Elementary School Grades K-5 (Ages 5-11)
Recommended Lesson Plans from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) creates educational resources for parents and education professionals that cover a wide variety of topics on child related issues. Their materials for K-5 highlights personal safety and online safety as two crucial topics that children should be taught to protect them and keep them safe. Connect for Freedom highly recommends these materials for youth 5-11. All of the below material was created and is owned by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC).
Grades K-5 (Ages 5-11) Presentation: Be Safer
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) has a presentation for principals or teachers to present to youth ages 5-11 (Grades K-5) to learn about and practice the four rules of personal safety. This presentation was created by NCMEC through their KidSmartz child safety program. This presentation can be divided into four separate lessons, one rule per lesson or two separate lessons, two rules per lesson.
Grades K-2 (Ages 5-8) Presentation: Be Safer Online
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) has a presentation for principals or teachers to present to students in grades K-2 to teach them about online safety. This presentation was created by NCMEC through their NetSmartz online safety education program.
Grades 3-5 (Ages 8-11) Presentation: Being a Good Digital Citizen
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) has a presentation for principals or teachers to present to youth ages 8-11 (Grades 3-5) to teach them about online safety and how to be a good friend online. This presentation was created by NCMEC through their NetSmartz online safety education program.
Education Kit
NCMEC has an education kit on abduction prevention. The education kit is broken down into Grades K-2 (Ages 5-8) and Grades 3-5 (Ages 8-11). The goal of the education kit is to teach children safety risks, self-protection strategies, and how to report attempted abductions.
Lesson Plans
NCMEC has two lesson plans, Uncomfortable Touch and Surprises vs. Secrets. Both of these lesson plans are broken down into two groups, one for Grades K-2 (Ages 5-8) and the other for Grades 3-5 (Ages 8-11). The goal of these lesson plans is to teach children about body safety and help prevent child sexual abuse.
Educational Videos
These educational videos are in the NCMEC Grades K-5 (Ages 5-11) Presentation: Be Safer. All videos were created and owned by NCMEC’s KidSmartz program.
*These videos are available in Spanish as well, and can be found here.
Activities
NCMEC has several activities that can be implemented alongside the lesson plans and presentations.
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