Title: Abuse in Relationships: What to be Aware Of
(Conflict Resolution: Wexford Series)
Grade Level: 6-10
Format: VHS, guide
Details: 1999, 22 min., 41 pgs., AGC/United Learning
Synopsis: Abuse can generally be defined as a lack of regard for
the rights and dignity of another. It can be verbal, emotional, and/or
physical and can occur in all kinds of relationships. In this episode,
we will look at abuse as it applies to adolescents and dating to help
students understand and recognize the dynamics of abuse before they begin
dating and forming long-term relationships.
Title: Alcohol
and Sex: Prescription for Poor Decision-Making -
See Substance Use and Abuse
Title: Being Safe - See Family
Life Education
Title:
Be Sensible: Don't Drive Yourself to
Distraction
Grade Level: 10-12 (driving age)
Format: VHS
Details: 2002, Cingular Wireless
Synopsis: VHS tape (8 min) and short teacher's guide explain
various types of driving distractions and ways to avoid them. Aimed at new
drivers.
Title: Bicycle Safety
Grade Level: 1-4
Format: VHS
Details: 1989, Coronet Film and Video
Synopsis: Features four young people who enjoy biking and
whose behavior demonstrates fundamentals of safe biking. (DOES NOT cover the
importance of wearing a helmet!)
(2006)Title:
Bloodborne Pathogens: Fast Facts for Schools
Grade Level: 9-12, Adult
Format: VHS
Details: 2006, Coastal Training Technologies, 15 mins.
Synopsis: This short program was created to give the facts about
BBPs. Includes Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, and HIV, transmission,
housekeeping, and exposure control.
(2006)Title:
Bloodborne Pathogens: Real, Real-life for Schools
Grade Level: 9-12, Adult
Format: VHS
Details: 2003, Coastal Training Technologies, 20 mins.
Synopsis: This award-winning program discusses the dangers of
bloodborne pathogens in the school setting using humor and real-life
situations. Includes The 3 As, HBV, HCV, and HIV, transmission controls,
housekeeping and safe work practices, and creating an exposure control plan.
(2005)Title:
Bloodborne Pathogens: The Human Factor
Grade Level: 10-12, Adult
Format: VHS tape
Details: 2002, Coastal Health Care,
20 mins.
Synopsis: This unique program features interviews with actual healthcare
workers who have been infected with a bloodborne disease. Includes:
- Gripping real-life stories punctuate the dangers of bloodborne diseases
- Needlestick prevention
- HBV vaccination
- Ideal for mandated re-training
- Covers OSHA 1910.1030
(2006)Title:
Bloodborne Pathogens in Athletics
Grade Level: 9-12, Adult
Format: VHS
Details: 2003, Coastal Training Technologies, 13 mins.
Synopsis: Coaches, trainers and anyone who works with student
athletes must be able to deal with bloodborne pathogens. Includes the nature
of BBPs, how BBPs are transmitted, exposure prevention, personal and
universal protection, and exposure incident procedures.
(2005)Title:
Bloodborne Pathogens in Schools: A Refresher
Course
Grade Level: Adult
Format: VHS tape
Details: 2003, Coastal Health Care,
10 mins. 3 copies available
Synopsis: This video highlights the latest AIDS, HBV and HCV concerns.
Effective as both refresher or initial training for your entire faculty and
staff. Includes:
- Transmission of bloodborne pathogens
- Reducing risks
- Exposure control plans
Title: Breaking the Silence About Hate and Violence (Saving
Our Schools From Hate and Violence)
Grade Level: 6-12
Format: VHS, guide
Details: 1999, 28 min., HeartLand Media, LLC
Synopsis: Hosted by Michael Pritchard, this VHS is Part I of a
two-part series. This program shows students why they must stop
keeping dangerous secrets about friends and fellow students, and how they
can become their school's "early warning system." A special
feature of the program is an interactive website for program users that will
disseminate pertinent information and function as a forum about school
safety issues and practices.
