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- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 1st
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Students examine how to protect themselves from the dangers of the sun and how to prevent skin cancer. They identify protective clothing, and complete various worksheets. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students identify key safety issues when working in a welding lab. They cover the safety guidelines that are used in the welding lab area. Students cover the dangers of being in the lab area while we are welding. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students compare the perceived and actual risks of getting skin cancer, while looking at ways to minimize these risks. They may have very little grasp of the severity of the threat of skin cancer or be unaware of the increase in the incidence of melanoma since the early 1900s. Students conduct scientific investigations, they perform indoor and outdoor experiments that demonstrate the usefulness of different sunscreens for blocking ultraviolet light. Full Review »
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- 3rd
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Students are introduced to the importance of science safety. As a class, they role play through different safety procedures and decide which senses need to be protected for different scenerios. They discuss how to avoid hazardous situations and complete a table to end the lesson on what the proper procedures are. Full Review »
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- 10th - Higher Ed
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Students locate the safety items in the laboratory and draw a layout. They try out the safety devices in the laboratory and become familiar with Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDSs). Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students create a brochure or poster focusing on how to protect your skin when participating in sports. Prior to the lesson, students recall the importance of skin, and its properties. Then they work in groups to read about protecting their skin while participating in a given sport. After all the groups have shared, students create a visual aid covering the potential risks to healthy skin during a sport that wasn't discussed, as well as ways to avoid these risks. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students explore how the sun affects skin. They examine causes of skin cancer and its complications. Students observe a video on skin cancer. They research skin safety. Students create posters and design games on sun safety. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students identify basic components of skin on a cross sectional diagram. They provide a basic description of cancer in terms of cell biology. Students explore the ABCD of skin cancer/mole evaluation and perform their own evaluation of "test moles." They name the three kinds of skin cancer and describe where in the skin they originate. Full Review »
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- 9th
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Students discuss safety features in a laboratory classroom. After discussion, importance of safety rules are emphasized through teacher demonstration and videos. Lesson is complete by groups creating safety posters to hang around the lab. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students engage in a study of looking at the factors that are used to influence lab safety. They investigate the technology and resources necessary for helping to identify things in correlation to lab safety. Practices of safety are demonstrated while making basic lab measurements. Full Review »

