|  Grounded Topic: Tobacco, Alcohol, Marijuana, and Inhalant Use Prevention
Grade Level: 3-6
Grounded is a play about a young girl’s very big dilemma. As the new kid in town, Aimy Fairfax is desperate to have friends, but her new friends want her to experiment with cigarettes and alcohol. Children in the audience watch as Aimy expresses her confusion and anxiety and then carefully weighs every aspect of her important decision. With the help of a talking statue and a “Find Out Phaser” she finds in her attic, Aimy finally comes to the understanding that using alcohol, cigarettes, marijuana, or inhalants would seriously hurt the quality of her life, and that she doesn’t have to use those substances to be cool.
- To give students relevant and understandable evidence of how young people can be hurt immediately and in the future by using substances such as cigarettes, alcohol, inhalants, and marijuana
- To teach students how to say no to using these substances by modeling refusal skills
- To discourage experimentation by showing how easily it can lead to use and then to addiction
- To expose advertisers’ influence on young people’s perceptions of cigarette use as “cool”
- To show that abstinence from cigarettes, alcohol, inhalants, and marijuana is not just an obedience issue but a wise, powerful choice a child makes for his/her own good
Space Requirements: 30x25 feet deep x 10 feet high ceiling
Audience Size: 350
Running Time: 40 minutes
Cost: click here
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"We recently had CLIMB's performance at our school. Many of my students will be facing tough choices regarding drugs and alcohol and the information presented in this play will help them to make positive and educated decisions. Besides being entertaining and engaging, the performers gave my students the tools they will need to decline drugs and alcohol. As an educator, I see these programs as an effective means of combating the rising drug and alcohol use in our student population."
-Kris Thompson, Third Grade Teacher, Lincoln Center Elementary, South St. Paul, MN |
