SCU School of Education (SECONDARY)

Lesson Plan Template

Class/Stage:

Lesson/Period:

Lesson Length: 70mins

Topic/Main Concept/Theme:
Students to gain an understanding of the concept cost to the community and examples from drug use. Student will
be able to determine between a depressant, stimulant and hallucinogen.
SYLLABUS CONTENT to be covered
5.5 Evaluate personal, environmental and social factors that can influence decisions people make about their health
and wellbeing, and propose and apply strategies to make and implement healthy, active and safe choices.
5.9 Investigate how individuals, family and peers groups an affect peoples behaviours, beliefs, decision,
opportunities and actions.
SYLLABUS OUTCOMES to be covered
- Exploring the range of health decisions students will be confronted with over coming years and analysing the

factors that will influence the choices they make

- examining scenarios to highlight ways emotions, personal dispositions, and decision making can affect
consequences.

Behaviour management strategies:

- seating plan
- no phones or head phones
- activities not to go for to long
- Use RTC when needed
ICT

Cross Curriculum
Content

Difference and
Diversity
Collecting Analysing
and organising
information
Using mathematical
ideas and techniques

Key Competencies

Learning goal:
Give examples of cost to the community from drug use.
Classify drugs as stimulants, depressants or hallucinogens.

Aboriginal and
Indigenous
Environment

Work, Employment
and Enterprise
Gender

Civics and Citizenship

Communicating
ideas and
Information
Solving problems

Planning and
organising activities

Working with others in

teams

Using Technology

Literacy

Numeracy

N/A

N/A

Prior Knowledge/Experience
- drug categories
- sub-effects of drugs

Safety Risk
- ensure all material is age
appropriate

Considerations/Preparation
Resources/Materials/Technology
Key Vocab
- whiteboard markers
- stimulant
- projector
- depressant
- Assignment
- hallucinogen
- cut out drugs
- worksheet
Key Questions
- what is a stimulant, depressant and
hallucinogen?
- What does cost to the community
mean? What are some examples?

STAGE OF LESSON
1. LINKING
-what have they already learnt?
-assumed knowledge?

ACTIONS & ACTIVITIES

Students have been looking at

individual drugs. Their short term
and long term effects.

QUESTIONING/
CUES?

N/A

TIME

RESOURCES

N/A

N/A

10

Whiteboard
maker

10

Assignment
Projector

-link to last lesson?

3.INTRODUCTION

Context of the lesson

Expected outcomes/goals

Key question/s

4. THE BODY
Teacher directed learning?

Independent student
inquiry/ learning?

- students settled outside.

- Move tables into groups of 4
- Seating plan
- Hangman utilising drug terms
- lesson plan on board
- Go over assignment in detail with
students. Hand out assignment.
Only 3 students allowed to do each
topic.

- Who am I: Guess the drug

activity x 3. Students need to work
in groups

- Allocate the drug: each group will

be given a number of pieces of
paper with different drugs on them.
Students need to work in their
group to decide if the drug belongs
in the stimulant, depressant or
hallucinogen column.

5. CONCLUSION
Pack up and organise

Summary of lesson

Future directions/
linking to next lesson

6. EVALUATION
REFLECTION

- Scenario: Read scenario to class.

Students to brainstorm all the cost
the community they can come up
with
- In group complete group exit
ticket: one example of
hallucinogen, depressant and
stimulant. Examples of 3 cost to the
community
- pack and clean up room
- remind class next lesson is prac.

- use to settle
class quickly
after moving into
seating plan
- what is multi
model
- what are cost
to the
community
- what are
examples of
strategies that
reduce drug use
- work as a team
to share ideas.
Research the
question.
- again work as
a team.
Research the
drug. Think
about the effects
the drug has
and think about
what category it
fits.
- what do we
mean about cost
to the
community
- recall what we
have learnt
today

10-15

Whiteboard
marker
Worksheets

10

Cut outs of
drugs

Scenario
10
10

Exit ticket