New Colorado P-12 Academic Standards

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• Apply personal safety knowledge and skills to prevent and treat intentional or unintentional injury

Concepts and skills students master:

10. Advocate for changes in the home, school, or community that would increase safety

Inquiry Questions:

1. What can you do to increase the chances of being safe?
2. What conditions are most likely to increase the risk of injury? Which are under your control?
3. Why does risky behavior sometimes seem fun?

Relevance & Application:

1. Insurance companies advocate for safe practices.
2. Employers reward employees at work for reduced injuries and constantly remind workers to be safe.
3. Underwriters Laboratory is the nation's authority on product safety and preventable injury concerns.

Nature Of:

1. Advocating for better results is a trait which serves others.
2. Effective strategies can be learned for avoiding and reducing the risk of harm in unhealthy or potentially unsafe situations.

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• Apply personal safety knowledge and skills to prevent and treat intentional or unintentional injury

Concepts and skills students master:

2. Demonstrate safety procedures for a variety of situations

Inquiry Questions:

1. What are the challenges of creating an emergency plan?
2. What are the creative ideas that can emerge from building an emergency plan?
3. Who can I trust to tell me how to be safe?

Relevance & Application:

1. Every community has emergency plans unique its region.
2. Every community or region has unique risks associated with living there.
3. Individual behaviors and the environmentinteract tocause or prevent injuries.

Nature Of:

1. Basic first aid is a lifelong skill.

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• Apply personal safety knowledge and skills to prevent and treat intentional or unintentional injury

Concepts and skills students master:

4. Demonstrate ways to advocate for safety, and prevent unintentional injuries

Inquiry Questions:

1. Is it possible to create schools and communities that are totally safe?
2. Would it be desirable to create these totally safe communities?

Relevance & Application:

1. Advocate for safe efficient transportation for all users surrounding your school.

Nature Of:

1. Helping my community through advocacy efforts for safety positively affects others and may inspire others to advocate for safety concerns

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• Apply personal safety knowledge and skills to prevent and treat intentional or unintentional injury

Concepts and skills students master:

3. Demonstrate basic first aid and safety procedures

Inquiry Questions:

1. Which animals and insects can be dangerous?
2. What occurs when someone save another from choking?

Relevance & Application:

1. Community resources are available for basic first aid training.
2. Basic first aid training facilitates a quick response in emergency situations.
3. 911 and poison control dispatchers can provide information to help in emergency situations.

Nature Of:

1. Knowing what to do in an emergency situation?including providing basic first aid and/or seeking help?is a lifelong skill.

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• Apply personal safety knowledge and skills to prevent and treat intentional or unintentional injury

Concepts and skills students master:

3. Identify ways to prevent injuries at home, in school, and in the community

Inquiry Questions:

1. Is it important to pre-plan for safety?

Relevance & Application:

1. Safety is the responsibility of all members of a community.
2. Safety plans save lives and prevent injury.

Nature Of:

1. Personal strategies can be learned to develop and enhance healthy behaviors and to avoid, reduce, and cope with unhealthy, risky, or potentially unsafe situations.

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• Apply personal safety knowledge and skills to prevent and treat intentional or unintentional injury

Concepts and skills students master:

5. Demonstrate interpersonal communication skills to prevent injury or to ask for help in an emergency or unsafe situation

Inquiry Questions:

1. How do I know when to call 911?
2. What do individuals do when they need to communicate and they cannot speak?
3. What are the decisions made by emergency workers?
4. What happens if a player does not wear a helmet or kneepads?
5. Why is it important to be careful around water?
6. Why do lifeguards say "walk don't run" at swimming pools?

Relevance & Application:

1. Ambulance personnel are skilled at considering situations from a variety of aspects.
2. Young people often get trained to perform CPR or other forms of resuscitation.
3. Injury prevention requires preparation and communication.
4. Coast Guard and lifeguards are equipped to prevent and provide help in a water safety situation.
5. A 911 operator is trained to send help in an emergency and provide help over the phone.
6. Safety equipment, such as helmets, knee pads, and life jackets, exist to help prevent unintentional injuries.

Nature Of:

1. Personal strategies can be learned to develop and enhance healthy behaviors and to avoid, reduce, and cope with unhealthy, risky, or potentially unsafe situations.

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• Apply personal safety knowledge and skills to prevent and treat intentional or unintentional injury

Concepts and skills students master:

1. Demonstrate strategies to avoid hazards in the home and community

Inquiry Questions:

1. Why is it important to know the difference between what we can and cannot eat?
2. Why is it important to know that certain items in the refrigerator and pantry cannot be eaten?
3. What could happen if you were camping, there was a campfire, and everyone decided to leave and go for a hike without putting the fire out first?

