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all students for Red Ribbon Week!
Observed annually from October 23–31, Red Ribbon Week honors the legacy of Drug Enforcement Agent Enrique (Kiki) Camarena and serves as a nationwide call to action for promoting wellness, safety, and prevention. It’s a time to recognize the impact of substance misuse and to encourage students to make healthy, informed choices that support their well-being and future success.
In celebration of the 2025 Red Ribbon Week theme, “Life Is a Puzzle, Solve It Drug Free,” we’re sharing proactive strategies and standards-aligned resources to help educators spark meaningful conversations and support students in building lives full of purpose, resilience, and connection.
Medication Safety
As part of the Pharmacists Teach program, Dose of Knowledge empowers educators, pharmacists, parents, and community members to guide students in making smart decisions about medication safety and mental health. These K–12 standards-aligned resources include everything educators need to teach students about responsible choices and wellness.
Think It Through, a choose-your-own-adventure animated experience that helps students practice decision-making and explore the consequences of their choices in a safe, engaging way.
Preparing for Positive Choices
The Ask, Listen, Learn classroom activities are designed with the whole child in mind.
These middle school resources help students:
- Understand the short- and long-term effects of underage use on the developing brain.
- Practice refusal and exit strategies to navigate peer pressure.
- Separate fact from fiction through scientific research and peer discussion.
- Explore real-world policy by creating mock legislation and debating societal impacts.
Ask, Listen, Learn helps students uncover the science behind how substances affect the brain and body, empowering them to say “YES” to a healthy lifestyle and “NO” to risky behaviors.
Look into Real Life
Created in partnership with the DEA, Operation Prevention offers tools for educators, families, and communities to support prevention efforts. These resources are aligned to national health and science standards and integrate seamlessly into classroom instruction.
Through hands-on investigations, students explore the science behind substance misuse and its impact on the brain and body. English and Spanish resources, self-paced modules, and culturally responsive content help kickstart life-saving conversations.
The latest Virtual Field Trip, An Ounce of Prevention, empowers high school students to make informed decisions and become advocates for prevention in their communities. Students meet real people working to combat the fentanyl crisis and raise awareness about counterfeit drugs.
Join us Oct 29 during Red Ribbon Week for Careers at Sea and Shore: A Virtual Field Trip to Maritime Manufacturing Centers — designed for Grades 6–12. This experience takes students behind the scenes to see how submarines are built and introduces them to the engineers, welders, and technicians who make it happen.
More than just a look at cool technology, this field trip highlights how living a healthy lifestyle can open doors to meaningful careers in industries like maritime manufacturing and national security.
“Red Ribbon Week is a powerful reminder that every choice students make is a piece of the bigger picture. By providing educators with engaging, real-world resources, we help students build the skills they need to make healthy decisions and lead safe, fulfilling lives. Our partners are committed to supporting these conversations with content that’s age-appropriate, inclusive, and empowering.”
Madeline O’Neil, Senior Partner Impact Manager at Discovery Education
This year, honor Red Ribbon Week by sharing ideas for making healthy choices, raising awareness of real-life challenges, and encouraging responsible decision-making in and out of school.
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]]>This Spring, supercharge students’ curiosity and wonder with an incredible lineup of Virtual Field Trips! We’ll be exploring super storytelling with DC and Warner Bros. Studios, experimenting with magnets with Sesame Workshop and the U.S. National Science Foundation, and getting pumped up about health with the NBA.
Check out the line up below and be sure to save the date so your students don’t miss out on these incredible interactive learning experiences!
Check Out the Spring 2025 Premiere Schedule
From supercharged storytelling to hanging with NBA greats, we’ve got something for everyone. Sign up today to gain access! Every Virtual Field Trip can be watched on-demand at any time, starting on the premiere dates.
The Superpower of Story: A Virtual Field Trip to Warner Bros. Studios
Premieres Friday, April 18
Grades 6-12
Transport students on this exclusive Virtual Field Trip to DC headquarters at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, CA! They’ll step into the world of DC Super Heroes, uncovering the secrets of how stories evolve from bold ideas to iconic comics to jaw-dropping blockbuster films. Sign up today to unlock access starting on April 18!
