Safety Safari Poster

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Grade Level

• Elementary School

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Subject

• Art

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Length of Time

• 90 Minutes

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Description

• Teacher will create a safety hazard list and discuss personal safety with students.

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Goals

• * To make students aware of their responsibility to protect themselves and remain safe.
  
  * Students will learn to identify their personal safety needs.
  
  * Students will learn to differentiate between their personal feelings of well-being and their behavior to ensure their own safety.
  
  * Students will create a safety safari poster that depicts African animals who are demonstrating proper safety strategies.

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Materials Needed

• * Poster sized art paper.
  
  * Pencil, pencil crayons, markers and other art mediums, as desired.
  
  * Teacher created safety hazard list.

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Procedure

• * Read students the safety hazard list.
  
  * Discuss how students can make good choices in order to be safe.
  
  * Discuss how students can choose between their personal feelings and keeping themselves safe.
  
  * Have students brainstorm to make a list of safety measures and strategies.
  
  * Hand out art paper and materials. Have students create a poster using an African animal to demonstrate good safety strategy.
  
  * Each student will present their poster to the class and safety strategies will be discussed.
  
  * Students will produce a play about personal safety and safety strategies. (Optional.)

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Grading

• Students will be graded on class participation, understanding of safety procedures and strategies and the content of the animal safari safety posture that they create.
  
  A- 100 to 90
  
  B - 89 to 80
  
  C - 79 to 70
  
  D - 69 to 60
  
  F - below 60

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