrate healthy practices and behaviors to maintain or improve personal health
  • Demonstrate healthy ways to express needs, wants and feelings
  • Make requests to promote personal health


    • Skill Emphasis

    Accessing Information

    		 Objectives

    Students will explain what medicine is.

    Students will identify people who are appropriate to help with the safe use of medicines.


    Teaching Steps

    1. Discuss what medicine is.
     
    2. Discuss when to use medicine.
     
    3. Review rules for taking medicine.
     
    4. Students identify medicines.
     
    5. Students identify safe people from whom to take medicine.
     
    6. Reflect, summarize, and discuss.
     

    Assessment

    Preparation
    Materials & Preparation

    Copy student pages (one for each student):
    		Time Requirements

    One 20-minute session.


    Background Information

    Primer on Drugs

    Lesson Overview Teaching Steps Assessment Discuss