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The Units
 All curriculum units include activities in a variety of areas of the early childhood classroom, including large group, art, music, science, math, outdoor play, dramatic play, and literature. The curriculum units also include materials to promote family involvement, including take-home materials, an interactive bulletin board, a family night workshop, an activity calendar, and a family backpack activity. The highlighted links are samples of the curriculum activities.
The Teaching Basic Health and Safety in the Early Childhood Classroom curriculum includes six comprehensive, developmentally appropriate curriculum units for 3- to 5-year-olds on topics related to young children's health and safety.
Basic Safety
Goals:
 The Basic Safety unit uses hands-on activities to teach young children simple ways to protect themselves from unintentional injury.
- The goals of this unit are to increase children's knowledge of dangerous situations and to prevent unintentional injuries in the child care setting and at home.
Objectives:
- Children will identify basic safety items.
- Children will discuss how basic safety items can be used to prevent injury.
- Children will demonstrate growth in the areas of cognitive, physical, social, and emotional development.
Classroom Activities:
- Large Group: Things that Keep Me Safe
- Art: Funny Safety Shades
- Music: Safety Bash Song
- Music: Super Safety Songwriting
- Science: Learning about What's Hot and Cold While Making Gelatin
- Math: Ouchless Outlet Cover Counting
- Math: Street Sign Sort-Out
- Outside: Danger! Danger! Fire!
- Dramatic Play: Safety Splash
- Literature: selected children's books on safety issues
Family Involvement Materials:
- Take-Home Material: Keeping Your Child Safe at Home
- Take-Home Material: Tips for a Safe Home
- Interactive Bulletin Board: Things that Keep Me Safe
- Family Night Workshop: Keeping Your Child Safe in the Sun
- Activity Calendar: A Month of Safe Activities
- Family Backpack Activity: Help Your Child Be a Fire Inspector
Emergencies
 The Emergencies unit uses hands-on activities to reduce children's anxiety about emergency situations by familiarizing them with what to expect in various types of emergencies, including fires and medical emergencies.
Goals:
- The goals of this unit are to help children prepare for an emergency by identifying emergency situations, by becoming familiar with basic rescue equipment (e.g., ambulances, stretchers, and the emergency room), and by learning how to dial 9-1-1 in an emergency.
Objectives:
- Children will identify basic rescue equipment.
- Children will distinguish emergencies from non-emergencies.
- Children will discuss what happens during an emergency.
- Children will demonstrate dialing 9-1-1 for assistance in an emergency.
- Children will demonstrate growth in the areas of cognitive, physical, social, and emotional development.
Classroom Activities:
- Large Group: Emergency Egbert
- Art: Medical Collage
- Music: Emergency Event
- Science: Super Splints
- Math: Big, Bigger, Biggest!
- Math: Rescue Vehicle Match
- Math: 9-1-1 Bingo Game
- Outside: Awesome Ambulance Run
- Dramatic Play: Emergency Room
- Literature: selected children's books on emergencies
Family Involvement Materials:
- Take-Home Material: Fun Ways to Teach Your Child about 9-1-1 and Emergency Symbols
- Take-Home Material: Preparing Your Child for an Emergency
- Interactive Bulletin Board: Find the Emergency
- Family Night Workshop: Family Safety Night
- Activity Calendar: A Month of Activities on Emergencies
- Family Backpack Activity: Follow the Map
Going to the Doctor
 The Going to the Doctor unit uses hands-on activities to lessen children's anxiety about going to the doctor by preparing them for routine doctor visits and check-ups.
Goal:
- The goal of this unit is to help children learn more about going to the doctor.
Objectives:
- Children will identify equipment used by a doctor in a routine check-up.
- Children will describe or demonstrate what typically happens during a routine visit to the doctor.
- Children will demonstrate growth in the areas of cognitive, physical, social, and emotional development.
Classroom Activities:
- Large Group: What Happens at the Doctor's Office?
- Art: Medical Prints
- Music: Doctor Dance
- Science: I See Me!
- Math: Growing Taller Every Day
- Outside: Help the Doctor Find Her Equipment
- Dramatic Play: The Comfort Clinic
- Literature: selected children's books about doctors and check-ups
Family Involvement Materials:
- Take-Home Material: Tips to Prepare Your Child for a Visit to the Doctor
- Take-Home Material: Let's Make a Waiting Room Kit
- Interactive Bulletin Board: Things to Do at the Doctor's Office
- Family Night Workshop: Tips on Making the Doctor's Visit Less Stressful
- Activity Calendar: A Month of Activities to Prepare for a Visit to the Doctor's Office
- Family Backpack Activity: Design a Bandage
My Healthy Body
 The My Healthy Body unit uses hands-on activities to teach young children healthy habits, such as hand washing, eating well, physical activity, sleep, and good hygiene.
