Unit 5 Prevention Education: 4th & 5th Grade Key Concepts
Day 1
Introduction and Safety with Strangers
- Introduction
- Stepping Stones helps people who have been hurt
- The presenter will be teaching safety rules to keep you safe
- Define the word safety
- Give examples of safety rules
- Strangers
- Define “strangers” as people we do not know
- If a stranger asks us to go somewhere or take something, say no and tell a grown up
- Safe Adults
- Identify safe adults.
- Parents, teachers, coaches, family members
- Identify safe adults.
- Unsafe Adults
- Identify unsafe adults
- Adults that may try to trick you or ask you to keep unsafe secrets
- Identify unsafe adults
Activity:
Students will apply the information learned, by discussing the second step scenarios.
Day 2
Safe and Unsafe Touches
- Review previous lesson
- Safe touches
- Touches that make us feel good, happy, and safe
- Hugs, high fives, handshakes
- Unsafe touches
- Touches that hurt our bodies or feelings
- Punch, kick, push, trip
- Use the safety steps when responding to unsafe touches
- Unwanted touches
- Touches that we do not want or make us feel uncomfortable
- Explain that sometimes safe touches can be unwanted, like a hug from a stranger
- Use the safety steps when responding to unwanted touches
- Safety steps
- Stand up tall, use a strong voice, have a serious face on
- Say words that mean no!
- Get away as fast as you can
- Tell a safe adult what has happened. Continue to tell an adult until they help
Activity:
Students will apply the information learned, by discussing the second step scenarios
Day 3
Touching Rule
- Review previous lessons
- “No one should touch my private body parts, except to keep me clean and healthy.”
- Identify private body parts as the parts of our body covered by a swimming suit
- Identify activities we do to stay clean and healthy
- Bathe, brush teeth, exercise, eat fruits and vegetables, drink water
- Identify the people who help us stay clean and healthy
- Parents, teachers, coaches, doctors
- Identify when someone might need to touch our private body parts to keep us clean and healthy
- Parents keeping us clean, doctors during an exam
- If someone breaks the touching rule, follow the safety steps
- Review of the safety steps
- Reiterate the importance of continuing to tell until someone helps
- Explain that when someone breaks the touching rule, it is never the child’s fault
- Students will learn to never keep secrets about touching
Activity:
Students will practice stating the touching rule.
Students will also practice using the safety steps.