Curricula

Explorando La Mente: Las Respuesta del Cerebro a los Medicamentos de Prescripcion

Prescription Medications

Mind Over Matter

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Slide Teaching Packets CD ROM

Health and Medical Professionals

Brain Power! The NIDA Junior Scientist Prog: Grades K-1

Offers an interactive science education program for students in grades K–1 about scientists, the brain, the nervous system, and the effects of drugs on the human body. Includes five learning modules, a teachers’ guide, videotape, poster, and parent newsletter.

Brain Power! The NIDA Junior Scientist Prog: Grades 4-5 (DVD Only)

Brain Power! The NIDA Junior Scientist Prog: Grades 4-5 DVD

Offers an interactive science education program for students in grades 4–5 to explore the human brain and the effects of drugs on the brain. Includes six modules, a teacher’s guide, parent newsletter, DVD, and poster.

Brain Power! The NIDA Junior Scientist Prog: Grades 4-5 VHS

Brain Power! Challenge Posters Grade 6-9 (5 groups of 6 different posters in 1 set)

Brain Power! The NIDA Junior Scientist Prog: Grades 2-3 (DVD Only)

Brain Power! The NIDA Junior Scientist Prog: Grades 2-3 DVD

Provides a science program for students in grades 2–3 to educate them about their brains, why they should protect them, and how drugs such as nicotine and inhalants can hurt their brains. Includes six modules, a teacher’s guide, a parent’s guide, and a DVD.

Brain Power! The NIDA Junior Scientist Prog: Grades 2-3 VHS

Mind Over Matter: The Brain's Response to Methamphetamine

Explains how methamphetamine acts in the body and the brain and what happens with long-term use of the drug.

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The Brain: Understanding Neurobiology Through the Study of Addiction

Equips teachers and students in grades 9 through 12 with interactive curriculum on the neurobiology of the brain as a result of drug abuse and addiction.

Addiction Science

Mind Over Matter: The Brain's Response to Nicotine

Describes how nicotine acts on the heart to change heart rate and blood pressure, and discusses dependency, treatment, and effects of long-term nicotine use.

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Mind Over Matter: The Brain's Response to Marijuana

Explains how THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, causes changes in the brain that affect memory, emotions, balance, and judgment.

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Mind Over Matter: The Brain's Response to Opiates

Describes how opiates, such as Vicodin, morphine, heroin, and codeine, affect the brain, the nervous system, and the limbic system, which controls emotions.

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Mind Over Matter: The Brain's Response to Inhalants

Describes how inhalants, such as hair spray, gasoline, and spray paint, can cause nerve cell damage in the brain that can affect the body in a lot of ways.

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