This totally completely new D.A.R.E. curriculum challenges students by having them participate in active learning. The benefit to the students is the strong foundation of decision-making skills that they apply to real life situations about the use of alcohol, tobacco, marijuana and inhalants. These important decision-making skills are acted on through a spiraling set of group and paired activities. The students are actively engaged as they learn how to cope with the pressures associated with adolescence.  Each lesson is structured with Goals and Objectives—in order to meet the National Health Education Standards. The format of instruction provides practical information throughout the lessons and allows the students to learn from each other.

The lessons on normative beliefs include national data about teen use of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs to help children better understand how few of their peers actually do use these substances. 

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5th Grade D.A.R.E. Curriculum

Lesson One: Introduction to DARE’s keepin’ it REAL

Objectives:

• Define what it means to be responsible
• Indentify student responsibilities in their daily lives
• Name the steps in the D.A.R.E. Decision Making Model (DDMM)
  

Lesson Two: Drug Information for Responsible Decision Making

Objectives:

• Identify how alcohol and tobacco use affects students responsibilities
• Examine information on alcohol and tobacco
• Understand the health effects of alcohol and tobacco on the body
• Use the DDMM to define the problem in scenarios related to alcohol or tobacco

Lesson Three: Risk and Consequences

Objectives:

• Define risks and consequences and apply to real life situations
• Assess the positive and negative consequences in choices made about risky situations
• Use the DDMM to assess how to make responsible involving risky situations

Lesson Four: Peer Pressure

Objectives:

• Define pressure and peer pressure
• Recognize the sources or peer pressure
• Identify ways to respond to peer pressure
• Use DDMM to generate responses to peer pressure

Lesson Five: Dealing with Stressful Situations

Objectives:

• Identify possible signs of stress
• Recognize the physical and behavioral signs of stress
• Use DDMM in evaluating stressful situations

Lesson Six: Basics of Communications

Objectives:

• Define and explain the importance of communication in daily living
• Demonstrate confident communication
• Use DDMM to evaluate and generate alterative options for effective communication

Lesson Seven: Nonverbal communication and Listening

 Objectives:

• Define effective listening behaviors
• Demonstrate effective listening using verbal and nonverbal behaviors
• Use the DDMM to evaluate and generate alternative options for effective communications
  

Lesson Eight: Bullying:

 Objectives:

• Define and recognize characteristics of bullying
• Identify bullying behaviors
• Differentiate between tattling and telling
• Use the DDMM to practice safe ways to report bullying

Lesson Nine: Helping Others

Objectives:

• Identify the importance of being a good citizen
• Recognize the importance or reporting bullying to an adult at school and at home
• Demonstrate the use of DDMM in reporting bullying behaviors
• Reinforce knowledge and positive behaviors to stop bullying

Lesson Ten: Getting Help from Others and Review

Objectives:

• Identify people in student’s lives they can go for if they need help
• Recall previously learned key terms