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Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs: Keeping a Growing Body Safe

  • Grade 4
  • Physical and Health Education
  • 52 s
  • British Columbia
  • BC4-PH-12

A labelled child's body shows how alcohol and other drugs change the brain and how tobacco smoke harms the lungs and heart, with nicotine making tobacco hard to stop. It ends with three ways to say no (say "no, thanks", walk away, tell a trusted adult) and the recap that saying no helps keep a growing body safe.

Concept: Alcohol, tobacco and other drugs: how they can harm a growing body

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The question this lesson answers

What can harm a body that is still growing?

Your brain, lungs and heart are growing too.

Transcript

What the lesson says

What can harm a body that is still growing?

Your brain, lungs and heart are growing too.

Alcohol, tobacco and other drugs change how the brain and body work.

Alcohol slows down thinking and balance.

Other drugs can change how you think and feel.

Tobacco smoke harms the lungs and the heart.

Tobacco has nicotine, which makes it very hard to stop once you start.

A growing body can be harmed more easily.

If anyone offers you these, you can always say no.

First, say no, thanks.

Then walk away.

Tell a trusted adult what happened.

Saying no helps keep your growing body safe.

Curriculum

Where this fits

British Columbia, Grade 4

Physical and Health Education, Mental well-being: potential effects of psychoactive substance use, and strategies for preventing personal harmBC4-PH-12

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The outcomes and strands follow the British Columbia curriculum.

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