BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: Scientific Decision Making: Decisions and Risk
In this lesson plan, students weight the pros and cons of having a soft drink by examining the evidence of the impact on one's health. Afterwards, they make an informed choice about or not they would consume a soft drink. Then they...
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Promoting Alabama Youth Development: Module 7: Making Better Choices [Pdf]
Activities to help teens understand how to make good choices. Includes an activity feedback form for students to fill out, a poster, sample situations teens may face, and several short scripts for role-playing.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Body and Mind: Kabam! Comic Creator
Choose a scenario and decide the best choice of dialogue to use in the situation. Then create a comic to play out the rest of the situation.
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Brain Connection: Decision Making Is Still a Work in Progress for Teenagers
Discusses research studies that have looked at the teenage brain and discovered that it is not fully developed until the early twenties, and this explains why teens take greater risks than adults do. (Published Mar. 20, 2013)