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Teacher Notes on Lesson 14
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Background This lesson introduces and explores risk as possible harm and identifies
specific risk-taking behaviors such as:
It smoking
CI drinking an alcoholic beverage
• using illegal drugs.
Before students determine why these activities put one at risk, they
need to consider why someone would take risks.
Students need to recognize that most people do not expect harm to
come from their behaviors. Indeed, individuals say they often take
risks because such behaviors make them feel:
., excited
.. good
• in control