Choices

3 Twenty-five Minute Programs
Grade(s): 4 - 6
Curriculum:  Health/Guidance

Choices is composed of three programs designed to help students with the social choices they have to make.

Programs:

  1. Friends and Strangers   (23:15)
    Two girls see their friend talking to a stranger. They relate the episode to a teacher who calls up a character called "Guardian", on the computer. He takes them on an adventure educating them about temptation and stranger awareness.

  2. Good Choices...Bad Choices   (24:50)
    Pre-Teens are enticed by a "older" teen to experiment with alcohol and marijuana. They discuss using with drugs in order to "hang-out" with the older teens. A baseball player "magically" appears from a poster on the wall. He guides the kids into the future to witness the effects drugs have on the lives of users.

  3. Choosing to be Smoke-Free  (24:59)
    Two girls caught smoking in school are assigned the task of making an anti-smoking video which will be shown to the entire student body. While making the video, the girls discover many terrible effects of tobacco use.