Risk Watch: Make Time for Safety

Risk Watch Safety Box
Grades 5-6

Objective

Students will create a personalized safety box including each of the eight risk areas, which will be individually represented on pieces of poster board. The students will promote their safety box to students in lower grades once their safety boxes are completed.
Core Subject Integration
Health and safety, arts

Materials

one cereal box per student
crayons, markers, or colored pencils
16-20 pieces of 7" x11 1/2" white poster board (for each student)
sheets of construction paper
scissors
tape or glue

Procedure

Glue construction paper to the outside of an empty cereal box.
Cut a slit 7" x 1" on the top of the cereal box, to allow 16-20 pieces of poster board into and out of the box.
Create safety messages by drawing pictures on pieces of paper. Color the pictures, then cut them out and glue them to the outside of the box.
Cut 16-20 pieces of 7" x 11 1/2" white poster board per student.
On each of the 16-20 piece of poster board, create at least eight safe and eight unsafe pictures and write:
On the top: "Am I Safe?"
In the middle: A picture of a safe or unsafe object.
On the bottom: Write "Safe" or "Not Safe" (depending on the picture).
On the top of each poster board, paste a tab that says: "Pull Up."

Once the project is complete, put the poster boards in the box and have the 5^th and 6^th graders go to the younger classrooms and promote their safety boxes.

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