First Grade Curriculum Resources
Standard of Learning
1.3 The student will explain the need for specific rules and practices to promote personal safety and injury-free situations. Key concepts/skills include:
- bus and automobile safety;
- pedestrian safety;
- playground safety;
- fire safety;
- home safety;
- Internet safety;
- water safety;
- bicycle, in-line skating, skateboard, scooter, and other self-propelled vehicle safety;
- the need for protective gear.
Understanding the Standard
The student will identify and describe sports protective equipment that will help protect them from injury.
Essential Knowledge and Skills
The student will:
- identify bicycle, in-line skating, and skateboard safety protective gear.
- identify other sports equipment designed to protect you from getting hurt. (football helmet, catcher’s mask, shin guards, mouth guard, life vest, etc.)
- describe why protective equipment should fit properly.
Sample Lessons
Bicycle Safety/Safety Tips
Grades: K-1
Children need to learn the importance of bicycle safety. This lesson will show them safety tips and information for safe bicycling.
Sponsor: Ask Eric
Contact: http://www.eduref.org (select lesson plans – health – safety)
Free
Oral Health Education Curriculum
Grade: 1
The student will understand the importance of following school safety rules, especially in relation to preventing orofacial injuries.
Sponsor: Virginia Department of Health
Oral_Health_Grade_One.pdf
Free
Road Safety Education
Grade 1
These six road safety objectives give teachers the key points to cover in their classrooms. Included in this list of objectives are both an outline of information to be discussed and sample activities to help student fully understand each topic.
http://www.essortment.com/family/roadsafetyeduc_sugl.htm
Sponsor: Essortment
Free
Safety First
Grades K-1
It is important that children learn the importance of safety through different skills. Through this lesson, 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.
http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Health/Safety/SFY0009.html
Sponsor: Educator’s Reference Desk
Free
Lesson Ideas
- Book Mark. Give each student a plain business-size envelope. Have him/her cut off the lower corners in a rounded or scalloped fashion, making sure the straight edges of each bookmark are at least 2" long. Have students draw a protective gear (or cut pictures form magazines and paste) on each bookmark and write the correlating safety message on the back. Students can slip bookmarks over the top right- or left-hand corners of book pages.
Additional Instructional Resources
- Bicycle Helmet Safety Institute - http://www.helmets.org
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control - http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc and http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/cmprfact.htm
- Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) - http://www.cpsc.gov/kids/kidsafety/index.html
- The Educators Reference Desk- School Safety - http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/lessons.cgi/Health/Safety
- Health Teacher (membership fee) - http://www.healthteacher.com
- Kids Health For Kids- Watch Out - http://kidshealth.org/kid/watch/
- National SAFEKIDS Campaign - http://www.safekids.org
- RISK WATCH - http://www.riskwatch.org
- Safe USA - http://www.safeusa.org
- Safety – http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/(health & fitness k-2)
- Safety Advice from EMS "Bike Safety for Children"
- Safety City - http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/kids
- "Safety Counts" - http://www.healthteacher.com
- SunWise - http://www.epa.gov/sunwise/
- VDH, Division of Injury & Violence Prevention (DIVP) -http://www.vahealth.org/civp
- Virginia Center for School Safety - http://www.dcjs.virginia.gov/vcss/index.cfm
- Ride Smart It’s Time to Start Video - http://www.vahealth.org/civp/bike/index.asp
- Watch Out - http://kidshealth.org/kid/watch
Assessment Ideas
The student will:
- complete a worksheet where they match the activity with the proper safety equipment.
- draw pictures of different sport safety equipment.
