Use these animated illustrations, quizzes, activities, and games to test your students’ knowledge, clarify concepts, and make learning fun through interaction.
Test Your Knowledge
- Description: Online, interactive quizzes about different drugs.
Use the quizzes as in-class activities or homework assignments.
- Supplemental Quiz: Ecstasy/MDMA
National Drug IQ Challenge (links to the NIDA National Drug Facts Week Web site)
- Description: Interactive quiz about the latest drug facts and statistics.
- Use as an in-class activity for the entire class, small groups, or individual students to begin a discussion about drug abuse.
- Description: Diagram where students match side effects of steroid use with affected parts of the body.
- Use this activity as a take-home assignment, group assignment, or lesson warm-up activity.
Brain and Addiction
- Description: Timed memorization activity that leads into a discussion about the brain and addiction.
- Use this activity as an introduction for a unit on drug abuse and addiction.
HIV/AIDS and Drug Abuse—the Link
- Description: Group activity where students develop their own quiz about the connection between HIV and drugs.
- Use this activity to encourage students to think more broadly about how drugs can affect a person’s life.
- Description: Classroom game where students match body parts, body functions, and inhalant effects.
- Use this activity as a tool to get students to interact and to highlight how inhalants affect the body.
- Description: Project where students write about the facts of marijuana use.
- Use this activity to help students shatter the myths about marijuana.
Prescription Drug Abuse
- Description: Online scavenger hunt that asks questions about prescription drug abuse using articles from NIDA’s Heads Up: Real News About Drugs and Your Body curriculum.
- Use this activity to encourage students to work together to learn about the dangers of prescription drug abuse.
- Description: Mock doctor’s report about stimulant abuse where students fill in the missing words about stimulant effects.
- Use this activity as a pre- or post-lesson activity to test students’ knowledge of stimulants and their effects.
- Description: Cause-and-effect game where students match the parts of a cigarette to their health effects.
- Use this activity as an introduction or wrap-up activity for a lesson about tobacco.
Interactive Videos and Games
Brain Games (links to archived NIDA Web site)
- Description: Interactive online games about drug abuse and addiction.
- Use these activities as classroom projects or assign them as homework.
PEERx: Get Involved
- Description: Creative activities to encourage students to learn about the dangers of prescription drug abuse.
- Use this guide to select a creative and engaging activity to help students learn about prescription drug abuse.
PEERx: Choose Your Path Videos
- Description: Videos about prescription drug abuse where the viewer chooses the path the characters will take.
- Use these short videos to let students explore the possible consequences of prescription drug abuse.
PEERx: Peer Into Your Path
- Description: A step-by-step guide on how to make a Choose Your Path video about prescription drug abuse.
- Ask students to develop their own stories that explore the possible consequences of abusing prescription drugs. Use it as an extra credit project!