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Cannabis Effects By Timescale Sorter

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About this MicroSim

Cannabis Effects By Timescale Sorter is an interactive MicroSim for this health-education textbook.

Classify documented cannabis effects into short-term

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Bloom's Taxonomy level: Analyze (L4) — classify, differentiate, organize

Lesson Plan

Audience

This MicroSim is designed for Grades 9-12. For the K-3 bands the teacher typically drives the activity on a shared screen; older students can explore the MicroSim independently.

Learning Objective

Classify documented cannabis effects into short-term

This activity targets Bloom's Analyze (L4) (classify, differentiate, organize).

Suggested Use (about 10 minutes)

  1. Warm up (2 min). Ask students what they already know about the topic and let one volunteer describe what they see on the screen.
  2. Model it (3 min). Demonstrate the interaction once, thinking aloud so students hear the reasoning behind each choice.
  3. Guided practice (3 min). Invite students to try the interaction and to predict what will happen before they act.
  4. Discuss (2 min). Ask why the result came out the way it did, connecting the on-screen result back to the learning objective above.

Check for Understanding

Have each student (or pair) explain their result in one sentence, using the vocabulary from this chapter. Look for reasoning that matches the Analyze-level objective rather than a lucky guess.

Specification

The full specification below was extracted from Chapter 11: Substance Recovery and Resilience.

Type: infographic

**sim-id:** cannabis-effects-timescale-sorter<br/>
**Library:** p5.js<br/>
**Status:** Specified

Bloom Taxonomy Level: Analyze (L4)
Bloom Verb: classify, differentiate, organize

Learning objective: Classify documented cannabis effects into short-term
versus long-term categories and differentiate physical, mental, and
relational effects within each.

Layout: Two zones ("Short-Term: Minutes to Hours," "Long-Term: Months to
Years") and a deck of 10 shuffled effect cards (e.g., "Impaired short-term
memory during use," "Cannabis use disorder with withdrawal symptoms").

Interactive controls: Drag or click each card into the correct zone;
immediate feedback confirms placement with a one-sentence explanation; an
optional color tag toggles a physical/mental/relational layer; "Reset"
reshuffles the deck.

Instructional Rationale: Classifying along two dimensions at once is an
Analyze-level task; sorting with immediate feedback requires active
discrimination rather than passive reading.

Implementation notes: p5.js drag-and-drop with zone collision detection;
data grounded in NIDA/CDC summaries. No card depicts a method of use.
Responsive, stacks vertically on narrow screens.

References