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Water Safety: Grades 9-12
Make a big splash with a instructional activity about water safety. After reading three articles related to water safety, high schoolers first choose one water safety rule to research and write a report summarizing their findings. They...
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Draw a Computer
In this computer lesson plan, students examine the various parts of the computer using terms - computer, keyboard, monitor, mouse, on/off switch, headphones, speaker. They repeat vocabulary and discuss correct operation and safety.
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Safety Mode
Teach your YouTube users how to protect themselves from offensive content with a mini instructional activity on Safety Mode. The teacher presents information about Safety Mode, and then demonstrates how it can be turned on and off....
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Bike Safety: Grades 6-8
Two activities teach tweens and teens about bike safety. After reading articles about bike safety, class members design tags with important safety reminders that can be attached to bikes. Groups then create a dance video that...
Virginia Department of Education
Laboratory Safety and Skills
Avoiding lab safety rules will not give you super powers. The lesson opens with a demonstration of not following safety rules. Then, young chemists practice their lab safety while finding the mass of each item in a mixture and trying to...
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What Does It Do? Parts of the Computer
This is a nice introduction for first graders to parts of the computer. It includes several resource links to PowerPoints to show the class. There is one activity for the class to do. This is a basic introduction, and could definitely be...
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Safe Food
There is so much information in this instructional activity. A very comprehensive unit plan about food safety can be broken up into smaller pieces so as not to overwhelm the class with so much information at once. Some of the topics...
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It's Your Life - Safe or Sorry/Safety Issues
Young scholars examine and chart data about safety hazards and unsafe situations. In this safety hazard lesson, students examine newspapers and web sites to investigate injuries from safety hazards. They make a spreadsheet using the data...
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Online Safety: Grades 9-12
Teach teens how to protect themselves from hackers, scammers, and online predators. First, class members examine their own digital footprints think critically about their online profile. Groups then generate lists of "do" and "don't do"...
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Fire Safety Survey
Students collect data regarding fire safety and create a graph. Working in small groups, they administer a survey to family and friends regarding their attitudes toward fire safety. After data has been gathered, students graph their...
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Health and Food Safety
Students discuss ways to keep healthy, and examine factors that influence health, including media. They then participate in mock public meeting on genetically modified foods in order to explore importance of governmental decisions in...
Common Sense Media
Going Places Safely
How can places on the Internet be dangerous? Youngsters draw important connections between traveling online and staying safe in the real world. They also discover three key online safety rules to guide them throughout their online...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Safety in the Science lab
High schoolers work in groups to write and produce a video on laboratory safety. They use video equipment correctly and effectively work in groups. They develop basic acting skills with the help of peers and drama teacher.
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Pedestrian Safety for Students
Students demonstrate pedestrian safety. For this safety lesson, students present an idea for a project which addresses pedestrian safety. Students can construct a safety brochure or a PowerPoint presentation to share their ideas.
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Safety First
Students create a PowerPoint presentation on school safety. They are required to have illustrations and transitions in their slideshow. They develop a safety test for their classmates.
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Staying Safe on the Job
Learners share their opinions about the rights and responsibilities of employees, businesses and the government in maintaining a safe work environment. They prepare arguments supporting their assigned positions concerning workplace...
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Science-Observation Skill Builders
Pupils explore observation while making connections between observation skills and careers (like how farmers observe the weather). They view a variety of nature photographs on the computer and practice their observation skills by...
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Computer Security:
Students watch a video on computer safety and then complete activity sheets about the characters in the video. In this safety lesson plan, students are provided with the worksheets.
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Lesson Plan: Trolls—Just Like You and Me?
Not all trolls hide under bridges; some of them hide behind computer screens! Learners explore the causes and effects of people leaving mean comments online. After learning vocabulary, watching and discussing a video, and responding to...
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Sports Safety Posters
Learners create posters highlighting sports safety tips. Discuss some general safety guidelines students must follow when playing sports in the gym or the schoolyard. Write learners' responses on the board.
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Survival Experts
Young scholars take on the role of survival experts as they research and produce brochures or guides to educate others about what to do in the event of a natural disaster.
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Let's Learn About the Fire Station!
Students study and write about the fire station and fire safety. They take photographs to create a page for a class book after visiting a fire station.
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Dashboard of the Future
Learners design dashboards for vehicles in 2020. After researching past and current trends in vehicle design, they sketch alternatives and select one to draw with computer-assisted design software (CAD), labeling all the components. With...
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Illustrated Safety Contract
Students create illustrated contracts that spell out chemistry lab safety rules. They create original drawings illustrating one of the safety rules published by Flinn Scientific.