Safety Activity:

Scavenger Hunt. Instructor will conduct a kitchen tour of the kitchen. Going through specific areas, names & where you can find certain tools/equipment. Students joining advanced culinary will be working in a new kitchen classroom. The goal of the activity is to see how well students pay attention to detail. After the tour students will play a scavenger hunting game. Students will be paired in groups of 4-5 and be given a list of kitchen tools to grab. We’ll be playing a relay race, each student will grab 1 tool, followed by the next person to grab their assigned tool. 

Learning Target: 

Expose students to kitchen environment 

• Team building 

• Hunt for kitchen tools in a safe manner 

• No bumping or running. No running into each other. 

• Must display kitchen safety awareness 

Photograph of the microscope area in my classroom. Microscopes are securely stored in a microscope cabinet, but are placed on the counter when needed.

Resources:

• Department of Justice Laboratory Orientation and Testing of Body Fluids and Tissues for Forensic Analysts

• Crime Scene Investigator Network Hazards and a Crime Scene

• Flinn Scientific SDS Database

Importance of following protocols:

• General collection and analysis Department of Justice article

• Evidence analysis Altering evidence

• Evidence storage  Dana Ireland case

Safety Activity Suggestions and Resources:

• • Student voice, creating and going over safety with students, sharing thoughts and ideas for posters.

  • Creating your own CTE classroom inventory/location/item number with sign-out log

Safety Activity Suggestions and Resources:

• • Focus on Creative Freedom and have a support network for students (i.e. prototype/test/feedback)

  • Use guided feedback to prompt the students into creating supportive, positive feedback. (i.e. I like, I think, I wish, what if…)

  • Peer to Peer mentoring

  • Collaborative projects and activities

  • Empathy building activities (i.e. getting to know you, tell me a story … )

  • Classroom Safety Inspection w/ checklist

  • Classroom Safety design activity 

  • Brainstorming Norms (i.e. Quantity over quality, go for wild & crazy ideas, build on each other’s ideas)

• Anything else you might want to share

  • In my classroom, physical safety is a top priority.  However, because there is a very minimal safety risk, our focus is always on creating a safe and supportive environment where students can feel emotionally and psychologically safe while expressing their ideas and opinions.  It is very important that students feel safe to take creative risks and try to innovate.  In order to achieve this, students need to know they won’t be judged harshly or negatively and that their ideas always have value.  Ideation and Iteration are extremely important in expressing the importance of failure in learning and growth, rather than the fear of failure.  The mindset shift from fear of failure to embracing it is so critical.

Safety Activity Suggestions and Resources:

• • Students create posters or PSA videos of a safety topic to share with the class.