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 sources of health and safety information.

Essential Knowledge and Skills

The student will:

• define an advertisement. (a message to get you to buy something or a safety message)
• give examples of where one sees and hears health and safety advertisements. (on the television, radio, or in magazines)
• explain where one can find written information about health topics. (at school, in books, in magazines, on the Internet, etc.)
• identify symbols used to warn of safe and unsafe materials. (Mr.Yuck, seat belt signs, poison symbols, road signs, etc.)
• identify television and radio commercials or programs which provide information for individual, community, and world safety. (healthful foods ads, vehicle safety messages, anti-smoking advertisements, etc.)

Lesson Ideas

• Health and Safety Book. Have students cut pictures from magazines and provide safety stickers for themn to create “safety pages.” When completed, each of the illustrations will be put together to create a class safety book.

Sample Lessons

LifeSkills Training
Grades: K-5
Model substance abuse prevention and competency enhancement program focusing on the major social and psychological factors causing substance use and abuse. Teaches drug resistance skills, personal management skills, and general social skills. Focuses on self-esteem, decision-making, influence of media, stress, communication, and assertiveness issues.
Contact:http://www.lifeskillstraining.com
Cost

Stan the Superbug
All ages
Stan the Superbug educates children about antibiotic resistance.  Due to misuse, many common antibiotics are becoming ineffective which could result in epidemics of “superbugs” or strains of bacteria that resist drugs in the future.  Stans and Stellas (actors and actresses in “Superbug” costumes) come to a  classroom and provide a fun, interactive skit educating children about saving antibiotic strength. This program includes handouts and giveaways.
Sponsor: Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield
Contact: Call 1-866-782-6284 or go to http://www.vdh.state.va.us/Epidemiology/Surveillance/Getsmart/documents/stansupbug04.pdf
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
• Consumer Product Safety Counsel - http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/pubs/kids.pdf
• Consumer Product Safety Counsel - http://www.cpsc.gov/kids/kidsafety/index.html
  
• DARE
  
• http://www.connectforkids.org
• Office of NYS Attorney General Eliot Spitzer - http://www.oag.state.ny.us/family/kids/littlekid/
  

Assessment Ideas

The student will:

• identify where they hear or see health messages.
• describe where they can find health information.

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