Kids Don't Gamble ... Wanna Bet

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North American Training Institute
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Curriculum Overview

• The goal of this curriculum is to provide
  education and awareness now so youngsters will be
  able to make healthier choices for their future.
  

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Kids Dont Gamble Wanna Bet? Lessons

• The curriculum lesson plans and activities will
• Explore age-appropriate, real-world issues
  associated with games of chance.
  
• Evaluate choices by applying lessons learned in
  interactive, age-appropriate activities.
  
• Use a decision-making model to promote personal
  health, and safety.
  
• Apply age-appropriate concepts of chance and data
  analysis to evaluate information and solve
  problems.

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Kids Dont Gamble Wanna Bet? Lessons

• Grades 3-5
• We recommend you use these lessons for cohorts
  with only 5th graders or a majority of 5th
  graders.
  
• Nine lessons
• Divide across 5 days

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Kids Dont Gamble Wanna Bet? Lessons

• Day 1 Lesson 1 What Do You Know About
  Gambling/Betting? (10 min.) Lesson 2
  Gambling/Betting vs. Games of Chance (20 min.)
  
• Day 2 Lesson 3 Whats the Probability Youll
  Make This Basket? (20 min.) Lesson 4 Walk on
  the Probability Line (30 min.)
  
• Day 3 Lesson 5 Whats Your Chance of Winning
  (15 min.) Lesson 6 Can a Person be Addicted to
  Gambling? (15 min.)
  
• Day 4 Lesson 7 The Luckiest Grandma Puppet Show
  or Play (40 min.)
  
• Day 5 Lesson 8 Lets Talk About The Luckiest
  Grandma (20 min.) Lesson 9 What Have You
  Learned About Gambling/Betting? (10 min.)

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Kids Dont Gamble Wanna Bet? Lessons

• Grades 6-8
• Eleven lessons
• Divide across 5 days

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Kids Dont Gamble Wanna Bet? Lessons

• Day 1 Lesson 1 What Do You Know About
  Gambling/Betting? (10 min.), Lesson 2 What are
  Games of Chance? (10 min.), Lesson 3
  Introduction to Probability Coin Flip Activity
  (20 min.)
• Day 2 Lesson 4 Whats Your Chance of Winning?
  (20 min.) Lesson 5 What Are Your Chances of?
  (20 min.)
  
• Day 3 Lesson 6 Gamblers Ruin A Mathematical
  Formula (15 min.), Lesson 7 Like Alcohol,
  Gambling can be Addicting (10 min.), Lesson 8
  How a Gambling Addiction Progresses (10 min.)
• Day 4 Lesson 9 Andys Story A Young Gambler
  Looks Back (25 min.)
  
• Day 5 Lesson 10 Why and How to Resist an
  Invitation to Gamble (25 min.) Lesson 11 Help
  is Available for a Gambling Addiction (15 min)

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Sample Activities

• Wanna Bet? Grades 3-5 Grades 6-8
• Lesson 5/Lesson 4 Whats Your Chance of Winning