Meet the Magnets: A Virtual Field Trip to the U.S. National Science Foundation Mag Lab
Premieres Tuesday, May 6
Grades: 1-5
Join Discovery Education and Sesame Workshop as we explore the National High Magnetic Field Lab! Meet the Magnets Virtual Field Trip helps young learners connect STEM concepts to the world around them, and includes standards-aligned resources for teachers. Sign up now to unlock access starting on May 6!
Total Health: A Virtual Field Trip with NBA and WNBA
Premieres Thursday, May 15
Grades: 3-8
Dive into total health with an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at how players from the NBA Timberwolves and WNBA Lynx maintain their health on and off the court! Students will get special access to state-of-the-art facilities, learn from health and fitness experts, and meet Timberwolves Center Rudy Govert! Sign up now to unlock access starting on May 15.
In Case You Missed It
Check out the Virtual Field Trips that are currently available to watch on-demand!
White Bird: The Courage of Kindness Virtual Field Trip
Grades: 6-12
White Bird: The Courage of Kindness offers students a multi-media journey to explore kindness, courage, and resilience. Through historical testimonies, fictional characters from the film White Bird, and contemporary perspectives, students learn how kindness impacts our world.
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]]>Find the right resources to spread awareness and empower all students for Red Ribbon Week!
Observed annually every October 23-31 to honor the memory of Drug Enforcement Agent Enrique (Kiki) Camarena, Red Ribbon Week is a time to reinforce alcohol, tobacco, and drug prevention, recognize the harmful effects of substance abuse, and promote the importance of making healthy and safe decisions.
In honor of the 2024 Red Ribbon Week theme of “Life is a Movie, Film Drug Free,” we’re sharing proactive strategies and standards-aligned resources to help educators facilitate meaningful class discussions while supporting the health and well-being of all students.
Introducing Medication Safety
Get a “Dose of Knowledge” with CVS Health! An extension of the Pharmacists Teach program, Dose of Knowledge strives to empower educators, pharmacists, parents, and other members of the community to support education related to substance misuse and guide students to make good decisions for the health and well-being of themselves and their community. These standards-aligned K-12 classroom resources give educators everything they need to teach students of all ages about medication safety and mental health! With new resources like the choose-your-own-adventure, Think it Through, educators and students can engage in an interactive animated adventure empowering healthy choices and decision-making skills.
Preparing for Positive Choices
Designed with the whole child in mind, cannabis classroom activities from Ask, Listen, Learn focus on how kids interact with society and how society influences their behavior. Through these informative and engaging drug prevention activities for middle school, students will:
- Address the dangers and effects of underage cannabis use on the developing brain, both short- and long-term, while collaborating on refusal and exit strategies for peer pressure.
- Separate facts from fiction through class activities, scientific research, and meaningful peer discussion.
- Explore the evolution of federal and state regulations, engage in meaningful debate as they develop their personal ideas and beliefs, then assume the role of an elected official and create their own mock legislation.
Ask, Listen, Learn is built to help students uncover the science behind how alcohol and cannabis affect developing brains, bodies, and behavior. With these prevention resources, both educators and families can equip students with vital prevention skills and dive deep into the science, data, and facts, helping kids decide to say “YES” to a healthy lifestyle and “NO” to all risky behaviors.
—Beth Meyer, Vice President of Partner Impact at Discovery Education.
Look into Real Life
Created in partnership with the DEA, Operation Prevention provides tools to support every member of the community with the power of prevention. These resources are aligned to national health and science standards and integrate seamlessly into classroom instruction. Through a series of hands-on investigations, students will explore the science behind substance misuse, and the resulting impacts on our brain and body. Kickstart life-saving conversations this Red Ribbon Week with English & Spanish language resources, self-paced modules, culture-based content, and much more!
The latest Virtual Field Trip from Operation Prevention, An Ounce of Prevention, is here to empower students in grades 9- 12 with knowledge they can use to make healthy decisions, become advocates for prevention in their communities and fight back against the fentanyl crisis. Students will meet people working on the ground in communities nationwide to amplify awareness and decrease the demand for fentanyl and counterfeit drugs.
This year, honor Red Ribbon Week by sharing ideas for making healthy choices, information to raise awareness of real-life situations, and ways to make responsible choices in and out of school!
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