Relevance & Application:

1. Firefighters practice strategies to prevent fires from starting and to prevent fire from spreading.
2. Emergency responders practice how to quickly help anyone who ingests and or inhales something not safe.
3. Children in other countries or communities might need to be aware of different types of hazards.

Nature Of:

1. Use concepts and skills to identify potential hazards and respond appropriately. (DOK 1)

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• Apply personal safety knowledge and skills to prevent and treat intentional or unintentional injury

Concepts and skills students master:

2. Explain safe behavior as a pedestrian and with motor vehicles

Inquiry Questions:

1. What are some things that can happen if everyone runs around and pushes each other?
2. What would it be like if there weren't any rules for cars or pedestrians?

Relevance & Application:

1. Crosswalk and traffic signs change based on new research about how children see and react to symbols.

Nature Of:

1. Vehicles and streets are places with hazards and require careful attention.
2. Personal strategies can be learned to develop and to avoid, reduce, and cope with unhealthy, risky, or potentially unsafe situations.

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• Apply personal safety knowledge and skills to prevent and treat intentional or unintentional injury

Concepts and skills students master:

3. Demonstrate effective communication skills in unsafe situations

Inquiry Questions:

1. What would happen if you were lost and you didn't know how to ask for help?
2. What would you do if you found a gun?
3. In addition to a phone, how else could you get help when you are at home? In a car?
4. Without using words, what are ways you could let someone know you need help?

Relevance & Application:

1. Effective communication is crucial in an emergency situation.
2. Other forms if technology can be used to communicate in an emergency situation.

Nature Of:

1. Verbal and non-verbal communication is a creative task in an emergency situation.
2. Personal strategies can be learned to develop and to avoid, reduce, and cope with unhealthy, risky, or potentially unsafe situations.

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• Apply personal safety knowledge and skills to prevent and treat intentional or unintentional injury

Concepts and skills students master:

1. Identify ways to be safe while at play

Inquiry Questions:

1. Why walk on a sidewalk and not in the middle of the road?
2. Why should I listen to my teacher when I am on the playground?
3. How can the playground be a place where I could get hurt when it is so much fun to be there?

Relevance & Application:

1. It is important to identify situations that are unsafe to prevent injuries.
2. Many playgrounds are built in special ways to prevent injury.
3. Some roads and playgrounds are built to accommodate individuals with disabilities.

Nature Of:

1. All fun settings have material and objects which can inadvertently be the source of injury.

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• Apply personal safety knowledge and skills to prevent and treat intentional or unintentional injury

Concepts and skills students master:

1. Understand the risks and safety factors that may affect participation in physical activity

Inquiry Questions:

1. Are physical activities becoming safer or more dangerous?
2. What is the meaning of the saying, "No pain, no gain?" What's the potential harm in it?
3. What is the importance of fitness and nutrition to safe and efficient practices at home, in school, and at work?
4. Why is risk a positive aspect of physical activity?

Relevance & Application:

1. Individuals participate safely in lifetime physical activities.
2. Individuals create a video demonstrating proper form for lifts and exercises.
3. Individuals make good choices when confronted with a life-threatening situation.
4. Individuals identify proper safety equipment for different physical activities. For example, they visit a sporting goods store, and compare safety equipment for different physical activities.

Nature Of:

1. Participation in physical activity requires attention to safety.
2. Participation in physical activity often involves controlled risk.

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• Apply personal safety knowledge and skills to prevent and treat intentional or unintentional injury

Concepts and skills students master:

2. Demonstrate knowledge of safety and emergency response procedures

Inquiry Questions:

1. If you are not trained in first aid or CPR, how can you be of help in an emergency situation?
2. When did you want to help with a problem, but couldn't?
3. Why is it important to be trained in first aid, CPR, lifeguarding, water safety, and AEDs?

Relevance & Application:

1. Individuals assist in efforts to help someone in case of an accident or emergency.
2. Individuals use technology to practice skills in emergency first aid or CPR. For example, they might take a CPR course at a community center.
3. Individuals can volunteer to work as lifeguards after they are properly trained.

Nature Of:

1. Everybody can save a life if given the proper training.
2. Safety and emergency response procedures are not limited to emergency medical technician (EMT) professionals.
3. Understanding safety and emergency response procedures is important to the well-being of the community.

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• Apply personal safety knowledge and skills to prevent and treat intentional or unintentional injury

Concepts and skills students master:

1. Implement safety procedures in the utilization of space and equipment

Inquiry Questions:

1. If you had to skip warming up or cooling down, which one would you skip, and why?
2. What are ways to avoid injury in basketball? In softball or baseball? In soccer?

Relevance & Application:

1. Individuals participate safely in a variety of physical activities.
2. Using a computer, individuals create a safety information sheet for a favorite physical activity.
3. Individuals learn safe practices for downhill skiing.
4. Individuals learn safe practices for climbing.
5. Individuals learn safe practices for swimming in a public pool.

