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Title - Summer Safety Safari
By - Nancy Hagerty
Primary Subject - Health / Physical Education
Secondary Subjects - Social Studies, Other
Grade Level - 1
Objective: First grade students will demonstrate their understanding of summer safety by creating guidelines for Summer Safety posters.
Health Education Standards:
-- Students will comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention.
-- Students will demonstrate the ability to use goal-setting and decision-making skills that enhance health.
-- Students will demonstrate the ability to advocate for personal, family and community health.
Performance Indicators:
-- Students will identify personal health and safety needs.
-- Students will describe the relationships between personal health behaviors and individual well-being,
-- Students will develop injury prevention and management strategies for personal health.
Life Skill:
-- Students will become aware of their responsibility for personal injury protection and safety.
Materials:
-- Various art materials
-- Teacher created hazard and safety precaution sheet
Anticipatory Set:
-- As a class, we will brainstorm a list of summer activities.
-- The students will determine which activities can be categorized together.
-- Swimming, sun exposure, camping, insects, bike safety, riding in a car, playing at a park, sports, heat, severe weather, etc.
Exploratory Activity:
-- Each table will be given one of the categories to determine the hazards of that particular activity.
-- The students will record the hazards on the sheet provided.
-- The students will come together as a group to share their hazards.
Application:
-- Each table will address their individual hazards and develop safety precautions for each one of them.
-- The students will record the generated safety precautions on the sheet provided.
Check for Understanding:
-- Each group will incorporate their ideas into a poster.
Closure:
-- The students will present their posters to the class for discussion.
-- Posters will be displayed in the halls the last 2 weeks of school.
Extension:
-- Each group of students could work cooperatively with a parent on the computer to create a summer safety brochure to take home over the summer.
-- Students could work together to create a short skit and/or puppet show demonstrating some of the safety precautions.
**Field Day Extension
-- Most buildings do a field day of sorts near the end of the year, so why not build the activities around the summer safety theme?
-- Each "station" of the relay type course could represent a summer activity.
-- Students would have to perform some sort of safety activity relevant to that station, Example:
Swimming: Apply sunscreen and find a buddy.
Camping: Put dirt on the campfire and tuck jeans into socks for hiking.
-- Parents usually turn out to bring snacks and cheer the kids on so they would be getting the messages too.
-- Administrators would like it because instruction is still being given.
-- Everyone is a winner because each is exposed to safety awareness!
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