2. Everyday Hazards

Setup: Prep Time 60 min.

• Prepare Our Ideas poster.
• Print, cut, and assemble Deck A.

*See Materials & Preparation in the Educator Guide linked above for full info.

21st Century Skills

• Communication

Science Practices

• Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information

Learners Will Do

• Match safety tips with hazards in a card game.

Learners Will Know

• Humans have developed methods to lessen some hazards. These methods are known as mitigations.

Connecting Across Adventures

• Adventure 1: Sharing Experiences: Last time, learners shared experiences with and stories about making hazards safer.
• Adventure 2: Everyday Hazards: Today, learners act out everyday hazards, figure out safety tips to address them, and start learning about hazard mitigation.
• Adventure 3: Hazards Where We Live: Next time, learners will explore hazards near their community and consider how people mitigate those hazards.

Level Up! (Optional)

• Lay out all Safety Tip cards. Ask: What do the safety tips have in common? Let learners share patterns they notice. Add learners’ ideas on what the safety tips have in common (make safe, helpful, cause less harm, reduce risk) to the Our Ideas poster. Highlight the words in common. Help learners make connections between their definitions of mitigation and safety tip. These should be very similar. (10 min.)
• Ask this story prompt question: How do you avoid hazards at home or in your community? Have learners share with a partner in their preferred languages.
• Did you know that NASA monitors hazards and other processes here on Earth? Check out this short video about NASA’s Earth Observatory Introducing: NASA’s Earth System Observatory (1:53).
• Before the next Adventure, have learners interview family or community members to hear their stories of science, hazards, and mitigation. Tell learners, if anyone asks what they did today, they can say “we figured out safety tips to protect us from everyday hazards” or “we figured out mitigations for everyday hazards” and then ask them the above story prompt question. Encourage learners to think of more answers at home before the next Adventure. Download customizable flyers and get ideas on our Family and Community Connections webpage. Consider returning to learners’ ideas at the start of the next adventure. (25 min.)