Web Adventures to Teach Adolescents about Inhalant Abuse

描述（由申请人提供）：为了解决NIDA的科学教育重点“扩大科学信息的使用，以教育公众关于药物滥用和成瘾的真实的性质”，创建了一个成功的教育模式，以教导青少年滥用药物。由以前的NIDA赠款资助，关于阿片类药物和俱乐部药物的网络冒险系列名为重建者（http：reconstructors.rice.edu）。它已经过实地测试，并证明具有重大的教育影响。此外，该系列还获得了国家奖项，实现了国际传播，并导致了几个科学教育和多媒体出版物。提出了一个新的网络冒险，重点是吸入剂。NIDA的研究表明，吸入剂作为青少年越来越多地滥用的一类物质的重要性。中学生和他们的科学教师都想更多地了解吸入剂对人体的影响，但他们不太可能把教学时间花在吸入剂的影响上，除非它能与当前的科学课程内容紧密结合。因此，网络冒险系列将作为一种有效和高效的方式，通过纳入国家科学标准，在规定的中学课程范围内教授吸入剂。这种方法为科学教师提供了一个补充预防工作的计划，同时仍然涵盖了规定的科学内容。网络冒险教吸入剂有五个主要目标：1。直接结合国家科学标准，增加学生对吸入剂生物效应的科学知识;比较两个版本的网络冒险（科学版和科学加版本）对控制条件，以确定短期和长期的影响，激励学生不使用吸入剂; 3。模型科学过程技能和描绘各种各样的科学职业通过网络冒险; 4.根据现场测试的结果修改Web Adventure，并在Web上免费启动。5.鼓励通过积极的传播和出版物广泛使用INHALANT网络冒险。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): To address the science education focus of NIDA to "expand the use of scientific information to educate the public about the real nature of drug abuse and addiction," a successful educational model to teach adolescents about drugs of abuse has been created. Funded by previous NIDA grants, the web adventure series on OPIOIDS and CLUB DRUGS is titled THE RECONSTRUCTORS (http://reconstructors.rice.edu). It has been field tested and proven to have significant educational impact. In addition, the series has garnered national awards, achieved international dissemination, and resulted in several science education and multimedia publications. A new web adventure to focus on INHALANTS is proposed. NIDA research indicates the prominence of inhalants as a class of substances that adolescents are increasingly abusing. Both middle school students and their science teachers want to know more about the impact of inhalants on the human body, but it is unlikely that they will devote instructional time on the impacts of inhalants, unless it can be closely aligned with current science curriculum content. Therefore, the web adventure series will serve as an effective and efficient way to teach about inhalants within the context of the prescribed middle school curriculum by incorporating the National Science Standards. This approach provides science teachers with a program to complement prevention efforts, while still covering the mandated science content. Web Adventures to Teach about Inhalants has five primary goals: 1. lncrease students' science knowledge about the biological effects of inhalants by directly incorporating the National Science Standards; 2. Compare two versions of web Adventure (Science only version and a Science plus version) against a control condition to determine short and long term impacts in motivating students not to use inhalants; 3. Model science process skills and portray a wide variety of science careers through the Web adventure; 4. Modify the web adventure based upon the results of the field tests and launch it on the web for free access. 5. Encourage widespread use of the INHALANT web adventure through aggressive dissemination and publications.