Youth Making Choices: Gambling Prevention Program

Unit 3: ProbabilityDifferentiated Instruction Teaching/Learning ExamplesConnectionsRole Audience Format Topic1 Teacher YoungchildrenGraphs, etc.Plan a series of probability experimentsfor students in grades 3 to 5 to teachthem what you have learned in thissession.2 HealtheducatorAdultGameevaluationEvaluate a number of child and youthgames to determine the amount ofgambling that is part of the game.Present your material in a report youwill give to the parent council of asenior public school.3 Teacher Students Terminologyfact sheet4 Friend Youth Personale-mailPrepare a fact sheet with terminologyfrom this session and multipleexamples to explain each term.Write an e-mail to a friend whom younow suspect, after what you havelearned in this unit, is much deeper intogambling activities than you thought.Express your concern and the reasonsfor that concern.5 GroupcounsellorAdultsBusinessletterWatching and listening to your afterschoolgroup play and converse witheach other, you are concerned abouttheir talk about evening computeractivities: pool, hearts, euchre,blackjack, etc., which involve a levelof gambling. Prepare a proposal to dofurther research into this matter.6 Self Adult Survey You have listened to a presentation ongambling and you suspect that youractivities include a number of gamblingactivities. Keep a record for a week ofthe games you play and record yourresult with summation in an appropriatemanner.7 Teacher,studenthelperAdult Conversation You are a student helper for a teacher.You admire the professionalism of theteacher but you are concerned thatthis person may be seriously involvedin casino activities. You are fearful ofserious consequences for this teacher.Write the conversation that you willhave with this individual to try to seeif your thoughts are correct, and alsoto judge the teacher’s willingness toseek help.Youth Making Choices: Gambling Prevention Programwww.ProblemGambling.ca3.6