Safe Outdoors and Active Play
While playing in the backyard, you spot a bush loaded with shiny, bright red berries. What should you do?
Leave them alone or ask a trusted adult if they are safe to touch or eat.
An actual life-threatening emergency—such as seeing thick smoke and flames pouring out of a kitchen window—where this public safety number must be dialed.
9-1-1
What is a healthy way to manage screen time on tablets, video games, and TVs?
Setting a clear time limit with an adult, taking regular screen breaks, and balancing screens with active outdoor play.
Exposure to safe amounts of sunlight and eating healthy foods like eggs, fish, and fortified milk are how your body naturally gets this essential nutrient.
Vitamin D
Found in energy drinks, coffee, and sodas, this mild stimulant can cause rapid heartbeats and disrupt sleep patterns in children.
Caffeine
What is the safest way to cross a busy street when walking to school?
Walk to a designated crosswalk, waiting for the walk signal, look left, right, and left again, and make eye contact with drivers
An essential action to take after eating peanut butter, especially if you have a classmate with a severe allergy.
washing your hands thoroughly with soap and water
The safest action to take when playing an online video game and another player asks you, "What school do you go to?"
Ignoring the question, stopping all communication with them, and telling a parent or trusted adult immediately.
The main rule to follow when taking over-the-counter medicine (like cough syrup or headache pills) to ensure you stay safe.
Having a parent or trusted adult supervise you and read the bottle labels carefully.
A highly addictive chemical compound found in tobacco plants, cigarettes, and vaping products.
Nicotine
The most important safety rule to follow when swimming or playing near water.
Always swim with a lifeguard or trusted adult actively watching and wearing a life jacket if you are still learning.
The absolute primary safety rule to follow when a smoke alarm goes off inside your home.
Staying calm, getting low to the ground to avoid inhaling smoke, and exiting the building immediately using your family's escape plan.
"Can I give you a hug?" and waiting for them to say, "Yes, you can!" before doing it is a clear example of this healthy concept.
Practicing consent
The only type of professional who can legally write a "Prescription" for a medication.
A qualified medical doctor (or nurse practitioner).
A strong physical or mental need to continue using a substance or engaging in a behavior (like video gaming) even when it causes obvious damage to your life.
A dependency or addiction.
The step you must take immediately if you bump your head playing a sport and start feeling dizzy, tired, or "fuzzy."
Stop playing immediately, sit out, and tell a coach, teacher, or parent right away.
The reason you must ignore and avoid petting a dog that is wearing a special harness and walking with a visually impaired individual.
The dog is a working service animal that must focus completely on keeping its owner safe.
The key characteristic that separates "bullying" from a simple one-time argument or mistake.
A purposeful act of harm or exclusion that is repeated over and over again.
Why is it highly dangerous to take someone else's prescription medicine, even if you feel like you have the exact same illness?
Prescriptions are calculated specifically for one person's body size, weight, allergies, and health history.
The scientific reason why alcohol is restricted by law so that children cannot legally buy, possess, or drink it.
Alcohol is a depressant that can permanently damage a child's rapidly growing brain, liver, and body.
A temporary brain injury caused by a hit, bump, or jolt to the head, face, or neck.
A concussion.
The holistic use of native plants, natural elements, and cultural teachings is used by many Indigenous peoples to heal the mind, body, and spirit.
Traditional Medicine
The reason violence depicted in video games and movies is fundamentally different from violence in real life.
Fictional violence uses special effects and code where characters can "respawn," whereas real-life violence causes permanent physical and emotional harm.
The section of a nutrition label we should carefully check to avoid tooth decay, sudden energy crashes, and long-term health issues like heart disease.
"Added Sugars"
The primary reason governments put strict legal age limits on buying tobacco, cannabis, alcohol, and vape products.
To delay young people's exposure to harmful, addictive substances until their bodies and decision-making centers are fully mature.