Health Unit: Healthy Choices: Understanding Drugs and Their Effects
This comprehensive Year 4 Health unit teaches students how to recognise legal and illegal drugs, understand how substances affect the body, explore strategies for safe choices, and respond to peer pressure. The unit includes engaging group activities, hands-on scenarios, poster presentations, a peer-response chatterbox craft, and differentiated assessment.
Included Activities and Resources:
- Lesson 1: Safe or Unsafe? Scenario Sorting Cards (with Safe, Unsafe, Never Safe title cards)
- Lesson 2: Group Poster Challenge using Thinking Hats questions (PDF/poster templates + exit ticket)
- Lesson 3: Body Part Investigators – group and individual worksheets (landscape & portrait versions)
- Lesson 4: Cut-and-Paste Laws vs Rules Sorting Sheet (20 statements in dotted boxes)
- Lesson 5: Peer Pressure Response Bank Cards and Chatterbox Craft Template
- Assessment: Differentiated scenario response templates (3, 5, and 10-scenario versions)
- Assessment Rubric: Criteria-based marking guide
Supports key learning goals around drug safety, personal wellbeing, respectful decision-making, and managing peer pressure.
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Learning goals
- We are learning to select, use, and refine personal and social skills to establish, manage, and strengthen relationships.
Curriculum alignment
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.