Educators (Teachers, administrators, coaches,
and others)
January is Mentoring
month and many people remember educators as their most important mentors.
KidsRisk provides information about children's risks that might provide helpful
context and please also check our guides.
Please also check out the following 3 activities for kids that may work in
your classroom:
- Check out the KidsRisk Detectives art project that asks kids to teach other
kids about ways they can manage risks. You can see an example picture in the
left frame, which features paintings created by students at the Snowden School.
Visual Arts Educator Ms. Linda Hatch challenged her art students to create
pictures in the style of artist Keith Haring. Dr. Thompson featured all of
the original paintings at the first KidsRisk
Symposium. She included the picture painted by Mei Xian Zheng in her article
"Children are our present,"
which appeared on the Op Ed page of The New York Times on the December
26, 2003 in the ad space donated by ExxonMobil. Check out the the kids
activity and see a lesson plan that appears on Haring
Kids. Please consider opportunities to share any created works, either
by compiling these into a classroom exhibit or book, which you might copy
and send home with each kid, or by posting them on the Internet. Please contact
Dr. Thompson if you'd like to request
posting them on this site).
- Teach kids in your class about recalled
products and empower them to help find them by created WANTED posted for
some lurking killers. Ask the kids in your class to make posters, copy the
full set you make, and send them all home with a charge to everyone to see
what they find in their own homes. The KidsRisk Project is considering a contest
to see which school can collect the most recalled items, so if you'd be interested
in this then please contact Dr. Thompson.
- Empower your students with media deconstruction skills. Kids learn all the
time, and current studies suggest that American children today spend more
time learning from media than they spend in school. We've done a lot of research
on what's in some of the popular media, and it's up to adults to help kids
take charge of media and become critical media consumers. Think about questions
that you can ask to engage your students in discussions about the messages
that they get from media.
KidsRisk resources