Therapeutic Drugs, plus the other 3 types, Recreational, Legal & Illegal etc. Complete Lesson

A complete, and ready to deliver, high quality KS3 lesson from Barclayfox.

(For USA - this lesson is for use between 6th to 8th grade).

This is a complete lesson from start to end, you do not need to spend many hours carefully planning, creating, resourcing and improving this lesson after each use. I have already spent those hours preparing this lesson for my students and improving it over many years. This is a very high quality ready to use lesson.

There is nothing for you to do but give it a quick look through and familiarise yourself with it.

Lesson objectives:
* Be able to name some drugs.
* Be able to define what a drug is.
* Define the 4 drug groups (e.g. stimulant, hallucinogen etc).
* Categorise drugs into the 4 groups.
* Describe the effects different types of drugs have on both health and behaviour.

This carefully crafted lesson is over 30 slides long, and is full of learning activities as below:
* Notes to help the teacher.
* Starter - identify which are drugs.
* Starter - simple task where students self-assess against the objectives.
* Matching task - answers are provided.
* Gap fill activity - all answers are provided.
* Quiz with answers.
* Questions – all answers are provided.
* Peer marking
* Self marking
* Up and about activity
* Theory slides (carefully sculpted, interspaced with learning activities, not ‘death by powerpoint’).
* Play ball.
* Paired work activities – all answers are provided.
* Scientific Literacy activity.
* SMSC
* Plenary formative/summative assessment quiz / activity.
* Student self-assessment versus objectives activity – so learners can judge for themselves how much they have learnt.
* Extension activities – just in case additional activities are required.

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