Grade 11
Be Your Own HERO (Health, Education, Resiliency, Opportunity) - provides accurate information, helps youth to develop life skills, and emphasizes the importance of healthy choices. The resource includes six 80-minute lessons that fulfill outcomes from the Alberta Learning Career and Life Management (CALM) curriculum. The lessons were developed to be practical and valuable to teachers, and easy to use in a variety of CALM classes. The activities involve class discussion, group work and experiential components.
Be Your Own Hero
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When Choices Collide - This interactive CD-ROM takes you on a journey of discovery. Throughout this learning experience, you are asked to answer questions and make decisions about impaired driving issues. Winner of 2000 Hygeia Awards for excellence in film/electronic production.
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VIDEO - This powerful and moving docudrama targets youth and addresses the serious social issue of impaired driving. This portrays the dilemma faced by Julie when her friend, who has been drinking, insists that she can drive. Julie, who doesn’t drive, has some difficult choices to make. While the drama unfolds, people who have experienced personal tragedy resulting from impaired driving share their stories. SADD students working to prevent impaired driving are also featured.
DISCUSSION GUIDE - This comprehensive and easy-to-use learning guide provides strategies for discussion of the video and offers exercises to enhance and strengthen the powerful learning experiences offered to youth on the dangers of impaired driving. Actual newspaper articles of the tragedies shown in the video bring home the reality of those affected. Suggestions for school campaigns and a “Contract for Life” helps to point your group in a positive and socially proactive direction.
Grade 12
A Grad To Remember - This guide is intended as a resource for parents, teachers, students, and anyone interested or involved in organizing a dry grad. It answers important questions about dry grads, describes how to get things done, and guides dry grad planning from start to finish. There are recommendations and suggestions for a successful dry grad from actual dry grad organizers, information on specific Alberta legislation relevant to dry grad planning, samples of correspondence, and more.
A Grad To Remember (PDF 1.78 Mb)
A Grad To Remember Presentation (PDF 597 Kb)
Kids have always experimented and pushed the boundaries of what they should and shouldn’t do. They need to prove things to themselves and to their peers – it’s a part of growing up. When tobacco, alcohol, other drugs or gambling is involved, experimentation can become a dangerous progression that may lead to dependency or an addiction. The Teacher Information Series is designed to give teachers like you factual information to help you engage students in talking about substance abuse and gambling and allow them to make informed lifestyle decisions and healthy choices.
School Policy Manual
This manual offers principals, teachers and school councils practical information about developing a substance use and gambling policy. It describes the key components of an effective policy, discusses the benefits of such policy, addresses common concerns, and provides information about relevant resources that schools can use. The manual includes sample resources such as a presentation for those developing policy, a school policy template, and statements to the school community about dealing with incidents related to substance use or gambling.
Developing substance use and gambling policies for Alberta schools
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