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Home Living/ Daily Live: Fire Safety
Learners with special needs discuss the importance of fire safety. They visit smokey.com, discuss where fires commonly occur, and how to prevent them. They then practice responding to a fire-related emergency.
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Mastering a Student's Personal Information in a Special Education Classroom
Your special education students can memorize their personal information. In order to master their personal information, they create a photo book to help them remember names, birthdays, addresses, phone numbers, then take pictures to...
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Water Safety: Grades 3-5
Two lessons remind scholars of the importance of water safety. In the first lesson, pupils create posters highlighting three safety rules for a pool, beach, pond, or lake. The second lesson challenges partners to roleplay water safety...
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Food and Cooking Safety: Grades 3-5
In lesson one, scholars read articles, brainstorm a list of tips, then vote on the most important ones. Using those tips, the class creates a mural detailing them with magazine cutouts. Lesson two challenges pupils to cook a dish at home...
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Bike Safety: Grades 3-5
Bicycle safety is the focus of two lessons. First, scholars read three articles and decide which five safety tips are most important. Second, class members practice hand signals used while riding a bicycle to stay safe.
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Personal Safety
Students read a tragic true story about personal safety and devise ways to reach a public audience with the message of personal safety in this Drama lesson for the high school classroom. Emphasis is placed on cooperative learning and...
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Safety Coloring Book
Students at school create safety coloring books for the younger students in the school. They design at least one page that is appropriate for Kindergarten and 1st grade students, 2nd and 3rd grade students, and 4th and 5th grade students...
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Safe Food
There is so much information in this lesson plan. 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 include...
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Water Safety
Students examine water safety for the beach. They discuss the three safety rules, demonstrate various ways to rescue a person, participate in the stingray shuffle dance, and complete a crossword puzzle quiz.
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Private & Public
Some disabled students have a difficulty understanding what is and what is not publicly appropriate behavior. Help them build healthy social skills by defining public and private behaviors, labeling public and private places, and...
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Science Safety is Elementary
Third graders are introduced to the importance of science safety. As a class, they role play through different safety procedures and decide which senses need to be protected for different scenerios. They discuss how to avoid hazardous...
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Food Safety
Students recognize that safe food preparation is important to good health. In this food safety instructional activity, students participate in an activity students separate, clean, chill, and cook food safely. Students use Glo Germ to...
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Safety Safari
Second graders discuss personal safety in and around the home. They explore their classroom, looking for animal signs with safety rules on them, thus completing a "Safety Safari." They discuss all of the rules they find and promise to...
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Going Places Safely
How can places on the Internet be dangerous? Youngsters draw important connections between traveling online and staying safe in the real world. They also discover three key online safety rules to guide them throughout their online...
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Nutrition In Me! Club
Students practice food safety and hand washing. In this health activity, students discuss the presence of germs and how to keep yourself safe. Students wash their hands after applying Glo-Germ to see what spots they missed.
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Fire Safety: Grades K-2
Learners navigate the Internet to view sites on fire safety. In this fire safety lesson, students answer questions, complete worksheets and make a poster demonstrating their ability to react safely in a fire.
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Health: Fire Safety
Students explore the concept of fire safety. For this personal health lesson, students learn and practice the school procedures for fire drills. Students learn a fire safety procedure song and learn home fire safety tips as well.
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Lesson 2: Draw a Fire-Safety Picture
Students illustrate fire safety practices. In this early childhood lesson plan, students identify fire hazards within the home, and discuss fire safety. Students read mini-books based on fire safety, and then illustrate fire safety...
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Food Safety From Food To Fork
Young scholars are introduced to the concept of food safety. In groups, they distinguish between fact and opinion and cause and effect while participating in a board game. They write an essay about what knowledge they gained and review...
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Health Education: Safety First
Students analyze situations to determine whether or not they are safe. In this personal health lesson, students collaborate to discuss the safety risks in 6 described game situations.
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Lesson Plans: Home Fire Safety
Students practice fire safety. In this personal health lesson plan, students examine fire hazards that exist in homes by creating an inspection list that they share with their caregivers.
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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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One Person's Trash
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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Home Living / Daily Living: Importance of Keeping a Healthy Body Weight
Prepare your special education class for a healthy life. They visit with a nutritionist, practice simple exercises, and discuss healthy food choices. They then make goals for weight loss and management. Additional supporting activity...