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Learning activity 5: What is a drug?

CORE CONCEPT POINTS TO NOTE WHAT YOU NEED
All medicines are drugs, but not all drugs The List and Sort activity allows - Paper
are medicines. everyone to contribute to the - Empty containers from some
over-the-counter medicines
discussion. Refer to CCEA’s
Drugs Guidance for Schools in (for example aspirin, cough

SUGGESTED SUCCESS CRITERIA Northern Ireland (2004) section mixtures, etc)
We will know that medicines need to be used with care. 1 for further information. See WHAT TO DO
Resource section for further details.
We will demonstrate strategies to resist experimenting - List and Sort

with dangerous substances. - Rules Around Drugs
We will understand the different roles in a group and - Role Play
- Newsletter
take responsibility for appropriate tasks.

List and Sort

Distribute paper to each child. Ask them to think Next, ask the children to partner group to report back what their

back to the last day/week/month/year and up and share their information group’s findings were. List these
with each other. Then, ask them to
on the board and discuss. Sort
recall any medicine they took because they were form groups of four (two partners these items into two categories:
injured or sick. Then, ask them to draw and label together) and again share their those that can be bought over-

this on one side of the paper. On the other side of information – this might lead to the-counter in a pharmacy or
some suggestions being replicated.
a supermarket (for example
the paper, ask them to draw and label one other Next, ask them to appoint a paracetemol or asprin) and
medicine that they have heard about or seen. reporter and recorder. Ask the those that can only be got with
recorder to list the range of a prescription or from a hospital
medicines they identified. Finally, (for example antibiotics,
ask the reporter from each tranquillisers or inhalers).