Teaching safety and health skills

It is important for consumers to learn about safety and health. This will help consumers to understand the steps they can take to help keep themselves safe healhty.

The key competencies for this section are:

Competence 1: use and evaluate information - Learners will consider how advertising affects their choices and how this might relate to diet and healthy living.
Competence 2: apply consumer knowledge to health management - Learners are able to understand the importance of food labelling around salts, fats and sugar and to evaluate options around health and fitness.

Lesson plans

A number of lesson plans have been devised to help you teach safety and health issues in the classroom. This section contains links to lesson plans that have been specifically designed to be suitable for primary, secondary and adult education. These lesson plans cover a range of interesting subjects and provide suggestions for interactive sessions with your students. Read more

Teaching materials and resources

A number of teaching resources have been devised to help you teach safety and health issues in the classroom. This section contains links to resources that have been specifically designed to be suitable for primary, secondary and adult education. These resources cover a range of interesting subjects and can be used to help develop interactive teaching sessions for your students. Read more