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Safety "Home Run"
Students learn how to keep their families safe from fires. In this smoke detectors instructional activity, students read a book from their on smoke detectors and answer the provided comprehension questions. Students discuss why it is...
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Fire Hazards in The Home
Students examine the hazards that can be found in the home for danger of causing a fire. They are shown pictures of hazards and recognize them when told. Students are asked to discuss the importance of identifying and correcting the fire...
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What is Hazardous at Your House?
For this hazards in the home worksheet, students unscramble hint to discover words of hazardous household items, 6 total. Answers included on page 2.
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Hazards: Second Grade Lesson Plans and Activities
Equip learners with safety knowledge in the case of an earthquake. After coloring the places to go to get help after a quake, and label places that wouldn't be safe to go after a quake, young geologists simulate three levels of...
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Protecting Homes from Wildfires
Smoke detectors and fire extinguishers help to protect our homes from the inside. Learn about ways you can keep your home safe from the outside with a lesson about protecting houses from wildfires. It includes background information and...
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Hazardous Products Substitutes
Third graders write a hazardous products substitutes recipe book. For this Science lesson, 3rd graders identify words and symbols that indicate hazardous substances. Students investigate safe substitutes and write a recipe book to use at...
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Risk Watch Reporters Use Electrical Safety Eyes: Prevention is the Key
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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Hazardous Household Products Word Search
In this word search learning exercise, students find fifteen words related to hazardous material in their homes. Words include pesticide, danger, flammable, warning, etc.
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Clean Up Hazardous Waste!
Students identify sources of home hazardous waste and create posters to educate the community about how to handle hazardous wastes.
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Is Your Home Hazardous to Your Health?
Students use a newspaper article as a springboard to small group research about common household toxins, focusing on where would one find these toxins in the home, the effects of the toxins on the human body and treatment for poisoning...
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Catch of the Day: Electric Eel
Students identify and work to eliminate electrical safety hazards in the home. They identify items that use electricity. Students use a fishing game that allows students to cut pictures of items from magazine; glue the items on the 3" x...
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ToxMystery Lesson Plan 2 : Case Book: Catch That Hazard!!!
Students explore toxic hazards. In this personal health lesson, students discover appropriate uses for household chemicals as they identify potentially harmful products in their homes.
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Safety at Home
First graders identify safety hazards in the home and learn ways to prevent home accidents. In this home safety lesson, 1st graders discuss ways to keep a home safe by brainstorming and then reading a story about home safety. They make...
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Leading Causes of Wildfires in Oregon
You've heard of "wildfire season," but what types of weather and conditions lead to increased wildfires? Young firefighters learn about common sources of wildfires, safe ways to clear debris near their homes, and the most effective ways...
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ToxMystery Lesson Plan 1: Introduction to Common Household Chemical Hazards
Students participate in ToxMystery, a computer game, where they discover potential environmental health hazards in rooms of a common household. In this lesson on household safety, students first brainstorm possible hazards in the...
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It can be a hazard!
Every child should know about the dangers of hazardous household materials. They draw a line between the types of material and the best precaution to stay safe when using that material. They can complete a secondary activity which has...
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Hazardous Household Products Quiz
In this hazardous products quiz, students give short answers to fifteen questions related to hazardous material found in or around the home. Students are questioned about what to do in given situations.
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Lesson 2: Draw a Fire-Safety Picture
Pupils illustrate fire safety practices. In this early childhood lesson plan, students identify fire hazards within the home, and discuss fire safety. Pupils read mini-books based on fire safety, and then illustrate fire safety tips...
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Tox Mystery - Hazardous Materials
In this hazardous material activity set, 5th graders fill in the blanks with the answers to clues about toxic materials and gases. They fill in 12 blanks with words that are shown at the bottom of each page. They identify 4 hazards in...
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Safe Food
There is so much information in this instructional activity. A very comprehensive unit plan about food safety can be broken up into smaller pieces so as not to overwhelm the class with so much information at once. Some of the topics...
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Tracking Pollution - A Hazardous Whodunit
Learners read a story problem about the issue of hazardous waste and pollution in a fictional town. In groups, they create a topographical map and predict how the water might flow and determine the place of contamination. To end the...
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Potential Hazards in Your Home
High schoolers increase their awareness of the hazardous chemicals humans come in contact with, and explore less hazardous alternatives.
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Environmental Sciences
Whether you are teaching environmental science in junior high or studying recycling in kindergarten, there is something for all in this set of lessons designed for environmental education. The 110-page packet comes with tips for teaching...
Population Connection
The Carbon Crunch
Carbon is in the air; should we care? Teach the class why it is important to pay attention to carbon levels and how the world population and various countries across the globe affect the carbon levels in the atmosphere. High schoolers...