High School Safety Hunt: A Learning Module

The High School Safety Hunt is a fun and exciting way to raise awareness about a number of different safety issues. It can be used to bring attention to specific locations in and around a school such as: kilns, parking lots, electrical towers, airports or any other number of areas. Additionally the clues can also lead students to important safety-related individuals staffed at the school, including school security, custodians, administration and faculty. Each location will have its own unique areas and individuals to highlight as a part of this project. This flexibility allows the module to be successfully implemented in any setting (urban, suburban, rural). It also allows the module to be repeated over and over, simply choose new safety areas each year for a fresh start. The module is also extremely cost-effective. Besides typical poster materials the only costs incurred are for prizes, and these may be supplied by local businesses.

The modules centers around a contest. Each day clues are posted (samples are included in this guidebook) that create a whimsical rhyming riddle about the targeted individuals and/or areas. Depending on the absolute secrecy of the class creating the clues (which adds to the excitement) the student body as well as faculty and staff are encouraged to solve the riddles. This shared level of competition between students and staff serves to raise the level of excitement as the days lead up to the conclusion of the riddles and the revealing of both answers and winners. (authors)