Our most popular alcohol resources
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Models & interactive displays
Abuse, Booze and Lose Display
Audience: Young people and adults Details: Set of 9 lightweight, plastic alcohol bottles are a clever way to teach about the consequences of alcohol abuse and binge drinking. Bottle labels parody well known brands of alcohol with names such as Be Wiser, Captain Moron, and Southern Discomfort. Topics on the labels range from straightforward statistics to costly consequences |
What you should know about binge drinking [Folding display]
Audience: Young people and adults Details: Send viewers on a "thinking binge". Loaded with compelling facts about the consequences of excessive drinking, this folding display forces young people to take a sobering look at their attitudes toward alcohol use. Discusses alcohol poisoning, explains how sexual behaviours are influenced by alcohol, and gives information on getting help for a drinking problem. 147 cm x 57 cm opened. |
Beer Goggles
Audience: Young people and adults Details: Wearers of the goggles experience the visual distortion, loss of perception, and lack of control that make drunk drivers so dangerous. Can be used with other resources (remote control cars; cones; lines on the ground) to illustrate to non-drivers how alcohol affects movement and judgement. Can also be used as a sex education resource showing the impact of alcohol use when applying contraception. |
Mum's lifeline to baby
Audience: Young people and adults Details: This simple model showing baby, umbilicus and placenta, is designed to explain the effect of mum’s smoking on the levels of oxygen that pass through to baby in the blood (but could also be used in alcohol education). A ‘clip’ is used to represent how blood oxygen levels are restricted by mum’s smoking, denying baby some of the oxygen essential for healthy growth. Comes with explanatory notes and other information. |
DVDs
Get Your Head Round It – Drugs & Alcohol
Format: DVD Audience: 13+ Details: DVD and CD-ROM providing a catalogue of 10 short films and themed lesson plans. Includes a wide range of accessible resources to support teachers and youth workers to deliver effective drug and alcohol education. Covers all aspects of UK drug culture, treatment and vox pops. Watch a clip |
Call it a Night
Format: DVD Details: DVD and learning resource designed to be used for alcohol education programmes in schools and other settings. Aims to raise awareness and issues around alcohol use, peer pressure, risk taking, sexual health and responsibilities of parents. Set in Rotherham. Watch a clip |
Teaching packs, games & activites
Quiz quest on alcohol card game
A unique way of exploring the issues associated with alcohol use. Players need to correctly answer a series of questions in order to complete the ‘quest’. Encourages discussion and debate. Can be played solo, in pairs or in groups. Contains 48 resource cards and 6 sets of quiz cards. |
ZONES: Board game
Audience: 11-15 years, although can be played by 16+. Ideally suited for 3 groups of 4-6 people. Details: Zones is aimed at encouraging young people to think and talk about issues including: smoking, alcohol, drugs, sex and relationships. Includes: Counters and dice, 4 sets of cards and instructions |
Drunk in charge of a body
Audience: Young people Details: This teaching resource provides flexible learning packages that can be modified to suit different groups of young people at different stages of development. It enables professionals to demonstrate the link between sexual health and the effects of alcohol. For use in schools and youth groups, it prompts active discussion and participatory learning about alcohol and its effect on personal and sexual relationships, and increases awareness of the positive and negative influences of alcohol. Cultural values and attitudes, risk-taking behaviour, conflict resolution, the development of skills in decision-making, and communication assertiveness are all explored. |
A little book of alcohol 2nd edition 2012
Audience: 11-19 Details: For young people, alcohol can be easy to access, but how do they know how much is safe to drink? What if they don't want to drink but all their friends do? Do they know what the effects of drinking alcohol are? This hands-on resource will help young people understand all the facts about alcohol, encourage them to think about and discuss the issues, and help them make positive choices. It is packed with engaging and imaginative activities that explore issues such as safe drinking, peer pressure, risks, the effects of alcohol, and alcohol and the media. Activities range from fun group games and challenging quizzes to role-plays and thought-provoking discussions. |
Hammered: young people and alcohol
Audience: 10-25 Details: Extensive examples of exercises and numerous photocopiable resources will help you address issues such as gender, drinking patterns, role models, cultural differences and the law...in ways that are relevant to the whole of the UK. They cover breaking the ice, passing on information, challenging attitudes, and problem-solving skills. Plus there is advice on devising and delivering programmes in different settings (for example, in clubs and detached settings) and details of services that can provide further support, consultancy and resources. Among the resources provided are two quizzes (for 10-11 year-olds, and 11-15 year-olds) and (tucked inside the back flap of the manual) a 2 sided poster, folded so that it can also be used as an information leaflet telling 'a tale of drink, sex and violence' in cartoon form. |
The Healthy Mission CD-ROM
Audience: 5-11 Details: This resource provides teachers with the knowledge and tools to deliver accurate, consistent and credible, healthy lifestyle messages to young people aged between six and eleven years (Key stages 1 & 2). Topics covered include healthy diet, exercise, risk taking and the dangers of alcohol and smoking. The resource contains a Teacher Pack with guidance on using the CD-ROM and sign posting information. |