Curriculum Grade 3
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Poison/Medicine Safety Activities Grade 3 Activity 2: Babysitter’s Checklist Learning Objectives: Students will: Recite what they know about the Poison Control Center. Design and illustrate a Babysitter’s Poison Control Checklist. Learning Styles: Visual, auditory, kinesthetic Time Required: One class period Important Terms: height, inhale, medical problems, Poison Control, product, symptoms, weight Materials Needed: “Poison Patrol” storybook Chart paper “Poison Control” student activity sheet Paper, markers, and other art materials Activity Steps and Suggestions: 1. Through previous activities, students have learned what poison is and several safety tips for keeping their homes poison-safe. However, what if they or someone else did swallow, touch, or inhale something that could be poisonous? Ask students what they would do. Students might say they would tell an adult (which is certainly correct), but you may want to ask them what the adult should then do or what they would do if an adult was not around. 2. Tell students that there is a special number (like 911) that they can call if they think they or someone else has swallowed, touched, or inhaled poison. They can also call if someone has taken medicine that is not theirs or has taken the wrong dose of medicine that is theirs. They should call even if they’re not sure if someone has swallowed, touched, or inhaled poison. 3. Ask students if they know what that phone number is. Show students the poison safety tips at the end of the “Poison Patrol” storybook and ask a volunteer to find the number. (It is 1-800-222-1222). Write the number on the board or on chart paper and have the class repeat the number a few times. Tell students that calling 1-800-222-1222 connects them to the Poison Control Center, where trained people answer our questions and tell us what to do if we or someone else has swallowed, touched, or inhaled something poisonous. 4. Ask students to raise their hand if they have this important number displayed somewhere in their home. If yes, where is it hung? If not, where might be a good place to hang the number? The best place to hang the number is beside the telephone that is most often used by the family.
Poison/Medicine Safety Activities Grade 3 5. Divide students into groups of three or four. Ask each group to imagine that they are babysitting a child who has swallowed something harmful. They have dialed the number for Poison Control. Ask each group to list at least five questions that they think the Poison Control Center would ask them. Have them write their group’s answers on a sheet of paper. 6. Have groups take turns reading their questions to the class. Have someone record answers on the board or chart paper. Then distribute the “Poison Control” worksheet to students. Have students check off the questions that were part of their lists. Discuss each question with students, asking them to explain why the information would be important for Poison Control to know. 7. Finally, using art materials, have students design a real Babysitter’s Poison Control Checklist that could be hung in their home. The checklist should include the phone number for Poison Control as well as important information the babysitter should be able to tell Poison Control. 8. Have students bring home their Babysitter’s Poison Control Checklists to hang in a prominent place in their home. Suggested Assessment: After the lesson, have students share one thing they learned about the Poison Control Center. Students can be evaluated on their ability to correctly state one fact they’ve learned and their inclusion of relevant Poison Control information on their Babysitter’s Poison Control Checklist. Extensions: Have students share how the storyline in “Medicine Mix-Up” might have been different if one or more characters had called the Poison Control Center. Students can write and practice imaginary calls to the Poison Control Center. Students can select and reproduce one illustrated copy of the Babysitter’s Poison Control checklist to distribute to all students or to include in a PTA newsletter.
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Poison/Medicine Safety Activities <strong>Grade</strong> 3<br />
Activity 2: Babysitter’s Checklist<br />
Learning Objectives:<br />
Students will:<br />
Recite what they know about the Poison Control Center.<br />
Design and illustrate a Babysitter’s Poison Control Checklist.<br />
Learning Styles:<br />
Visual, auditory, kinesthetic<br />
Time Required:<br />
One class period<br />
Important Terms:<br />
height, inhale, medical problems, Poison Control,<br />
product, symptoms, weight<br />
Materials Needed:<br />
“Poison Patrol” storybook<br />
Chart paper<br />
“Poison Control” student activity sheet<br />
Paper, markers, and other art materials<br />
Activity Steps and Suggestions:<br />
1. Through previous activities, students have learned what poison is and several safety tips for<br />
keeping their homes poison-safe. However, what if they or someone else did swallow, touch, or<br />
inhale something that could be poisonous? Ask students what they would do. Students might say<br />
they would tell an adult (which is certainly correct), but you may want to ask them what the adult<br />
should then do or what they would do if an adult was not around.<br />
2. Tell students that there is a special number (like 911) that they can call if they think they or<br />
someone else has swallowed, touched, or inhaled poison. They can also call if someone has taken<br />
medicine that is not theirs or has taken the wrong dose of medicine that is theirs. They should call<br />
even if they’re not sure if someone has swallowed, touched, or inhaled poison.<br />
3. Ask students if they know what that phone number is. Show students the poison safety tips at the<br />
end of the “Poison Patrol” storybook and ask a volunteer to find the number. (It is 1-800-222-1222).<br />
Write the number on the board or on chart paper and have the class repeat the number a few<br />
times. Tell students that calling 1-800-222-1222 connects them to the Poison Control Center, where<br />
trained people answer our questions and tell us what to do if we or someone else has swallowed,<br />
touched, or inhaled something poisonous.<br />
4. Ask students to raise their hand if they have this important number displayed somewhere in their<br />
home. If yes, where is it hung? If not, where might be a good place to hang the number? The best<br />
place to hang the number is beside the telephone that is most often used by the family.
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