| Slick Tracy Grade 6 With a comic-strip theme and entertaining activities, Slick Tracy draws young people and their families together to discuss alcohol-related issues. Students follow the adventures of Slick Tracy and his comic-book classmates, like Marty "The Party" Jones and Stressed Tess. Designed as a once-a-week, one-month program. The Slick Tracy curriculum package includes a teacher's guide, 30 sets of four comic books, 30 envelopes, and one poster. Spanish translation available. Slick Tracy Urban Edition Grade 6 Adapted to better reflect the experiences and diversity of urban youth and their families, the Slick Tracy Urban Edition features new artwork, different comic book scenarios, and revised and updated home activities. Successfully field-tested in 63 Chicago public schools. Designed as a once-a-week, one-month program. Dual English/Spanish student/parent materials. Curriculum includes teacher's guide, 30 sets of four Spanish/English flip comic books, and one Slick Tracy scoreboard poster. Amazing Alternatives! Grade 7 Imaginative, kid-tested ideas about resisting alcohol get students and their peers talking and problem solving. Materials focus on immediate, social consequences of alcohol as well as the long-term health consequences. Eight weekly classroom sessions. Curriculum includes teacher's guide, four CDs, blackboard game, and two posters. PowerLines Grade 8 Reinforcing the messages and strategies of Slick Tracy and Amazing Alternatives!, PowerLines gets kids thinking about how community groups and organizations--parents, police, schools, media, liquor stores and bars, and local government--influence prevention efforts. An eight-session program. Curriculum includes teacher's guide and CD. Community Component: Supercharged! Sharing strategies that worked in Project Northland communities, Supercharged! delivers valuable insight and practical techniques for implementing the program's parent/community component. Includes a 130-page three-ring binder and 30 activity planners. Class Action: A High School Alcohol Use Prevention Curriculum Grades 9-12 by Cheryl L. Perry, Ph.D., Carolyn L. Williams, Ph.D., and Sara Veblen-Mortenson, M.S.W., M.P.H. Developed by the University of Minnesota This high-school component of Project Northland looks at the real-world social and legal consequences of underage alcohol use. Based on the social influences theory of behavior change, the goal of Class Action is to change the social norms around alcohol use and to change negative peer pressure into positive peer pressure. In eight to ten weekly sessions, teens are divided into six legal teams to prepare and present hypothetical civil cases in which someone has been harmed as a result of underage drinking. The six cases are Drinking and Driving on Trial, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome on Trial, Drinking and Violence on Trial, Date Rape on Trial, Drinking and Vandalism on Trial, and School Alcohol Policies on Trial. Class Action has been shown to
The curriculum includes 42 casebooks (seven of each title), one set of six CDs, one teacher's manual with reproducible handouts in a three-ring binder, and 30 each of four parent postcards. Free Spanish translations are available for parent postcards. |
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Class Action: A High School Alcohol Use Prevention Curriculum Grades 9-12 Request a Project Northland Grant Writing Toolkit |
