The Facts
Curriculum
Preventing Underage Drinking Through Education
ZeroProof supports educators with creative lesson plans that help students build real skills. These lessons go beyond awareness. They are designed to strengthen protective factors such as confidence, peer support, future planning, and self-expression so students feel capable making healthy choices.
Most teens don’t drink. When students understand that reality (and see their peers modeling positive behavior) social pressure shifts. These lessons help students recognize their influence, practice refusal and intervention skills. They learn to connect healthy decisions to goals they care about.
Developed in collaboration with the Albuquerque Public Schools, these downloadable lesson plans meet New Mexico benchmarks and performance standards for the appropriate grade levels. Each lesson can be adapted to fit your classroom needs.
Health Curriculum
The health curriculum focuses on skill-building, critical thinking, and peer influence. Students explore how alcohol affects the developing brain, practice navigating scenarios they might find themselves in, and reflect on how everyday decisions shape their future. Practical skills are practiced through these lessons.
• Assertive communication
• Refusal skills
• Safe intervention skills
• Goal setting and future planning
• Evaluating risk and consequence
• Supporting friends in unsafe situations
Teens are empowered when they feel like they have agency and have the power to make their own choices. Rather than relying on fear-based messaging, this curriculum strengthens the decision-making options students can exercise in real life situations when alcohol is present.
• Leave a situation that feels unsafe
• Refuse clearly and confidently
• Help a friend who may be impaired
• Choose paths that align with their goals.
Art Curriculum
The art curriculum invites students to explore identity, influence, and choice through visual expression. Using art history, design principles, color theory, and mixed media techniques, students create work that reflects who they are and what they value.
Rather than promoting abstinence as a rule, these projects encourage reflection. Students consider how their choices align with who they want to become. When students see themselves as capable, creative, and influential, healthy decisions feel less like restrictions and more like ownership. Through art, students build important skills.
• Examine how images influence behavior and perception
• Explore how advertising shapes choices
• Create artwork that reflects their authentic identity
• Use text and symbolism to communicate personal values
• Connect art to real life decisions and values
What Would Your Brain Say?
Choose Your Own Adventure!
Decision-making Testimonials & Discussion Activity
Drinking Situations Role Play Activity
Natural High Presentation
Talk to Your Future/Your Future Talks Back
Health Curriculum Downloads
What Would Your Brain Say?
Choose Your Own Adventure!
Decision-making Testimonials & Discussion Activity
Drinking Situations Role Play Activity
Natural High Presentation
Talk to Your Future/Your Future Talks Back
Art Curriculum
The art curriculum invites students to explore identity, influence, and choice through visual expression. Using art history, design principles, color theory, and mixed media techniques, students create work that reflects who they are and what they value.
Rather than promoting abstinence as a rule, these projects encourage reflection. Students consider how their choices align with who they want to become. When students see themselves as capable, creative, and influential, healthy decisions feel less like restrictions and more like ownership. Through art, students build important skills.
• Examine how images influence behavior and
perception
• Explore how advertising shapes choices
• Create artwork that reflects their authentic identity
• Use text and symbolism to communicate personal
values
• Connect art to real life decisions and values
Dada Collage Ta-da!
Place Yourself in a Famous Painting
Pablo Picasso Color Theory Lesson
Red Me, Blue Me, Gray Me, True Me
The Figure Zero(Proof) Project (Long-form)
The Figure Zero(Proof) Project (Short-form)
Art Curriculum Downloads
Dada Collage Ta-da!
Place Yourself in a Famous Painting
Pablo Picasso Color Theory Lesson
Red Me, Blue Me, Gray Me, True Me
The Figure Zero(Proof) Project (Long-form)
The Figure Zero(Proof) Project (Short-form)
