Standard of Learning

K.4 The student will identify sources of health and safety information. Key concepts/skills include:

1. a variety of information sources such as product-safety symbols, television, radio, print materials, and electronic media;
2. individuals, including school nurses, family members, health care personnel, teachers, school counselors, and public safety officials.

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Understanding the Standard

The student will identify people who help to provide health and safety information.

Essential Knowledge and Skills

The student will:

• identify or describe members of their community who provide health and safety services:
  • school - teacher, school resource officer, nurse, etc.;
  • public safety - fire fighter, police officer, etc.;
  • family - parent, grandparent, etc.; and
  • medical - dentist, doctor, nurse, etc.

Lesson Ideas

• Students learn about community through a (walking) tour followed by guided discussion. Students then make a cover for a book they will create about their community.
• Students learn about the police officer's role in their community by talking with an officer who visits the class or by taking a tour of a police station. Students write a sentence and draw a picture describing what they learned to place in their community books.
• Students learn about the firefighter's role in their community by talking with a firefighter who visits their class or by taking a tour of a firestation. Students write a sentence and draw a picture describing the firefighter's role in the community.
• Students discuss their experience with nurses - what they do and why. Students write a descriptive sentence and draw a picture depicting the nurses role to place in their community book.

Sample Lessons

Oral Health Education: Saving Smiles Series- “Healthy Mouth, Healthy Body”
Grade:  K
Lesson Plan (1) Explain why brushing teeth is an important daily task. (SOL K.2b and c)
Lesson Plan (2) Discuss which people in the community can answer questions about teeth. (SOL K.4b)
Sponsor: Virginia Department of Health, Division of Dental Health
Contact:  http://www.vahealth.org/teeth/OralHealthEducation.asp (curriculum resources)
Free

Know Who Takes Care of Me
Students identify school workers and authority figures. Teachers are provided with a script. One of the lines is "Tell the students that teachers, the principal, ant other school workers help students learn and they help students stay safe and healthy." Instructional procedures are provided
Sponsor: Chicago Public Schools
http://intranet.cps.k12.il.us/Lessons/StructuredCurriculumTOC/SCSocial_Science.PDF
(This lesson is found on page 51.)
Free

Meet the Faculty
Grade: K
This is the first lesson in the School Life Unit. Students are introduced to other members of the school family with this lesson. Students will go on a tour of the school to learn the location of pertinent places and will be introduced to faculty members. Students will then recall the learned information and play a matching game. This website identifies the human characteristics of the school in terms of the roles of school helpers and school leaders and the need for school rules.
Sponsor: Georgia Learning Connections
http://www.glc.k12.ga.us/BuilderV03/LPTools/LPShared/lpdisplay.asp?LPID=35306
Free

You Can't Judge A Book By It's Cover
The objective of this activity is to have students learn that how something is packaged is not necessarily the way it really is. It is very important for children of this age to know whom to trust and how to receive the real, accurate message regarding something they are going to do, buy, or support. Learning to question the truth of messages sent to children this age can often be a first step to understanding that questioning first is better than wishing you had questioned after action was taken.
Sponsor: American Council for Drug Education
Contact: http://www.acde.org/educate/k3plan1.htm
Free

Additional Instructional Resources

• American Heart Association
  
• American Lung Association
• American Red Cross - Longfellow's Whaletales (Instructional Program)
  
• Coast Guard.org
• Consumer Product Safety Commission's Kidd Safety - http://www.education-world.com/parents/health/safety.shtml
  
• DARE
• First School - http://www.first-school.ws/t/cp_comhelper/librarian-1.htm
• Kids Health.org - http://kidshealth.org/kid/feel_better/people/school_counselors.html
• The Perpetual Preschool -http://www.perpetualpreschool.com/preschool_themes/families/families.htm
  
• http://www.redcross.org/services/hss/
  
• http://www.connectforkids.org
• Teachers Net - http://teachers.net/lessons/posts/2096.html
  

Assessment Ideas

The student will:

• identify people who help to provide them with health and safety information.
• discuss when to go to these individuals for help.

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