Title: Bullies: Dealing with Aggression (Conflict
Resolution: Wexford Series)
Grade Level: 6-10
Format: VHS, guide
Details: 1999, 22 min., 42 pgs., AGC/United Learning, Agnes
Bristow
Synopsis: This video will examine different approaches to bullying as
well as the consequences of each method. It will examine what students
can do to prevent themselves from becoming the target of a bully. The
primary focus will be to teach assertive and effective communication skills
to help students build self-esteem, confidence and ultimately protect
themselves in appropriate and positive ways.
Title:
BullySmart for Kids
Grade Level: 1-6
Format: VHS, guide
Details: 30 min.,
1995, StreetSmart
Synopsis: Helps to teach your children how to protect
themselves from bullies.
Title: Child Lures
Grade Level: K-6
Format: VHS
Details: 20 minutes, 1994, NewsChannel 13
Synopsis: Illustrates "lures" used to molest
children and how children can avoid sexual abuse. For parents and children.
Title: Childhood Injury
Grade Level: Teen Parents
Format: VHS
Details: 1992, Division of Maternal and Child Health, DHS
Synopsis: This video stresses the importance of preventing
accidents and childhood injury. The teaching packet provides discussion
activities and background information.
Title: Cover Up: A Program on
Sun-Safety
Grade Level: K-6
Format: VHS
Details: 12 minutes, AGC Educational Media
Synopsis: Lively, upbeat music video that teaches children
how and why to protect themselves from damaging sunlight.
Title: Emergency Action
Grade Level: Family
Format: VHS
Details: 30 min., 1989, ActiVideo
Synopsis: The video was created to demonstrate what to do
while waiting for help to arrive in an emergency situation. Easy to follow
procedures concerning CPR, the Heimlich maneuver, severe bleeding, poisoning
or drug overdose, fire emergencies and frostbite may help to save a life
someday. A video for all to watch.
(2002)Title: Ethical
Choices: Confronting Youth Violence
Grade Level: 9-12
Format: VHS; Teacher's Guide
Details: 60 minutes; 1995; Thirteen/WNET
Synopsis: How can individuals and schools begin to foster change in an ever-increasing violent society? Are other people's problems an
"outsider's" business if someone is getting hurt? Do parents or adults have special rights to hurt children? Is violence ever an act of love? The resulting discussion raises important issues related to violence in the media, at home, in school, and on the street.
Title: Fundamentals of Gun Safety:
For Owners and Non-owners
Grade Level: 3-6 and teachers
Format: VHS, teaching packet
Details: 10 minutes, 1991, National Rifle Association of
America
Synopsis: A brief review of the fundamentals of gun safety
focused on simple rules everyone can remember and follow.
Title:
Getting to School Safely is Your Job
Grade Level: 1-6
Format: VHS
Details: 13 min., 1998,
Black Water, AGC Educational Media
Synopsis: Whether walking to school ,riding on a school bus
or a bicycle, children learn that when it comes to safety, it's their job to
be responsible. This program models for young viewers the don's and don'ts
of being safe in various situations.
Title: Hazards of Drugged Driving -
See Substance Use and Abuse
Title: In Charge at Home
Grade Level: K-6
Format: VHS
Details: 21 minutes, 1987, Film Fair
Synopsis: Deals with safety tips, guidelines and personal
concerns of latch key children.
(2006)Title:
Kitchen Safety Smart
Grade Level: 6-12, Adult
Format: DVD
Details: 2005, Learning ZoneXpress,
8 mins.
Synopsis: Five teens follow comedian Stevie Ray around the kitchen.
They instruct him as he narrowly averts impending disasters while preparing
them breakfast. Short vignettes on knife safety, burns, broken glass and
ways to prevent and respond to kitchen safety issues are presented. The
students are the experts, demonstrating equipment usage and personal safety.
Includes study sheets.
Title:
Last Hit, Children and Violence
Grade Level: K-6,
adults
Format: VHS
Details: 22.10
min., 1994, Film Ideas
Synopsis: Children 5 thru 12 discuss their personal
experiences with violence in this program. The experience that is common in
their neighborhoods and schools. Possible alternatives to violent behavior
and suggested coping mechanisms are also shared in this production.
