Halloween Safety Tips

This 3.5 minute video includes safety tips for families who use a live tree for their holiday decorations and includes footage from the UL Fire Lab showing side-by-side burns of a watered and unwatered pine tree in a home. Can be sent home to families with a happy holidays letter from teacher or school.

This 7 minute video is an introduction to innovations that led to solar energy technologies and the science of how solar energy is converted to electricity. This video includes how solar technologies are tested in the UL labs. This resource teaches solar energy concepts and can be as a stand-alone or in a renewable energies unit.

This resource supports students understandings of common chemicals found around the home and classroom, including the hazards of common chemicals. Students learn how chemicals can look like candy, drinks, and household items. This resource supports the understanding of home safety, drug and chemical safety, marketing and packaging. This is also a useful resource to support critical thinking and careful observation. It can be used in the classroom, or in afterschool programs. "Household Item and Chemical Look-a-Like Possibilities" Awareness Chart can be sent home to Parents as well as posted in the classroom.

Timon and Pumbaa show children how to keep the land, water, and air around them clean and safe. Key Safety Concepts: reduce, reuse, recycle. When Timon and Pumbaa discover their favorite vacation spot has been harmed by pollution, they learn how to be Safety Smart® about the environment. Setting off with their Safety Smart® checklist, they identify several things they can do to help make sure the land, water, and air around them is clean and safe. This is the video/presentation page for the Wild About Safety Goes Green lesson. This page is for English language, and it includes printable guides for Ambassadors, Parents and Educators.

Using the data from two burns in the fire science lab, students will make conclusions about the impact of ventilation on a fire. Students will present their claims based on the evidence presented in the graphs and learn why this skill is critical for both firefighters and the women and men investigating the fire’s origin and cause. This dataset offers an opportunity to practice interpreting real-world data from graphs and communicating a claim based on evidence and reasoning.