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We Care About Fire Safety

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students investigate the hazards of fires and how to best protect themselves and their family.  In this home safety lesson, students examine the importance of a smoke detector and discover how many homes are missing them among their...
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What are the Rules?

For Teachers K
Get young learners involved in the development of classroom rules! Students and the teacher discuss the purpose of having rules, including how rules provide order, security and safety. Then learners design pictures to accompany the...
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One Person's Trash

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students pick an area that needs cleaning up and help clean up the trash in that place. In this clean up lesson plan, students pick either their home, school, or neighborhood to clean up and sort through the trash that they find.
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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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Use Your Melon

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore bicycle safety. In this service learning lesson, students build a bicycle safety course to be used by children in their community.
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Stop, Look and Listen

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners study and observe city wildlife and their local community's wildlife. In this wildlife activity, students look for animal clues in their local places. Learners observe animals using cameras and journals. Students make a...
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Red Means Danger

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students describe some common pests. They study three levels of pest control from the IPM pyramid.
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Make Something Beautiful

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students create an art piece using recycled objects. In this environmental lesson, students collect and sort recycled objects and create a three dimensional art piece.
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Life Cycle Of Painted Lady Butterflies

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
The Very Hungry Caterpillar is the inspiration for this project-based learning activity. Kindergartners create a lifecycle chart for a butterfly with four sections: egg, caterpillar, pupa, and butterfly. It is a three-dimensional...
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Nature Superfish

For Teachers 7th - Higher Ed
Learners examine the billfish as a predator in the ocean. In this ocean, creatures, and tides lesson plan, students view video clips and discuss the sea creatures and scientists in the videos. Learners create their own videos. students...
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Medals of Honor

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders identify their strengths and find out what careers they would do best in.