The purpose of this activity is
to provide a “springboard” for discussion and
an opportunity to examine some myths around alcohol and
cannabis, two substances that grade 7 students are likely
to encounter.
- Explain that
misinformation about alcohol and other drugs can have
consequences. To avoid this, people need to know the
facts.
- Ask the
students to form teams of two or three and distribute a
copy of Student Handout
7.A-Fact or Fiction
Quiz to each team. If you
prefer, you can use a slide of all the questions and
complete this exercise with the entire class as a
group.
- Instruct the
students to respond to each statement with a T (True) or
F (False) next the statement.
- Once the
teams have completed the quiz, review their responses to
each quiz item with the entire class using
Student Handout
7.B-Fact or Fiction
Answers. Ask for one person from
each team to be the official responder for their team.
Then ask for a show of hands from each team that
answered “true” and “false”
for each of the 10 items. List the numbers 1 through
10 on the board and keep track of how many teams
responded true or false for each question.
- Once the
responses from each team are recorded, review each
statement using the provided answer key.
-
Once you have
gone over the answers, the class can discuss the
results with the following questions as discussion
starters:
- Did any
of the correct responses surprise you? If so, which
ones?
- Were you surprised by #2 when alcohol is referred to as a drug? Do you tend to think of alcohol as a drug? Do you understand why it is a drug?
- Did any
of the correct responses surprise you? If so, which
ones?
-
Optional: Ask the students to think
back to some of the things they wrote about alcohol and
cannabis on the graffiti wall in the previous class.
Then, ask the following questions:
- Did any
of you notice that some of the things you wrote on
the graffiti wall were not true? What things written
on the wall were not true?
- Is there anything on the wall that we haven't discussed through the quiz?