Name: ______
ALCOHOLISM ACTIVITIES
The following activities will teach you more about alcoholism and put you in someone’s “shoes” that is under the influence of alcohol.
Click on the following links, fill out this sheet and follow the steps below. When you are finished, print out this sheet and turn in your reflection.
Step 1:Visit the following website, read the info, click the buttons on the left-side of the panel, and repeat until you have completed all sections of the interactive body.
NOTES:Stomach:
Heart:
Brain:
Liver:
Step 2:Go to the following website and take the following quiz: Write down the number of questions you got correct in the space below.
______of 9 correct
Step 3:Go to the website - you will do 4 things on this site:
#1: Type in the username: jchs and the password:student to enter the website. Then, left-click on the word “alcohol.” Left-click on “Q&A” and then left-click on “alcohol in the body” and follow the directions. Left-click on close window when finished.
#2: Left-click on “What is alcoholism?” Read the information, left-click on play for the memory game to reveal a hidden message and write it down in the space below. Left-click on close window when finished.
#3: Click on “back to alcohol” in the upper left corner of the screen. Left-click on “health beat” on the right side of the screen. Here you are to explore all four areas from “effects on the body” to “reaction time.” Once you begin the reaction time game, record the information below. You may practice this game all the way through once before recording your scores.
Normal Hits_____ Misses_____ Accuracy
On Alcohol Hits_____ Misses_____ Accuracy
Left-click on close window when finished.
#4: Left-click on “brain check” on the right side of the page. Here you are to take the short quiz and then left-click on “submit” when finished.Write down the number of questions you got correct in the space below.
____ of 10 correct
Step 4:Go to the website on the oval beside male or female and then left-click in the box beside weigh and type in your weight. You are then going to be changing the information on the top line only to find out your estimated BAC level. So, change the information on the top line to match what is listed below and left-click on the box that is labeled “estimate my blood/breath alcohol concentration.” After you have finished with a calculation, left-click the back arrow at the upper left side of the screen to perform the next calculation.Remember, the amount of alcohol in standard servings of 12 ounces of regular beer or a wine cooler, 5 ounces of wine, and 1.5 ounces of 80 proof distilled spirits is the same, whether one drinks it straight or in a mixed drink.
My BAC My BAC
1 beer in 1 hour = ______1 margarita in 1 hour = ______
3 beer in 1 hour = ______3 margarita in 1 hour = ______
7 beer in 1 hour = ______7 margarita in 1 hour =______
4 beer in 2 hour = ______4 margarita in 2 hour = ______
7 beer in 2 hour = ______7 margarita in 2 hour =______
9 beer in 3 hour = ______9 margarita in 3 hour = ______
9 beer in 4 hour = ______9 margarita in 4 hour = ______
Step 5: Go to the following website to access a driving simulator On the left-side of the screen, left-click on the up or down arrows to choose the speeds of 25mph, 35mph, and 45mph.Once you begin, you are to left-click on the brake right below where it says “mph.”You are simply to write down the result of the simulator by stating “not hit” if you didn’t hit the pedestrian or “hit” if you hit the pedestrian. To change the conditions, left-click on the boxes beside "drink driving," “mobile phone,” and “wet weather” when required.
Conditions 25 mph35 mph45 mph
Normal
drunk driving
mobile phone
wet weather
Reflection:
- From these simulations and activities I learned…
- Compare and contrast the affects that eating disorders have on a person’s body to alcoholism.