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● Understand what cannabis is, and how it may be harmful or beneficial to one’s health
● Understand the wide variety of diverse reasons as to why one may choose to consume cannabis
● Improve communication skills and decision-making abilities so that students may be able to respond effectively to
influences related to cannabis use
● Make smart and informed decisions and understand the consequences of our actions
● Deepen our knowledge and understanding about substance abuse
Objectives:
15 Minutes ● As a class come up with various situations where students may be asked - Chart paper or
or pressured to use cannabis (I.e. a party, by an older sibling, in the blackboard
school parking lot, etc). - Marker or chalk
● For each situation have the class work together to determine what to
say, and what to do in these situations.
● Enhance communication skills and decision-making abilities.
20 Minutes Objectives:
● Get students to consider the source. Provide them with a scenario or
statement from different sources they may be in contact with (friends, - Worksheet
family, television, government website, etc) attached
● Students will be asked to identify if the statement is fact or opinion, - Pencil/Pen
where the individual got the information, and why do you think that
information was shared
● The students will then be able to make decision on if the source is
reliable or unreliable
● This activity will help students guide their learning and understanding
about drug abuse and how to make sense of the different information
they will be fed throughout their daily lives
Time: After: Consolidation & Connection (Helping students demonstrate what Materials
they have learned, providing opportunities for consolidation and reflection)
10 Minutes - Prepared
Activity: Mock Situation Skits situations/roles to
Objectives: provide the
● Arrange the students into groups of 2-3 and provide them with situations students with for
their mock skits
where they may be asked or pressured to use cannabis.
● Have the students act out different roles. One student should be the one
pressuring others to use cannabis, one student should be the one getting
pressured, and a third student can be a bystander whose role changes
depending on the situation.
● Students will demonstrate their individual learning pertaining to
communication and decision-making skills as they act out the situations.
Assessment Opportunities
● Assessment as learning- By using Kahoot students can assess their understanding of what cannabis is,
how and why people use it, and how it can be harmful or beneficial to one’s health.
● Assessment as learning - By working through the worksheet, students will be able to critically analyse
reliable and unreliable sources and can use that information they gather to add to their toolkit when it
comes to making informed decisions.
● Assessment for learning- By working as a class to create a chart about the different reasons why people
may use cannabis, and by brainstorming ways in which students can respond different situations
regarding influences related to cannabis use, learners and teachers can assess their understanding of the
lesson.
● Assessment of learning- By having the students create scenarios in which they must display their
communication and decision making skills individually, teachers can evaluate students’ overall grasp of
the material that was taught during the action phase of the class.
Next Steps