The Autism Helper presents an instructional unit teaching children to recognize emergencies, decide when to call 911, and practice making the call. It includes card games, worksheets, writing activities, sorting tasks, laminated reference tools, and five role-play scripts for students and parents to practice together.
Product preview of my All About Emergencies unit for early childhood or special education. I'm so excited about this unit because I think this is such a critical life skill that we sometimes forget about— forget to teach our kids what to do in an emergency, how to call 911, and how to discriminate what's actually an emergency. While some kids might pick up on these things indirectly, our kids in special education really need to be taught these things directly in a way that's understandable to them and visual. So I tried to make this unit as visual as I could and really structured but still fun so that they can learn about emergencies and be able to apply these ideas in the real-life setting. So included in this set is an Emergency or Not card game. Here's a label for the baggie. I'm going to laminate these cards and cut them out, and then you could even use these as a center if you wanted and circle these emergency or not emergencies with a dry erase marker, but we're gonna do it as a card game. So there's a ton of different examples, and then emergency or not an emergency. So my kids love playing turn-taking games, so I think this will fit right into a regular structure and will also provide a nice discussion base for what is an emergency and what isn't, all different kinds of scenarios. Um, next are some visual fill-in worksheets, um, so kind of matching situations to emergency or not an emergency. Um, even with my kids that have a lot of language, I still like including some visuals to kind of give the idea a little bit more clearly. So 2 of those and then some just written, cert— emergency or not an emergency with some more descriptive scenario options. So I like using a lot of different exemplars to really teach our kids that there's a lot of different scenarios and kind of show where that line is of what is an emergency and what isn't. And next are 10 different writing activities that all have a different scenario and then some space to write what you should do. So I'm gonna use these in my classroom as discussions and then we will write after that or maybe do a writing activity as a whole class. So you can make these as independent or as teacher-directed as you'd like on the 10 different scenarios. And then there are 4 different sorting activities. I'm gonna do these as cut and paste, but you could also laminate to make a reusable set. So different little scenarios to sort emergency versus non-emergency. So again, as many ways to distinguish between this kind of tricky concept of what exactly an emergency qualifies. Then there are 6 different learning tools. I'm planning on laminating, binding these, and having them as a reference when we talk about emergencies and kind of our like textbook to this little unit. So here's a definition of the emergency, what you should do, and kind of prefacing too if no one's around or if you don't have a phone, because we know our kids can't imply always those next steps. So really teaching that very directly. The different helpers in case of an emergency, so people they can go to, when to call 911, so really stressing that whole discrimination point, and what to do if you don't know if it's an emergency. You know, parents teach their young kids that if you're not sure, to call 911 just in case. And then the steps to call 911. So I think this is really critical. This would be a great thing to give parents to post in their house to really give that structured step-by-step on how to call 911. And then the 911 roleplays. I'm really excited about these. I think roleplay is a really great way to show our kids exactly what to do and see it in real life. So here are the 911 rules and to really clarify that these are pretend scenarios. So I think I'm gonna send these to my parents as well to post. So never call 911 as a joke, only do it in an emergency, things like that. And then there are 5 different roleplays of someone can be the 911 operator and someone can be the caller and different scenarios as well. And that is it. Again, I think I'm really, really excited about this unit because I think this is something that really needs to be directly taught to all of our children so it can be a critical life skill for later in life. This is a product preview of All About Emergencies by theautismhelper.com.
