New Elementary
This NEW D.A.R.E. curriculum challenges students by having them
participate in active learning. The benefit to the students
is the strong foundation of decision-making skills that
they apply to real life situations about the use of alcohol,
tobacco, marijuana and inhalants. These important
decision-making skills are acted on through a spiraling set of
group and paired activities. The students are actively engaged
as they learn how to cope with the pressures associated with
adolescence.
The new D.A.R.E. elementary curriculum has been shortened to
nine lessons and a culmination. Topic areas are more specific to
the needs of this age group, with an emphasis on student
progression. While practical, the lessons are also fun. Students
make the lessons come to life while practicing new skills.
Each lesson is structured with Goals and Objectives—in order
to meet the National Health Education Standards. The format of
instruction provides practical information throughout the
lessons and allows the students to learn from each other.
The lessons on normative beliefs include national data about
teen use of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs to help children
better understand how few of their peers actually do use these
substances.
Classroom instructors and the student’s parents will also be
called upon to play a supportive role. The teachers are more
directly involved as a partner in cooperative learning with the
D.A.R.E. Officers. At times, parents will have opportunities to
be “taught” by their children.
In addition to presenting the elementary curriculum, D.A.R.E.
officers visit the kindergarten through fourth grade classes at
the schools. These visits focus on child safety and prevention
issues. Students are alerted to the potential dangers in the
misuse of drugs, medicine, and other substances. There is a
recognition of the need to help students at this level develop
an awareness that alcohol and tobacco are also drugs. Four
D.A.R.E. sessions are held for grades K-2 and five sessions are
held in 3rd and 4th grades.
2nd
Grade Curriculum
3rd/4th
Grade Curriculum
Planner for Elementary Curriculum
Program