Introduction
Mayor Mishap needs your help! The citizens of Whoopsville have lost all their safety rules.
Kids are riding their bikes without helmets...
Adults are driving without wearing their seatbelts...
Dogs are not on their leashes!
Mayor Mishap wants to make sure the children of Whoopsville are kept safe. As you can see, he has a lot of work to do.
Are you willing to take on this challenge?! Do you know anything about safety rules?!
Click on Task if you want to help.
Task
Can you think of any safety rules to help Mayor Mishap protect the children of Whoopsville?
If you need help, look to Officer Buckle for guidance. He LOVES safety tips! Check out his video! He knows LOTS of ways to keep children safe.
Just like Officer Buckle helps to keep the children of Napville safe, it's your turn to help the kids of Whoopsville.
Your task is to find fire, pedestrian, electrical, and bicycle safety rules to make a presentation to share with the kids of Whoopsville.
But HURRY...the children are depending on you to keep them safe!!!
Let's see what you might already know. Click each picture below to take a quiz.
While doing you quizzes, click HERE to record how many questions you answered correctly on each quiz. When the quizzes are finished, continue over to Process.
Pedestrian
Bicycle
Electrical
Fire
Process
Part 1
Mayor Mishap has taken great effort to assign everyone to one of the four groups in which you have shown great knowledge.
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If you zoomed past the competition on the Bicycle Safety Quiz, you are now ...
A World Champion Cyclist! Your job is to look for bicycle safety rules that will keep kids safe while riding their bikes. Try looking for information on ...
how to choose the correct helmet, when and where you can ride your bike, and clothing that will help protect you.
Look Here or Here for some helpful rules and record them here.
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If you were a firecracker at the Fire Safety Quiz, you are now ...
Our New Fire Chief! Your job is to research fire safety rules to keep the town`s homes safe. You might want to look for information about ...
fire extinguishers, smoke alarms, escape routes, and what to do in case of a fire emergency.
Check Here or Here for some helpful ideas and record them here.
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If you were a step ahead of the rest on the Pedestrian Safety Quiz, you are now ...
Our #1 Traffic Cop! Your job is to discover ways to keep boys and girls safe while walking on the streets of Whoopsville. It is important to keep in mind information about ...
when and where it is safe to walk, what street signs mean, and how to cross a crosswalk.
Click Here or Here for some helpful tips and record them here.
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If you shocked Mayor Mishap on the Electrical Safety Quiz, you are now ...
Whoopsville's Brightest Electrician! Your job is to find rules to make sure the children understand the dangers of electricity. Things to look for might include information about ...
how to prevent electrical shocks and how to prevent electrical fires.
Go Here or Here for some helpful hints and record them here.
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Part 2
Now that each of you are safety experts in your field of work, come back together in your group and share your ideas.
Each group will now be responsible for organizing the information to make a Safety Tips Output of YOUR Choice to give to Mayor Mishap.
To know what Mayor Mishap is expecting of you, go to the Evaluation page!
Evaluation
Now that you have finished your research, Mayor Mishap would like to know how well you think you did.
Complete this self-evaluation for Mayor Mishap.
Mayor Mishap will be looking to see if you have accomplished the following ...
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that you used the web links
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that you used great information
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that you used the worksheets
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that you worked well as a group
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that you contributed to group work
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that your brochure was well organized
Now you're almost finished ... go over to the Conclusion page!
Conclusion
WOW! Mayor Mishap is so proud of all the work you have done!
Soon we will see the children of Whoopsville riding bikes with helmets on ...
Waiting for the crossing guard ...
And looking both ways before crossing the street!
The children of Whoopsville will be safe once again! And it's all thanks to you!
Congratulations for a job well done! Click here to get a certificate to print and have Mayor Mishap sign it!
Thank you Safety Experts!
Credits
https://www.safekids.org/tip/pedestrian-safety-tips
https://www.bchydro.com/safety-outages/electrical-safety/safety-at-home/safety-for-kids.html
https://www.expertelectric.ca/blog/electrical-safety-tips-for-kids/
https://icsw.nhtsa.gov/people/injury/pedbimot/bike/kidsandbikesafetyweb/
https://sf-fire.org/safety-resources-and-information/fire-safety-tips-kids
https://firesafety.tips/fire-safety-for-kids/
Teacher Page
The readability of this webquest is too difficult for grade 2 students, therefore they will work with a buddy from grade 6.
The teacher will take the role of Mayor Mishap, a zany, confused mayor of the fictional town of Whoopsville.
Whoopsville has lost all of its safety rules. Everywhere you look, people are not being safe (there are some examples on the Introduction page). Mayor Mishap will need some help to collect safety rules to keep the children of Whoopsville safe.
The students will be framed as Safety Experts, recruited to help Mayor Mishap make Whoopsville safe again for all its children.
The students will be given a Safety Expert role in one of the following fields; fire safety, pedestrian safety, electrical safety, or bicycle safety. They will be assigned their roles based on results from the safety quizzes (provided on the Task page). The students will record their results and give them to Mayor Mishap (that's YOU! The teacher-in-role). You will then assign each student his or her role, guiding them on their way to discover safety rules for Whoopsville. This activity should take the entire lesson to complete.
Each safety expert and his or her buddy will look for information in the assigned field. This would be part one of the process. They will be provided with links to interactive, safety-related websites so they can discover lots of safety tips. Depending on the students progress, it may take two or three lessons to complete this activity.
When the students have found lots of information, they will come together in groups of four (Mayor Mishap will need to make sure that there is one expert per each group) and prepare a choice output (presentation, brochure, poster) outlining everything they've learned. The output has to be created online. Again, this may take two or three lessons to complete. One lesson will be for communicating, in groups, everything they have learned. The next lesson or two will be left to make the output.
Once the projects have been prepared, the students will present them to Mayor Mishap. The Mayor will graciously accept them and tell the students that it is because of them the children of Whoopsville will once again be safe.
When the students are finished the webquest, they can print a certificate (found on the Conclusion page) declaring them as Safety Experts. Mayor Mishap will sign and present them to each student.
This webquest addresses the following standards:
Social Studies:
– Recognize the importance of teamwork in bringing about change
Health:
- identify some potential fire hazards around the home such as: matches, fireplaces, space heaters, candles
- assess personal practices with respect to bicycle, all-terrain vehicles, snowmobiles, or boats
Language Arts:
- reading/viewing as sources of interest, enjoyment, and information