Title: No Means No: Avoiding Date
Abuse
Grade Level: 9-12
Format: VHS, teacher's guide
Details: 19 minutes, 1988, MTI Film & Video
Synopsis: Covers the seriousness of date abuse and date
rape. Illustrates the importance of saying "no" to sexual pressure
and setting sexual boundaries, and discusses the importance of respecting
another person's feelings.
Title: Nobody's Perfect - See Personal,
Mental and Emotional Health
Title:
Plan to Get Out Alive, Family Fire Safety Video
Grade Level: K-12, adults
Format: VHS
Details: 45 min., 1988,
WCBS TV, First Alert, McDonalds
Synopsis: Prepares adults and children to escape their
homes in event of a fire. Because of the dramatic nature of the material
herein, it is recommended that parents with children under 10 years old be
present when viewing this family fire video.
Title: Quiet Storm Project
Grade Level: 9-12
Format: VHS, guide, handouts
Details: 2000, 118 min., 47 pgs., Zenithfilms, Inc., Central
Minnesota Task Force on Battered Women
Synopsis: A comprehensive youth dating violence prevention
program. The tape is divided into three parts: (1)"Annie's
Journey" (49 min.) presents a true life story of teen dating violence;
(2)Survivor Interviews (38 min) presents interviews with three women under
the age of 25 who were victims of dating violence; (3)Former Perpetrator
Interviews (31 min.) presents interviews with three perpetrators of dating
violence who first began the pattern of violence while they were in their
teens. The associated website is located at: http://www.thequietstormproject.com
Title:
Real Stories
Grade Level: 7-12,
adults
Format: VHS
Details: 28
min., 1997, Film Ideas
Synopsis: This video tells the real stories of four
individuals who were victims of street violence; a violence indifferent to
gender, economics or color.
(2007)
Title:
School Bus Safety
Grade Level: K-3
Format: DVD
Details: 2003, 100% Educational Videos, 13 mins. + teacher's guide
Synopsis: A combination of songs, graphics, and role-playing teach
students about school bus safety. Learn how to be safe on the way to the
buss and at the bus stop. Understand appropriate behavior while riding the
bus, and learn how to get on and off the bus safely. Includes teacher's
guide.
(2004)Title:
The Sleep Famine: The Effects of Sleep Deprivation and Chronic
Fatigue
Grade Level: 9-12, adults
Format: VHS
Details: 53 min., 2001, Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Synopsis: In this program, researchers from the circadian,
neuroendocrine, and sleep disorders section of Boston's Brigham and Women's
Hospital as well as a broad cross-section of shift workers discuss sleep
deprivation and chronic fatigue. Studies involving astronauts, truckers, and
teenagers quantify the effects of light and dark on human physiology,
long-term fatigue on life span, and tiredness on academic performance. The
impact of fatigue on decision-making and the societal implications of
time-shifting the circadian clock are also considered.
Title: Smoking: Truth or Dare? (Teen
Files)
Grade Level: 9-12
Format: VHS, guide
Details: 1998, 34 min., Aims Multimedia
Synopsis: The video graphically demonstrates to teens what smoking
does to the body. It makes clear that there is damage being done to
their bodies now and the effects of tobacco are not just down the
road. Features appearances by Boyz II Men, Judd Hirsch, Jeff Bagwell,
Christy Turlington and Dona Shalala.
(2006)Title:
Spoiled Rotten: Food Safety Investigation
Grade Level: 6-12, Adult
Format: DVD
Details: 2005, Learning ZoneXpress, 16 mins.
Synopsis: The Food Safety Investigation (FSI) Team checks for clues
of food poisoning at a food safety crime scene. They know that when it comes
to food safety you cannot be too careful. Through their investigation, the
experts back at FSI headquarters show viewers to basic rules to follow to
prevent food-borne illnesses: Clean, Separate, Cook, and Chill. Includes
study sheets.
