SafetyLiterature Focus Unit

EDU 315Brittany Kuester

Literature SelectionNon-fiction text

• What Should I Do? If a Stranger comes near by Wil Mara• Living Well. Safety Around Strangers by Lucia Raatma• Staying Safe around Fire by Lucia Raatma• Home Fire Drills by Lucia Raatma• Ambulance Rescue by Deborah Chancellor• Police Rescue by Deborah Chancellor• The Berenstain Bears: Winter Wonderland by Stan & Jan Berenstain• Have you Ever Seen a Hippo with Sunscreen? by Etta Kaner

Literature Selection cont.

Fiction Text• Once Upon a Dragon – Stranger Safety for Kids by Jean E. Pendziwol and Martine Gourbault • The Berenstain Bears: Learn about Strangers by Stan & Jan Berenstain• Arthur’s Fire Drill by Marc Brown• Clifford the Firehouse Dog by Norman Bridwell• Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey• Thomas’ Snowsuit by Robert Munsch • The Berenstain Bears: Winter Wonderland by Stan & Jan Berenstain• Have you Ever Seen a Hippo with Sunscreen? by Etta Kaner• Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathman• Thomas’ Snowsuit by Robert Munsch

Theme Study

• Students will study what they can do to stay safe. They will learn the dangers of strangers and fire. Students will identify community helpers who will keep them safe. Students will also learn survive strategies in the cold winter months and the hot summer months. • This unit will integrate reading and writing with social studies, science,

mathematics, art, music and physical education. • This unit will follow common core state standards for English

Language Arts and math, the 21st century standards in Science. Social Studies, Art, Music and Physical Education with be taken from North Dakota state content standards.

Reading standards

• RL.10: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding• RI.1: Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of text,

referring explicitly to the text as the basis for answers• W.5: With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and

strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, and editing.• SL.1: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions with

diverse partners building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clarity

Language Arts: Reading Activities

• Students will read various fiction and non-fiction text found in their book box about the staying safe in various situations. • Students will draw pictures to go with the words in a take-home book

about safety• Watch Out for Strangers! Activity • Found in Teacher Work Center ‘How to Stay Safe K-2’

• Safe or Unsafe? Activity• Found in Teacher Work Center ‘How to Stay Safe K-2’

• Students will read independently and with a buddy• Students will examine non fiction text features

Language Arts: Writing Activities• Students will add safety words to our word wall• Students will write a letter to a police officer• Students will write an I Remember… poem about our field trip to the police station, fire station and

ambulance• Students will keep a journal of all the ways a child can stay safe. • Students will come up with your own safety tip after watching Officer Buckle and Gloria• Students will write a story about how to stay safe and warm on the playground in the middle of

winter• Students will write a list of things they need to take to Raging Rivers on a hot August day• Students will create a graphic organizer with a fireman or police officer in the middle, surrounded by

adjectives• Students will make a Venn diagram to compare and contrast differences and similarities between

police and fireman• Students will keep a science journal to predict what is going to happen with the egg drop, hot dog

activity and fingerprints.

Language Arts: Speaking Activities

• Students will give an example and a non-example of safety rules• Students will present their magazine clippings to the class and explain

how the pictures represent safety• Students will present their picture of 2 ways to stay safe.• Homework: Students will need to go home and talk to their parents

about what they learned about stranger danger and come up with secret word so if a stranger says “I’m supposed to give you a ride home, I’m your mom’s friend”, the child can ask for the secret word. • Mini - plays

Language Arts: Listening Activities

• Students will listen to their peers’ examples and non-examples of being safe. • Students will listen to books on tape from the literature selection

during Daily 5 rotations on safety• Students will participate in a actual fire drill• Actively listen to fiction and non-fiction safety books • Listen to fireman, police officer and EMT

Language Arts: Viewing Activities

• View pictures of items that could start fires such as candles, lighters, cigarettes, fireworks, Christmas lights, appliances• Students will use their active listening skills while students are

presenting their magazine clippings. • Students will view the presentations at the fire house and police station. • View DVD selection/websites• Presentations of mini – plays• Word wall• Viewing each others poetry• Viewing each others artwork

Language Arts: Visually Representing Activities• Create a picture using watercolors that represents something that could start

a fire. • Students will cut out pictures of magazines that represent safety• Practice dialing 911 on a piece of paper cut out like an iPhone.

• On the back students will write what they may need to call 911 for

• Make a phone with emergency contact numbers printed on the back. Students could work to memorize these numbers. I would then laminate these cards and put it on a keychain so students could attach it to their backpack zipper.• Math graph• Community helpers pictures

Science ActivitiesK-PS3-1. Make observations to determine the effect of sunlight on Earth’s surface.

• Egg drop activity – demonstrates importance of wearing your helmet • Detective investigating fingerprints as police officers do• Create your own first aid kit like the ones they have in an ambulance• 2 hot dogs under a heat lamp, put sunscreen on one, and leave the other

one plain. We would leave the hot dogs under there all day and reapply sunscreen as needed. • Students will document observations in their science journal

• Put a child’s hand in a bag full of Crisco and put it in ice cold water, demonstrates how animals can survive in the cold • Melting crayons in a cupcake wrapper on a hot August or September day

Mathematics ActivitiesCC.6: Identify whether the number of objects in one group is greater than, less than, or equal to the number of objects in another group, e.g., by using matching and counting strategies.

• Show on a thermometer what temperature it is when it’s freezing• Give students the opportunity to do some water play, students need

to recognize a number that is on a “flame” in a tub. Students need to say the number correctly and spray the flame. The number on the flame and the number of times the student sprays the flame must be the same• Would you like to be a firefighter class vote and graph.• Graph the number of each type of fingerprint swirl. Identify

most/least of each type of fingerprint.

