Lights,
Camera, Safety
A Lesson on Sports Safety
Grade Level(s): 6-8
Subject(s): Health, Language Arts, and Technology
Learner Outcomes:
Students
will use the Internet to locate research information.
Students
will create specific sports-safety signs or posters using Print
Shop or Microsoft
Word.
Students
will role play and reinforce sport safety rules.
Students
will create a sports safety infomercial video promoting sports safety and
injury prevention.
Students
will recall and discuss sports safety injury prevention techniques taught
in the lesson.
Duration of Lesson: 4 lessons (45 minutes each)
Materials: props for sport safety infomercials, various writing or drawing implements, and various types of paper for utilization in the making of team infomercials, one copy per student of the "Lights, Camera, Safety" handout
Technology Tools/Courseware: Computer with Internet Access for each group, Print Shop or Microsoft Word software, printer software, Video Camera, Television, VCR, and digital cameras
Teacher Notes:
Gather
any necessary props prior to videoing students' safety infomercials.
Determine
a way for grouping students together to complete safety posters/signs and
infomercial.(5 groups will be needed for the following sports: volleyball,
football, soccer, baseball, and basketball.)
Establish
a time and place with the principal and whole school or various classrooms
to view the students' informercials.
Remind
students that all their props and artwork need to be completed and in the
classroom on day 3 of this lesson.
Secure
computer lab for Day 1 if necessary.
Be
sure students have an Acceptable Use Policy on file.
Digital
Cameras necessary for enrichment activities only.
Procedures:
Day 1
1. Review
Sports safety prevention tips from lesson 3, "Playing It Safe."
2. Teacher will explain the procedures for
completing the sports safety posters and group informercials using the
"Lights,
Camera, Safety" handout.
3. Assign students to groups and their particular
sport to be researched.
4. Have groups research the American
Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons website and locate the sports injury
tips for their assigned sport and print these out.
5. Once the groups' prevention tips are printed,
students need to enter Print
Shop or Microsoft
Word and create a useful poster or sign based upon their particular
Sports' tips to use in their informercial and print it.
Day 2
1. Teacher will discuss the infomercial criteria
on the Lights, Camera, Safety handout.
2. Groups will get together to plan and
role play/rehearse their sports safety injury prevention videos,
limiting their infomercial time between 2 and 5 minutes. *** At this time
students will determine what props or artwork they need for their infomercial
and either make it, bring it from home, or get it from the classroom if
available.***
Day 3
1. Allow groups 10-15 minutes to rehearse
their infomercials.
2. Teacher will video tape each groups infomercial.
3. Students viewing the infomercials will
have a check off list (found
on the "Lights, Camera, Safety" handout) to use as an evaluation
tool to ensure each infomercial is complete.
Day 4
1. Students will view the infomercials taped
on Day 3.
2. Students will use a check
off list (found on the "Lights, Camera, Safety"
handout) to use as an evaluation tool to ensure each infomercial is
complete.
3. Whole Group discussion will take place after
each infomercial to allow for verbal feedback and constructive criticism.
Modifications: Consult students' IEP's/504
plans for required individual modifications.
If necessary, special needs students will be given
non-speaking roles in the infomercial.
Enrichment Activities: Students my use the
digital cameras to take pictures of various scenes of the infomercials
and print them out to be displayed in the room or elsewhere in the school.-
Let students know their
infomercials will be viewed by the entire student body or selected classrooms
to help improve sports safety and injury prevention school wide.
Evaluation/Assessment: (Use
safety evaluation check list) Teacher will give each group 2 grades
based upon their sports safety poster creation and their groups willingness
to work together and effectively promote sports safety in their infomercial
using the criteria specified in the "Lights Camera
Safety" handout.
West Virginia Content Standards/Instructional Goals and Objectives:
Health: 6.5 6.27 6.34 6.36 6.39 7.26 7.30 8.32 8.38(IGO's used because content standards are not currently available for middle school health.)
Language Arts:6.1.5 6.2.1 6.2.2 6.2.3 6.2.4 6.2.17 6.3.1 6.3.4 7.1.4 7.2.1 7.2.2 7.2.3 7.3.1 7.3.2 7.3.3 7.3.4 7.3.5 8.2.1 8.2.2 8.2.3 8.3.1 8.3.2 8.3.3 8.3.4 8.3.5 (Content Standards)
Technology: 6.1.1 6.1.2 6.1.6 6.3.2 6.3.3 6.6.1 7.1.1 7.1.2 7.1.3 7.3.2 7.6.1 8.3.2 8.3.8 (Content Standards)
Health
Standard 5 Knows essential concepts and practices
concerning injury prevention and safety.
Reading/Language
Arts:
Standard 1 Uses the general skills and strategies
of the writing process.
Standard 4 Gathers and uses information for
research purposes.
Standard 5 Uses general skills and strategies
of the reading process.
Standard 8 Uses listening and speaking strategies
for different purposes.
Standard 9 Uses viewing skills and strategies
to understand and interpret visual media.
Technology
Standard 1 Knows the characteristics and
uses of computer hardware and operating systems.
Standard 2 Knows the characteristics and
uses of computer software programs.
Standard 4 Understands the nature of technological
design.
References:
American Academy
of Orthopedic Surgeons
National Youth
and Sports Safety Foundation
National Safety Council
Authors:
Judy
Brown-Shafer
Mary Talbott
Marinda
Taylor
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