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The Signs of Safety
Learners review the 6 Simple Steps to Staying Safe. They make signs and banners to improve visibility that can be hung up around the neighborhood before International Walk to School Day.
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Pedestrian Safety for Students
Students investigate pedestrian safety. In this pedestrian safety lesson, students take pictures of intersections and crossing sites. They access Internet sites and the teacher writes to experts to find out safety information. They spoke...
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Personal Safety
Students read a tragic true story about personal safety and devise ways to reach a public audience with the message of personal safety in this Drama lesson plan for the high school classroom. Emphasis is placed on cooperative learning...
California Department of Public Health
Walking on the Path to Better Health
Walk your way to health with this great resource! Walking is a valuable physical activity that can be done frequently and with ease by learners of all ages. "Warm up" by reviewing the benefits of physical activity with your class...
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Mapping My Route to School
Students map their route to school and rate the safety of their route by conducting the Safe Routes Check List, an inventory of hazards and safety features.
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Healthy Kids: Creating Safe Communities And Schools
Students create a safety poster in small groups after a discussion on playground safety issues. They concentrate on bike safety, skating safety and general playground safety. After sharing the posters with the class they role-play safety...
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Lab Safety
Students review lab safety by walking into a classroom full of hazards and discussing what is wrong as they clean each station up.
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Traffic Safety Quiz Show
Young scholars participate in a Jeopardy game answering questions about safe behavior and pedestrian and bicycling safety procedures. They discuss and review biking and walking safety rules then play the game. This lesson plan includes...
Perkins School for the Blind
Safety Skills
Learning how to stay safe in a dangerous situation is of utmost importance, especially when you have a visual impairment or special need. The teacher makes up a set of dangerous scenario cards based on the provided set of guiding...
KOG Ranger Program
Fire Behavior in Forests
Understanding the ways a fire will act is a key factor in fire safety and fire prevention. Young campers focus on how the weather and terrain can affect the behavior of a fire with topographic maps and different...
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Safety Patrol
Being safe in school is of upmost importance! This lesson, designed for very young learners, reviews some very important safety rules with the whole class. Topics covered are how to walk safely up and down the stairs, how to correctly...
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Pedestrian Safety for Students
Learners demonstrate pedestrian safety. For this safety lesson, students present an idea for a project which addresses pedestrian safety. Learners can construct a safety brochure or a PowerPoint presentation to share their ideas.
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Fire Safety
Students investigate fire safety. In this safety lesson plan, students identify the fire exits in the school building and draw a floor plan of their house to create an emergency escape route.
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Summer Safety Activity: Playing with Environmental Print
Young scholars look at the words, symbols, and signs that surround them. For this early childhood lesson plan, students use observational skills as they note the abundance of letters and signs in their world, then apply this awareness...
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Honor People's Personal Space and Three Ways to Handle Conflict
Young scholars discuss how better behavior can make their school a safer place. Using volunteers, they demonstrate being too close to someone when talking and invading their personal space. Using this example, they identify the three...
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Walking in Line Properly
Students discuss what would happen if there were no driving safety laws, orally state four behaviors for walking properly in line, identify why walking in hall properly is important to promote positive learning environment, and perform...
Missouri Department of Elementary
Conflict Mediation – Part 1: Getting Ready
Two scholars walk into a room arguing, what is happening? Peers observe the two actors in preparation for a whole-class discussion about conflict. Learners establish a conflict, name the three approaches—passive, aggressive, and...
Baylor College
Microbes Are Everywhere
In a nutshell, your class will culture bacteria from their choice of surfaces. You will need to prepare or purchase agar plates. If you are new to this classic biology activity, this resource carefully walks you through the process of...
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Pedestrian Safety for Students; Research and Class Discussion
Young scholars discover the causes of pedestrian trauma concerning students. In this child safety lesson, young scholars investigate the facts behind childhood trauma and discover why children are so often harmed in pedestrian...
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Stop, Look, and Listen
Second graders participate in a class discussion and view a traffic safety video dealing with crossing the street safely. They discuss the steps taken in order to cross the street safely and then analyze the benefits of walking and...
Nemours KidsHealth
Strangers and 911: Grades K-2
Know safe spots. Tell a parent. Stay with a buddy. Youngsters learn the fundamentals of personal safety and what to do in an emergency through discussion, worksheet activities, and collaborative learning.
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Musical Hoops
Pre-schoolers gain a better understanding of personal space by playing this modified version of musical chairs. Played like musical chairs, students circle around a ring of hula hoops as music plays. When the music stops everyone needs...
Captain Planet Foundation
Sense of Place
Explore the five senses with a kindergarten lesson on gardening. After taking a walk through the class garden, kids note what they see, hear, feel, taste, and smell, and then decide what is living in the garden versus what is not living....
Perkins School for the Blind
High Stepping
Learners who are blind or have visual impairments learn to take high steps in order to improve their balance and mobility. They start by marching in place, and then march around the room. Finally, they attempt to step over a towel as...