(2001)Title: Starting Safely: Teaching
Youth About Workplace Safety
Grade Level: 9-12
Format: VHS, guide
Details: 2001, 12 min., 99 pgs., Maine Department of Labor
Synopsis: Starting Safely is a 3-5 hour curriculum for middle and
high school youth. The curriculum aligns with the Maine Learning
Results and can be taught in its entirety or in parts. The goals are
to: educate youth about workplace hazards and strategies for
preventing work-related injuries and illness; raise teens' awareness of
their rights on the job and the resources available to them; encourage young
workers to be active participants in creating and maintaining safe and
healthy work environments. There is an associated web site:
www.safeteen.org
Title:
StrangerSmart for Kids
Grade Level: Pre-7
Format: VHS, guide
Details: 32 min., 1995,
StreetSmart
Synopsis: Helps teach your children how to stay safe and
avoid abductors and molesters.
Title: Sudden Infant Death Syndrome:
A Video on Helping to Reduce the Risk
Grade Level: Parents
Format: VHS
Details: 3:36 min., National Institute of Health
Synopsis: A short video stressing the importance of placing
babies to sleep on their back to reduce the risk of SIDS.
Title:
Teaching Your Teens to Drive
Grade Level: High School, Adults
Format: VHS and booklet
Details: 50 min., American Automobile Association
Synopsis: 13 lessons contained in the 50-minute video for
parents and student drivers to view together. The use the handbook to
plan lessons, and follow the step-by-step approaches contained in each
section.
Title:
Teens @ Work: Starting Safely
Grade Level: 9-12
Format: VHS &
discussion guide
Details: 12 min., Maine Dept.
of Labor
Synopsis: This video help
to provide an understanding of the health and safety hazards that young
workers face by addressing ways to prevent work related injuries and
illnesses. Includes
rights workers have on the job and child labor laws.
(2002)Title: Tobacco X-Files Revisited
Grade Level: 8-12
Format: VHS
Details: 2000, 30 min., HRM Human Relations Media, Discovery Films
Synopsis: This "conspiracy" video paints an ugly picture
of the truth about tobacco use. As a sleuthful pair of undercover agents
expose a sleazy tobacco executive paid to lie about what the giant industry
until now has done so well to hide, students see the other side of the hype
and glamour designed to target teenagers. Mixing gross effects with
poignant testimonials from recovering teenage nicotine addicts, as well as
regretful head and neck cancer victims, the outrageous truths about tobacco
use are vividly discussed for student prevention.
(2002)Title: Truth
About Violence
Grade Level: 7-12
Format: VHS; Discussion Guide
Details: 57 minutes; 2000, AIMS Multimedia
Synopsis: This emotional program focuses on a group of young people who in the beginning of the video, see violence as a necessity in their lives and do not consider the consequences of their violent actions. After a month long journey into seeing how violence affects its victims, the teens are determined to change their lives and reach out to others in need. Features
an appearance by Malcom-Jamal Warner.
Title: Universal Precautions For School Staff
Grade Level: School staff
Format: VHS
Details: 16 minutes, 1990, AMS
Synopsis: Covers universal precautions school staff need to
practice consistently to avoid contact with various germs, viruses or
diseases.
Title: U.V. & Me
Grade Level: 7-12
Format: VHS
Details: 16 minutes, 1995, Bascombe Group
Synopsis: Defines U.V. rays, includes tips for sun safety
in the summer and year-round.
(2004)Title: Violence
Prevention: Don't Be a Victim (Real People series)
Grade Level: 7-12
Format: VHS with 48 pg. Teacher's Guide
Details: 1999, 30 min., Sunburst Visual Media
Synopsis: Presented as a workshop featuring real teens, this video is designed to equip viewers with specific strategies for keeping safe at school, on the street, and on the Internet. Without using scare tactics, the video interweaves riveting comments by the on-screen teens about how violence and victimization have affected their lives, with realistic advice on staying safe from safety experts.
Title:
Watch Out For The Other Guy
Grade Level: K-5
Format: VHS
Details: 18.47
min., 1988, McDonald's Corporation, O'Brien Budd, Inc.
