Resilient Australia - How to call Triple 0

Australian Curriculum content descriptions: 

Year 2 Health and Physical Education:

• Practise strategies they can use when they feel uncomfortable, unsafe or need help with a task, problem or situation (ACPPS017)

Relevant parts of Year 2 Health and Physical Education achievement standards: Students select and apply strategies to keep themselves healthy and safe and are able to ask for help with tasks or problems.

Syllabus outcomes: DMS1.2, PSS1.5, SLS1.13

General capabilities: Personal and Social Capability.

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium – facilitate class discussion and enable differentiation.

• Device capable of presenting a PowerPoint and a video to the class
• Letter to parents
• Powerpoint Slides
• Signs – two pieces of paper, one with the word ‘emergency’ written on it, the other labelled ‘not an emergency’
• Student address list – two copies, one cut into slips
• Student certificate of details for home
• Student Worksheet – one copy per student
• Triple 0 sign for home
• Whiteboard

This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:

• Communication

We encourage you to undertake the free PD Course How to teach a unit on fire and flood resilience for tips on how to best deliver this lesson.

If you’re concerned about the challenging nature of these topics, consider the free PD Course How to approach trauma in the classroom for information on how best to support your students.

This lesson was made in partnership with Minderoo Foundation (www.minderoo.org).