Goals:
- The goals of this unit are to increase children's knowledge of healthy habits and to help them learn how to take care of their bodies.
Objectives:
- Children will identify healthy hygiene habits, including hand washing.
- Children will identify foods that are healthy.
- Children will recognize that exercise and rest help keep them healthy.
- Children will demonstrate growth in the areas of cognitive, physical, social, and emotional development.
Classroom Activities:
- Large Group: What's in the Health Box?
- Art: Healthy Collage
- Nutrition: Fancy Shapes
- Music: The Happy Healthy Song
- Science: Those Nasty Germs
- Math: Fishing for Healthy Food
- Math: MyPyramid Upset
- Outside: Obstacle Course
- Dramatic Play: My Workout Place
- Literature: selected children's books on nutrition, exercise, and other healthy habits
Family Involvement Materials:
- Take-Home Material: Let's Go on a Picnic
- Take-Home Material: Tips to Help Your Child Develop Healthy Habits
- Interactive Bulletin Board: Quick and Healthy Family Snacks
- Family Night Workshop: What's Healthy, What's not
- Activity Calendar: A Month of Healthy Activities
- Family Backpack Activity: Those Nasty Germs
Terrific Teeth
 The Terrific Teeth unit uses hands-on activities to help children learn how to care for their teeth and what to expect at a routine visit to the dentist.
Goals:
- The goals of this unit are to increase children's knowledge of dental health and to promote healthy dental practices in the child care setting and at home.
Objectives:
- Children will identify practices that promote dental health
- Children will become familiar with concepts that promote dental health, including proper brushing and flossing techniques, limiting sugar intake, and regular dental visits.
- Children will become familiar with the procedures and equipment used during a dental check-up.
- Children will demonstrate growth in the areas of cognitive, physical, social, and emotional.
Classroom Activites
- Large Group: Tools that Keep Our Teeth Healthy
- Large Group: How to Have Terrific Teeth
- Art: Paint-On and Brush-Off Tooth Painting
- Music: Tooth March Song
- Science: Sugar Soak
- Science: Pearly Whites
- Math: How Many Teeth?
- Math: Toothpaste Taste Test
- Outside: Teeth Tracking
- Dramatic Play: The Friendly Dentist
- Sensory: Let's Play Dentist
Family Involvement Materials
- Take-Home Material: Tips to Prepare Your Child for a Visit to the Dentist
- Take-Home Material: Let's Write a Toothbrusing Song.
- Interactive Bulletin Board: Healthy Smiles Shine Brightly
- Family Night Workshop: Preparing Your Child for a Dentist Visit
- Activity Calendar: A Month of Activities to Keep Your Teeth Healthy
- Family Backpack Activity: No Germs Here!
Eat Healthy, Be Active
 The Eat Healthy, Be Active unit uses hands-on activities to teach young children about the importance of good nutrition, regular physical activity, stretching, and drinking water as ways of keeping their bodies healthy.
Goals:
- The goal of this unit is to increase children.s knowledge of healthy habits, including eating something in the morning, eating a variety of foods, drinking water, and being physically active.
Objectives:
- Children will identify foods using MyPyramid for Kids.
- Children will classify a variety of foods into groups (fruits, vegetables, grains, etc.)
- Children will recognize that eating a variety of foods helps keep their bodies healthy.
- Children will recognize that exercise is important for good health.
- Children will identify breakfast as the first meal of the day and will recognize that eating something in the morning helps keep them healthy.
- Children will identify drinking water as a way of keeping their bodies healthy.
- Children will demonstrate growth in the areas of cognitive, physical, social, and emotional development.
Classroom Activites
- Large Group: Healthy Bear Says, "Move!"
- Large Group: Healthy Bear Says, "Eat Breakfast."
- Large Group: Healthy Bear Says, "Stop When You're Full."
- Large Group: Tasha's Lunchbox Adventure
- Art: Silly Stretch Art
- Art: Exercise Collage
- Art: Placemat Art
- Music: My Healthy Body Song
- Music: My Healthy Day Rap
- Music: I Like to Move!
- Science: Awesome Applesauce
- Science: Let's Make a Healthy Fruit Salad
- Math: Pattern Party
- Math: Let's Taste Some Veggies!
- Outside: Field Day Extravaganza
- Dramatic Play: Snack Shack
- Dramatic Play: Bop 'Til You Drop Dance Studio
- Dramatic Play: Workout World
- Literature: selected children's books on nutrition and physical activity
Family Involvement Materials
- Take-Home Material: Starting Out Right with a Healthy Breakfast
- Take-Home Material: Tips to Get Your Family Moving
- Interactive Bulletin Board: Cooking Up a Daily Diet
- Family Night Workshop: Family Nutrition Night
- Activity Calendar: A Month of Activities to Promote Healthy Eating and Exercise
- Family Backpack Activity: Fixing a Healthy Breakfast
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