Synopsis: Video teaches some of the basics of bicycle and
water safety through the actions of four young friends.
Title: What TADOO
Grade Level: K-3
Format: VHS
Details: 18 minutes, 1984, MTI
Synopsis: This video for primary level students deals with
the use of passwords with strangers, how to say "no," getting
away, telling someone, and good touch and bad touch.
Title: When Sex Means Trouble
Grade Level: 9-12
Format: VHS
Details: 37 minutes, 1985, Sunburst
Synopsis: Introduces the sensitive subject of sexual
exploitation. Helps teens to understand their own rights, learn to recognize
abuse and develop strategies for protecting themselves. Three units include
"If You Really Loved Me" (sexual exploitation; "I Know You
Really Want It" (Acquaintance rape); and "Our Little Secret"
(sexual abuse). Class preparation and follow-up is recommended.
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Title: Adolescent Risk Taking
Grade Level: Adults
Call Number: HERC 362.2 B4132
Format: Book
Details: 1993, 186 pgs., Sage Publications
Synopsis: Brings together a multidisciplinary group of scholars
who examine adolescent risk taking from a multiple of perspectives with
direct implications for promoting healthy adolescent life-styles.
Title: Consumer Health and
Safety Activities
Grade Level: 7-12
Call Number: HERC 613 T612c
Format: Book
Details: 1993, 125 pgs., Patricia Rizzo Toner, Center for Applied
Research in Education
Synopsis: Provides 90 ready to use activities to help students
learn to recognize advertising techniques, compare various products and
claims, understand consumer rights, distinguish between safe and dangerous
items, become familiar with safety rules, and more.
Title: Don't Hurt Laurie
Grade Level: 7-12
Call Number: HERC R5445d
Format: Book
Details: 1977, Aladdin Books
Synopsis: A fictional story that deals with physical abuse
of an adolescent.
Title: Improving Health and Safety in the
Workplace (Teenage Health Teaching Modules)
Grade Level: 7-12
Call Number: HERC 614.8 Im7
Format: Teaching Unit
Details: 71 pgs., 1982, Education Development Center, Inc.
Synopsis: This unit is designed to encourage students to develop and maintain an open, assertive interest in occupational health and safety.
Title:
Injuries Are Not Accidents
Grade Level: Teachers
Format: Pamphlets
Details: 1999, Childhood
Injury Prevention & Control Program
Synopsis: Packet includes
various posters, stickers, brochures and pamphlets sent to the Childhood
Injury Prevention & Control Program.
These are available from the organization on a first come first serve
basis. Many items may also be
obtained from the sponsoring organizations whose names and addresses are
listed on the materials.
Title: Instructor's Big Book of
Health and Safety
Grade Level: K-6
Call Number: HERC 613
M3417i
Details: 251 pgs., 1985, Sandra Markle, Instructor Books
Synopsis: Reproducible activities in content areas to complement the health education curriculum.
(2005)Title:
National Inhalants and Poisons Awareness Local Coordinator's Kit
Grade Level: Adult
Call Number: HERC 362.29 S740tw
Format: Binder of materials
Details: 2004, National Inhalant Prevention Coalition
Synopsis: Kit for use by anyone developing, promoting and implementing a
local inhalants and poisons awareness program. Kit includes information on
how to get started, planning an event, suggested activities, and working
with the media. Also included are folders of materials in English and
Spanish (but not French…) designed to be copied and used to promote and
educate.
Title: Safety Is No Accident:
children's activities in injury prevention
Grade Level: K-2
Call Number: HERC 614.8
K132s
Format: Book
Details: 1993, ETR Associates
Synopsis: Children's activities in injury prevention.
(2001)Title: Sexual
Violence in Teenage Lives: A Prevention Curriculum
Grade Level: 6-12
Format: Book
Details: 147 pgs., 1995, Judy Cyprian, Katherine McLaughlin,
Glenn Quint, Planned Parenthood of Northern New England
Synopsis: This curriculum teaches students how to: recognize sexual violence including unwanted poking, pinching, name calling, pressure to have sex and rape; reduce the risks of becoming involved in a sexually violent relationship; get help if they are violated; establish and maintain relationships that are both healthy and pleasurable.
