Sixth Grade Curriculum Resources

Standard of Learning

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

safety habits in vehicles and public areas;
first aid and safety practices;
strategies to prevent accidents and injuries;
the need for and use of protective gear;
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

Conflict Management Techniques
Grade(s) 4-12
The objective of this lesson is to identify personal management style(s), develop an awareness of strategies used in each conflict management style. It is useful to assess our predominant conflict management style(s) because we tend to get stuck in one or two styles and apply them inappropriately. The emphasis is not on judging any style right or wrong. Each person determines their predominant conflict management style.
http://www.youth.net/cec/cecmisc/cecmisc.33.txt
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

Healthy B.A.S.I.C.S. Lesson Plan: "What to do when I’m Angry"
Grade(s) 6-8
Students will define anger as a normal emotion, then will list three behaviors that show when anger is out of control. After finishing both of these activities the students will describe three positive ways to deal with anger.
http://www.childrenshealthfund.org/publications/HBLPanger.pdf
Free

Social Emotional Learning Lesson grade(s) K-6
Grade(s) K-6 In this lesson students will share their ideas of what they believe teasing is. From the story and their discussion, they will learn about dealing with being left out, fear and embarrassment.
http://www.dist102.k12.il.us/internal/SELWebPg/COP4Chrysanthemum.htm
Free
Grade(s) 5-8 Students will learn to recognize own anger and develop appropriate responses
http://www.dist102.k12.il.us/internal/SELWebPg/COP5-8Oregon.htm
Free
Grade 6 Students will identify circumstances that make people angry and how anger makes your body feel and respond.
http://www.dist102.k12.il.us/internal/SELWebPg/COPUnit6Ls1.htm
Free

Tough Truces: A Lesson on the Causes and Prevention of Gang Violence
Grade(s) 6-12
In this lesson, students will learn about the factors contributing to the growth of gangs and gang violence. Groups will discuss causes for gang violence and suggest measures that can be taken by various community groups to reduce such activity.
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/20020412
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
Children’s Safety Network – National Injury and Violence Prevention Resource – http://www.childrensafetynetwork.org
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
Kansas Bullying Prevention Program, Statewide Bullying Campaign: http://www.kbpp.org/
Kids Health For Kids- Watch Out - http://kidshealth.org/kid/watch
Lowes Home Safety Council for Teachers - http://www.homesafetycouncil.org
National Bullying Prevention Campaign Webcast - http://www.mchcom.com/archivedWebcastDetail.asp?aeid=250
National Crime Prevention Council – http://www.ncpc.org
National Safety Council - http://www.nsc.org
NHTSA Teacher’s Lounge - National - http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/kids/safeschool/teachers
National Youth Gang Center – http://www.iir.com/nygc/maininfo.htm
National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center (NYVPRC) –http://www.safeyouth.org
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention –http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org
Olweus Bullying Prevention Program - nationally recognized model program to reduce opportunities and rewards for bullying -http://www.clemson.edu/olweus/
Partnership Against Violence Network – http://www.pavnet.org
Prevention Pathways Online Courses, Center for Substance Abuse Prevention - http://pathwayscourses.samhsa.gov/bully/bully_intro_pg1.htm
PREVENT, Preventing Violence Through Education Network and Technical Assistance, University of North Carolina - http://www.prevent.unc.edu/
Stop Bullying Now! Campaign, Human Resources And Services Administration - http://www.stopbullyingnow.hrsa.gov
Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD) – http://www.saddonline.com
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
U.S. Department of Education, Safe & Drug-Free Schools Program – http://www.ed.gov/offices/OESE/SDFS/
U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, National Criminal Justice Reference Service – http://www.ncjrs.org
U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention – http://www.ojjdp.ncjrs.org
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 Best Practices in School-Based Violence Prevention, Virginia Department of Health -http://www.preventviolenceva.org
Virginia Center for School Safety – http://www.virginiaschoolsafety.com
Virginia Department of Education, Safe & Drug-Free Schools Program – http://www.safeanddrugfreeva.org
Virginia Youth Violence Project, University of Virginia -http://youthviolence.edschool.virginia.edu/
What New Zealand Police are doing about bullying -http://www.police.govt.nz/service/yes/nobully/whats_bullying.html
Youth Violence Fact Sheet, Center for Disease Control and Prevention -http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/factsheets/yvfacts.htm

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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