Safety Award
For Junior Girl Scouts

	WHAT GIRLS CAN DO ABOUT SAFETY Assist the leader in planning for safety. Listen to and follow instructions and suggestions. Learn and practice safety skills. Learn to "Think Safety" at all times and to "Be Prepared." Identify and evaluate situations where a safety risk is involved. Know how, when, and where to get help when needed.

Safety is a vital part of being a Girl Scout, and girls have to learn to think about safety in all the things they do.

Girls learn about safety as they work toward this award. After completing the activities, they can wear the award on their uniform vest or sash.

This award, which also appears in Safety-Wise, has been adapted for the Web. The links after each activity go to pages helpful for completing it. Girls should review the Internet Safety Pledge before starting. After visiting the other sites, girls should discuss what they've learned and how those sites relate to the activity.

Complete eight activities showing that you know how to:

1. Inspect your meeting place for safety hazards and find ways to make everything as safe as possible.

• "How Not To" Photos, StarGroup. With pictures of conditions not to have at your home or meeting place.
www.stargroup.com/hnt


• Family Fire Safety Plan, Los Angeles Fire Department. You don't have to live in Los Angeles to use this fire safety plan.
  

2. Find out about 911 or the emergency service in your area. Role-play what you would say and do to report an emergency in your home or meeting place.

• Emergency Medical Services, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Vince and Larry, the crash dummies featured here, help determine when and how to call Emergency Medical Services (EMS).
  www.nhtsa.dot.gov/kids/ems

3. Conduct an emergency evacuation drill of your meeting place.

• Disaster Services, American Red Cross.
  www.redcross.org/services/disaster/keepsafe



• Family Disaster Plan, Federal Emergency Management Agency.
  http://www.fema.gov/kids/dzplan.htm

4. Give first aid for a cut, burn, or sprain.

• Everyday Illnesses & Injuries, KidsHealth.

www.kidshealth.org/kid/ill_injure


• Rescue 411, ThinkQuest. A first-aid site by students.
  library.thinkquest.org/10624/index.html?tqskip1=1&tqtime=0519

5. Treat a child who is choking.

• Essential Skills: Choking, British Broadcasting Corporation. Click "interactive test" for a lesson on how to treat a choking child.
  www.bbc.co.uk/health/first_aid_action/es_choke.shtml

6. Give a reaching assist to someone in the water from the deck of a pool, a dock, or the shoreline.

• Safe Passage, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. On all aspects of water safety.

http://watersafety.usace.army.mil/safepassage/safe.htm


• Interactive Zone: Quizzes, American Red Cross. Take the water safety quiz.
  www.redcross.org/services/youth/izone/quizzes.html

7. Prepare for a storm or natural disaster that might occur in your area.

• FEMA for Kids, Federal Emergency Management Agency. Find out how to become a Disaster Action Kid.

www.fema.gov/kids


• Disaster Preparedness for Pets, Humane Society of the United States.
  www.hsus.org/ace/18732

8. Read weather signs to learn when to go indoors (types of clouds, wind shift, thunder, etc.).

• Severe Weather Awareness, National Weather Service.
  www.nws.noaa.gov/om/severeweather

9. Check out the safety features of a car that will be used for a group trip.

• Staying Safe in the Car and on the Bus, KidsHealth.
  www.kidshealth.org/kid/watch/out/car_safety.html

10. Plan a group trip, using the trip-planning materials on page 45 of Safety-Wise.

11. Choose appropriate toys and make a room safe for a young child.

• For Kids' Sake, Think Toy Safety, KidSource Online.
  www.kidsource.com/CPSC/toys_warning.html

12. Care for yourself and your friends if a stranger approaches you in a public place.

• Do You Know How to Be Street Smart?, KidsHealth.
  www.kidshealth.org/kid/watch/out/street_smart.html

13. Choose the right clothing and equipment for three favorite Girl Scout activities.

• "Let's Get Outdoors," Junior Girl Scout Handbook, pages 129–135.

14. Help people who disagree to resolve a problem.

• Dealing with Bullies, KidsHealth.
  www.kidshealth.org/kid/feeling/emotion/bullies.html



• Out on a Limb: A Guide to Getting Along, University of Illinois Extension.
  www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/conflict

Adapted from Safety-Wise, © 2000 by Girl Scouts of the United States of America.

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