Day 4 Olson Health 1

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Day 4Olson Health 1

• Addiction how to help
• The student will be able to
• Identify ways to help a friend in need
• Recognize warning signs of addiction
• Create a help poster to inform the school
  community of ways to get
• help

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Day 4 warm up (10 min.)

• Attendance
• Turn in syllabus (5 pts)
• Book Check covered? (5 pts)

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Day 4 Journal Response (10 min.)

• Journal Response
• Explain about a stressful situation you
  encountered in the past two days.
• How did you deal with this situation?
• Was is a positive or negative way to cope?
• Would you deal with the situation differently the
  next time?

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Day 4 Addiction

• Think through your life.
• Have you ever know a person who was addicted to
  something?
• Have you ever wanted to help somebody in need?
• Have you ever been worried about somebodys
  health?

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Day 4 Addiction and its signs

• Addiction the state of losing control over the
  use of a drug people have strong cravings for
  their drug.
• What does this look like?

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Day 4 Signs of addiction (5 min)

• Uncontrolled cravings
• Obsessive though about the addiction
• Absenteeism / School truancy (skipping school)
• Fatigue (tired)
• Nasal congestion
• Eye changes / glassy eyes
• Behavioral changes
• Hyperactivity

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Day 4 more signs of addiction

• Being angry or irritated
• Feeling tense
• Problems concentrating
• Wanting to be alone

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Day 4 Addiction skits (20)

• In your groups, create a skit showing 4 different
  signs of addiction
• All members in the group must participate in the
  skit and say something
• Keep it clean
• Skit should be 2-3 minutes.
• You will share the skit with the class.

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Day 4 Help Poster (30 min.)

• Take out your 3 community resources for help
• You will create a help poster for addiction
• Include
• 5 signs of addiction
• 3 resources for help (names, , address)
• Neatness and color some will be hung up around
  the school

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Day 4 - homework

• Study for quiz
• 3 aspects of wellness (ME/S/P), how to improve
  wellness in each area
• Stages of stress, types of stress (E vs D), signs
  of stress, ways to cope with stress, illness from
  stress
• Signs of addiction, how to help

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Day 4 - closure

• Have a great day!