Identifying and Reducing Risks

Risks are part of life. For example, you risk getting hurt each time you ride your bicycle or use a knife to cut your food. The key to staying safe is to identify and reduce the risks. On the Web site below, you will read a short report from the Center for Disease Control that talks about some of the risky behaviors that teens should avoid.

Link to explore :

http://www.middleweb.com/adolesrisk.html

• Start at the Middleweb site.
• Read through the three articles.
• Take notes as you go. When you are done reading, answer the questions below.
• Finally, using the information from the link, create a "Risk Watch" news bulletin that can be announced at school or sent to the editor of your community newspaper. Include a short introductory sentence saying why it is important to be aware of risks, and then list the most common risks teens take.

1			What are five unhealthy risk behaviors?
2			What are five healthy risk behaviors?
3			Is taking risks a normal part of growing up?
4			What are some red flags which identify dangerous adolescent risk-taking?
5			What is healthy risk-taking?