Alcohol Education for Youths- A Laboratory-Based Experience

描述（由申请人提供）：很少有针对高中生的有效的基于研究的酒精和毒品预防教育计划，旨在适应高中科学教育工作者面临的时间和课程限制。这部分是由于与酒精预防教育相关的内容与强制性的州和国家科学教育标准之间缺乏一致性。事实上，中学一级的大多数预防教育是在卫生课而不是科学课上提供的。为了满足对具有科学内容的酒精抵抗教育材料的迫切需求，该项目将补充实践实验室科学经验，并采取后续干预措施，预防研究表明，预防和减少早期饮酒是有效的。专家们认为，以内容为基础的课程如果辅之以同伴支持小组、抵抗技能建设、规范教育，并包括社区参与和媒体内容，则最为有效。该项目将创建一个基于探究的课程补充符合国家和国家科学教育标准，将通过同伴介导的助推器计划来增强，以提高学生对酒精的生物和认知影响的理解。这些材料将使学生了解酒精对身体和大脑的影响，特别强调酒精如何影响青少年的冒险和决策。此外，该计划还将满足教师对易于实施的需求，并将利用教学指导促进高效和有效的专业发展。拟议的课程补充将采用一种基于探究的实验室方法，探讨乙醇脱氢酶在酒精代谢中的作用，以及过量酒精对这一代谢过程的影响。大脑结构和功能的基础知识将被探索，使学生了解酒精如何损害决策，并导致危险行为。这些课程将包括一个渐进的角色扮演，将单元联系在一起，为学生提供机会，利用他们对酒精对身体和大脑影响的循证知识做出明智的决定。一个在线组成部分将包括一个网站和后续电子邮件通信与学生和领导人在学校的学生支持团体，提供助推器材料和信息，以参与该计划。材料将包括匿名在线筛查的风险行为，规范信息，并为学生成为参与同行为目标的社区服务项目的建议。 公共卫生相关性：该项目将汇集一个高中教师和学生，科学家和教育工作者的团队，开发一个基于探究的实验室科学课程补充，将酒精预防研究的最佳实践与合理的科学内容和教学法相结合。课程补充将探讨酒精的生物学，作为教授学生基本生物学内容和鼓励负责任决策的一种手段。这种课堂资源将通过网络支持的同伴介导的助推器计划来补充，以使学生更深入地了解酒精的生物学效应。这些材料将使学生有机会在同龄人面前将新学到的知识用于决策，从而促进戒酒和改善公共卫生。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): There are few effective research-based alcohol and drug prevention education programs targeted to high school students that are designed to fit into the time and curricular constraints high school science educators face. This is due, in part, to a perceived lack of alignment between the content associated with alcohol prevention education and the mandated state and national science education standards. In fact, most prevention education at the high school level is provided in health classes rather than in science classes. To address the urgent need for alcohol resistance education materials that are firmly grounded in science content, this project will complement hands-on laboratory science experiences with follow-up interventions that prevention research has shown to be effective in preventing and reducing early drinking. Experts suggest that content-based curricula are most effective when complemented by peer support groups, resistance skill building, normative education, and include community involvement and media components. This project will create an inquiry-based curriculum supplement consistent with state and national science education standards that will be augmented by a peer-mediated booster program to enhance students' understanding of the biological and cognitive effects of alcohol. The materials will enable students to understand the effects of alcohol on the body and brain, with a particular emphasis on how alcohol influences adolescent risk-taking and decision-making. Further, this program will also meet teachers' need for easy implementation and will utilize instructional mentorship to promote efficient and effective professional development. The proposed curriculum supplement will employ an inquiry-based laboratory approach to explore the role of the enzyme alcohol dehydrogenase in the metabolism of alcohol as well as the consequences of excess alcohol on this metabolic process. The basics of brain structure and function will be explored to enable students to understand how alcohol impairs decision-making and leads to risky behavior. The lessons will incorporate a progressive role-play that ties the unit together, providing students with opportunities to use their developing evidence-based knowledge of the effects of alcohol on the body and brain to make informed decisions. An online component will include a website and follow-up email communication with students and leaders of in-school student support groups to provide booster materials and information to participants in the program. Materials will include anonymous online screenings for at-risk behavior, normative information, and suggestions for students to become involved in peer-targeted community service projects. Public Health Relevance: This project will bring together a team of high school teachers and students, scientists, and educators to develop an inquiry-based laboratory science curriculum supplement that integrates best practices from alcohol prevention research with sound science content and pedagogy. The curriculum supplement will explore the biology of alcohol as a means of teaching students both essential biology content as well as encouraging responsible decision-making. This in-class resource will be complemented by a web-supported peer-mediated booster program to provide students with a deeper understanding of the biological effects of alcohol. These materials will provide students with opportunities to use their newly acquired knowledge in decision-making contexts in the presence of their peers, thereby promoting alcohol resistance and improved public health.