Teaching Safety
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Discuss at least two strategies and/or activities that you can implement into your curriculum to ensure that children know what safety is, how to appropriately use equipment, and how to remain safe in the learning environment. How will you use these activities to ensure your learning environment is safe? Use specific examples.
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This solution discusses the importance of maintaining excellent safety practices in the classroom for all types of curriculum. It then describes sample safety measures that could be taken for an industrial arts course and a fine arts course, based off of a strategy used by the US Army when conducting business.
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While safety issues are of a much greater concern in activity-based classes such as industrial arts, art, science and physical education, a good understanding of the importance of safety is vital throughout the curriculum.
Perhaps the best method of implementing the importance of safety is to follow the US Army's method, which in short is:
1. Tell them what you're going to ...
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