

Teaching Tips
Successful ways to relate the message of farm safety and health to kids creatively.
The following 8 tips are available for you to download and use.
- Lock Onto Chemical Safety
Teaching the concepts of safety begins in the home. Explaining how to safely use common household chemicals such as medicines, household cleansers, bug spray, weed killer, etc. is important. This information can then be transferred to the issue of safe chemical use on the farm.
- Animal Safety
Here are some suggestions for teaching kids how to stay safe around animals.
- Tractor Safety: Keep on Track!
Tractors are a dangerous necessity on a farm. These activities will help teach students the dangers and proper uses of the tractor.
- SLOW MOVING VEHICLE (SMV) EMBLEMS
The students will visualize the importance of clean and bright reflective material on visibility from a distance.
- Importance of Clear Instructions
Participants will recognize the importance of training when working on the farm.
- True Confessions
Adolescents will be able to analyze reasons why they have developed attitudes towards safety and behave in certain ways.
- Are you Ready to Ride?
To determine when youth are physically capable of riding an ATV safely.
- Keeping Kids Safe on the Farm-Hazard Recognition
Participants will identify hazards associated with working on the farm.
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