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Creating Innovative Uses of Technology:
An Individual Project
Junior/Senior Survival Skills:
Drugs & Addiction Unit
Marie Opland4/14/11EDU 709
Junior/Senior Survival Skills:
Drugs & Addiction Unit 1 lesson on addiction : “Addiction
Webquest” (1 day)
Junior/Senior Survival Skills:
Drugs & Addiction Unit 1 lesson on types of drugs:
“Drug PSA Podcasts” (2 days)
Rationale
Drugs/Alcohol Unit required for Jr./Sr. Survival Skills
To give a fresh / new perspective on familiar topics
To provide a review on drugs for students at a key time in their lives
To utilize an interactive brain website and teach more in depth about addiction
Lesson 1: Addiction Webquest
Intro Scenario:
“Suppose you have a friend who you believe is struggling with an addiction. You want to be supportive and helpful to your friend, but your knowledge on addiction is limited. You have tried to express your concerns to your friend, but he/she seems un-open to change. This webquest is designed to help you learn more about addiction and your end goal in completing it is to decide upon a plan of action you can take to help your friend.”
Lesson 1: Addiction Webquest
Tasks: packet completion, cell phone screen, blog entries
Process: reading/completing activities at 4 websites
Links on class Weebly page
Lesson Two: Drug PSA Podcasts
1. Assess general drug knowledge – online quiz and 2 games
http://www.acde.org/youth/quiz.htm
http://teens.drugabuse.gov/sarasquest/sqgame.php
http://teens.drugabuse.gov/havefun/DrN_BodyQuiz.
php
2. Form pairs and research assigned drug
3. Draft scripts for a PSA about assigned drug
Drug PSA Criteria
1. drug names (both common name(s) and street name(s)
2. forms, category, and how it’s taken
3. at least 2 other drugs within this category or class
4. short-term effects
5. long-term effects
6. risk of dependency
7. prevalence
8. two other items of groups’ choice that the group finds interesting
Key AdvantagesLesson 1: Addiction Webquest
Focus on topic of addiction
Initial scenario
Fun and interactive web tools
Creating and Evaluating
Interaction between students on blog
Lesson 2: Drug PSA Podcasts
alternative project format
collaboration with partner
no mics needed
creativity
Key DisadvantagesLesson 1: Addiction Webquest
Limited peer interaction/collaboration
Some of the websites aren’t interactive
Headphones needed
Lesson 2: Drug PSA Podcasts
Difficult to control audio quality
Only teacher can access podcasts, initially
Lacks summary/closure
Conclusion
Already used earlier versions of both of these lessons
In-depth analysis helped me to make improvements / recognize areas that still need improvement
Eager to try newly modified versions of these lessons!
Eager to learn about innovations used by classmates!