(2001)Title: Starving to Win:
Athletes and Eating Disorders (The Teen Health Library of Eating Disorder
Prevention)
Grade Level: 6-12
Call Number: HERC 616.85 ob1s
Format: Book
Details: 64 pgs., 1998, Eileen O'Brien, The Rosen Publishing
Group, Inc.
Synopsis: Deals with the pressure placed on athletes to gain or
lose weight, as well as the perils of drugs and crash diets.
(2002)Title: Staying Safe (My
Health series)
Grade Level: 6-12
Call Number: HERC 614.8 Si39s
Format: Book
Details: 48 pgs., 2000, Dr. Alvin Silverstein, Virginia
Silverstein, Laura Silverstein Nunn, Grolier Publishing
Synopsis: Describes potential dangers at home, at play, on streets and roads, at school, and when interacting with other people and explains what to do in an emergency.
Title: Top Secret: sexual assault
information for teenagers only
Grade Level: 8-12
Call Number: HERC 302.5
F29t
Format: Booklet
Details: 1982, King County Sexual Assault Resource Center
Synopsis: Rape and sexual assault is a fact and this
booklet presents various scenarios dealing with this subject. Well
presented.
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COMPUTER
PROGRAMS:
Title:
Teaching Your Teens to Drive
Format: CD Rom and handbook
Details: Mac/PC platform, American Automobile
Association
Synopsis: Helps new drivers, with the assistance of an
adult, develop basic vehicle control, positioning and speed adjustment,
passing, freeway and night driving skills and much more with the 13 lessons
contained on the CD and in the handbook. QuickTime movies and graphics
bring the experience alive.
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Title: 3 to 5: I'm In Charge
Grade Level: 3-6
Call Number: HERC 649.1
T413
Format: Teaching kit
Details: 1988, University of Maine Cooperative Extension
Service
Synopsis: This kit deals with latch key issues faced by
young people including: basic first aid, time management and study skills,
fears of being alone and preparing foods.
(2001)Title:
Consumer Health and Safety Activities
Grade Level: 7-12
Format: Book
Details: 125 pgs., 1993, Patricia Rizzo Toner, Center for Applied Research in Education
Synopsis: Provides 90 ready to use activities to help students learn to recognize advertising techniques, compare various products and claims, understand consumer rights, distinguish between safe and dangerous items, become familiar with safety rules, and more.
Title: Comprehensive School Health
Education: Totally Awesome Teaching Strategies (4th edition)
Grade Level: K-12
Call Number: HERC 613 M471c 2005
Format Book (Activity Based)
Details: 2005, Linda Meeks, Philip Heit, Randy Page, Meeks-Heit Publishing Company,
1050 pgs.
Synopsis: 4th edition.
In addition to a wealth of interactive lessons,
this book addresses health education curriculum development issues and
provides information of new teaching strategies.
Title: Comprehensive School Health Education: Totally
Awesome Teaching Strategies (2nd Edition)
Grade Level: K-12
Call Number: HERC 613 M471c 1996
Format Book (Activity Based)
Details: 835 pgs., 2nd Edition, 1996, Linda Meeks,
Philip Heit, Randy Page, Meeks-Heit Publishing Company
Synopsis: In addition to a wealth of interactive lessons,
this book addresses health education curriculum development issues and
provides information of new teaching strategies.
Title: Drug Education Curriculum
Grade Level: K-2, 4-5
Format: Curriculum
Details: 1981, The University of the State of New York/State
Department of Education
Synopsis: The focus of this curriculum is prevention of substance
misuse and abuse through combined cognitive and affective activities.
Title: Entering Adulthood: Skills for
Injury Prevention
Grade Level: 9-12
Call Number: HERC
614.8 H918e
Format: Book
Details: 166 pgs., 1991, Network Publications
Synopsis: Unintentional and intentional injuries are
the primary killer of older teens, yet most students believe it could never
happen to them. This unit is designed to help students identify
behaviors that put them at risk for injury and promotes the practice of
safer behaviors.
