Wild About Safety with Timon & Pumbaa: Safety Smart® Healthy & Fit!

This collection of resources will actively engage students with videos, a quiz, and hands-on experiments while revealing the science and engineering behind electricity. Students will calculate energy consumption, learn about how a fault interrupts a circuit, as well as learn about how water molecules react to a negative charge, and so much more. These resources can be used to supplement a unit on energy/electricity. They can be integrated into curriculum or stand alone as hands-on activities, either in the classroom or during an afterschool program. These resources can be used to supplement a unit on energy/electricity. They can be integrated into curriculum or stand alone as hands-on activities, either in the classroom or during an afterschool program. These resources can be used to supplement a unit on energy/electricity. They can be integrated into curriculum or stand alone as hands-on activities, either in the classroom or during an afterschool program.

This combination of hands-on activity and video help students visually understand why smoke rises in a fire and how quickly a fire can spread, leading them to the science behind the safety of installing a smoke detector up high and how sprinkler systems work. This resource can be used during fire safety education both in the classroom and afterschool programs.

In three short videos, students learn about grilling safety, including a UL controlled grill fire demonstrating why grills should be kept 10 feet from the house or any structure, how to check grills for leaks, and how to safely prepare raw food for grilling. These videos are a resource for families. These videos can be sent home via an email to families before summer break. They can also be shared with local summer camps and community pools.

Children move about using different modes of independent transportation including bicycles, skateboards, and snowboards. This collection of fun videos shows children being reminded in some laugh-out-loud ways to remember their safety equipment. There's even a video about the dangers of 'smartphone' walking. The videos can be used in school classrooms, afterschool programs, or at home.

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.