Movement Skills  : Safety In the Home  
Approach: One to one
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Resources: Two pictures, red marker pen, recording book.
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y8

Here are two pictures. One shows a kitchen and the other shows a workshop.
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Look carefully at these pictures to see if you can spot all of the possible dangers.
Begin with the picture of the kitchen.
Draw circles around all of the things that could be dangers. As you draw each circle tell me:

  • what the dangers are ... and
  • what you could do to make it safer.
boiling pot-handle out
91
  
damaged jug cord
74
  
plug switched on
16
  
jar open on bench
32
  
pills on bench
56
  
sharp knife
90
  
killo germ packet
53
  
oven door open
54
  
broken crockery on floor
96
  
toys on floor
68
  
open cupboard with pot handle out
46
  
Number of points: 10–11
8–9
6–7
4–5
0–3
12
28
28
25
7
  

Once kitchen picture has been completed:
Now lets look at the picture of the workshop.
Draw circles around all of the things that could be dangers. As you draw each circle tell me:

  • what the dangers are ... and
  • what you could do to make it safer.

clothes line across path
13
  
broken fence
34
  
rubbish on path
25
  
tool box in doorway
80
  
broken window
84
  
moss killer, fly killer
50
  
spade on lawnmower cord
50
  
lawnmower cord on floor
55
  
rake in doorway
72
  
shed door open
8
  
Number of points: 8–10
6–7
4–5
0–3
9
24
38
29
  
Commentary:
 Students were more skilled at finding dangers in the kitchen than those associated with the garden shed.

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