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Content Area: Health and Physical Education
Index: 2.2F Grade 2 CPI 1
Standard: 2.2 - Integrated Skills
Strand: F - Health Services and Careers
Cumulative Progress Indicator: 1 - The student will discuss how community helpers and healthcare workers contribute to personal and community wellness.
Grade: 2
Sample Activities:
· ORDER FROM CHAOS - Design and facilitate a chaos activity that leads to a discussion of why rules are necessary. Assign small groups of students to each of four corners of a large, open play area. On signal from the teacher, teams move to a designated area, such as a small circle in the middle of the playing field or court. Students must stop and freeze on command. Designate the locomotor movement to ensure the safety of the participants (e.g., no running). After several trials of the activity, return to the classroom and ask the students what prevented them from getting to the designated area. Brainstorm ways to resolve the situation and place the ideas on the board. Connect the responses to the need for rules and laws. As an extension of this activity, ask students to predict what might happen in your school or community if there were no laws. Compile their ideas on the board and then divide the class into the original four teams. Each team discusses how problems in the school and community might be resolved if there were no laws. Each team reports their ideas to the entire class.
Variation: Use chalk to outline roads on the playground. Using colored lights or large flash cards representing traffic lights, students attempt to follow the rules of the road (e.g. staying to the right, stopping). During the activity, identify students who are following the rules. Discuss what might happen to those students who are not following the rules (e.g., accident, ticket, injury).
· GROUND
RULES - Set the stage for a discussion of rules by using a book (e.g., What
If Everybody Did That?) or video (e.g., A Kid’s Guide to Rules available from
Clearvue/eav, 1-800-CLEARVU) to discuss why rules are important. Post school and
classroom rules and discuss what might happen if no one paid attention to the
rules. Invite the principal to familiarize students with school, bus, and
playground rules. Students illustrate class or school rules (e.g., walking on
the right side of the hall, waiting for the bus on the sidewalk, standing in
line) and display their illustrations on a “Welcome Back” bulletin board.
· ADULTS HAVE RULES TOO - Explain that even adults must follow rules and laws. Invite adults from the school and community (e.g., school employee, police officer, parent, community leader, nurse, doctor) to discuss rules and laws on the job and in the community. Prior to the visit, pair students to prepare three questions about rules and laws on the job for the panelists. On the day of the visit, each pair interviews a community partner using their questions. Students illustrate the rules and laws identified in the interview.
· HEALTH HELPERS - Explain that there are times when everyone, even adults, need help. Brainstorm a list of community helpers. Give each student a teacher-made chart, with pictures and words as headings, that categorizes health helpers (e.g., school nurse, hospital, SAC, police officer). Students complete the chart with the names and phone numbers of the health helpers. Place large posters with the names and pictures of health helpers in areas around the classroom. Read aloud various situations in which a student might need help. Students move to the area under the appropriate health helper and justify their choice. Be sure to include 911 emergency services and the poison control center as part of this activity.
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