Staying Safe Outdoors

HEALTH EDUCATION - Lesson 4 - Week 4/8

Safety (4)

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Safety

Staying Safe Outdoors

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Standard(s), Essential Question(s), Big Idea(s)

LEARNING TARGET / SUCCESS CRITERIA

I will know and be able to describe appropriate safety gear for sports and outdoor activities.

I will know and be able to recognize safety hazards present in cold weather and thunderstorms.

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PRE-INSTRUCTIONAL ACTIVITY

Vocabulary

safety gear - clothing or equipment worn to prevent injury

lightning - an electrical flash in the sky that carries a strong current of electricity that can injure or kill people, cause fires, and damage property

OPENING (Engage)

Main Idea

Wearing proper safety gear and practicing safety measures help prevent injuries while you play sports and games outdoors.

Why Learn This?

What you learn can help keep you from getting hurt while outdoors.

WORK PERIOD (Explore/Explain/Extend/Elaborate)

READ: Staying Safe Outdoors

Rhonda and César are skating. Rhonda wears a helmet, wrist guards, and knee and elbow pads. César doesn't think he needs to wear these items. What César doesn't know is that he can be injured painfully if he falls while skating. Wearing safety gear and practicing safe habits can help protect you when playing outdoors.

What safety gear should you wear while playing sports?

To be safe when you play most sports, you need to wear safety gear. Safety gear is clothing or equipment worn to prevent injury. The shin guards you wear while playing soccer shield your legs from kicks. A padded glove protects your hand when you catch a baseball.

Many sports involve the risk of falling or running into other players or equipment. Any of these actions can cause mouth, tooth, or jaw injuries. Wearing a mouth guard helps protect you against these injuries. Dentists recommend wearing mouth guards in gymnastics, basketball, hockey, football, skating, skateboarding, volleyball, surfing, soccer, and skiing.

Helmets are important safety gear for many sports, too. Helmets help protect your head from injuries. If you are wearing a bicycle helmet when you fall off your bicycle, for example, you will be much less likely to get hurt. In fact, some states and cities have laws that require you to wear a helmet when bicycling.

For skateboarding and in-line skating, you need a helmet and wrist guards. Wrist injuries are the most common injuries in skating sports. You also need elbow and knee pads.

The shoes you wear can help protect you while you play. Not all sports shoes are the same. Each sport has a shoe with special features just for that sport. Cleats or spikes help keep players from slipping on grass fields. Running shoes often have pads in the heel, toe, and middle of the sole to protect these parts of the feet as they hit the ground. Tennis shoes have added support on the sides because players move from side to side. Basketball shoes often have high tops to help hold ankles straight. If you play a sport for five hours or more each week, you should replace your sports shoes every six months. When the cushioning becomes thin and the side materials stretch, the shoes no longer protect your feet.

What can you do to stay safe in cold weather?

Here are some tips for safe winter play:

Never skate, sled, or ski alone or after dark.
Wear brightly colored clothing so you can be seen.
Stay out of the paths of others.
Do not sled or ski where there are hazards such as trees, fences, rocks, poles, traffic, or roads.
Make sure a ski hill or sledding hill is not icy, too steep, or bumpy. Be sure you can stop safely.
Remember the dangerous toos. If you feel too wet, too cold, too tired, too hungry or thirsty, too far from safety or get toe hot from the sun, STOP and do something about it.
Wear sunscreen. Harmful rays can reach the skin even in winter on cloudy days.

In cold weather your body can lose heat faster than it can keep itself warm. If you get too cold, you can get sick or even die. If you get wet, your body cools more quickly. Follow these tips for staying warm and dry:

Keep your head and neck covered. These parts lose heat more quickly than other parts of your body.
Wear mittens or gloves, In very cold weather mittens allow your fingers to warm each other.
Wear several layers of clothing. Include a base laver, a thicker middle layer, and a waterproof jacket.

High-Tech Layers for Cold Weather

Some cold-weather clothes are made of layers of special fabrics sandwiched together. In the certain jackets, the outer layer is windproof and waterproof. The middle layer is a material that lets air pass through and pulls perspiration, or wetness, away from the body. The third layer is a lining of knitted nylon that helps hold in heat.

