Racing
Against Drugs
May 30 - June 2nd, 2005
Brockville
Memorial Centre
A Team Effort to Promote a Healthy, Drug-Free Lifestyle
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Racing Against Drugs is a community-based drug/alcohol awareness and injury
prevention program for grade 5/6 students originally developed in 1994 through a
partnership of the London RCMP, the Ford Motor company and the former London Board
of Education.
Each Racing Against Drugs event provides up to 25 different learning opportunities
or "pit stops" from Police, Public Health, Addictions agencies and many
other community partners. These pit stops will help to demonstrate the link between
healthy choices and risk taking through various sports/activities with zero
tolerance for drug use.
Pit Stops tell
students the anti-drug, smart risk-taking story.
The primary objective of this drug education initiative is to utilize the sport of
auto racing to capture the attention of young people and communicate with them
through an exciting and high-profile sport where there is no room for error or
impairment from drug use. At one pit stop the event may present the reasons why
smoking interferes with one's ability to succeed in a certain sport, at another
young go-cart drivers will explain their sport and why they don't do drugs while at
another an RCMP officer will show students samples of common street drugs and
explain their use and harmful effects. Experience shows that the racing, environment
captures and holds the attention of young people. They listen and absorb the
anti-drug message.
A complementary Racing Against Drugs Teacher's package, developed by the Durham
regional public and separate school boards is available. The learning begins in the
classroom where teachers deliver the Racing Against Drugs curriculum and engage the
students in pre-event activities. This curriculum is based on the Ontario curriculum
expectations. It can stand-alone or be a learning tool to reinforce the actual
lessons from your 1/2 day participation at the annual Racing Against Drugs event.
The assessment unit is intended for use at the conclusion of the Racing Against
Drugs program (time permitted) to assist teachers in providing students with the
opportunity to consolidate their learning from the content of the program. It has
been prepared in the format of the Provincial Assessment for Reading, Writing and
Mathematics and provides direct links with the Healthy Living strand from the
Ontario curriculum: Health and Physical Education and Science and Technology: Life
Systems-Human Organ Systems. For further links regarding this curriculum information
please visit:
www.autonet.ca/rad |
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