1. The document provides instructions for creating a screencast answering questions about slides related to drugs and the brain. Students are directed to screencast themselves answering questions while viewing slides full screen without including the questions. 2. A rubric is provided that evaluates students on answering questions with or without screencast and on using their own words. 3. Students are given questions to answer for each slide covering topics like the brain's functions, how neurons and neurotransmitters work, how drugs affect the brain's reward pathway, and how down-regulation impacts an addicted brain.

1. Directions
You will screencast yourself answering the questions
to each of the following 3-4 slides. Directions on
how to screencast are attached and embedded.
You will drag your screen to the PPT in full view but
not include the questions I have on the bottom.
Embed your video in your ePortfolio when you are
done.
Follow along with the following website as a guide:
Slides 4,5,6, http://teens.drugabuse.gov/facts/facts_brain1.php
Slide 7 http://teens.drugabuse.gov/facts/facts_brain2.php

2. General Rubric
1-Answer the 1 and 2 Questions on a document
(no screencast)
2-Answer the 1-4 questions on a document.
3-Screencast yourself answering questions on
slides 4-6. Much of the information is not in
your own words. Embed your video correctly.
4-Screencast yourself (you have a total of 5
minutes) going over the questions on each
slide 4-7. You’ve put almost all the
information in your own words. Embed video.

3. Drugs of
abuse and
the Brain
Put Your Name Here
You will start your screencast here. Make full screen and drag the
screencast so you cannot see the bottom of each slide (this part here)
with the guided questions.

4. The Brain
1- What is the function of the brain
2-Explain how different parts of the brain do different things
3-List several areas of the brain and their functions
4-How does the brain communicate (transition into neurons/next slide)

5. How the Brain Communicates
1-Explain Neurons 3-Explain Receptors
2-What are neurotransmitters 4-Explain the picture

6. What Drugs Do to the Brain
1-What are drugs and what they do (1st paragraph)
2-How do drugs work (2nd paragraph)
3-Explain how drugs of abuse affect the brains reward circuit
4-What the reward pathway/circuit is usually used for……and how drugs confuse it (outside reading)

7. Down-Regulation and the Addicted Brain
1-Why does the limbic system promote pleasurable things
2-What happens when someone first start using drugs http://teens.drugabuse.gov/fa
3-Explain down regulation cts/facts_brain2.php
4-What is the result of the addicted brain