Title: Health Education Teaching
Ideas - See Personal, Mental and Emotional
Title: Here We Go ... Watch Me Grow -
See Personal, Mental and Emotional
Title: How
To Survive Teaching Health - See Personal, Mental and Emotional
Title: Improving Health and Safety in
the Workplace
Grade Level: 7-12
Call Number: HERC
614.8 Im7
Format: Teaching Unit
Details: 71 pgs., 1982, Educational Development Center,
Inc.
Synopsis: This unit is designed to encourage
students to develop and maintain an open, assertive interest in occupational
health and safety.
Title: Into Adolescence: Stopping
Violence
Grade Level: 5-8
Call Number: HERC
302.5 P846i
Format: Book
Details: 116 pgs., 1991, Network Publications
Synopsis: This module is designed to help students
identify the types, causes and consequences of violence in our society and
teaches them specific avoidance and prevention strategies.
Title: Learn Not To Burn: a fire
safety education program for school children
Grade Level: 6-8 (Level III)
Call Number: HERC 628.9
L477 1981 Level III
Format: Curriculum, 2nd edition
Details: 1981, South Portland Fire Department
Synopsis: A comprehensive fire safety curriculum.
Title: Learn Not To Burn: a fire
safety education program for school children
Grade Level: 3-5 (Level II)
Call Number: HERC 628.9
L477 1987 Level II
Format: Curriculum, 3rd edition
Details: 1987, South Portland Fire Department
Synopsis: A comprehensive fire safety curriculum.
Title: Life Management Skills - See
Personal, Mental and Emotional Health
Title: Preventing Injuries: a safety
curriculum
Grade Level: Pre-K, 1-2, 3-4, 5-6 (request by grade level)
Call Number: HERC 614.8
P929 (Prek/K, 1/2, 3/4, 5/6)
Format: Curriculum guides
Details: 1992, ETR Associates
Synopsis: Includes automobile safety, bicycle safety,
sports/playground safety, weapon safety, and water safety. Cartoon format
for younger students, worksheets for older students.
Title: Preventing Injuries
Grade Level: 7-12
Call Number:
HERC 614.8 P292t
Format: Teaching Unit
Details: 71 pgs., 1982, Educational Development Center,
Inc.
Synopsis: This module will help students learn that
most accidents are preventable. Provides specific first aid and injury
prevention skills.
Title: Risk
Watch
Grade Level: Pre-K, 1-2,
3-4, 5-6, 7-8 (request by grade level)
Call Number: HERC 614.8
R494 (Prek/K, 1/2, 3/4, 5/6, 7/8)
Format: Curriculum
guides with Teacher Video
Details: 1998,
National Fire Protection Association
Synopsis:
A comprehensive injury prevention curriculum covering bike,
pedestrian, water and motor vehicle safety, as well as fire, burn, choking,
suffocation, strangulation, poisoning, falls, firearm injury prevention.
(2001)Title:
Safeteen Training Kit for Maine Employers and Teen Workers
Grade Level: 9-12, adults
Format: Kit
Details: 2001, Maine Department of Labor
Synopsis: A kit designed to help Maine employers and teen workers understand the responsibilities and requirements of workplace safety and health. There is also a web site www.safeteen.org where both employers and teens can find information on safety and labor laws.
Title: Safety Education Packet
Grade Level: K-12
Format: Teaching packet
Details: 1992, Division of Maternal and Child Health
Synopsis: This packet includes pamphlets, posters, and
other information that can support safety education within the health
education curriculum. Also includes Playground Perspectives: A Curriculum
Guide for Promoting Playground Safety.
(2005)Title:
Serving it Safe: A Manager's Tool Kit
Grade Level: 9-12; see below
Format: Curriculum
Details: 1996, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
Synopsis: Curriculum designed primarily for school food service
managers. Chapters include foodborne illness, sanitation, food storage,
cooking, and handling, and safety in the kitchen. Some information may be
relevant for Disease Prevention and Safety/Accident Prevention purposes.
