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Teacher’s Guide Quest for Water Safety: A Wizardly Adventure Interactive Water Safety Program Table of Contents Introduction 1 Program Outline 2 Program Structure 3 Quest Structure 4 Safety Lessons 5 Learning Activities 7 Running the Program 10 Internet Link Instructions 11 Introduction Quest for Water Safety: A Wizardly Adventure is an interactive, educational CD-ROM program. It has been created to help educators teach students about Ontario Power Generation’s (OPG) hydroelectric generating facilities and the potential dangers surrounding them. Students will learn about the safety procedures people should follow near dams, hydraulic stations and their waterways, and are encouraged to inform their families about these procedures. The overall message of the program is that students should stay clear to stay safe. The program is intended for students in grades 4 and 5. The main elements of the program have been developed based on the Health and Physical Education: Healthy Living component of Ontario’s Elementary School Curriculum. It covers the curriculum expectations for Grade 4 of using living skills to address personal safety and injury prevention, and for Grade 5 of applying strategies to deal with threats to personal safety. Learning Objectives This program includes the following learning objectives: • To provide students in grades 4 and 5 with information about the safety threats around OPG’s dams and hydraulic plants. • Engage students in using their personal decision-making skills. • To give students the opportunity to understand how their decisions and actions can affect their personal safety. • To offer students an experiential activity that allows them to identify dangerous situations, make decisions and take actions to keep themselves safe. The program has been structured to offer teachers flexibility in how they can use it in the classroom. • Students can work through the program independently at individual computers. • Students can work through the program in small groups. • The program can be presented to the class using a single computer, with the students working as a group or in teams to respond to each lesson. In all cases, it is recommended that the CD-ROM exercises be combined with classroom discussions. This will help to ensure that students understand the material being presented, and will enable students to ask questions and further explore the implications of the material they have learned. 1 Program Outline Quest for Water Safety…