What should you do to stay safe during a thunderstorm?

Thunderstorms are the most frequent kind of dangerous storm. The danger comes from lightning. Lightning is an electrical flash in the sky. It carries a strong current of electricity that can injure or kill people, cause fires, and damage property. Here are some tips for staying safe during a thunderstorm:

Go inside a house or large building. You may get inside a closed car or truck, but do not touch any metal. Electricity can pass through metal into you.
Stay off bicycles, tractors, and other open vehicles.
If you're outside, don't touch metal such as fishing poles or baseball bats.
If you are out in the open and can't find shelter, stay low, Get into a ditch or low area if possible.
Stay away from single trees or tall objects. Lightning usually hits the tallest object above ground. Stay lower than everything else. Do not stand on a beach, slope, hilltop or in an open field.
If you are in a wooded area, get under some low bushes or under a group of trees that are all the same height.
Stay away from water. Water conducts electricity.

REMEMBER...Wearing proper safety gear and practicing safety measures help prevent injuries while you play sports and games outdoors. What you learn can help keep you from getting hurt while outdoors.

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Standard(s)

HE4.1a - recognize the relationship between healthy behavior and disease prevention

HE4.3a - identify the characteristics of valid health information, products, and services

HE4.3b - list resources from home, school, and community that provide valid health information

HE4.5b - describe the possible consequences of an unhealthy decision and healthy alternatives when making a health-related decision

Essential Question(s)

What safety gear should you wear while playing sports?
What can you do to stay safe in cold weather?
What should you do to stay safe during a thunderstorm?

Big Idea(s)

Safety gear is clothing or equipment worn to prevent injury. The shin guards you wear while playing soccer shield your legs from kicks. A padded glove protects your hand when you catch a baseball.
Here are some tips for safe winter play:

Never skate, sled, or ski alone or after dark.
Wear brightly colored clothing so you can be seen.
Stay out of the paths of others.
Do not sled or ski where there are hazards such as trees, fences, rocks, poles, traffic, or roads.
Make sure a ski hill or sledding hill is not icy, too steep, or bumpy. Be sure you can stop safely.
Remember the dangerous toos. If you feel too wet, too cold, too tired, too hungry or thirsty, too far from safety or get toe hot from the sun, STOP and do something about it.
Wear sunscreen. Harmful rays can reach the skin even in winter on cloudy days.

Keep your head and neck covered. These parts lose heat more quickly than other parts of your body.
Wear mittens or gloves, In very cold weather mittens allow your fingers to warm each other.
Wear several layers of clothing. Include a base laver, a thicker middle layer, and a waterproof jacket.

Here are some tips for staying safe during a thunderstorm:
1. - Go inside a house or large building. You may get inside a closed car or truck, but do not touch any metal. Electricity can pass through metal into you.
  - Stay off bicycles, tractors, and other open vehicles.
  - If you're outside, don't touch metal such as fishing poles or baseball bats.
  - If you are out in the open and can't find shelter, stay low, Get into a ditch or low area if possible.
  - Stay away from single trees or tall objects. Lightning usually hits the tallest object above ground. Stay lower than everything else. Do not stand on a beach, slope, hilltop or in an open field.
  - If you are in a wooded area, get under some low bushes or under a group of trees that are all the same height.
  - Stay away from water. Water conducts electricity.

RESOURCES / INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS

see below

DCSD Board-Approved Instruction Materials

Your Health: Teacher's Edition - Grade 4. Harcourt Brace & Company. 1999.

Technology

Google Sites - HPE website
Chromebook
large video screens for whole-class viewing
sound system for sharing of audio
BrainPOP - Bicycle Safety
BrainPOP Jr. - Bullying
BrainPOP Jr. - Fire Safety
BrainPOP - Food Safety
BrainPOP Jr. - Internet Safety
BrainPOP - Lab Safety
BrainPOP - Online Safety
BrainPOP Jr. - Safety Signs
BrainPOP - Water Safety