Project ALERT Curriculum
An overview of the curriculum, lesson summaries, and classroom materials are available on this page. Materials can be downloaded either grouped by lesson or as individual files.
Booster 1: Motivating Resistance to Drugs
Re-introduces Project ALERT; reviews consequences of nicotine, marijuana, alcohol; reviews the safe use of prescription medications and risks of misuse; and reviews sources of pressure.
Lesson Goals
- 1. Remind students of the social, psychological, and physical consequences of drug use as a means of motivating resistance
- 2. Increase resistance self-efficacy by helping students understand the nature and variety of pressures to use drugs and by providing practice in resisting them
Teacher Materials
- Booster Lesson 1 Teacher Manual (2026) Spanish
- Booster Lesson 1 Teacher Slides (2026) Spanish
- Booster Lesson 1 Teacher Manual (2026)
- Poster: Vaping Leads To...
- Poster: Vaping and Smoking Makes You Less Attractive
- Poster: Vaping and Smoking Affects Your Heart and Lungs
- Poster: Prescription Drugs Go Straight To Your Head
- Poster: Nicotine Is Addicting
- Poster: Marijuana Can Damage You In The Long Run
- Poster: Marijuana Can Affect You Right Away
- Poster: Alcohol Can Harm You Any Time You Drink
- Poster: Alcohol Can Damage You In the Long Run
- Booster Lesson 1 Teacher Slides (2026)
Student Handouts
Does not apply for this lesson.
Supplemental Materials
- Message to Parents about Continuing the Conversation Spanish
- Continuing the Conversation: Booster Lesson 1 Spanish
- Message to Parents about Continuing the Conversation
- Continuing the Conversation: Booster Lesson 1
- Google Slide Instructions (Spanish)
- Google Slide Instructions
- Optional Outcomes Measurement: Brief Student Survey - Paper
- Answers to Test Your Drug IQ (2023) Spanish
- Answers to Test Your Drug IQ (2023) English
- Test Your Drug IQ (2023) Spanish
- Test Your Drug IQ (2023) English
- Optional Process Measurement: Activity Checklists (2026)