Social Studies ActivitiesPolitical institutions 4.2.2 Know the basic functions that government performs in one's school, community,state, tribal nation, and nation.

• Circles program – Different colors means different safety levels of people• We will also demonstrate symbols on signs

• Research the types of duties that policeman and fireman do• Practice crosswalk safety, always have a buddy to walk across the

street with• Community helpers: police, fire, EMT• Match picture of people in the community with the jobs they do.

• Field trips – fire station, police station and ambulance

Music and Art Activities ND Content Art - 4.1.6 Use visual art materials and tools in a safe and responsible manner.

• Draw a picture of 2 things that are safe for children to do. • Design your own helmet • Is it Okay? How to Stay Safe mini plays (found in teacher work center) • Draw a picture using charcoal• Make a stop light out of paper for students to play, Red Light, Green

Light• Practice the stop, drop and roll drill • Listen to the Stop, Drop and Roll on youtube• National Fire Protection Association

Physical Education ActivitiesND Content Physical Education - 4.1.3 Know how to use space to move safely in different directions, at varying speeds.

• Students will have to grab their winter gear and get it on as fast as they can, just like fireman do when they have to get ready to go put out a fire.• Smoke rises, so crawl! Have each student hold a handle of a

parachute, lift it up, get underneath and crawl as fast as they can to the middle. • Firefighter obstacle course with tape to walk on, a balance beam,

chairs to crawl under, tables to walk on and hula hoops to jump in and out of.

Technology

• Watch DVD• How & When to Dial 911

• Found at Teacher Work Center at Hughes

• Watch DVD• The Safe Side, Stranger Safety created by John Walsh & Julie Clark

• Found at Teacher Work Center at Hughes

• Watch the video, Officer Buckle & Gloria • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmViPSWwbPY

Language Arts Strategies

• Making connections between text and personal experiences• Predicting and monitoring – Students will predict what is going to happen

with the hot dog and the egg. Students will write down their predictions and results• Visualizing – Students will visualize things in their mind to create their I

Remember… poems • Activating background knowledge – children will discuss what they think is

examples of safe activities• Brainstorming – For their art with charcoal creation, the picture has to do

with something about safety• Playing with language – poetry

Grouping Patterns• How you can stay safe with a large amount of people vs. alone. This would be a never travel alone group

activity.• Large group – class discussions, field trip to police station and firehouse, physical education activities,

watching videos, fire drill, add safety words to our word wall, viewing pictures of items that could start fires, view DVD selection and websites, create first aid kit, hot dogs under heat lamp, thermometer activity, firefighter class vote and graph, graph fingerprint swirl and identify most/least of each type of fingerprint, circles program, practice crosswalk safety, stop drop and roll drill, listen to the stop drop and roll on YouTube, winter gear PE activity, parachute activity, firefighter obstacle, viewing each others art and poetry

• Small group – Is it okay? Mini play, graphing, fingerprints, egg drop activity, write a story about how to stay safe and warm in the winter, make a list of things to take to Raging Rivers on a hot August day, adjectives graphic organizer, cut out and present their magazine clippings, fingerprint activity, research duties of community helpers, stop light for Red Light Green Light, read with your buddy

• Individual – melting crayons, individual science journals, reading books in book box, drawing pictures in the take-home book on safety, write a letter to a police officer, write their own ‘I Remember’ poems, safety journal, own personal safety tip, Venn diagram, example and non-example of safety rules, present picture of how to stay safe, secret safe word, listening to peers, listen to presenters, listen to safety books, listen to books on tape, watercolor painting, practice dialing 911, make emergency contact keychain, Crisco activity, math water play, community helpers match up, draw a picture of 2 safe things for children to do, design your own helmet, draw a picture using charcoal

Morning Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Language Arts * Students will draw pictures to go with the words in a take-home book about safety* Get in groups for safety plays

* Watch out for strangers activity sheet*Work on safety plays

* Safe or Unsafe activity sheet* Field trip to police station and fire house

*Write their I Remember poems based on the field trip*Share their I Remember poems with their partner* Final day to work on safety plays

*Write thank you notes to the police station and fire house* Venn diagram to compare and contrast fireman and police officers* Perform safety plays

Art/Music * Make stop light out of paper

* Design your own helmet

* Draw a picture using charcoal

*Stop, drop and roll dance

* Draw pictures of how to stay safe

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Morning P.E. * Play Red Light, Green Light with their new stop signs

* Firefighter obstacle course

* Stop, drop and roll exercise

* Smoke rises, so crawl under parachute

* Students grab winter gear and get it on as fast as they can

Afternoon Math * What temperature is freezing on a thermometer

* Spray the flame the number of times it says

* Firefighter class vote and graph

* Graph the number of each type of fingerprint swirl

* Most/least types of fingerprints

Science * Egg drop activity

* Hot dogs under heat lamp

* Create first aid kit

* Fingerprint investigation

* Melting crayons

Social Studies * Cross walk safety – Holding hands or buddy system

* Circles program – Different colors means different things

* Research history of how policemen and firefighters began

* Brainstorm roles of community helpers

* Match community helpers to the jobs they do

Assessments• 6+1 writing traits for letter writing activity• Participation rubric for PE skills checklist and theater performance • Science journals that have their predictions and summary of what happened with hot dogs, eggs,

Crisco etc. rubric• Presentation rubric• Listening rubric for presentations• Matching community workers to the job they do checklist• On an activity sheet, students circle examples of students being safe and X out pictures of unsafe

activities• Informal checklist to document when student are demonstrating safe behaviors• Poetry numerical score• Word wall spelling test• Graphic organizer /Venn diagram checklist• Math graph• Checklist for accuracy