Lesson Plan #: AELP-SFY0009
Submitted By: Kari Jo Nelson
Endorsed by: Dr. Don Descy
Mankato State University Date : February 21, 1997
Grade Level(s): Kindergarten, 1
Subject(s):
- Health/Safety
Overview:
It is important that children learn the importance of safety through different skills. Given many situations, children will gain a perspective in recognizing unsafe situations and selecting the correct response or reaction. Teaching children to be aware is also teaching them to be responsible for themselves and to use their best judgments.
Purpose:
Teaching safety is as important as living day-to-day, they go hand-in-hand. Children can learn to take responsibility for themselves in school, at home and on their own. Given different situations, children can learn the basic fundamentals of safety and how it comes first.
Objectives:
Activities:
Activity One: Safety Break
Goal: To help students recognize safety situations in many situations through a song.
Children will learn safety through music and movement by singing a safety tune. Children will join hands and clap a rhythm of Safety Break alternating circling to the left and right for each verse. For the chorus the children will stop and clap.
Safety Break Listen everybody to what we say
if you wanna be safe at work and play.
Listen please for safety’s sake,
We’re gonna take time for a safety break.
Safety break, safety break, safety break, safety break.Look both ways when you cross the street,
be careful where you put your feet.
Cross at the crosswalk or a stop sign,
a green traffic light will do just fine.
Stay on the sidewalk when you can,
whatever you do have a safety plan.If you know what we mean, clap your hands three times.
(clap, clap, clap)
If you really know, everybody say Ho!
(Ho!)
Safety break, safety break, safety break, safety break.Don’t play with matches, knives or guns,
you can find better ways for havin’ fun.
Don’t mess with electricity,
and when you ride your bike do it carefully.
Don’t help yourself to the medicine chest,
your mom and dad know what’s best.If you know what we mean clap your hands three times.
(clap, clap, clap)
If you really know, everybody say Ho!
(Ho!)
Safety break, safety break, safety break, safety break.Don’t talk to strangers wherever you go,
never trust people that you don’t know.
If someone tries to touch on you,
Say NO if you don’t want them to.
Safety kids never walk alone,
and they remember the number of their telephone.If you know what we mean, clap your hands three times.
(clap, clap, clap)
If you really know, everybody say Ho!
(Ho!)
Safety break, safety break, safety break, safety break.
Safety Break by Greg Scelsa from Kidding Around with Greg and Steve, Younghearts Records.
Follow-up Activity: Brain storm unused safety issues that might be useful and create verses for them.
Activity Two: Create a Safety Gear Mini-Book
Goal: To help children to be aware of the many types of safety gear available to them and the importance of safety gear.
Introduce this activity by brainstorming ideas about what people wear for safety gear, who might wear it and what are the purposes of wearing the safety gear.
Materials:
Follow-up Activity:
Each student will be able to give one example of a safety gear item that they wear and draw a picture and write on sentence to go along with it to add to their book.
Activity Three: Fire Safety
Goal: Students will be able to understand what three things are needed to make fire, observe how a fire will not burn with out air and what they would do if their clothing caught on fire.
First read aloud Matches, Lighters, and Firecrackers Are Not Toys, by Dorthy Chlad. Discuss how fire can be useful in different ways. Show demonstration of how fire works.
Three things are needed to make fire:
fuel + air + heat = fire
Students will observe how a fire will not burn without air.
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