Youth Making Choices: Gambling Prevention Program

Unit 7: Reducing RiskExpert Groups• Teacher provides material to be read about the range of influences,fighting reductionism, motivation, calculated risk, genetic and personalbiological factors, cultural and media factors, existential issues andmagical thinking, peer pressure and societal expectations.• Individuals will study their topics and summarize information for afact sheet.• Students are to define and clarify terms as needed.• Each student presents the information summation for group.Whole Class Debrief• Teacher highlights key findings using SMART Ideas on PowerPoint.• Students are encouraged to form generalizations from specific facts.• Conclude with a summary of key learning from this unit.ConnectionsAfL: Fact Sheet,Summary, OralPresentationAfL: AnecdotalComments,Generalizations, BigQuestion IdeasConsolidation and Connection> Helping students demonstrate what they have learned> Providing opportunities for consolidation and reflectionIndividual• Students create a schematic form of the influences affecting decisionmaking, using a variety of graphic organizer styles.AfL: Schematic FormIndividual Raft Assignments• The RAFT assignments are differentiated based on student intelligencepreferences. RAFT assignments can be done independently, or inpairs or groups in class or out of class. In all cases students require anunderstanding of the aspects of a RAFT topic, and rubrics need to besupplied for all topic possibilities.Differentiated Instruction Teaching/Learning ExamplesRole Audience Format Topic1 Pollresearcher2 YouthcounsellorYouth Survey The provincial government has askedfor statistics on the ability of youthto deconstruct incidents in theirlives. Create a survey that can gatherinformation about how much youth areable to deconstruct, and outline factorsinfluencing their actions.Youth Flyer Create a flyer, which you will hand outat the next school assembly, that will tellstudents about a conversation groupfor youth and adults in which the youthattempt to explain their age group’sinterest in gambling.Youth Making Choices: Gambling Prevention Programwww.ProblemGambling.ca7.6