D.A.R.E. Elementary School 5th or 6th Grade Curriculum
The following outlines the new D.A.R.E. Elementary school curriculum. One lesson is presented each week throughout each school semester.
1. PURPOSES AND OVERVIEW OF D.A.R.E. PROGRAM - Introduces students to the D.A.R.E. Program and the D.A.R.E. Decision Making Model and acquaints students with the law enforcement officer.
2. TOBACCO AND YOU - Help students develop knowledge of basic drug facts and the harmful effects of using Tobacco.
3. SMOKE SCREEN - Help students understand the role of advertising in promoting tobacco use and the harmful effects of tobacco and marijuana to the body.
4. ALCOHOL AND YOU - Help students develop knowledge of basis drug facts and the harmful effects of using Alcohol.
5. THE REAL TRUTH - Help students understand the role of advertising in promoting alcohol use and develop knowledge of basic drug facts and the harmful effects of using inhalants.
6. FRIENDSHIP FOUNDATION - Help students understand that there are positive friendships and social support that may assist them to overcome types of peer pressures and use the D.A.R.E. Decision Making Model to respond to peer pressure.
7. PUTTING IT TOGETHER - Teaches confident response styles as a technique for refusing offers to use drugs or other situations where it would be helpful.
8. PERSONAL ACTION - Help students recognize stress encountered in their daily living and to suggest ways to deal with it other than by taking drugs.
9. PRACTICE! PRACTICE! PRACTICE! - Help students express themselves through role playing and developing a written report on what they have learned.
10. SPECIAL EVENT - Provide an appropriate culminating activity to recognize individual achievement of all participants and to reienforce the values and skills they have learned.
D.A.R.E. Middle School 7th and 8th Grade Curriculum
The following outlines the new D.A.R.E. Middle school curriculum - Keepin' it REAL.
Keepin’ it REAL is a multicultural, school-based substance use prevention program for students 12-14 years old. Keepin’ it REAL uses a 10-lesson curriculum taught by trained classroom teachers in 45-minute sessions over 10 weeks, with booster sessions delivered in the following school year. The curriculum is designed to help students assess the risks associated with substance abuse, enhance decisionmaking and resistance strategies, improve antidrug normative beliefs and attitudes, and reduce substance use. The narrative and performance-based curriculum draws from communication competence theory and a culturally grounded resiliency model to incorporate traditional ethnic values and practices that protect against substance use. The curriculum places special emphasis on resistance strategies represented in the acronym REAL: Refuse offers to use substances, Explain why you do not want to use substances, Avoid situations in which substances are used, and Leave situations in which substances are used.