Students investigate drugs in sports. In this performance enhancing drugs instructional activity, students discuss the uses for steroids in medicine and sports. Students utilize the web to play a steroid related game, view media clips of...

Students participate in different physical skills that celebrate Red Ribbon Week. In this Red Ribbon Week lesson, students are divided into groups and participate in various learning stations which include jump rope, skipping, and...

Students view a PBS "In the Mix" video about soccer and identify the benefits of playing the sport. They examine how playing a sport can help prevent tobacco abuse and design posters depicting the benefits of soccer.

Students take a closer look at sports science. In this hands-on learning lesson, students may visit the Science Museum, the Life Science Centre, or the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum online or in-person to discover details related to the...

Get the facts of this Schedule I highly addictive drug that is running rampant in cities across the United States right now.

A collection of resources examines the drug situation around the world with a focus on heroin. Know what heroin is, how it is made, and what it is made from. Why is it such a threat?

A comprehensive, current source of drug information, including drug descriptions, slang terms, effects on the body, pictures, and federal classifications for over 40 commonly abused drugs.

Do you know the drugs teens abuse? This drug guide shows the top thirteen drugs most commonly abused by teens, including their street names, photos, effects, and signs of abuse.

Organized into several very brief sections, this website from Partnership for a Drug-Free America is a good overview of the designer drug called ecstasy. Learn what the slang names of this drug are and how the drug affects the body and...

Get the facts on the use and abuse of performance enhancing substances in sports. Includes toolkits, contest information, fact sheets, and other resources.

This site from the Partnership for a Drug-Free America is organized in question/answer format, this website provides a good introduction for students wanting to know about PCP and its hazardous effects on the human body and brain.

Read brief responses to several questions concerning marijuana, its characteristics, it short-term and long-term effects, and its federal classification.

Resource includes signs and symptoms of inhalant abuse and explains both the short-term and long-term effects associated with huffing and sniffing chemicals.

Organized into question and answer format, this page defines cocaine and crack cocaine as well as their addiction issues.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this online tutorial students will learn how drugs affect the nervous system.

This program uses scientific techniques to examine how drugs effect the brain. Its ultimate goal is to present students with the negative effects of substance abuse and show the benefits of staying substance free. Each of the lessons...

This article provides information regarding anabolic androgenic steroids. Learn what they are, what they look like, how they are used and their short and long-term effects.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how drugs affect the nervous system.

This online quiz helps teens gauge the amount of pressure they are experiencing from their friends to act and do as others do, plus suggestions for helping then stay free of negative influences.

This is a simple guide from The Franklin Institute to keeping your heart healthy through proper exercise, a varied diet, and a clean lifestyle. Here, read about how to exercise and eat to avoid heart disease.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This unit helps children to learn that there are many aspects to keeping healthy. Children learn about the heart and how heartbeat is affected by exercise. It gives opportunities to explore issues about...