Project Title: DUI Page 1 of 2

Author(s): Isabel Storch

1. Essential Standards 2. Key Facts From
Problem
3. Possible Solutions 4. Learning Outcomes
These are the standards your problem
will address. A PBL can address and
integrate one or multiple essential
standards.

Chm.3.2
Understand solutions and the
solution process.


This refers to the major facts from
your problem. What are the major
ideas students should pull from your
problem.

DUI is common among
youngsters in high school and
college age. At any age, it
represents a major health
problem for the dire
consequences of accidents due
to DUI.

As part of PROM Promise, they
are going to prepare a DUI
awareness campaign for their
High School.

DUI is extremely dangerous as
it increases the chances of
traffic accidents.

Alcohol in blood affects the
ability of the brain to process
information, and increases the
time (distance) required to
prevent an accident.


This is a guess for what you hope
students will discover as a solution to
the problem.

Develop an awareness of the
consequences of DUI, for
themselves and for the audience
of the final product of the
project.

Gather information about the
solution of alcohol in blood and
the normal rate of degradation.

Use the information gathered as
evidence for the effects of
alcohol blood alcohol in the
nervous system, and how it does
affect driving.

Develop an awareness
campaign, with a video targeted
to their peers as a possible
artifact, with the goal of
reducing the DUI incidents for
the school.




These are the facts you hope students
will learn through the PBL process.
These differ from standards, as they
are specific to what you hope students
will be able to do and understand.

Students should be able to
know the rate of absorption of
alcohol and how it is dissolved
in blood.

Students will be able to see
how the alcohol blood level
decreases as the organism
degrades it.

Also, they will become aware
of the amount of time required
for that process to lead back to
normal blood levels.

Students will see how
increasing levels of alcohol in
blood influence the ability to
drive and prevent accidents.

Project Title: DUI Page 2 of 2
Author(s): Isabel Storch

Problem/Scenario
General Notes and Driving
Questions
Resources for Learning
Final Products and Assessment
Tools
This is the actual problem or scenario
you will present to students. It should
be detailed and realistic.

End of the year is here and
students are excited about
PROM.

As part of PROM Promise, you
are going to prepare a DUI
awareness campaign for their
High School.

DUI is extremely dangerous as
it increases the chances of
traffic accidents.

Alcohol in blood affects the
ability of the brain to process
information, and increases the
time (distance) required to
prevent an accident.
But at what rate? How much
alcohol does it take to make
DUI dangerous? And for how
long?




General notes about the problem that
might be pertinent to understanding
the problem. Driving Questions
(broad)

How and where is alcohol
absorbed in the body?
At what rate?

Which levels or concentrations
are dangerous for DUI?

How long does it take for the
body to degrade it?

Which factors affect the
degradation process? And the
absorption process?

To what extent is the driving
ability impaired?

What is the Biochemistry of
the alcohol degradation in our
body?

Different ethnic variability on
alcohol dehydrogenase.


What resources will you supply students
with for learning and discovery?

www.drinkinganddriving.org

Statistics for Forsyth County,
deaths: 4 people per 10,000 are
killed by DUI
in Forsyth County, NC annually

http://alcoholism.about.com/
od/work/qt/How-Long-Does-
Alcohol-Stay.htm


effects of alcohol in blood
http://www.brad21.org/
effects_at_specific_bac.html


Alcohol increases reaction time
and errors during decision
making
http://www.sciencedaily.com/
releases/2010/10/101019162149.htm
This is the end goal of the PBL. How
will students product be evaluated?

Summative Assessment

Prepare a compelling video to
raise awareness of young
people about the real effect of
alcohol in driving and the
consequences of DUI,
proposing options in case they
are ever in a similar situation.
(Designated driver, parent,
taxi cabs, limousines, etc.)

As a Formative assessment, in
the process of preparing the
video the students will make
graphic representations of the
Rates of solution and
degradation of alcohol
(concentration vs. time).