The Injury Prevention Centre, with the support of Forbes Bros., has developed this toolkit to help elementary educators teach the importance of injury prevention in alignment with the Alberta Education Curriculum.

The purpose of this toolkit is to provide elementary school teachers in Alberta with the resources they need to teach their students about the importance of safety and injury prevention. Development of the resource considered the information from an environmental scan conducted by the Injury Prevention Centre.¹ The scan summarized the research regarding characteristics of effective elementary injury prevention resources including using developmentally-specific resources for different age groups, focusing on a variety of interactive activities, incorporating measures for evaluating changes in knowledge, and building partnerships with other injury prevention advocates. Additionally, a literature review was conducted to identify best practises to achieve learning, attitude, and behaviour change among elementary school children in Alberta. Based on the review, the toolkit identifies alignment with the Alberta curriculum, incorporates learning activities for kinesthetic, auditory, visual, and social learners, and uses fun, inquiry-based learning activities.²