Youth Making Choices: Gambling Prevention Program

Unit 5: Effects of Gambling on the Individual, Family and CommunityConsolidation and Connection> Helping students demonstrate what they have learned> Providing opportunities for consolidation and reflectionConnectionsIndividual• Distribute Student Resource 3, Gambling Effects Exit Card, to students tocomplete. Students’ anonymity will be maintained, but teacher may wantto share comments next lesson.Individual 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.Strategy/AssessmentToolAfL: AnecdotalCommentsAfL: RAFT TasksDifferentiated Instruction Teaching/Learning ExamplesRole Audience Format Topic1 Friend Adult Personal letter Using personal-letter style, writea letter to a close friend telling theperson you are concerned abouthis or her involvement in gambling.Express understanding and supporttoward your friend while encouragingthe person to seek help or talk withsomeone about his or her difficulties.2 AdvertisingagencyAdult Advertisement Create an advertisement in which yourequest participants for a study of thenegative issues related to gambling.3 Child oryouth of agamblingaddictAdultSeries of diaryentriesWrite a series of diary entries writtenfrom the perspective of a child oryouth of a parent who has a problemwith gambling.4 Healtheducator5 HealthconsultantAdult Poster As a health educator at your school,you are anxious to make the studentpopulation more aware of the needfor care when dealing with activitiesthat include some forms of gambling.Create a poster for the school bulletinboards.Adult Questionnaire Create a questionnaire that youwill hand out to adults who haveconsented to help you gatherinformation about the level ofgambling in a particular population.Youth Making Choices: Gambling Prevention Programwww.ProblemGambling.ca5.5