Content Area: Students will learn what medicines are and their proper use. They will also learn who they should accept medicines from and who not to.
Grade Level: Kindergarten
Review: Get the students attention and ask them when the last time they were sick or had a cold. Then ask what happened and if their parents had given them some medicines.
Focus: Show students boxes of medicines and ask what they might be used for. Talk about where these boxes come from and where they might be found in their house. Who would give them these medicines? Could they take them by themselves?
Statement of Objectives:
Competency Goal 5: The learner will choose not to participate in substance abuse.
Objective 5.01: Demonstrate how to recognize and be careful with medicines.
Objective 5.03: Identify reliable sources of information regarding medicines and substances.
The student will describe what a medicine is.
The student will identify when he/she should use medicine.
The student will list appropriate sources to get medicine.
Teacher Input:
What is a medicine?
-Special drugs used to help people when they are sick.
-Prescription medicines are given out by doctors and filled by pharmacists
-Some medicines can be purchased without a doctor's prescription.
-Using medicines you don't need may make you very sick.
-Medicines are not candy.
How and when to use a medicine?
-Take medicines only from adults such as parents, nurses, and doctors.
-Where are medicines found?
-Don’t ever take anyone else’s medicines.
-Allows follow directions
Guided Practice:
Separate the class into four groups and pass out the bags of medicines and candy and a box of medicine to each group. Then have the groups talk and discuss which is a candy and which is a medicine. Also, have the students look at the medicine boxes and see if they can point out where on the box the directions are located.
Independent Practice:
Handout worksheet and have students do it alone.
Closure:
Recap and go over the main points that were learned today. Make sure the students understand what medicines are and who should give them medicines. Remind children about bringing in medicine boxes/bottles for the next class’s activity.
Rationale
Standards:
DPI Standard 13
Context:
During this lesson, the students had the opportunity to learn how different medicines can look like candy and how children should not take medicine unless it is given to them by an adult. I had some examples of medicines that might throw children off because they look like candy. The students had the opportunity to choose which item in the bag was candy and which was actual medicine. Afterwards, the students completed a worksheet that showed that they knew who to accept medicine from and who not to.
Impact:
This lesson could be used in any lower elementary school setting. All students need to have lessons on the medicines around them. There are a lot of medicines that children might mistaken for candy. This lesson teaches students that medicines are very good in some cases, but could be very bad in others and that they should only take medicines that trusted adults give to them. I hope to use this lesson in a future classroom of mine.
Alignment:
This lesson plan goes along with Standard 13. Standard 13 states that working alone, or with healthful living specialists, elementary teachers create opportunities for student development and practice of skills that contribute to good health. I met this standard by designing a lesson around medicine safety. This is a topic that informs students how medicines can help your health, but also damage it.
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