Lesson 1: Welcome to Our World

• Identify environmental and social factors which may influence the health behavior of youth.

• Identify knowledge and personal and social skills needed to live a positive and healthy lifestyle and to thrive in today’s adolescent environment.

Lesson 2: Understanding Influences From Advertising and Social Groups

• Recognize the power of advertising on personal choice.

• Identify the range of ways individuals are influenced by their social group.
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Lesson 3: Investigating Reasons Some Use Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs

• Identify ways advertising and peers might influence some young people to try alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs.

• Explore the reasons young people do or do not use alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs.
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Lesson 4: Be Smart—Don’t Start:  Part One

• Investigate the effects of alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use on personal health and social relationships.

• Investigate the laws pertaining to alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use and abuse.
• Synthesize accurate information on the health, legal, and social consequences of alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use.
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Lesson 5: Be Smart—Don’t Start:  Part Two

• Present convincing reasons to abstain from using alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs by examining the negative consequences of drug use.

• Identify healthy activities middle school youth enjoy.
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• Examine how alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use negatively impacts the person who uses the drug, and his or her family and friends.
• Personalize reactions to the consequences of alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use.
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Lesson 7:  A Winning Collection of Skills

• Identify essential skills needed to protect self and others from alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use.
• Identify how skills are learned.
• Describe the elements of an essential skill needed to protect self and others from drug use.
• Review skills to check prior knowledge.
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Lesson 8:  Creating Our Lesson Plans

• Develop a plan for teaching their peers essential skills needed to protect themselves and others from alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use.
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Lesson 9:  Honing Our Skills—“I-Messages”

• Implement their plans for teaching their peers essential drug prevention skills.
• Increase their ability to utilize “I-messages” to protect themselves and others from alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use.
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Lesson 10:  Honing Our Skills—“Problem Solving”

• Implement their plans for teaching their peers essential drug prevention skills.
• Increase their ability to utilize problem solving skills to protect themselves and others from alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use.
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Lesson 11:  Honing Our Skills—“Refusal Skills”

• Implement their plans for teaching their peers essential drug prevention skills.
• Increase their ability to utilize refusal skills in order to protect themselves and others from alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use.
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Lesson 12:  Honing Our Skills—“Identifying Trouble”

• Implement their plans for teaching their peers essential drug prevention skills.
• Increase their ability to identify trouble in order to protect themselves and others from alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use.
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Lesson 13:  Being Supportive to Ourselves and Our Friends

• Compose advice for peers on how to stay drug free.
• Identify sources of accurate information and assistance through a variety of means.
• Locate sources of accurate information and assistance in their communities.
• Identify caring adults who are available to provide support and help.
• Make a personal commitment to remain drug free.
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