Staying Safe at Home and Outside

Staying Safe at Home and Outside

Moral Education Unit 2: Lesson 1 Grade 7

Learning outcomes

• Understand what is meant by risk and consequence

• Understand dangers that might happen in the home and local environment

• Identify and apply ways to respond to danger

​What is a risk?

​What are the consequnces of taking risks?

Multiple Choice

What is a risk?

• Something safe

• Something good

• A situation involving danger

• a game

Multiple Choice

What is danger?

• my nickname

• possibility of harm or injury

• safety

• fire

Multiple Choice

Which one is not an example of danger?

Multiple Select

What is a consequence?

• result of an action

• effect that is often unpleasant

• nothing happening when you do something wrong

• The action you take that is risky

Multiple Select

What is an environment?

• surroundings or conditions

• natural world

• books

Multiple Select

What are potential negative consequences of driving the car too fast or recklessly?

• Get a speeding ticket

• Have fun

• Get in an accident

• Get hurt and hurt others

​Vocabulary

​Define:

Risk

​Consequence

​Danger

​Environment

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​Then make a sentence in

​your textbook that explains

​risk and consequence.

​Our Definitions: How did your definition match

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up?

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​Risk: A chance of danger or loss.

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Consequence:

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Something that happens as a result of an event or action.

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​Some examples of risk and consequence

​Suggested Answers

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a. Risk: If someone drives too fast, there is a risk of a car crash/accident.

If a student doesn’t do his homework, there is a risk that the teacher will be angry.

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b. Consequence: The child disobeyed his parents. As a consequence, he was punished.

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There was no rain for a long time. As a consequence, the animals were thirsty.

These days people are spending more time in the home to stay safe

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• Did you know that there are dangers in the home for children

• We need to be aware of the dangers in the home and learn safety precautions

• There are also dangers online and we need to be careful, responsible digital citizens

• ​We need to be careful in our homes and in our environment

Fill in the Blank

If you run down the stairs you might______________.

Open Ended

Have you ever gotten hurt in the house? What happened?

Poll

Have you ever?

• Fallen in the home

• Burnt yourself in the kitchen

• Hurt yourself wrestling with your sibling

• fallen in the bathtub

Open Ended

List your potential dangers you came up with in the home.

ist them from the most risky

to the least risky