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Dec. 14, 2007

Steroid List

Topic: Individual health

Standard 2: Knows environmental and external factors that affect individual and community health

Benchmark 1.  Knows how the health of individuals can be influenced by the community (e.g., information offered through community organizations; volunteer work at hospitals, food banks, child care centers)

Discussion Questions

  1. Do you think it is the government's responsibility to monitor steroid use in professional sports?

  2. Do you think the government has the right to discipline current players that use steroids?

  3. Do athletes use steroids? Do you think the use of steroids is a problem in high schools?

  4. What are some of the negative side effects of using steroids?
Media Literacy

In Mitchell's report dozens of former and current professional athletes are on the list of steroid users. Why do you think Mitchell revealed this list to the media?


Writing Experience

 

Do you think athletes that use steroids have an unfair advantage over athletes that do not? Has the use of steroids by some players completely changed the game? Write three paragraphs.


Vocabulary

- Anabolic Steroids

- Side effects

- Pacific Garbage Patch

- Allergies

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