Lightning Safety Help children learn about weather while also teaching them safety. Ask students what safety precautions they think they should follow during a storm. You may wish to have them draw their ideas. If the ideas are logical, ask them to explain why they would take the precautions they mentioned. If they are not the best ideas, help them understand why.
Many children have no idea what to do when lightning strikes and they are outside.
Talk about what can happen and have children act out what they should do. Have them make posters warning children of unsafe places such as construction sites, abandoned mines, train tracks, deserted buildings, places with heavy equipment, etc. Display posters around the school. Have students pretend that they are skywriters assigned to promote the use of safety belts. Ask them to write a phrase that will remind people to use their safety belts.