Environmental Health and Sustainability

Welcome to the online training portal for the global Safety Smart program. As an approved Safety Smart Ambassador, you have the opportunity to share reassuring, clear, and confidence-building messages that will help children to live a better life. Once logged in, this is the homepage for the Disney Safety Smart Training Portal.

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.

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 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 1 minute video compares two students use of water and measured the water each uses to brush their teeth. This is part of a water conservation campaign in collaboration with Disney.

Based on a study of Safety Smart conducted with preschool age children in five countries, results and findings are reported. Overall, children’s knowledge and behavior were found to be positively affected by the Safety Smart program. Significant gains in knowledge were found one week following participation, suggestive of longer-term knowledge impact.

A collection of hands-on activities that reuse, recycle and repurpose common materials to teach basic sustainability practices. Products created out of reused products include egg carton bugs, envelopes, pen pots, planters, napkin ring holders, placemats, picture frames, and a twig journal. Students go beyond recycling when they use these activities, either individually or as a set, in the classroom or in an afterschool program.