Staying Safe From Fire

HEALTH EDUCATION - Lesson 34 - Week 6/8
Safety (K)

HPE Lesson Plans - Health - KHE, 1HE, 2HE, 3HE, 4HE, 5HE

Safety | Mental, Social & Emotional Health | Substance Abuse & Disease Prevention | Growing Up Healthy

SaFETY

Staying Safe from Fire

Priority Standard(s)

HEK.4a - examine ways to express feelings in a healthy way

HEK.4b - demonstrate listening skills to enhance health

Supporting Standard(s)

Essential Question(s)

Why is it important to communicate our feelings?

What are positive ways to communicate our feelings?

Big Idea(s)

Healthy behaviors impact personal health.

There are multiple dimensions of health.

Access to valid information, products, and services is important to your personal health.

Practicing healthy behaviors improves your personal health.

LEARNING TARGET / SUCCESS CRITERIA

I will demonstrate communication skills by sharing feelings and listening. I understand that communication skills are life skills that I will improve the more I practice.

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PRE-INSTRUCTIONAL ACTIVITY

Rain Sounds

Rain Rain Go Away | The Singing Walrus

OPENING (Engage)

Talk About It

Today we are going to learn about treating others the way we want them to treat us.

We just heard the "Please & Thank You Song."

Why is it important for us to say "please" and "thank you"?

How does saying "please" and "thank you" have anything to do with how we want others to treat us?

Whenever you are in a situation to make a choice about how you are going to treat someone, please remember to:

"Treat others as you want them to treat you."

Vocabulary Strategies

communicate - to show or tell something

We are going to read the heading above each picture below and discuss each picture, one by one.

Be Fair

How are these children showing fairness?

Be Caring

How is this child showing caring?

show respect

How are these children showing respect?

Be a good citizen

How is this child being a good citizen?

Be RESPONSIBLE

How is this child being responsible?

Be Trustworthy

How is this child being trustworthy?

We're going to use the puppets to explore the 6 ways to show good character by presenting the following scenarios:

Frog and Elephant are playing. Frog has 2 treats. What should Frog do?
Elephant sees someone wearing clothing very different from hers. Should she smile, or should she laugh and point?
Frog can walk his pet at only one time of day. Elephant asks Frog to play at that time. What should Frog do?
Frog sees paper on the ground near a trash can at the park. What should he do?
Elephant borrows a book from Frog. A page gets torn. What should she do?
Frog scrapes his leg and starts to cry. What should Elephant do?

WORK PERIOD (Explore/Explain/Extend/Elaborate)

Be a Good Citizen

Be Responsible

Be Trustworthy

Be Caring

Be Fair

Show Respect

When Frog shares his treats, what character trait is he showing?
When Elephant shares a smile when seeing someone wearing clothes very different from her, what character trait is she showing?
When Frog decides to walk his pet instead of playing with his friends, what character trait is he showing?
When Frog sees paper on the ground near the trash can at the park, he picks it up and throws it in the trash can. What character trait is he showing?
When a page gets torn in a book Elephant borrows from Frog, she apologizes, and repairs or replaces Frog's book. What character trait is she showing?
When Frog scrapes his leg and starts to cry and Elephant helps him, what character trait is she showing?

CLOSING (Evaluate)

Practice Healthful Habits

Choose one of the 6 character traits and make a pledge, or promise, to try to show good character by practicing that trait. Give an example of how you will practice the good character trait you choose.

RESOURCES / INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS

10 cones
10 shoulder folders
Numbers 1-10 for shoulder folders
tongue depressors
paper
pencils & crayons
list 6 Character Traits on the board