Standard of Learning

10.3 The student will implement personal injury prevention and self-management strategies that promote personal, family, and community health throughout life. Key concepts/skills include:

1. strategies to reduce and prevent violence;
2. peaceful resolution of conflicts;
3. administration of emergency care;
4. recognition of tendencies toward self-harm;
5. recognition of life-threatening situations;
6. crisis-management strategies;
7. methods of avoiding gang-related activity and the use of weapons to commit violent acts of aggression;
8. recognition of when to seek support for self and others.

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Understanding the Standard

The student will recognize life-threatening situations, utilize crisis-management strategies, and demonstrate emergency care skills.

Essential Knowledge and Skills

The student will:

• explain crisis management. (remain calm, calm others, quick evaluation and action, etc.)
• evaluate life-threatening situations. (situations that may cause death, such as poisoning, respiratory obstruction, severe bleeding, elevated body temperature, heart attack, stroke, burns, etc.)
• demonstrate first aid treatment for someone who:
  • is experiencing a respiratory or cardiac emergency;
  • has an open or closed wound;
  • is burned;
  • is suffering from an environmental emergency;
  • has an injury to bones, joints, or muscles;
  • faints;
  • has been bitten by an animal;
  • has a head, neck, or back injury;
  • is in shock;
  • has symptoms of a stroke; and
  • has been poisoned. (swallowed, absorbed, injected, or inhaled)

Sample Lessons

Where Does It Hurt?
Grade 9-10
All of us will be faced with many common emergencies, some major and most minor. Either way it will then be up to us to be that "first responder" and provide appropriate aid to the victim. This is why it will be so important to know first-aid procedures when an accident has taken place.
http://www.homepage.montana.edu/~mtpbs/Education/WhereDoesItHurt.pdf
Sponsor: Montana PBS
Free

Lesson Ideas

• Students work in groups to research emergency treatments then prepare class demonstrations that provide information about recognizing and managing the situation.

Additional Instructional Resources

• American Red Cross - http://www.redcross.org/services/disaster
• Athletic Trainer
• Call 1-800-SUICIDE - http://www.hopeline.com
• The Educators Reference Desk- School Safety - http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/lessons.cgi/Health/Safety
• Emergency and First Aid - http://www.healthy.net/clinic/firstaid
• First Aid Page - http://www.expage.com/page/lacieking
• Health Teacher (membership fee) - http://www.healthteacher.com
• Local Fire Department (EMTs, Rescue Personnel, etc.)
• National Education Association-Health Information Network - http://www.neahin.org/programs/schoolsafety/resources
• School Nurse
• Virginia Family Violence and Sexual Assault Hotline - http://www.vadv.org

Assessment Ideas

The student will:

• demonstrate CPR and rescue breathing.
• demonstrate basic first aid for choking, bleeding, splinting, etc.
• create simulated crisis situations and crisis management strategies.
• become certified in first aid or CPR.
• provide a written response to situations requiring emergency care.

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