Activities | Learning Focus |
1. Alcohol—Separating Fact from Fiction | Engage in the study of alcohol, its use and abuse, and alcoholism. |
2. A Drink Is a Drink, but People Are Different | Explore alcohol content of various beverages and how alcohol distributes in the body in order to build conceptual understanding. |
3. Responding to Alcohol: What’s Important | Analyze simulations of the effects of alcohol on mouse activity levels. |
4. Alcohol Use, Abuse, and Alcoholism | Investigate human alcohol use in order to apply concepts in a new context. |
5. Alcohol and Driving: When to Say No | Understand how alcohol affects human behavior and consider how it could affect each student personally. |
6. Using Alcohol: Setting Limits? | Demonstrate understanding that the effects of alcohol are dose dependent, and public policies targeted at alcohol must balance many factors. |