(2001)Title:
Sexual Violence in Teenage Lives: A Prevention Curriculum
Grade Level: 6-12
Format: Book
Details: 147 pgs., 1995, Cyprian, McLaughlin,
Quint, Planned Parenthood of Northern New England
Synopsis: This curriculum teaches students how to: recognize sexual violence including unwanted poking, pinching, name calling, pressure to have sex and rape; reduce the risks of becoming involved in a sexually violent relationship; get help if they are violated; establish and maintain relationships that are both healthy and pleasurable.
(2001)Title:
Starting Safely: Teaching Youth About Workplace Safety
Grade Level: 9-12
Format: VHS, Book
Details: 12 min, 99 pgs., 2001, Maine Department of Labor
Synopsis: Starting Safely is a 3-5 hour curriculum for middle and high school-age youth. The curriculum aligns with the Maine Learning Results and can be taught in its entirety or in parts. The goals are to: Educate youth about workplace hazards and strategies for preventing work-related injuries and illnesses. Raise teens' awareness of their rights on the job and the resources available to them. Encourage young workers to be active participants in creating and maintaining safe and healthy work
environments. There is an associated web site: www.safeteen.org.
(2000)Title:
Sun Safety Activity Guide
Grade Level: K-6
Format: Book
Details: 115 pgs., 2000 , Environmental Health Center,
National Safety Council
Synopsis: Designed for teachers of elementary students this
activity guide has easy to follow lessons and activities that children and
adults will enjoy. The guide is a health and science related educational
guide to help elementary school students learn about the risks of
overexposure to the sun and what they can do to protect themselves.
Title: Talking About Touching: A
Personal Safety Curriculum
Grade Level: K-6
Call Number: HERC 614.8
H228
Format: Curriculum
Details: 1984, Seattle Institute for Child Advocacy
Synopsis: Helps children learn to protect themselves from sexual
exploitation. This curriculum can be integrated into an existing health
program.
Title: Understanding Health - See
Personal, Mental and Emotional
Title:
Violence Prevention
Grade Level: 7-12
Call Number: HERC 302.5
P946v
Format: Teaching Unit
Details: 106 pgs., 1987, Education Development Center, Inc.
Synopsis: This unit is designed to help adolescents deal with
anger in productive, nonviolent ways.
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TEACHING KITS:
Title: 3 to 5: I'm In Charge
Grade Level: 3-6
Call Number: HERC 649.1
T413
Format: Teaching kit
Details: 1988, University of Maine Cooperative Extension
Service
Synopsis: This kit deals with latch key issues faced by
young people including: basic first aid, time management and study skills,
fears of being alone and preparing foods.
Title: Sun Safety for Maine Youth
Grade Level: 6-12
Format: Teaching kit: resource binder, VHS,
CD-ROM
Details: 2005, Maine Comprehensive Cancer Control Program
Synopsis: Produced in Maine specifically for Maine youth. 3-part kit
includes:
-Binder with sections on: CDC guidelines, safe sun behaviors, skin cancer
education resources, Q & A on skin cancer prevention, and sun safety policy.
-6-minute video "Skin Cancer Prevention" aimed at Maine youth.
-CD-ROM PowerPoint presentation "Getting Savvy about Sun Safety".
Title: The Aware Bears I and II
Grade Level: K-3
Format: Book sets
Details: Ocean Educational Communication
Synopsis: This unique innovative personal safety series is
designed for children in the primary grades. It focuses on subjects such as
how to guide children to awareness, how to help an abused child. Through the
storybooks, "what if" situations are used in developing problem
solving skills.
Set I Titles include: Set II Titles include:
- We're On Our Own (Latchkey) - We Must Say
"No!" (Substance Abuse)
- We're responsible (Fire Safety) - Hitting and Hurting (Physical Abuse)
- It's Up To Me (Personal Safety - They're Only Words (Name Calling)
- You're OK (Helping Friends) - Be Healthy, Be Wise (Health Awareness)
- We're Street Smart (Street Safety) - What's the Difference (Cultural
Diversity)
