Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Technology: Watch Out!
Learn to recognize different safety signs you may see in your community or when traveling. Includes audio narration in 16 additional languages with text in English.
Public Health Agency of Canada
Public Health Agency of Canada: Be an Action Hero!
Kids staying safe is number one in importance! Believe it or not, injuries are the number one cause of death for young Canadians. This site will help you learn to stay safe and uninjured, and that makes everyone happy!
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Kids Health: What to Do in a Fire
This KidsHealth site tells how to come up with a safety plan to be prepared in case of fire. Includes what to do if you can't get out right away, preventing fires, and more.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Community: Left, Right, Left: Our Safe Walk
Learn how to cross the street and train tracks safely in your neighborhood. Includes audio narration in 7 additional languages with text in English.
PE Central
Pe Central: Follow the Leader
Children take turns being the "leader" and leading their partners through a series of locomotor movements. Includes safety tips, ideas for varying the activity, and other suggestions.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Harcourt: School Publishers: Welcome to Bike Safe
Harcourt School Publishers has provided terrific information regarding bike safety. This site suggests ways to safe proof your bike to prevent unwanted surprises while riding. Easy to follow links guide the visitor through hand signals...
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Education: Going Places Safely: K 2
Students learn that they can go to exciting places online, but they need to follow certain rules to remain safe. By taking a virtual field trip, students experience the power of the Internet to take them to places they might not be able...
Other
Safe Kids: Stop! Read the Symbols and Labels
This document shows common warning signs that children may see on labels and signs. Use these pictures, along with the tips at the end, to teach label safety to your students.
Read Works
Read Works: Stay Candle Safe
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about safety tips to follow when burning candles. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in author's purpose.
Other
Raising Arizona Kids: Birth to 5 Q&a: Teaching Kids Not to Trust Every Adult
This article answers the question, "What's the right age to start teaching kids not to trust every adult? And what's the best way to do this?". It also addresses how to identify adults who can be trusted.
Weather Wiz Kids
Weather Wiz Kids: Wildfires
What is a wildfire? How are they caused? Find the answers to these questions, learn wildfire "lingo" and safety tips, and follow links to lesson plans.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Being Lost
Listen to a story about a time when someone was lost or afraid and role-play what you would do in that situation. Learn how to handle situations when you are afraid, and learn about who to go to for help.
Other
What Students Need to Know: Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy
This lesson unit published by the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario has four activities that explore the concept of privacy and prompt the discussion of privacy issues in young scholars' own lives. The lessons refer to...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Hurricanes
This lesson starts out with a short video clip of Hurricane Ivan and shows the pattern it followed. Emphasis is placed on the fact that Hurricane Ivan struck and the eye traveled over Alabama. Discussion of hurricane facts follow....
Other
Ncdoi: Safe Kids: Poison Prevention for Teachers
Although targeting primarily teachers of young children, these tips on poison prevention can be adapted for all chidren. There are links to information for teens, and for lesson plans for a poison prevention program.
Weather Wiz Kids
Weather Wiz Kids: Hurricanes
A great resource offering the causes and effects of hurricanes, the reason why hurricanes are named the way they are, the difference between a hurricane and a tropical storm, hurricane "lingo," safety tips, and more. Follow links to...
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Kids Health: What's My Lyme Disease Risk
Use this site to learn where Lyme disease is most prevalent in the United States and how Lyme disease can be avoided by following "Safety tips." This website provides information on how to stay safe from Lyme disease and how to remove a...
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Hurricane Diagram
A great resource offering the causes and effects of hurricanes, the reason why hurricanes are named the way they are, the difference between a hurricane and a tropical storm, hurricane "lingo," safety tips, and more. Follow links to...
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Hurricane Formation
A great resource offering the causes and effects of hurricanes, the reason why hurricanes are named the way they are, the difference between a hurricane and a tropical storm, hurricane "lingo," safety tips, and more. Follow links to...
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Hurricane Georges
A great resource offering the causes and effects of hurricanes, the reason why hurricanes are named the way they are, the difference between a hurricane and a tropical storm, hurricane "lingo," safety tips, and more. Follow links to...
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Hurricane Mitch
A great resource offering the causes and effects of hurricanes, the reason why hurricanes are named the way they are, the difference between a hurricane and a tropical storm, hurricane "lingo," safety tips, and more. Follow links to...
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Wildfire
What is a wildfire? How are they caused? Find the answers to these questions, learn wildfire "lingo" and safety tips, and follow links to lesson plans.
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Fire Tornado
What is a wildfire? How are they caused? Find the answers to these questions, learn wildfire "lingo" and safety tips, and follow links to lesson plans.