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SAFETY RULES!
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The Not-So-Big Question
Adults are always giving you safety rules, right? However, safety is not just for children. Mr. Big from the Carter Coal Company wants your help in developing safety rules for the miners who work at his coal mine. Can you develop the ten best safety rules for working at a mine? Read on.
Why are parents, teachers, and other adults always giving you safety rules to follow? It's because they think you’re special and want the best for you. Just think for a minute of how many safety rules you know already, and you haven’t even been in school that many years, right?
With your teacher, talk about why safety rules are important and what can happen if you don’t follow them. This is just a review for you, but as a class you must decide on a definition of safety and the three most important reasons you follow safety rules.
Think of how many different safety rules you know right now for home, school, playing outside, walking home from school, when you are ill, riding your bike or skateboard, or for other activities like being on the internet. Tell them to your teacher when she/he calls on you so that as a class you can make a huge list.
Get ready for the hard work to begin! With the help of your teacher, categorize the rules on the list using the questions below.
1) Which safety rules are behaviors that you must do to be safe?
Example: Look both ways before you cross the street.
2) Which safety rules are about wearing special equipment to protect yourself from injury?
Example: Always wear a helmet when you are skateboarding.
3) Which safety rules tell you what not to do to protect yourself?
Example: Don’t ever take medicine unless your parents, the doctor, or nurses give it to you.
Can you think of other categories for the rules?
Next step ...
Follow your teacher to dig deeper.
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