# Lesson 150: How to stay safe

🔬 SCIENCE (40 Lessons) • 🟣 D. Our Body and Health

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## Objective

I can name simple safety rules that help keep my body safe at home, near roads, and when I play. I can tell what to do if I do not feel safe.

## Materials

- Pictures of common places: home, kitchen, road, playground or park
- Paper and crayons or markers
- Small sticky notes or labels for safety-rule words
- Notebook or worksheet for drawing safety scenes

## Mini-lesson — How to stay safe

Your body is important. We use our body to move, learn, play, and hug people we love. We want to keep our body safe.

What does "safe" mean?

- Safe means your body is not getting hurt.
- You are in a place where adults are watching and can help you.
- You feel okay inside (not scared, not in danger).

Staying safe at home

- Do not touch hot things like stoves, irons, or kettles.
- Do not play with sharp things like knives or tools.
- Keep away from bottles with strong smells or warning signs (cleaning liquids and sprays).
- Walk, do not run, on wet floors so you do not slip and fall.
- Ask an adult for help when you are not sure if something is safe.

Staying safe near roads

- Always hold a trusted adult's hand near roads.
- Stop, look, and listen before you cross.
- Use paths and crossings when you can.
- Wear a helmet when you ride a bike, scooter, or skates.

Staying safe when we play

- Choose a safe place to play, away from cars.
- Follow rules from adults or coaches.
- No pushing or rough play that can make people fall.
- Use safety gear like helmets, pads, or closed shoes when needed.

What if I do not feel safe?

- Your body can give you a warning, like a worried feeling in your tummy.
- If someone hurts you, scares you, or touches you in a way that feels wrong, you can say "No", move away, and go to a trusted adult.
- Trusted adults are people who care for you, like parents, carers, teachers, or another grown-up your family trusts.
- You can keep telling adults until someone helps you.

You have the right to feel safe. Rules and safety gear are there to protect your body.

Picture strip: Safe choices at home and outside

Safe at home

Safe outside

## Guided Practice — Safe or unsafe?

You will listen to simple stories and decide if the choice is safe or unsafe. Then you will practise what you can do.

1. Talk about feelings: Ask the child how their body feels when something is safe (calm, happy) and unsafe (worried, tight tummy).
2. Story 1 — Kitchen: "A child sees a pot on the stove. They climb up and touch it." Is this safe or unsafe? What should the child do instead?
3. Story 2 — Road: "A child runs into the road alone to get a ball." Safe or unsafe? What is a safer way to get the ball?
4. Story 3 — Play: "At the playground, someone pushes hard on the slide." Safe or unsafe? What can the child say or do?
5. Story 4 — Body feeling: "A child feels worried because someone is too rough and it does not stop." What can the child do? Practise saying: "No, stop. I do not like that." and then telling a trusted adult.
6. Draw one story: On your page, draw a safe choice. For example, a child holding an adult's hand near a road. Add a label such as "This is safe".
7. Use the tracing pad: Choose words like safe, rules, helmet, road, body, or help and trace them. Say a sentence such as "I follow rules to stay safe."

Tracing Pad
Lines
Trace
Pen

## Practice 1 — Sort safe and unsafe choices

Listen to or read simple actions and decide if they are safe or unsafe.

1. Draw two big boxes on your page and label them "Safe" and "Unsafe".
2. Have an adult read actions like: "Holding an adult's hand near a road", "Touching a very hot pan", "Wearing a helmet on a bike", "Pushing on the slide".
3. For each action, say "safe" or "unsafe" and draw a small picture or write a short label in the correct box.
4. Talk about why unsafe choices can hurt your body and how you can change them into safe choices.
5. Circle your top three safety rules that you want to remember every day.

## Practice 2 — My safe places and people

Think about where you feel safe and which adults you can talk to.

1. Draw a picture of a place where you feel safe, such as home, school, or a playground with adults nearby.
2. Draw the faces of two or three trusted adults who help keep you safe (for example, parents, carers, teachers).
3. Write their names under the pictures if you can, or ask an adult to write them for you.
4. Practise saying: "If I do not feel safe, I will tell ______."
5. Keep this page somewhere you can see it to remind you who can help.

## Practice 3 — Safety rules poster

Make a small poster that shows safety rules for your body.

