LESSON PLAN FORMAT

YOUR NAME: Meghan Fredrickson

LESSON SKILL: How alcohol affects the body function?
GRADE/POPULATION: Middle School Grades 7
LEARNING CONTENT:
Purpose of the learning experience:
To develop an understanding of the effects of alcohol on the body inferences to how it effect coordination,
vision and speech.
New York State Standard(s): http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/ciai/pe/pub/hpefcle.pdf
Standard 1: Personal Health and Fitness
Students will have the necessary knowledge and skills to establish and maintain physical fitness,
participate in physical activity, and maintain personal health.
Standard 2: A Safe and Healthy Environment.
Students will acquire the knowledge and ability necessary to create and maintain a safe and healthy
environment.
Objective(s) (Must be measurable and observable)
1. Students will be able to identify how hand eye, balance and foot eye coordination is
altered with alcohol use.
2. Students will be able to identify how alcohol can interrupt motor functions such as
vision, speech and cognitive thought processing.
Materials: Marshmallows, goggles, petroleum jelly, two balls, a needle, thread,
PROCEDURES:
Time
3-5 minutes

5-7 minutes

20-25 minutes

Teacher
Writes the Do Now on the board for the students
to do as they are settling into their seats ready
to start class.
Do Now: List the ways that alcohol can affect
the body? (Coordination, balance, vision, and
speech)
What are the effects of alcohol on the body?
- Coordination is thrown off: hand eye,
foot eye, walking, and balance
- Speech is slurred
- Vision is impaired
- Depth perception is off
- Volume control (voice tone)
- Cognitive Process is altered
Role Playing:
Scenario 1: (Need on student to demonstrate
walking a line) Student will walk a while line
taped on the floor to demonstrate balance. (this
simulates normal body function) Now you were
at a BBQ with some friends and had a few
drinks. You got into your car to drive home and
were pulled over by the cops for a brake light
being out. The cop suspects you were drinking
and asks you to get out of the car for a sobriety
test. He asks you to walk the white line heel to
toe. (students will put on goggles and try to walk
the white line) Observe their balance, vision.

Students
Come in, find their seats. Take
out their notebooks and a
writing utensil. They will write
down the Do Now on the board
and begin to answer the
question.
One by one the students raise
their hands to give their
definition and answers of each
term/question. As the teacher
is writing on the board
students are copying/correct
the answers in their
notebooks.
One of two students will be
demonstrating while the other
students observe. After a few
scenarios the students will
partner up and perform an
activity from one of the
scenarios role played.

5-7 minutes

1-3 minutes

What can we conclude from this demonstration?

Scenario 2: (Need two students to demonstrate
a how to catch a ball) students will have a catch
back and forth. (this simulates normal body
function) Now you were both at a party and had
2 or 3 drinks, now try to have a catch (students
will put on goggles and try to have a catch)
Observe there coordination, vision. Now youre
still at the same party and youve drank 3 or 4
more alcoholic drinks. (Add more petroleum
jelly) observe there coordination and vision now.
What can we conclude from this demonstration?
Scenario 3: (Need one student to demonstrate
reading a passage: speech) The students will
read passage out loud to the class. (this
simulates normal body function) Now they have
has a few drink (place two marshmallows in you
more one between each side of your cheek)
Continue reading the passage out loud. They
have had a few more drinks (add more
marshmallows to the inside of their cheeks)
Continue reading the passage. What can we
conclude from this demonstration?
Students will partner up and read passages
back and forth to each other. As they read they
place more and more marshmallows in their
mouth simulating the effects of alcohol on this
speech and how it becomes more slurred with
more alcohol use.
Conclude how the effects of alcohol alter our
body functions. The more we drink the less
control we have over our body and cognitive
thought process.

Students take turns reading

the passage, after a few lines
read they add more
marshmallows into their
mouth. One partner goes then
the other.
Students answer the teachers
summary questions and pack
up there things.

Assessment: Students will be able to assess how alcohol effect the body though demonstration, teacher
question and answer and group/partner activity.