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A Lesson on Helmet Safety
Grade Level(s): 6-8
Subject(s): Health, Language Arts and Technology
Learner Outcomes:
Students
will use the Internet site to search for answers to questions about bicycle
helmets.
Students
will recognize the benefits of wearing safety helmets when riding bicycles.
Students
will design a safety helmet for an egg.
Duration of Lesson: 4 Lessons (45 minutes each)
Materials: paper, pencil, Bicycle Helmet Quiz for each student, Egg Drop Helmet Information Sheet for each team, Egg Drop Activity sheet for each team, egg for each team, materials to wrap around eggs (see teacher notes for examples), masking tape
Technology Tools/Courseware: Computer for each student, Internet Access, Microsoft Word
Teacher Notes:
Students
and teacher must have skill in using Microsoft
Word (Version 97 or above).
Preprint
a hard copy of Bicycle Helmet
Quiz. Make a copy for each student.
Preprint
a hard copy of information from the Bicycle
Helmet Safety Institute for students that do not have acceptable use
policy.
Preprint
answer sheet to Bicycle Helmet Safety Quiz.
Preprint
the Egg Drop Helmet Information Sheet for
each team.
Preprint
the Egg Drop Activity sheet for each team.
The
teacher may want to ask staff/students to bring in materials for egg drop.
Examples: paper towels, toilet paper, tissues, cloth, styrofoam,
plastic, nylon hose, etc.
Procedures:
Day 1
1. Hand-out quiz to students. Read
through quiz orally as a group before doing independent work.
2. Students will go to Bicycle
Helmet Safety Institute site and read information to answer questions
on quiz.
3. Students will write answers on worksheet.
4. Collect quiz at the end of period and
check before next class.
Day 2
1. Return quiz and discuss questions and
answers orally.
2. Discuss WV
Law on Helmets for children and helmet standards.
3. Introduce the Egg
Drop Helmet Information using guidelines on information sheet.
Day 3
1. Students will work in pairs to create
a safety "helmet" for an egg. Materials will include items that the
teacher has available.
2. Students will be given twenty minutes
to design a helmet following guidelines listed on the Egg
Drop Helmet Information sheet.
3. Hand-out Egg Drop
Activity sheet to students.
4. Student will complete team names and material
used before each egg is dropped.
5. The teacher or designee will drop each
egg from a designated height (recommend 7 - 10 feet).
6. Students will record data on the Egg
Drop Activity sheet.
Day 4
1. The students will write a paragraph, using
Microsoft
Word, about the type of material they chose for their "helmet" and
why.
2. The students will write a second paragraph,
using Microsoft Word, about the results of their egg drop and the
success of their chosen material.
3. The students will write a third paragraph,
using Microsoft Word, describing which materials provided the safest
helmet for the egg and why.
Modifications:
Consult student IEP/504 plans for required individual modifications.
Enrichment Activities:
Develop a helmet survey and administer to the student
body.
Use Microsoft Excel to graph and display results.
Give oral reports on the design and end result
of the team's "helmet project".
Organize a bicycle/skateboard/scooter safety rodeo
for the student body.
Evaluation/Assessment:
Quiz
Egg Drop Activity Sheet
Written Paper
West
Virginia Content Standards/Instructional
Goals and Objectives:
Health
- 6.1 6.2 6.6 7.5 7.11 8.1 8.4
8.10 (IGO's - Content Standard not adopted at this time)
Technology
- 6.1.1 6.4.1 7.5.1 7.5.2 8.5.1 8.5.2
Rdg/Lang.
Arts - 6.1.5 6.2.3 6.2.5 7.1.4 7.2.1
7.2.3 8.1.3 8.1.6 8.2.2
National Standards:
Health
- Standard 4 - Gathers and uses information for research purposes.
Language Arts - Standard 1 - Uses the general skills and strategies of the writing process
Technology - Standard 1 - Knows the characteristics and uses of computer hardware and operating systems
References:
Bicycle
Helmet Safety Institute
Children's
Healthcare of Atlanta
The
Police Notebook
Authors:
Judy Brown-Shafer
Mary Talbott
Marinda
Taylor
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