Safety & Injury Prevention Lesson Plan
Stranger Danger
Estimated Time: 30 minutes Rhode Island's Health Education Standard
Standard 3:
Students will demonstrate the ability to practice health-enhancing behaviors and reduce health risks.Performance Indicators: As a result of health instruction students will:
- identify responsible health behaviors;
- compare behaviors to those that are safe to those that are risky;
- develop ways to avoid and reduce threatening situations.
Copyright 1999 by Rhode Island Department of Education Lesson Preparation (Materials)
- Herbie the Hippo Workbook
- Pencil
Objectives The students will be able to:
- Recognize dangerous situations.
- Identify strangers (what they are and what they are not).
- Determine safe places to run to in case of an emergency.
Time /Student Work
- 3 minutes: Students will listen to the introduction. (Read aloud by teacher - Introduction)
- 5 minutes: Students will discuss words for health.
- 15 minutes: Students will read and complete the Stranger Danger workbook.
- 5 minutes: Students will complete, check the understanding activity.
- 2 minutes: Students will discuss the lesson.
Content Outline 1. The students will listen to the introduction.
(Read aloud by teacher – in workbook)
"Today's lesson is from the content area Safety Injury Prevention, focusing on stranger awareness. The activity our class will focus on
today is Dangers about Strangers." In the activity the class will look at pages from the workbook. Within the Herbie the Hippo workbook there are fun-filled pages to color, words to unscramble, rhyme, draw and more.
Ready to be Street Smart? Pass out the workbooks.
2. The students will discuss the words for health.
Danger - means that something could happen to hurt you.
Dangerous - when something can hurt you, it is dangerous.
Emergency
- sometimes something important or dangerous happens very fast, and we must act immediately.
Strange - strange means different from what you expect.
Stranger
- a stranger is anyone you and your parents don't know or trust. Strangers come in all shapes and sizes. Some are nice and some are dangerous.
Definitions were taken from Macmillan First Dictionary. Levey S .Judith, Macmillan/McGraw-Hill Primary Dictionary. 1990 by Simion & Schuster.
3. The students will read and complete the Herbie the Hippo Stranger Danger
Workbook. As a class, the students will read and complete most pages of the
Workbook. Coloring will be completed at home. The workbook will be returned for class discussion and to assure completion of the pages with a parent/guardian to foster review of the material.
4. Check the Understanding/Evaluation The student completed workbook.
Kindergarten: A drawing about the main point learned from the lesson on Stranger Danger.
Grade 1: A drawing and a sentence about the main point learned from
the lesson on Stranger Danger.
Grade 2: A drawing and two sentences about the main point learned from the lesson on Stranger Danger.
Grade 3:
A drawing and three sentences about the main point learned from the lesson on Stranger Danger.
5. Closing The students will discuss the lesson. |
