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Star Rules

For Students K - 2nd Standards
Why are rules so important? Just ask the main characters in the children's book Officer Buckle and Gloria. After a class read aloud, compare and contrast the safety tips mentioned in the story with your classroom rules, noting any...
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Sports Safety Role Play

For Teachers K - 8th
Students role-play sports situations and determine the actions needed to stay safe from injuries. They define the term sports safety, develop short skits about situations involving sports safety, and work together in cooperative groups.
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Playground Safety Check

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students study a playground safety checklist, conduct a safety check of the schoolyard and/or local playground and write a report about their findings, # present the report to school or community leaders
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Safety: Fire Safety

For Students Pre-K - 2nd
In the case of a fire emergency, provide greater support and instruction for students who require it using this collection of picture cards. The cards include images and words that describe a variety of fire safety...
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Street Safety

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students explore fire safety rules through a variety of teacher-led activities. In this safety lesson, students choose appropriate felt board pieces as they listen to My Car by Byron Barton. Seat belt and car seat safety, as well as...
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Safety Tip

For Teachers K - 2nd
Practice safety tips after reading Officer Buckle and Gloria with your first graders. A fun coloring page encourages kids to write a safety tip in a police officer's badge, then illustrate how to follow the tip.
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Fire Alarms for Safety

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Students create a fire safety rules poster. For this fire safety lesson, students inspect their classroom and discuss the best way to exit in case of a fire. Students then make a poster stating the rules and exit plan.
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Sports Safety Posters

For Teachers K - 12th
Students create posters highlighting sports safety tips. Discuss some general safety guidelines students must follow when playing sports in the gym or the schoolyard. Write students' responses on the board.
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Let's Learn About Fire Safety!

For Teachers K - 1st
In this firs safety lesson, students read Clifford , a Firehouse Dog, discuss safety rules and tips as a class, and create illustrations for the rules they generate.
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Fire Safety

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this fire safety worksheet, students read and learn specific rules having to do with fire and fire safety. Students complete 5 questions about this information.
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Clifford Goes to School and So Do We!

For Teachers K
Students use the story, "Clifford Goes to School," to investigate the value of rules as a means of keeping them safe. Following step-by step directions, the rules are placed on patterns and which are worn home.
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Tell Me; I’ll Listen

For Teachers 1st - 4th Standards
Encourage respect, responsibility, and caring within your classroom with a collection of lessons that spark dialogue and self reflection. To address character traits, lessons touch on topics such as staying safe in the...
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ADULT ESOL LESSON PLAN--Level 3--Maintaining Employment

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students analyze and practice with safety scenarios how to follow simple generic work rules with safety procedures in the United States to insure a safe workplace. In addition, they practice certain commands experienced at the workplace...
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Strangers

For Teachers K
Students learn and discuss what to do when approached by a stranger. For this stranger lesson plan, students answer questions based on a book that the teacher reads. They then participate in a discussion about rules and guidelines to...
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Safety Fun

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this safety rules instructional activity, students study the image of the person and the safety rules they are following. Students write a sentence for each example that tells how each child is being safe.
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Football game seating: Security or Restriction?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners write an article or an editorial about the situation of Cleveland-area schools instituting policies to restrict seating at night football games. Students research their own school policy, as well as other school policies.
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Geometry Shapes Playground Safety

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars create a new playground design to present to elementary students during Playground safety week. They review basic geometry to use in observing and recording the equipment on a local playground. They research playground...
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Medicine safety

For Teachers K
Students identify reasons why people take medicines. In this medicine lesson plan, students are shown different medicines and discuss why people might take them. The teacher poses different scenarios about when it is safe and unsafe to...
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Story Starter: Stop Sign

For Students K - 2nd Standards
If you're looking for simple writing prompts for young children then stop right there, because we have what you need. Including a picture of a stop sign and four sets of handwriting lines, this exercise asks young writers to...
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Techno Explorer: Internet Lesson Plans for Beginners

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students explore technology by participating in an on-line exercise. For this Internet safety lesson, students identify the appropriate behavior they should use while searching and communicating in cyberspace. Students practice saving...
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Independent Investigation

For Students 9th - 11th
In this science worksheet, students write what they want to discover and identify what they feel will happen. Then they design an experiment and write the steps for it in the space provided. Students also create a data table or chart...
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Oops!

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Teach safety, as well as cause and effect with one worksheet. Kids cut the bottom boxes on the page and paste them in the correct places to show what happens when you don't follow safety rules. Though it's designed for Officer...
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Student Opinion: How Should Schools Address Bullying?

For Students 7th - 12th
Spark a disscussion about a current issue, bullying, in your classroom. This resource, published by The New York Times, provides a short article discussing a Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights passed into law in the state New Jersey followed...
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School Uniforms

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Americans spend around one billion dollars each year on school uniforms, but are they necessary? As pupils research the debate topic, they form their own opinions. They review the history of school uniforms and discover the top pro and...