
Physical Safety
Levels 1 to 4

NZC Achievement Objectives

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Learning Intentions

Integration Ideas
Learning Intentions are from the Ministry of Education
Integration ideas are from the Ministry of Education
Level 1
Take individual and collective action to contribute to safe environments that can be enjoyed by all eg. Create sunsafe environments
Identify and discuss obvious hazards in their home, school, and local environment and adopt simple safety practices eg. respond to hazards in both the natural and the built environments.
Level 2
Use simple guidelines and practices that contribute to physically and socially healthy classrooms, schools, and local environments eg. rubbish disposal
Level 3
Research and describe current health and safety guidelines and practices in their school and take action to enhance their effectiveness eg. undertake a safety audit around the school.
Plan and implement a programme to enhance an identified social or physical aspect of the classroom or school environment eg. litter control.
Technology: Share ideas about the ways in which familiar technologies affect their lives eg. the use and disposal of plastics
Technology: Describe and identify the positive and negative effects of some instances of technologies on people’s lives and the environment eg. the effects of fast ferries on shorelines.

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Resources

BikeReady is about having the skills and experience to bike for life. It is New Zealand’s national cycle education system and includes curriculum-based learning.
Level
1-4
Type
Unit
BikeReady
Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency
BikeReady is about having the skills and experience to bike for life. It is New Zealand’s national cycle education system and includes curriculum-based learning.

Joe introduces you to a special word that will help you to build an awesome shelter to survive the night, and hopefully the rain! He has a little help from his friends "Survival Man" and Laura. These are great skills for taking into the outdoors on your next adventure.
Level
1-4
Type
Video
Build a Shelter
Whenua Iti Outdoors
Joe introduces you to a special word that will help you to build an awesome shelter to survive the night, and hopefully the rain! He has a little help from his friends "Survival Man" and Laura. These are great skills for taking into the outdoors on your next adventure.

This project will walk students and teachers through the process of designing a solution to an issue within their transport community. Students and teachers can work through this planning document in groups or individually. It takes students from problem detection through to initial design ideas.
Level
3-4
Type
Unit
Developing community transport solutions
Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency
This project will walk students and teachers through the process of designing a solution to an issue within their transport community. Students and teachers can work through this planning document in groups or individually. It takes students from problem detection through to initial design ideas.

If a major earthquake hits your city it's important to have a plan ready to handle the situations that arise. Get students to design and build appropriate emergency vehicles as part of this earthquake lesson plan.
Level
1-4
Type
Activity
Earthquake!
Science Kids
If a major earthquake hits your city it's important to have a plan ready to handle the situations that arise. Get students to design and build appropriate emergency vehicles as part of this earthquake lesson plan.

This activity encourages students to explore various aspects of complex issues. It encourages students to consider the interaction of science and diverse community views.
Level
3-4
Type
Activity
Establishing priorities for solving problems
Ministry of Education NZ
This activity encourages students to explore various aspects of complex issues. It encourages students to consider the interaction of science and diverse community views.

The Feet First resources provide learning experiences for teacher-directed inquiry around the context of walking as a type of active travel.
Level
1-4
Type
Unit
Feet First
Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency
The Feet First resources provide learning experiences for teacher-directed inquiry around the context of walking as a type of active travel.

Cleaning or Hygiene Stations are places where we scrub and spray our shoes and gear before and after going for a walk in the bush. It’s super important that everyone uses them, every time they visit. It will stop the spread of kauri dieback disease, and save these forest giants!
Level
1-4
Type
Poster
How do I use a cleaning station?
Kiwi Conservation Club - Hakuturi Toa
Cleaning or Hygiene Stations are places where we scrub and spray our shoes and gear before and after going for a walk in the bush. It’s super important that everyone uses them, every time they visit. It will stop the spread of kauri dieback disease, and save these forest giants!

Here are some things that you can do at home or in your community that lessen the chances of being hurt and/or your home and surroundings devastated.
Level
1-4
Type
Activity
It's raining, it's pouring... oh no, a flood warning!
Environment Canterbury
Here are some things that you can do at home or in your community that lessen the chances of being hurt and/or your home and surroundings devastated.

This book focusses on warm-blooded animals in order to provide a familiar and personalised context in which young children can investigate how animals, including people, maintain their body temperature.
Level
1-2
Type
Activity Book
Keeping Warm: Getting Heat Energy and Keeping It
Ministry of Education NZ
This book focusses on warm-blooded animals in order to provide a familiar and personalised context in which young children can investigate how animals, including people, maintain their body temperature.

Curriculum resources for young people to contribute, connect and extend their ideas about keeping safe around trucks on New Zealand roads.
Level
1-4
Type
Unit
Keeping safe around trucks
Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency
Curriculum resources for young people to contribute, connect and extend their ideas about keeping safe around trucks on New Zealand roads.

Kia Pai Tō Haere is a flexible curriculum resource for Māori Medium Schools that provides guidance for teachers planning contextualised learning based on a kaupapa that keeping whānau safe on a journey is everyone’s work.
Level
1-4
Type
Te Reo Māori
Kia Pai Tō Haere
Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency
Kia Pai Tō Haere is a flexible curriculum resource for Māori Medium Schools that provides guidance for teachers planning contextualised learning based on a kaupapa that keeping whānau safe on a journey is everyone’s work.

An inquiry learning programme for Year 9-11 students based on the popular TV series, ‘The Amazing Race’, and making use of public and active transport modes.
Level
3-4
Type
Lesson Plan
Metro Magic Mission
Environment Canterbury
An inquiry learning programme for Year 9-11 students based on the popular TV series, ‘The Amazing Race’, and making use of public and active transport modes.

Curriculum resources to support New Zealand primary students learning to stay safe near railways, especially the electrified rail networks in Auckland and Wellington.
Level
1-4
Type
Unit
Rail safety
Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency
Curriculum resources to support New Zealand primary students learning to stay safe near railways, especially the electrified rail networks in Auckland and Wellington.

We will build a small hopuni (shelter) from materials around our house and garden. What you use will be based on what is available, just like humans always have! There are different levels you can build to.
Level
1-4
Type
Outdoor Activity
Shelter Building
Whenua Iti Outdoors
We will build a small hopuni (shelter) from materials around our house and garden. What you use will be based on what is available, just like humans always have! There are different levels you can build to.

The Q Files go deep into the ocean to uncover the facts about tsunamis and find out what you can do to be prepared...
Level
3-4
Type
Book
Tsunamis: The Q Files
Environment Canterbury
The Q Files go deep into the ocean to uncover the facts about tsunamis and find out what you can do to be prepared...

In this issue we bunker down and contemplate how our
changing world impacts on the way we do things now and in the future.
Level
3-4
Type
Activity Book
Your Environment Canterbury: Are you ready?
Environment Canterbury
In this issue we bunker down and contemplate how our
changing world impacts on the way we do things now and in the future.

In this issue we embark on a journey about transportation - what it involves, the regional trends, the impact it may have on the environment, and possible solutions to our transportation woes.
Level
3-4
Type
Activity Book
Your Environment Canterbury: On the Move
Environment Canterbury
In this issue we embark on a journey about transportation - what it involves, the regional trends, the impact it may have on the environment, and possible solutions to our transportation woes.

This issue looks at natural hazards, particularly those that have occurred in Canterbury in the past.
Level
3-4
Type
Activity Book
Your Environment Canterbury: What on Earth...?
Environment Canterbury
This issue looks at natural hazards, particularly those that have occurred in Canterbury in the past.