For Middle School and High School Teachers

Johnny’s Ambassadors Youth THC Prevention wants to support you in teaching THC (vaping, dabbing, smoking, edibles) prevention to your students in the classroom!

TOP TEN TACTICS TO TEACH THC!

If you are employed by a school district and personally teach students in a middle or high school classroom (health, PE, biology, site-based school nurse, prevention counselor, etc.), we have many FREE educational resources to support your substance abuse unit and Youth Marijuana Prevention efforts in the classroom! Click on a picture above for more information.

  1. Become a Certified Johnny’s Ambassadors Trainer and teach our PowerPoint (detailed notes provided) to a group of students. Select “as a volunteer” when registering and identify your school and job title. This is for classroom use.
  2. Copy our worksheets for classroom discussion. Comes with PowerPoint and a teacher guide. We can also mail you hardcopies of the complete magazine (USA addresses only).
  3. We have prevention videos you can project to your screen in class or assembly.
  4. Watch our a series of previously-recorded videos with youth speakers delivering talks on various prevention, self-esteem, success, and leadership topics.
  5. Student leaders who are interested in teaching our THC prevention curriculum to other students can join our TAG TEAM. They will need an adult sponsor (YOU) to supervise their activities, who will receive a small stipend.
  6. Use our online Teen THC Literacy Quiz as a fun, interactive activity for your substance prevention module. Can be taken on any device.
  7. Download the PDF, read online, or request print copies of the Oct. 2024 Scholastic CHOICES magazine with a six-page spread on Johnny’s story and the harms of THC for youth.
  8. Play our “FACT or CRAP” Marijuana Gameshow! Have a competition between students or half of the class vs. the other!
  9. Download a copy of the “Dirty Dozen” PowerPoint slides (with notes) to teach in your substance abuse unit on the top 12 negative outcomes of teen THC use.
  10. Show an entire presentation of Laura giving a one-hour student assembly online, cut up into 5-13 minute segments for your convenience to show over multiple class periods as desired.

The icons above link to each resource. Please email [email protected] if you have any questions on using these resources!