Health And Safety Lesson Plan

David Fitch

10-28-2005

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10-21-2005

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Three - Five (Age Group)

A. General Information 1) Name of Activity: Children and Traffic Source of Idea-Author, text, page number (required) Health, Safety, and nutrition Class

2) Curriculum Area or Development Area, Health, Safety, and nutrition 3) Brief Description of Activity: The children will pretend that is dark out and the car has broken down. So we have to walk to a payphone for help but they will have to cross streets, share the road with traffic, and will learn rules of pedestrians. 4) Focus (three's and up) Family 5) Where? Activity area where activity will be presented playground 6) When? Approximate "Time Block" activity will be presented. Free choice time 10:00-11:00 7) Who? Number of children you will be working with at a time-size of group. 16 B.

Activity Planning 1) Why? List purposes of activity. In this activity, children will develop Pedestrian safety. 2) What? List all materials needed (do not include recipe ingredients unless children are making the recipe in the classroom), Materials I will Bring: Materials I can use from Classroom Novel Materials

a) Reflection Tape b) Brochure for parents on pedestrian safety c) Traffic Sings

a) Traffic Sings

Traffic Sings

4) List 3 things that you want the children to understand from this activity.

1) Standard rules for pedestrian safety. 2) Standard traffic sings. 3) Walking in the dark can be fun. 5) As a guiding adult, I will transition into activity with the following open ended question:

Imagine that the car broke down and it was dark out what could we do? 6) During the activity, I will use parallel talk or descriptive statements such as...

1) That is a pedestrian crossing sing. 2) You our walking on the side of the road. 3) We are waling towards traffic. 7) During the activity, 1 will ask the following open-ended questions,

1) I wonder what would happen if I ran out in the street without looking? 2) I wonder what would happen if I had black clothes on and no flashlight? 3) I wonder what happen if crossed street in the middle off the block where there’s no? crosswalk