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A person who consciously decides to support another person because it is the right thing to do. This is different from being a friend.
What is an ally?
Name something that causes bad breath, stains on the teeth and tongue, and helps ugly tartar to build up on the teeth.
What is tobacco?
When you're angry, acting on the first thought that pops into your head can lead to severe consequences. What should we do in order to stay in control of our emotions and our actions?
What is Notice, Pause, Think Twice, & Calm Down if necessary? What are the Steps for Staying in Control?
This substance has more cancer-causing chemicals than tobacco and four times as much cancer-causing tar.
What is marijuana?
Tell me someone you can go to when you are in trouble or when you need help with any situation. It is especially helpful to know someone like this when you feel as if you are in danger.
What is a trusted adult?
Any person who is aware that bullying is happening. There are positive ones and negative ones. The positive ones do the right thing.
What is a bystander?
The thalamus sorts different sensory input and sends it to an area in the automatic part of the brain that is referred to as the "feelings alarm."
What is the amygdala?
Centered breathing stimulates a nerve that runs from the brain down to the heart and lungs. It helps the heart and lungs to slow down. What is the name of the nerve?
What is the vagus nerve?
In teenagers, this set of organs are unable to grow properly if you smoke.
What are the lungs?
Imagine you are being picked on in the hallway by someone older than you. Another student sees this happening and asks you if you're okay and if you wanted to walk to class with them? What is the name for the person that just helped you?
What is a positive bystander? What is an ally?
It can happen to anyone. Your brain changes so that it wants certain things more than anything else. You feel like you need it.
What is addiction?
This part of the brain is known as the thinking part of the brain. This is where decision making and reasoning take place. It sends messages to our feelings alarm and tells it to calm down. Teen use of drugs and alcohol can damage this part of the brain.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
You're sitting in class and Mr. Wallace says "POP QUIZ!!" You immediately start to panic. Give me an example of something you could do to relax yourself at your desk.
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Using this substance is bad for your heart and is a major cause of heart attacks.
What is tobacco? What is smoking cigarettes?
Name someone that works at Centerstone that teaches lessons on emotion management, dealing with bullies, and making healthy life decisions.
Who is Mrs. Ondia?
The ability to identify and understand the feelings of others and respond in a thoughtful and positive way.
What is having empathy?
This area of the brain is responsible for memory and learning. Drug and alcohol use can damage this part of the teen brain.
What is the hippocampus?
You have just heard an untrue rumor about yourself. What calming down technique could you use to help you stay in control of your emotions?
Ex. "I know that isn't true," I am a good person," or "I can handle this."
What is positive self-talk?
Using these substances can starve your brain and body of oxygen. It can also make your heart stop suddenly the very first time you try to use it. It can damage your sense of hearing, smell and eyesight.
What is an inhalant?
This individual works here in the school. They listen to student concerns about academic, emotional, and social problems. Their job is to offer you resources that will help you with any situation. Tell me the name of this person.
Who is Mrs. Carla Wallace, the school guidance counselor?
When one or more people repeatedly harm, harass, intimidate, or exclude others. It is unfair and one-sided.
What is bullying?
This drug affects self-control, sense of time, coordination, and the ability to pay attention, making users more likely to get hurt or have accidents.
What is marijuana?
You are in a heated argument with your classmate and you are both yelling at each other. Tell me what calming down technique you could use to help you get control of your emotions so that the problem can be solved in a calmer way.
What is centered breathing?
This kind of cancer kills more people than any other type of cancer.
What is lung cancer?
Give me two names of adults that can help you with a problem here in the school?
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