Health and Safety

When you live in such an obese country, it is important to teach children at a younger age to make healthy food choices. Children need to learn to keep their body healthy and to understand the consequence when they do not. Being obese causes an increase in diseases and health problems. Children need to be aware of the variety of food out there knowing which ones are healthy and unhealthy for them Parents and teachers should try to promote and model healthy eating every time with the children.

Healthy Recipe children will enjoy.

Recipes (Taken from the book Good Enough to Eat by Lizzy Rockwell)

1.Little Dippers (8 servings)

INGREDIENTS

½ cup of fat-free plain yogurt

½ cup of nonfat sour cream

½ teaspoon garlic salt

3 dashes

4 stalks celery

1 red and 1 yellow pepper

1 bag peeled baby carrots

1 pint cherry tomatoes

Combine the yogurt, sour cream, garlic salt, and Tabasco sauce in a bowl. Mix together with a spoon. Cover the dip and store in the refrigerator while your prepare the vegetables.
Wash the vegetables. Ask an adult to cut the celery into sticks. Cut pepper in half. Remove stems and seeds. Cut halves into long, thin strips. Leave the carrots and tomatoes whole.
Arrange the vegetables on a platter with a bowl of dip in the center. DIP IN!

Little Dippers supply Vitamin A and C, B vitamins, calcium, iron , potassium, sodium, water, protein, and fiber. One portion contains 75 calories, and gives you one serving from the vegetable group and a quarter serving from one dairy group.

2. Yogi Pops (6servings, 2 pops each)

2 cups fat-free vanilla yogurt

10 strawberries, washed and with stems removed

1 banana in 6 pieces

½ cup of pineapple juice

Combine all ingredients in a blender and blend on high until smooth and pink.
Pour the mixture into twelve 3-ounce paper cups. Place a Popsicle stick in the middle of each cup.
Cut out twelve 3-inch-square pieces of foil.
Poke a hole in the center of each piece of foil. Cover each cup with the foil while guiding the Popsicle stick through the hole. Crimp the foil around the edge of cup.
Place the cups in the freezer and freeze until solid. This will take around 6 hours.
Remove the foil and peel off the paper cup. ENJOY!

Yogi Pops supply calcium, Vitamin C, Vitamin D, potassium, carbohydrates, water, protein, and fiber. Two pops contain 110 calories and give you half serving of dairy and half a serving of fruit.

A fire can start at anytime and anywhere and it is important to be prepared for it before it does happen, such as knowing what to do to keep safe. A child will know how to respond to a fire and how to act quickly when a child is prepared for it. The only way a child can be prepared for a fire is when parents or other adults such as teachers or fire fighters teach them the important facts about fire safety. This topic is important because knowing what to do can save children’s lives.

Below is a lessons plans that can be done both at home or at school to teach children about fire safety:

Lesson Plan #1

Fire Safety

Name of lesson: BE S-A-F-E

Goal of lesson: Children will understand that it is important to keep the house away from anything that causes fire.

Objectives:

By the end of the lesson, children will be able to:

· State ways of keeping the house safe.

· State why we need to keep the house safe.

· State what items in the house can cause a fire to start.

Materials to be used: Poster board and markers.

Age/Grade of students: 5- 6 year olds

Content area: Science

New concept/activity: ( x) Continuation of previous lesson ( )

Review of previous lesson ( ) Conclusion of concept ( )

Seating configuration: Children will be sitting at the carpet for the discussion and will go back to their seats to draw on the poster board.

Brief description of lesson: The class will make a poster board together by writing rules about keeping the house fire- free.

Motivational Activity: The teacher will sing the children a safety song called Be S-A-F-E and the children are welcome to sing along or get up and dance.

Procedure: (step by step

1.The teacher will call the children to the carpet by table at a time

2.The teacher will tell the class that they will be learning about fire safety.

3.The teacher will start off by singing the song called Be S-A-F-E.

4.The teacher will ask the children if they have or known anyone who has experienced a fire in the house.

5. The teacher will say to the children that “a fire in the house can cause children and adults to lose valuable things in the house. It can cause people to lose their house. Some people can also die in a fire. It is very important to make your home a safer place.”

6.The teacher will say: “I am going to sing you a safety song again. Pay good attention to all the safety rules you hear in the song.

7.The teacher sings the song again.

8.The teacher will ask the children to recall the safety rules.

9.The teacher will write the rules on a poster board as the children recall them from the song.

10.After they finish recalling the rules, the teacher will give each child a chance to decorate or draw something on their rules.

11. He teacher will dismiss students by table for the drawing activity.

12.The teacher will pass the poster board from table to table to give each child the opportunity to draw on it.

13. The teacher will hang up the rules when it is done and provide the children with the lyrics of the song and a checklist of rules to follow.

Summary/Closure: The teacher will remind the students to remind parents to follow these safety rules in the house.

Method of assessing the students understanding of lesson/concept:

The way of assessing the students is by the discussion and completion of the safety rule poster.

Be S-A-F-E! (Sung to the tune of Bingo)

Make sure your home is really safe, look for any dangers

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