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The Body's Response to Cocaine

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  (Creativa Images) It is very important to educate students about drugs and their effects. I feel that educating at a younger age is the most beneficial because instilling that drugs are bad early will follow them as they grow up and hopefully deter them from trying them. I wanted to discuss the lesson about The Body’s Response to Cocaine because I think it’s an excellent lesson. This lesson is geared towards grades 5-9. This lesson first starts out by discussing what cocaine is. I like how it also included other names for cocaine like blow, coke, or snow. I think it is important to educate students that there can be other names or nicknames for drugs. It is important because if they only know one name, they may try it if someone introduces it as an unfamiliar name. The lesson also includes how people use cocaine and how it works. This information is important for students to look out for incase they see their friends or people they know doing acts like snorting powder through the...