Abstract: The site offers a brochure, methods for connecting with children, and suggestions on how you can talk openly and honestly with your kids about drugs.
Abstract: We will look at some sites that will help us make good decisions when using the internet. Take the Cyberbully quiz to decide if you are already being bullied and how to get help.
Abstract: Cars shows a car speeding away up a street and asks students to respond to the question, Do you ever feel unsafe and out of control when someone else is driving?
Abstract: Drugs shows a variety of technology and drug paraphernalia and asks the student to describe some of the benefits or problems associated with drugs.
Abstract: This site includes a food safety quiz, a piece about how the FDA conducts its investigations, and pages about animals, vaccines, and tobacco. There are also specific pages designed for teens and parents.
Abstract: This site helps kids put together a disaster supply kit, set up a family disaster plan, read about what they might feel in a disaster, learn about pet protection, read a series of stories about kids who are always prepared for a natural disaster, and join Project IMPACT, a community damage mitigation program.
Abstract: This exercise is appropriate for high school, and some middle school students. It allows the students to look at how their community is preparing for possible disasters and then allows a simulation that demonstrate how difficult handling disasters can be. The exercise involves such skills as: planning, interviewing, writing, public speaking and analysis and problem solving.
Abstract: This site features a quiz about safety at home and outdoors. There is a poster about how to prevent injuries, information about eliminating hazards in the home, and bicycle safety tips.
Abstract: This site helps students answer questions about pesticides and toxic chemicals used around the house. It explains how to read labels and what to do in case of an accident. An online home tour invites students to identify pesticides and toxic substances in a typical kitchen, garage, laundry room, bathroom, and bedroom.
Abstract: There's a thunderstorm coming soon and you're scared. Instead of hiding under the covers, what can you do? Let's learn about lightning and how to stay safe during a storm!
Abstract: The Medicines in My Home lesson emphasizes the importance of reading medicine labels (especially the Drug Facts label) and involving a parent or guardian in medicine decisions. The program introduces students to information about and an approach to medicine use that may help them with self-medication choices as older adolescents and young adults. The lesson uses scenarios to teach the importance of reading label warnings and not taking two medicines that contain the same active ingredients. Students who share this information with their families may, in turn, teach their family members how to use over-the-counter medicines safely and effectively. We hope that you will find the Medicines in My Home lesson a useful addition to your health education curriculum. While health curricula differ among school systems, this information on the safe use of over-the-counter medicines may integrate with learning objectives related to home safety, medicines and common health problems, or consumer products.
Abstract: This is a civil suit arising from a car crash that may have been caused by texting while driving. In a classroom, students play all the parts in this scripted simulation. In a courtroom, a real federal judge presides and attorneys coach the student lawyers at the counsel tables. Pre-assigned students play the parts of witnesses. All other students are jurors who deliberate in groups of 12. The trial simulation is followed by a conversation with probation officers about 15 decisions or situations -- like texting while driving -- that young people do not realize can have legal and long-term consequences.
Abstract: This site tells what your children should know about drugs by the time they reach the third grade, ways to help your child stay drug free in the middle and junior high school years, and how to ensure that your child's school is keeping students drug free.
Abstract: Have you seen the movie The Wizard of Oz? Well, as you know, there were a few people who weren't quite prepared what a tornado brings. Your job is to put together information about tornadoes and what to do in the case of one!
Abstract: This lesson plan will introduce students to potential environmental health hazards in their day-to-day environment. Students will be introduced to ToxMystery, a computer game activity, and either individually or in groups, they will find potential environmental health hazards in each room of the house that is presented by the game. They will then answer multiple choice uestions posed by the game about the hazards they encounter and complete assigned activity sheets.
Abstract: This lesson plan will extend the inquiry started in the ToxMystery activities by introducing students to the world of acidity and alkalinity in household products.
Abstract: The Division of Unintentional Injury Prevention in CDC's Injury Center monitors trends in unintentional injuries in the United States, conducts research to better understand risk factors, and evaluates interventions to prevent these injuries. Research and prevention programs focus on two categories of unintentional injury: motor vehicle-related injuries and home and recreation related injuries.
Abstract: Guidelines for teachers before bringing a class group on a trip to an adventure or outdoor education centre. This includes equipment their class should bring with them and safety standards that should be expected.