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Topic:
Safety, Injury, and Violence Prevention
Grade
Level: Kindergarten
District
Health Standard:
Recall or demonstrate safety rules
for home, school, and play.
Lesson Summary: The
students will discuss fire safety and safety on the playground, at home,
and In the community. Students will identify and model good safety
practices. Students will draw and write about what they have learned.
Textbook
Connections:
McGraw-Hill - Chapter 9 Safety and Injury Prevention
McGraw-Hill
Web-Linked Activities
Materials:
Supplies for chosen
center activities
Technology:
Computer with Internet Connection
Instructional
Input:
Playground Safety
1.
Discuss playground safety and the use of the equipment.
2. Take a class tour of the
playground, having students model and practice safe use of the equipment.
3. Allow students to play on
the equipment, giving positive reinforcement for safe practice.
4. Return to classroom, have
students draw and write or dictate a story about playground safety.
Safety In the Community
1.
Discuss safety practices around the community.
2. Take a short walk around
the school, naming safety practices used on the walk (watch for cars,
people).
3. Name items in place for
community members to practice safety (school signs, stop signs, yellow lines on
road)
Fire Safety
1.
Discuss fire drill procedures at school.
2. Practice fire drill.
3.
Practice stop, drop, and roll.
4. Practice stay low and go.
5. Follow - up with a visit
to or a visit from the fire station.
Safety at Home
1.
Discuss some of the rules parents have at their house for safety.
2. Have the students cut
house shape paper; or paper already cut In the shape of a house.
3. Have the students draw
themselves practicing a safety habit at home.
Learning
Centers
Art
Center: Make a Stop Light or Stop Sign
--Following a pattern, students will cut 3 circles, 1 red, 1 yellow, 1 green, about 2 or 3
inches
wide. Glue the 3
circles on black paper, 3 to 4 inches wide by 8 to 9 Inch tall.
(half of a large piece of construction paper)
The red should be at the top, yellow in middle, and green at the
bottom.
Writing
Center: Safety Story
--The student
will draw a picture or download a coloring page from a website. The students will write or dictate a story about safety to go
with their picture.
Dramatic
Play Center: Fire Safety
--Have
equipment the students may use to role-play fire safety.
Items that could be used are:
raincoats, boots, piece of a hose, a paper axe, fire engine (a box
around 4 chairs), a shirt with fire fighter written on it, or a badge.
Students may have one or two fire fighters, while others role-play stop,
drop, and roll; or get low and go.
Computer
Center: WebQuest: Kindergarten Safety "Story"
Click on pictures or words to hyperlink to safety games.
WebQuest:
Kindergarten Safety "Story"
Websites:
Safety
Bear's Coloring Instructions
Pull up and print coloring pages for various safety
scenarios. After coloring, students could dictate a story about the
picture they chose and colored.
Help
Sparky Out
A fire safety concentration game. When you win the game, it reviews the
five steps of a fire drill.
Fire
Trucks
Print a dot-to-dot page of a fire engine.
Otto
Club
Safety games for young children.
Kids
Safety Center
Includes questions and answers for all areas of
safety. Might be a good general reference for teachers or a site for
parents and children.
KIDD
Safety
KIDD safety house
Matching games
Ride to the park game (an arcade type racing game)
Word find game
Connected
Stories or Books:
Fire Safety by Nancy Loewen. Child's World. 1996. Nonfiction
Authors:
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