Safety Zone

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Safety Zone

• Doris Keller
• EDU 506, 02
• Freed-Hardeman University

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Safety Zone is an interactive and informative
WebQuest for children and adults. Children are
quizzed on their safety IQ and work their way
through a maze of games and activities as they
learn about safety. Parents, students, teachers,
law enforcement officials, principals, and
community members learn specific things they can
do to prevent school violence. Parents can quiz
their knowledge of school safety as well as learn
such things as facts about drugs and alcohol,
setting guidelines, becoming role models, and
becoming connected to the school. Then parents
are invited to take the parental involvement
pledge. A bibliography on security measures
rounds out the WebQuest for those interested in
further information on the subject.
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School safety is a concern of everyone. Upon
working through this web page, the reader will
complete the following tasks review
previously learned safety rules and learn new
ones engage in problem solving activities
relating to safety recognize warning signs
learn specific duties for different groups of
people in regard to school safety commit to
parental involvement in reducing school violence

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Resource 1

• McGruff the Crime Dog is an interactive page for
  children to assess their knowledge and/or use of
  general safety rules.

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Resource 2

• Children and Crime Prevention is a web page of
  interactive games for children to play as they
  learn and/or re-enforce safety rules..

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Resource 3

• Stopping School Violence is a site that
  identifies duties of parents, students, teachers,
  law enforcement officials, principals, and
  community members in stopping school violence.

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Resource 4

• Common Sense Strategies for Raising Alcohol and
  Drug Free Children is a site to which parents can
  turn for the day-to-day parenting tools..

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Resource 5

• The Parent Involvement Pledge is an interactive
  site for adults who want to make a commitment to
  help improve the schools in their community.

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Safety is of utmost importance in everyones
lives. Unfortunately, violence has made its way
into American schools. School safety has taken
on new meaning. The problems were not all
created inside the schoolhouse walls making it
impossible for school personnel to come up with
all the solutions. The solutions to these
problems will take the combined efforts of
everyone. Today, perhaps it does take a
community to raise a child.