Alcohol Lesson

A ready to use lesson (from KS3 upwards) to meet the PSHE/SRE Statutory Curriculum. Editable Powerpoint with 60 minutes worth of material.

Learning Intentions:
• I can identify reasons why people drink alcohol
• I can compare binge drinking to responsible drinking
• I can justify my opinion and provide counter-arguments

The Lesson includes:
 PowerPoint- 8 slides
 Resources- Effects of alcohol body template and Opinion Task (all made using Word and one document)

The lesson teaches students about alcohol and units and begin with students being tasked to identify reasons why people drink alcohol. Students discuss the physical, social and emotional impacts of consuming alcohol after an informative video. Students are challenged to apply knowledge of units to calculate whether it is responsible or binge drinking in the scenarios given. Students are also encouraged to debate whether TV shows can be blamed for generating a binge drinking culture in the UK.
PowerPoint and resources are in comic sans, with size 14 font and slides have a yellow background to ensure that it is SEN inclusive. The lesson includes differentiated learning tasks that challenge students to be critical thinkers. The lesson includes assessment for learning opportunities and develops wider literacy skills.

The PowerPoint has teacher notes with suggested teaching ideas and questioning, as well as suggested timings. The Lesson and resources are non-specialist friendly.
Tried and tested lesson used by both specialist and non-specialist staff across inner city schools in the Northwest.
If you want to save time and want all your resources in one place, why not download the Student Workpack for this lesson, which has everything included which can also be used to ‘catch-up’ absent students and support lower ability students.

Other lessons in this SRE series that can be downloaded and found at the ‘Empowered Learning’ shop on Tes are:

 Alcohol
 Drugs Trafficking
 Gambling and Debt

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