162 Adventures in Food and Nutrition
What Would You Do? What Would You Do?
You notice that your friend has two small bandages on her fingers. She also has a
bruised knee. “Every time I go in the kitchen, I hurt myself,” she says. “This morning I cut
myself with a knife and hit my knee on an open drawer. Accidents just seem to happen to
me!” How can you help your friend? What could she do to avoid accidents? What advice
would you give her?
Expanding Your Knowledge Expanding Your Knowledge
1. Invite a CPR instructor to visit your class. Ask the instructor to demonstrate how to
perform, CPR, backblows, and the abdominal thrust. Have the instructor explain how
you can become certified in CPR.
2. Interview the school nurse. You could ask the nurse to show you the first aid supplies.
Also, ask the nurse to demonstrate how to give first aid to someone with a small cut.
You could ask the nurse to describe the training needed to become a nurse, too.
3. Write a skit that shows what to do if someone is badly hurt. Perform the skit for your class.
4. Sign up for a first aid course. To find a course in your area, call the American Red
Cross or fire department.
5. Post emergency numbers near every phone in your house. Write down the phone
numbers for the police department, fire department, ambulance squad, and poison
control centers. Many towns have one emergency number. This number often is 911.
Find out if your community has this service.
6. Teach younger brothers and sisters how to call for help in an emergency.
7. Do a safety hazard search of your kitchen at home or the school food lab. Predict what
might happen if a hazard remains in the kitchen. Ask your parents or teacher to help
you remove any hazards that you find.
8. Write a safety rule for working in the kitchen. Make a poster about the rule. Display the
poster in your school cafeteria or library.
9. Visit your school library and research home accidents. Find out what types of accidents
are most common. Write an article for the school newspaper about home accidents.
Describe how to prevent these accidents.
10. Read the labels on three household cleaning products. Review the warnings on the
labels. Are any first aid instructions given? Report your findings to the class.
11. Give a presentation to your class entitled, “Safety Is No Accident.”
Answers: In the Know (continued)
4. Open the oven door. Use a pot holder to slide out the rack.
Remove the pan from the oven using pot holders. Close the
oven door right away. Turn off the oven.
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6. Turn off the heat if you can safely reach the controls. Put the
fi re out with a fi re extinguisher, salt, baking soda, fl our, or place
the lid on the pan. Do not use water to extinguish the fi re.
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