Nature Of:

1. Participating in physical activities such as swimming or skating requires attention to safety.

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• Apply personal safety knowledge and skills to prevent and treat intentional or unintentional injury

Concepts and skills students master:

1. Demonstrate knowledge of safe practices in a physical activity setting

Inquiry Questions:

1. If a friend is engaging in unsafe behavior in the weight room, how would you handle it?
2. How would you explain why the behavior was unsafe?
3. How would your unsafe behavior affect your friends?
4. Why do sports have different or similar safety practices?

Relevance & Application:

1. Individuals learn how to avoid injury when using sports equipment.
2. Individuals analyze video clips of people engaging in a physical activity to learn safe and unsafe practices.
3. Individuals learn safe practices for skateboarding or bicycle riding.
4. Individuals learn that different physical activities such as football, skateboarding, bicycle riding, and skiing have different safe practices.

Nature Of:

1. Participation in physical activity requires attention to safety.
2. Athletes understand that not following safe practices for sports can lead to serious personal injuries.

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• Apply personal safety knowledge and skills to prevent and treat intentional or unintentional injury

Concepts and skills students master:

1. Understand and utilize safe and appropriate warm-up, pacing, and cool-down techniques for injury prevention and safe participation

Inquiry Questions:

1. Does the time of year matter when cooling down after exercising?
2. Which warm-up activities are the most effective in preparing the body for movement?
3. Why is it important to be able to identify safety rules on your own?
4. Do different sports require more or less warming up than other sports?

Relevance & Application:

1. Individuals talk to family members about how to participate safely in a physical activity.
2. Individuals practice proper warm-up and cool-down techniques at home.
3. Individuals practice warming up when playing soccer with friends.

Nature Of:

1. Safe participation in physical activity requires an individual to manage risks.

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• Apply personal safety knowledge and skills to prevent and treat intentional or unintentional injury

Concepts and skills students master:

1. Identify and describe the benefits, risks, and safety factors associated with regular participation in physical activity

Inquiry Questions:

1. What is a possible risk of not following rules when swimming?
2. When and for which activities should helmets be mandatory, and when should they be optional?
3. How should people lift heavy objects?
4. What would be your number-one safety rule? Why?
5. Why do football players need to wear a lot of protective gear, and basketball players don't?

Relevance & Application:

1. Individuals can prevent lower-back injuries by taking proper precautions when playing with friends.
2. Individuals select proper footwear at a store for when they participate in physical activity. For example, they might buy basketball shoes versus cleats.
3. Individuals use technology to create a poster about safety.
4. Individuals look at the equipment in a sporting good store and determine its safety benefits.
5. Individuals look at safety rules for a sport on the Internet.

Nature Of:

1. Injuries can be prevented through the use of proper movement technique.
2. Clothing and footwear are important considerations for safe participation in physical activity.
3. Warm-up and cool-down activities are important for safe participation in physical activity.

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• Apply personal safety knowledge and skills to prevent and treat intentional or unintentional injury

Concepts and skills students master:

1. Apply rules, procedures ,and safe practices to create a safe school environment with little or no reinforcement

Inquiry Questions:

1. What is a safety rule for running?
2. If you could implement only one safety rule for the gymnasium, what would it be?
3. How are safety rules the same for the playground and gym? How are they different?
4. Why is personal space even more important when you are using implements?
5. What is the proper way to play with a baseball bat?

Relevance & Application:

1. Individuals avoid injury when participating in a wide range of physical activities.
2. Individuals make time for participation in activities outside of school hours.
3. Individuals watch a video, and identify good safety practices.

Nature Of:

1. Paying attention to safety can prevent injuries.
2. Understanding safety rules for games can lead to greater enjoyment when playing them.

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• Apply personal safety knowledge and skills to prevent and treat intentional or unintentional injury

Concepts and skills students master:

1. Develop movement control for safe participation in games and sports

Inquiry Questions:

1. If nonviolence and respect for others is so important, why do we play dodgeball?
2. Why does a person need to know how to follow directions if the directions are not given verbally?
3. Why should you not throw balls at other people?

Relevance & Application:

1. Individuals avoid injuring others when participating in physical activity.

Nature Of:

1. Following safety rules can prevent injury in physical education.

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• Apply personal safety knowledge and skills to prevent and treat intentional or unintentional injury

Concepts and skills students master:

1. Apply safe practices, rules, and procedures

Inquiry Questions:

1. What's the value of having special footwear for physical education?
2. Why should shoes be tied tight?
3. Why should exercise equipment be put away after it is used?

Relevance & Application:

1. Individuals participate safely in a wide range of physical activities.
2. Individuals visit a shoe store to identify proper footwear.
3. Individuals observe people crossing a street to see how they are aware of their physical space and do not bump into each other.

Nature Of:

1. Paying attention to safety guidelines can prevent injuries.