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About the Short-term Consequences Lesson Plan

The Short-term Consequences lesson plan ensures a well-defined teaching plan and one that can successfully teach all the appropriate learning areas required. The lesson plan has been designed to help teachers be confident and interact with their students while teaching the topic. The lesson also aims to be entertaining while maintaining the seriousness of alcohol abuse. Teaching activities include trying to get students to understand the effects of being drunk and how it physically influences the body. The lesson includes a number of practical exercises that help to demonstrate how your body is altered by alcohol.

Aims

The aim of this lesson plan is to ensure that students have a greater appreciation of the short-term consequences of alcohol. This engaging lesson begins by discussing the short-term consequences of alcohol and then has a number of intriguing practical demonstrations to back-up the facts that were presented before in the initial opening discussion. The lesson goes on to explore the area of hangovers and highlights what a hangover actually involves as well as dispersing and challenging many myths on the subject. After this lesson a student will have a greater understanding of the effects of alcohol and be engaged for future lessons as this lesson will have provided them with food for thought.

Learning Outcomes

The main learning outcomes from this lesson plan include a student’s ability to: • Develop a greater appreciation of short-term consequences of alcohol abuse • Experience what it is like to be drunk • Understand the myths about hangovers By using the Learning Outcomes lesson plan you are helping your students develop their knowledge on how alcohol affects your mental, physical and social health.