1. At the top of a page, write a title such as "How I Stay Safe".
2. Draw three or four boxes and in each box draw a picture of a safety rule, such as: holding hands near roads, wearing a helmet, keeping away from hot pans, saying "No" and telling an adult.
3. Under each picture, write a short rule, for example: "I wear my helmet." or "I ask an adult for help."
4. Colour your poster and show it to someone at home. Explain each rule in your own words.
5. Hang the poster in a place where you will see it and remember your safety rules.

## Quick Check — How to stay safe

Answer each question about staying safe. Think about your body, your choices, and the rules that protect you.

1) What does it mean to stay safe?

Let your body get hurt. Keep your body away from danger and harm. Never listen to adults.
Staying safe means keeping your body away from danger and harm.

2) Which rule is safe at home?

Play with sharp knives like toys. Touch hot pans on the stove. Ask an adult for help with hot or sharp things.
Hot and sharp things can hurt your body, so you ask an adult for help.

3) Which choice is safe near roads?

Hold a trusted adult's hand and look before crossing. Run into the road without looking. Play in the middle of the street.
Near roads, we hold an adult's hand and look and listen before crossing.

4) What is a safe choice when you ride a bike or scooter?

Close your eyes and ride in the road. Wear a helmet and ride in a safe place. Never tell anyone where you are.
Helmets and safe places help protect your body when you ride.

5) Which group shows unsafe actions?

Holding hands, looking both ways, wearing a helmet. Eating lunch, drinking water, reading a book. Touching hot pans, running into roads, pushing on the slide.
Touching hot pans, running into roads, and pushing can hurt people.

6) When you play with other children, a safe rule is…

No pushing or hurting games. Push others to go faster. Never tell an adult if someone gets hurt.
Safe play means no pushing or hurting games.

7) Your body feels worried and something does not feel right. What is a good first step?

Keep it a secret and say nothing. Go to a trusted adult and tell them. Go closer to the unsafe thing.
If you feel unsafe, go to a trusted adult and tell them.

8) Which list shows things that help you stay safe?

Sharp knives, hot pans, running in the road. Secrets about things that hurt you. Safety rules, helmets, trusted adults.
Safety rules, helmets, and trusted adults all help you stay safe.

9) Which sentence is true?

Your body is important and you have the right to stay safe. Your body is not important. Only grown-ups need to be safe.
Every person's body is important, and children have the right to be safe.

10) If a game is too rough and you do not like it, what can you say?

"Keep going, hurt me more." "No, stop. I do not like that." Say nothing and stay in the game.
You can say, "No, stop. I do not like that" and go to an adult.

11) Which picture shows a safe choice?

A child climbing onto a hot stove. A child running into the road alone. A child standing back and asking an adult for help.
Asking an adult for help and standing back is a safe choice.

12) Who is a trusted adult?

Someone who cares for you and helps you stay safe. Any stranger on the street. A person who tells you to keep unsafe secrets.
Trusted adults care for you and help you stay safe.

13) A child says, "I felt worried, so I told my teacher what happened." This is…

Not allowed. A good way to get help and stay safe. Only for grown-ups.
Telling a trusted adult is a good way to get help and stay safe.

14) Which choice is a healthy safety habit?

Following safety rules at home, near roads, and when you play. Ignoring all rules. Only being safe some days and very unsafe on others.
Following safety rules in many places is a healthy habit.

15) Why is it important to learn how to stay safe?

So you can play unsafe games. So you never ask adults for help. So you can protect your body and ask for help when you need it.
Learning how to stay safe helps you protect your body and ask for help.

## Assessment (parent/teacher)

Student can name at least three safety rules at home, near roads, or during play. Student can sort simple examples into "safe" and "unsafe" choices and explain why. Student can say that their body is important and they have the right to stay safe. Student can describe what to do if they feel unsafe (say no, move away, tell a trusted adult). Student uses words like safe, unsafe, rules, body, danger, and help correctly in short sentences.

## Exit ticket (student)

😀 I can explain how to stay safe and what to do if I feel unsafe. 🙂 I know some safety rules but still need more practice using them. 😅 Staying safe still feels a bit tricky to remember.

#### Next time I will practise…

Following safety rules at home Holding an adult's hand near roads Telling a trusted adult when I do not feel safe
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