Teaching children how to be safe is an ongoing lesson. Your students will learn about safety in the following areas: fire, traffic, electrical, water, strangers, medical, animals, nature, and more!

These activities develop basic literacy skills including reading comprehension, creative writing, phonics, as well as critical thinking, and problem-solving. 80+ information cards and activities will help students apply problem solving techniques!

Learning Expectations: Students will be able to:

• list safety procedures and practices used in the home, school and
• identify safety rules to be followed in the home, school and the community such as school yard safety, bus safety, electrical
• outline safety rules and safe
• explain relevant safety procedures such as fire drills, crosswalk and railway crossing procedures.
• use a problem-solving process to identify ways of obtaining support for safety in the home, at school and in the community 

Introduction Includes:

• Teacher Input Suggestions
• List of Skills and Activities 

Activities and Worksheets:

Reading Cards and Worksheets:

• Each contains reading on the topic and a follow-up worksheet.
• Answer Key for all 15 Reading Cards and Worksheets

Safety Topics Include:

#1 Street Wise Safety

#2 School Bus Safety

#3 Home Alone

#4 Stranger Safety

#5 Bicycle Safety

#6 Electrical Safety
#7 Fire Safety

#8 Boat Safety

#9 Poison Safety

#10 Burn First Aid

#11 Heat Stroke First Aid

#12 Nosebleed First Aid

#13 Frost Bite First Aid

#14 Minor Cut First Aid

#15 Eye First Aid 

Evaluating Activities:

Students will read the story and then choose the answer that is closest to what actions they would take and then they are asked to explain their answer.

Answers will vary. 

Evaluating topics:

1. Lost Mitten
2. The Ball Game
3. Boating Fun
4. Baby Brother
5. Fire!
6. Friendly Offer
7. Saturday Shopping
8. Bike Ride
9. Fall Walk
10. The Visitor
11. Radio Show
12. Kitchen Accident
13. Day At the Beach
14. Picnic In the Park
15. Bath Trouble

Word Study Activities

1. Defining New Words
2. Glossary
3. Word Scramble
4. Syllables
5. Word Search
6. Complete The Sentence
7. Matching
8. Electrical Words
9. First Aid Words
10. Writing Sentences
11. Alphabetical Order
12. Descriptive Safety Words
13. Rhyming Words
14. Capital Letters

Answer Key

Creative Writing Activities

1. Rescue Story
2. Hero For a Day
3. Dangerous Discovery
4. Acrostic Poem
5. Choose a Title
6. Interview With a Hero
7. Children’s Story

Thinking About Activities

Some of the activities are half page cards.

1. Safety Rules
2. Unsafe Items
3. Sequence the Events
4. Fire Flow Chart
5. Day at the Beach
6. Day in the Woods
7. Happy Holidays
8. Seasonal Safety
9. Matching Safety

Answer Key

Research Activities

Half-page activity cards for students to complete in a workbook.

1. Poison All Around Us
2. Safety Professions
3. Fire Escape Plan
4. Animals
5. Sports and Games
6. Safety Clothing and Equipment
7. Signs
8. Danger on Film
9. School Safety

Phonics Activities

5 Activities on the safety theme practicing these skills:

1. Long and Short "O"
2. Long and Short "I"
3. Long and Short "A"
4. Silent "E"
5. Initial Letters

Answer Key

Math Activities

Half-page cards for students to read and answer in a notebook. Can be done as a group with teacher direction.

1. Life Jackets
2. Smoke Detectors
3. Pill Poison
4. Forest Fire
5. Seatbelts

Answer Key

Art & Drama Activities

Art

1. Mobiles
2. Safe Versus Unsafe
3. Puppet Play
4. Design a Poster

 Drama

1. Choose a Scene
2. Rescue 911
3. A Friend’s Idea

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