Standard of Learning

6.5 The student will demonstrate injury prevention and management skills to promote personal and family health. Key concepts/skills include:

1. safety habits in vehicles and public areas;
2. first aid and safety practices;
3. strategies to prevent accidents and injuries;
4. the need for and use of protective gear;
5. awareness of behaviors that can result in violent acts.

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Understanding the Standard

The student will understand the need for vehicular and public safety practices; become familiar with general first aid procedures; identify behaviors, such as the use of protective gear, that reduce the risk of accidents or injury; and recognize that certain behaviors may result in violence.

Essential Knowledge and Skills

The student will:

• identify vehicle safety precautions.
• list safety precautions to observe while at the park, playground, or on public roadways.
• explain safety precautions to take at school and in the community.
• demonstrate basic first aid treatment for injuries.
• describe the importance of first aid skills.
• list activities that require protective gear.
• provide examples of behaviors/misunderstandings that may lead to violence.

Sample Lessons

Bicycle Safety Obstacle Course
Grades 2-6
Riding a bike is a privilege that almost everyone has the chance to experience once in a lifetime. Bike riding can be very enjoyable, but it can also be dangerous if it not rode the proper way. This lesson will allow the students to ride through a bicycle obstacle course, teaching them about bike safety, riding tips, and traffic signs.
http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Health/Safety/SFY0004.html
Sponsor: The Educator’s Reference Desk
Free

First Aid Kit
Grades 3-6
The goal of this lesson is to have students demonstrate their ability to access valid health information and health promoting products. It will make students aware of how to deal with emergency situations and what products to use.
Sponsor: Ask Eric
Contact: http://www.eduref.org (select lesson plans – health – safety)
Free

Winter Survival Skills
Grades 4-6
In this lesson plan the students will learn what to do when stranded in a car during the middle of winter. From this experience my students will also learn how to construct a winter survival kit for their parent’s car.
http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Health/Safety/SFY0011.html
Sponsor: The Educator’s Reference Desk
Free

Lesson Ideas

• Students plan learning centers about an assigned safety topic using props and posters. Students rotate through each center where they learn about the issue (ie. Vehicle safety, protective gear).
• Students identify emergency situations, state the appropriate response steps, and demonstrate how to perform CPR.
• Students work in groups to develop fact sheets about their assigned safety issue. Then they create role-plays to illustrate how to use the safety facts and the decision-making steps to make safe decisions about ways to avoid accidents, preventive measures and what to do in an emergency.

Additional Instructional Resources

• American Red Cross - http://www.redcross.org/services/disaster
• Basic First Aid Script – http://www.cdc.gov/nasd/docs
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control – http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc
• CDC-National Center for Injury Prevention and Control Fact Sheets - http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/cmprfact.htm
• The Educators Reference Desk- School Safety -
• Emergency and First Aid – http://www.healthy.net/clinic/firstaid
• ESR Educators Building Social Skills - http://www.esrnational.org/es/skills.htm
• First Aid Page – http://www.expage.com/page/lacieking
• Health Teacher (membership fee) - http://www.healthteacher.com
• Kids Health For Kids- Watch Out - http://kidshealth.org/kid/watch
• Lowes Home Safety Council for Teachers - http://www.homesafetycouncil.org
• National Highway Traffic Safety Administration – http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov
• National Safety Council - http://www.nsc.org
• NHTSA Teacher’s Lounge - National - http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/kids/safeschool/teachers
• RISKWATCH - http://www.riskwatch.org
• Safe America - http://www.safeamerica.org
• Safe USA - http://www.safeusa.org
• Safety City – http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/kids
• Virginia Best Practices in School-based Violence Prevention - http://www.preventviolenceva.org
• VDH, Center for Injury & Violence Prevention (CIVP) - http://www.vahealth.org/civp
• Virginia Center for School Safety – http://www.virginiaschoolsafety.com
• Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles – http://www.dmv.state.va.us

Assessment Ideas

The student will:

• interview five adults regarding seatbelt usage and record their reasons for using or not using a safety belt.
• interview 10 peers regarding seatbelt usage and and record their reasons for using or not using a safety belt.
• practice and demonstrate first aid skills.
• research the leading causes of unintentional injury deaths for individuals less than 24 years old.

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