Program Specifics for PreK-K and Grades 1-2

Lesson Plans for PreK-K and Grades 1-2

The PreK-K Presenter's Guide contains seven (7) scripted Lesson Plans.
The Grades 1-2 Presenter's Guide also contains seven (7) scripted Lesson Plans.
These grade-specific Lesson Plans are presented incrementally to build knowledge and understanding and to reinforce safety messages. Each Lesson Plan includes an introduction with learning objectives, a quick review of the previous lesson, discussion and interactive classroom activities, a Student Handout for take-home, lesson recap and positive thinking skill.

Lesson Plans for PreK-K:
1. Think First & Stay Safe: Using My Built-in Computer
2. People are Like the Weather: Being Kind to Others
3. Telling My Trusted Adults: Child Luring
4.  My Body Belongs to Me: Laws Help Protect Me
5. All Secrets Can Be Told: The Siren in My Belly
6. The Kindness of People: Grown-ups Who Can Help Me
7. I am Special: Being Abused is Never a Child's Fault

Lesson Plans for Grades 1-2:
1. Training My Brain to Think First & Stay Safe
2. Sunny People & Stormy Behaviors: Being Kind and Respectful
3. Child Luring: Telling My Trusted Adults
4.  Laws Help Protect Me: My Body Belongs to Me
5. All Secrets Can Be Told: Listening to the Siren in My Belly
6. The Kindness of People: Choosing Grown-ups to Help Me
7.My Dignity: Bullying and Abuse are Not My Fault

⇓  View Sample Scripted Classroom Lesson Plan

⇓  View Sample Student Handout

These Cornerstone Lessons form the foundation of personal safety education and contain the essentials of awareness, assertiveness, preparedness, asking for help and disclosure for young learners.

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Skills

• Master personal safety skills, as relates to State and National Health Education Standards
• Increase Self-reliance
• Raise self-esteem
• Understand most people are safe
• Asking for help
• Reporting

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Grade Level: PreK-K and 1 - 2

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Format:

• Introduction/Quick Review
• Learning Objectives
• Discussion/Interactive Learning/(PowerPoint Presentation optional)
• Classroom Activity, age appropriate
• Student Handout for class use and take-home
• Lesson Recap

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Evaluating Your Program (Pre/Post Tests Included)

A Pre and Post Student Evaluation is provided to formally gauge student progress and retention of the Think First & Stay Safe™ concepts and prevention strategies. Prior to program presentation, the Student Evaluation can be administered as at Pre-Test. It can also be administered following completion of the program as a Post-Test.

The evaluation may be administered verbally or in writing, depending on students' abilities. The Student Evaluation questions are also included in the corresponding PowerPoint Presentations for PreK-K and Grades 1-2, to be shown and read aloud to students.

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Curriculum Training

(7) Educator Training Modules are included with the Think First & Stay Safe™ curriculum kit.

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The Educational Goals are:

• To establish an understanding that the vast majority of people are decent, caring individuals who are protective of children.
• To assure students that bullying, sexual abuse and harassment are against the law, and that laws exist to protect their safety.
• To advise students that they have rights too, including a right to live free of abuse.
• To encourage students to rely on a combination of skills learned, critical thinking and instincts to help ensure their personal safety.
• To nurture each youngster's sense of individual worth and urge them to recognize and respect the worth of others.
• To promote disclosure of any type of threat to a youngster's safety.
• To assure youngsters with thoughts of abusing others that help is available.
• To reduce the feelings of guilt and blame often felt by children who are bullied or abused.
• To encourage parents to take an active role in the personal safety education of their children.
• To strive for kinder, more tolerant thoughts and actions, in an effort to lower the incidence of all forms of aggressive behavior.