Content Area: Career Education and Consumer, Family, and Life Skills

 

Index: 9.2F Grade 4 CPI 2

 

Standard: 9.2 - Consumer, Family, and Life Skills

 

Strand: F - Safety

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 2 -  The student will explain how common hazards can be eliminated in the home, school, and community.

 

Grade: 4

 

Sample Activities:

 

·       The town has decided to build a new school. Prepare a presentation to convince the local board of education.

 

·       Current transportation systems consume natural resources and add to pollution and congestion.

 

·       Divide students into teams.  When there is an classroom parent helper available, have the person escort one team of students around the halls (including cafeteria area) and have them record hazards they see in the school.  Another team visits the main office and associated space.  A third team visits the library/media center to identify hazards and/or potential health and safety problems.  A fourth team looks at several classrooms (arrange to visit other rooms when students are eating, in another room for art, PE, or music) for health and safety problems.  All teams bring lists of hazards to class for discussion at a specified time.  Students make a list of recommendations on how the problems can be solved.  Discuss why safety inspections are important.

 

·       Students develop a class list of health and safety items that need to be checked and discussed in the home.  List might include stairs free of loose items, smoke detectors having operational batteries, extra newspapers and magazines removed from the home, flammable materials not left on top of, or beside sources of heat like stove burners, space heaters, etc.  Students talk to parents/guardians about what to do in case of a fire.

 

·       Discuss safe people to talk to, who to get into vehicles with, who to let in the house, etc.