Resources: Education
Educating Students, Parents, and the Community
Classroom Based Curriculum | Parent Education | Community Education
Classroom Based Curriculum
Ideas to Implement Addressing Physical Activity, Nutrition, the Environment, and Safety
Pedestrian Safety Lesson Plan and Activities
Downloads from Safe Kids
Willie Whistle - The National Highway Traffic Safety Association has created a video to help teach children pedestrian safety skills.
Download Video
On The Safe Side - Safe Kids South Carolina will be launching a pilot safety series in 2012. Each month, Safe Kids will issue resources targeting a different safety issue for elementary and middle school children. Materials will include posters, tip sheets, interactive activities, art project ideas and teacher guides.
http://www.scchildren.org/programs/8/onthesafesidesafetyseries/
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Pedestrian Safety Lessons - The Child Pedestrian Safety Curriculum teaches and encourages pedestrian safety for students grades Kindergarten through 5th Grade. It is organized into five lessons: walking near traffic, crossing streets, crossing intersections, parking lot safety, and school bus safety. Each lesson builds upon previous set of skills learned.
http://www.nhtsa.gov/ChildPedestrianSafetyCurriculum
PECentral.org - Health and physical education lesson plan ideas.
www.pecentral.org/lessonideas/pelessonplans.html
WalktoSchool.org - Classroom activities that encourage walking and biking.
www.walktoschool.org/eventideas/classroom.cfm
Energizers - Classroom based physical activity ideas developed by East Carolina University. Ways teachers can integrate physical activity with academic concepts.
www.ecu.edu/cs-hhp/exss/upload/Energizers_for_Grades_K_2.pdf
www.ecu.edu/cs-hhp/exss/upload/Energizers_for_Grades_3_5.pdf
JAM School Program - Receive weekly newsletters that contain a one-minute exercise routine that can be be done anywhere! Also, the newsletter will contain a more extensive routine that will only last approximately 5 minutes. These activities are fun and free!
www.jamschoolprogram.com
Nestle and the National Education Association Health Information Network created 31 lessons to teach K-3 students basic nutrition and physical activity concepts. The lessons, which meet national standards for health, math, science, English/language arts, and social studies curricula, include easy-to-follow instructions and supplementary materials, lesson extensions and more.
www.nestlefamily.com/Education/HealthyStepsforHealthyLives/Default.aspx
It's Your Health, Take Charge! The SC Department of Health and Environmental Control has created videos and activities to help teach children the importance of good nutrition and healthy living.
www.scdhec.gov/health/proservices/nutrition/charge.htm
"Action for a cleaner tomorrow" is an activity-based, interdisciplinary curriculum supplement that can serve as a starting place for introducing basic environmental education in the classroom. The current edition, featuring 32 lessons, provides the learning objective and background as well as teacher preparation time. Click here to schedule a training workshop with DHEC.
www.dhec.sc.gov/environment/lwm/recycle/action.htm
"Active and Safe Routes to School" is Canada's SRTS program. International Walk to School Day has shared Active and Safe Routes to School activities that incorporate lessons on SRTS within many of Ontario's curriculum subject areas.
www.walktoschool.org/resources/activities.cfm
President's Challenge - The Physical Fitness Test can be used as a tool to help educators bring out the best in their students.You can take the Physical Fitness Test challenge and track your classes progress online or print out a paper log.
www.presidentschallenge.org/challenge/physical/index.shtml
Tip Sheets:
Way to Walk Safely to School--for kids
Parent Education
It's Your Health, Take Charge - The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control offers a nutritional cookbook for families, plus an accompanying video about healthy cooking in the kitchen! The cookbook, titled Healthy Heart and Soul, and the video, titled Taking Charge in the Kitchen, can be found on the It's Your Health, Take Charge website.
www.scdhec.gov/health/proservices/nutrition/charge.htm
Otto World - Open communication on bicycle and pedestrian safety issues between you and your child by playing this interactive game developed by AAA. The children love the characters and the fun songs!
http://www.ottoclub.org
Tip Sheets
- South Carolina Rights and Responsibilities for All Modes -- for adults
- Tips for Parents for Teaching Pedestrian Safety to Children
- Backpack Mail Ways to Model Pedestrian Safety
Announcements
- Walk to School Day Backpack Mail
- SRTS PTA Meeting Backpack Mail
- Safe Driving Pledge
- Safe Driver Pledge Bookmark
Please note these are forms that can be edited and printed from Acrobat Reader, but not saved with user content.
Community Education
Tip Sheets
- The Rights and Responsibilities of Drivers, Pedestrian, and Bicyclists