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Backpacking - Lesson 1 - Introduction

For Teachers 9th - 12th
What are the essentials needed for a backpacking trip? What does minimum impact mean? What are some general safety tips? These are the things to think about when planning a backpacking trip. This lesson has handouts included for...
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Lesson Plans: Home Fire Safety

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students practice fire safety. In this personal health lesson plan, students examine fire hazards that exist in homes by creating an inspection list that they share with their caregivers.
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Risk Watch Reporters Use Electrical Safety Eyes: Prevention is the Key

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students review three true electrical stories, research true dangers involved in electrical discharges, identify and work to eliminate electrical hazards in their homes, and create electrical safety message to share with peers.
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Ready Houston

Make a Plan. Build a Kit. Stay Informed.

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
Help prepare your youngsters for an emergency or natural disaster by discussing important topics as where to meet, how to remain in contact, and what belongs in an emergency kit. 
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Wildfire Lesson Plans

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Learning about wildfires and how they start, and engaging in fire safety lesson plans can be interesting and educational.
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Activity Plan Mixed Ages: Fairytale Homes

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students create homes for fairytale characters. In this early childhood lesson plan, students develop literacy, language, and problem-solving concepts as they create block structures related to specific fairy tales.
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Activity Plan Mixed Ages: A Funny Hat Show

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students create unique hats. For this early childhood lesson plan, students engage in a group celebration to foster social skills, creativity, and fine- and gross-motor development as they put on a funny fashion show with the hats they...
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National Heart Association

Cold Weather Fitness Guide

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Don't sacrifice physical activity every time cold winter weather arrives. From walking or circuit training to warm, healthy recipes and safety reminders, this resource will help encourage learners to prioritize their fitness and stay...
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Pesticide Watch Card

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Young scholars examine human health by identifying dangerous pesticides. In this agriculture lesson, students research the food production system in the United States and discuss dangers such as pesticides, chemicals and insecticides...
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Safety Words

For Teachers K - 8th
Students with limited verbalization practice word and sign recognition of safety words using flashcards and signing.
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4 Steps to Road Safety

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students identify the "4 Steps for Kids" and how they can stay safer. In this important rules lesson, students take measurements and refer to a chart to identify their Safety Seat Number.  Students also discuss safety rules their...
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Safety Lesson

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students review or introduce personal safety concepts in a variety of areas common to the lives of students.
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Road Safety-Transporting Cargo Safely

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders explore transportation and delivery of cargo.  For this truck logistics lesson, 12th graders research the safety precautions needed to ensure proper delivery of cargo aboard delivery trucks.  Students read about the many...
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ToxMystery Lesson Plan 1: Introduction to Common Household Chemical Hazards

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students participate in ToxMystery, a computer game, where they discover potential environmental health hazards in rooms of a common household. In this lesson on household safety, students first brainstorm possible hazards in the...
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Introduction to Welding

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore how to weld and the safety procedures that are in place. In this welding lesson plan students take a safety test on welding and once they know all the rules they use the angle grinder.
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Strangers

For Teachers K
Students learn and discuss what to do when approached by a stranger. In this stranger lesson plan, students answer questions based on a book that the teacher reads. They then participate in a discussion about rules and guidelines to...
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National Research Center for Career and Technical Education

Hospitality and Tourism 1: Safety and Sanitation

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Math and science come alive in this career-related lesson on sanitation. Along the way, learners explore bacterial growth rates using exponential notation and graphs. A link to a very brief, but vivid video shows just how quickly these...
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Teach Engineering

Manned Mission to Mars

For Teachers 6th - 8th
To go or to not to go — the question for a mission to Mars. This resource provides details for a possible manned mission to Mars. Details include a launch schedule, what life would be like on the surface, and how the astronauts would...
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Fire Safety Research

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students brainstorm what they have previously discovered about fire safety and think about what they can do to protect themselves from fire dangers. They discuss key questions and write their thoughts on a board using...
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Fire Escape Plan

For Teachers K - 4th
Students discuss the main points of an escape plan for evacuating their home in a fire. They observe an example of a fire escape action that they can write and then discuss if they know how to escape from their homes quickly and safely...
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Fire Safety Message

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students review what they have discovered from the lesson on House of Fire Hazards writing a list of fire hazards on the board and discussing. They also are reminded to tell an adult if they see a fire hazard and not to correct things...
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Rainforest Alliance

Protecting the Critical Habitat of the Manatee and Loggerhead Turtle

For Teachers 1st Standards
Explore ocean habitats with a instructional activity that showcases the home of manatees and loggerhead turtles in Belize. Here, pupils compare and contrast the homes of ocean animals to those of humans, listen to an original short story...
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Rainforest Alliance

How Do Jaguars and Howler Monkeys in Belize Depend on Us?

For Teachers 1st Standards
How does weather play a role in the lives of land and sea creatures? Find out with a instructional activity focused on habitats and the ways animals from different homes are connected. Here, learners explore how the life of a jaguar and...
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Summer Health Activity: Visiting the Doctor

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students play with dolls to act out feelings about a common experience. In this early childhood lesson plan, students use social, language, and fine motor skills while developing an understanding of their own bodies and the role of an...