List of Curricula

CURRICULA AND TEACHERS GUIDES:

Bringing labor into the K-12 curriculum
California Federation of Teachers
A 12-page listing of resources.
Contact: California Federation of Teachers, Labor in the Schools Committee CFT, One Kaiser Plaza, suite 1440, Oakland, CA 94612, (510) 832-8812, email: cftoakland@igc.org or order on-line at: http://www.cft.org/about/comm/labor/RG02.pdf

From forge to fast food: A history of child labor in New York state, volumes I & II
Greene, J.W. for the New York Labor Legacy Project, 1995.
This teacher's guide is intended for seventh and eighth grade courses in U.S. and New York State histories. The first volume covers the colonial period, slavery, apprenticeship, household production in the 18th century, the industrial revolution, urban manufacturing and sweatshops. The second volume covers the period from the Civil War to the present.
Contact: Stephen Schechter, Council for Citizenship Education, Russell Sage College Troy, NY 12180, (518) 270-2363

Health and safety awareness for working teens
University of Washington, 1999.
The hands-on and fast-paced lessons enable students to be proactive in evaluating and resolving workplace health and safety issues through role-playing exercises and games.
Contact: HERE Program at the University of Washington, 4225 Roosevelt Way NE #100, Seattle, WA 98105-6099, (206) 616-2643 or order on-line at: http://depts.washington.edu/worksafe/

Occupational Health Awareness
New Jersey State Department of Health and Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences Institute, 1990.
This curriculum, for vocational and industrial arts students, focuses on recognizing, eliminating and controlling health and safety hazards on the job; use, storage and disposal of hazardous substances in the workplace; planning for emergency response; and employees' rights and responsibilities. Teaching techniques include problem solving, role play and hands-on experiences. (Includes 54 hazard recognition slides depicting students in a variety of vocational areas.)
Contact: Resource Center of EOHSI, 170 Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854, (732) 445-0110 or order on-line at: http://www.eohsi.rutgers.edu/rc/

Occupational safety and health program: Individual study guide
Oklahoma Department of Labor and Oklahoma Department of VoTech Education, 1994.
This study guide presents a process for worker safety education following a management model developed by OSHA. Explains four managerial elements of a safety and health program and how they can be adapted to the individual work site.
Contact: Curriculum and Instructional Materials Education, Oklahoma Department of VoTech Education, 1500 W. Seventh Avenue, Stillwater, OK 74074-4364, (800) 654-4502 or order on-line at: http://www.state.ok.us/~okdol/wspc/index.htm

Safe jobs for youth: A theme-based curriculum unit for high school students.
UCLA Labor Occupational Safety and Health Program, 2000.
This 10 class/ 2 week curriculum is designed to give young people information and skills on workplace safety and health. This material uses interactive, student-centered activities. The lesson plans cover a variety of topics including: child labor law information, job safety hazards and solutions, handling sexual harassment on the job, workers' compensation for working teens. It is designed for the 9th grade, but is also very appropriate for 10-12 grade students. Includes the 12-minute video, Your Work-Keepin’ It Safe, which covers safety and health hazards in fast food, construction, and grocery stores and shows teens teaching teens. The video can also be ordered separately.
Contact: UCLA-LOSH Program, Hershey Hall, Box 951478, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1478, (310) 794-5964. Available to view or download on-line at: http://www.losh.ucla.edu/

Safe Jobs, Safe Youth: a teacher’s resource kit
California Young Worker Resource Network, 2000.
This packet includes a plan for teaching students about basic safety and legal rights on the job, a short interactive activity that offers an introduction to the many health and safety issues that employment raises for youth, a Safe Jobs for Youth poster, a copy of ‘Are you a Working Teen?’ pamphlet, stickers and an order form for requesting further working teen resources.
Contact: LOHP, University of California at Berkeley, 2223 Fulton St., Berkeley, CA 94720-5120,
(510) 642-5507 or download at: http://www.youngworkers.org/

Safe work/Safe workers: A guide for teaching high school students about occupational safety and health
Massachusetts Department of Public Health & Education Development Center, rev. 2001
This 3-hour curriculum uses interactive activities to teach teens about work-place hazards, effective strategies to prevent occupational illnesses and injuries, their rights on the job, and the resources available to assist them. Includes a 13-minute video entitled Teens: The Hazards We Face in the Workplace, which uses interviews by teens of other teens who were injured at work.
Contact: Children’s Safety Network, EDC, 55 Chapel Street, Newton, MA 02458, (617) 618-2207

Starting safely: teaching youth about workplace safety and health
Workplace Development Center, 2000
This teacher’s guide is designed to teach high school students the basic concepts of occupational health and safety and to raise their awareness about these issues. It uses a video and a series of interactive activities.
Contact: Lynne Lamstein, Maine Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Standards, 45 State House Station, Augusta, ME 04333-0045, (207) 624-6400 or e-mail: lynne.c.lamstein@state.me.us

Teens, work, and safety-a curriculum for high school students
Labor Occupational Health Program, 1998
This occupational safety curriculum is designed for high school classes in academic subjects as well as in work experience and similar programs. It includes four self-contained units, designed to be incorporated into English, science and U.S. history courses.
Contact: LOHP, University of California at Berkeley, 2223 Fulton Street, 4th Floor, Berkeley, CA 94720-5120, (510) 642-5507 or order on-line at: http://www.lohp.org

Work safe! A health and safety curriculum for youth employment programs
Labor Occupational Health Program, 2000
This curriculum is designed to help job training programs teach their youth participants about job health and safety in a fun and interesting way. It consists of four learning activities and includes handouts and a copy of ‘Are you a working teen? Protect your health, know your rights’.
Contact: LOHP, University of California at Berkeley, 2223 Fulton Street, 4th floor, Berkeley, CA 94720-5120, (510) 642-5507

The working teenager: A teacher's guide for secondary education (2nd ed.)
New York Labor Legacy Project & Council for Citizenship Education, 1992
This teacher's guide consists of five lessons, covering workers' rights in the American federal system, laws governing the employment of minors, the prevailing wage rate, and unemployment benefits and workers' compensation.
Contact: Russell Sage College, Council for Citizenship Education, Troy, NY 12180, (518) 270-2363

Industry-specific curricula:

Lessons in farm safety, 2nd Edition
Farm Safety and Health Program, 2001.
This curriculum is designed to help increase awareness of farm safety and prevent injuries and deaths. Lessons include hazard recognition, safety around lawn mowers, helmets and car safety, PTO safety, manure pit hazards, preventing tractor rollovers, and grain hazards
Contact: Farm Safety and Health Program, Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, University of Minnesota, 1390 Eckles Ave, St. Paul MN 55108, (612) 624-7444 or e-mail: safety.umn.edu or order on-line at: http://safety.coafes.umn.edu/lessons

North American guidelines for children’s agricultural tasks: Professional Resource Manual/ Professional Training Module
National Children’s Center for Rural and Agricultural Health & Safety, 1999
This NIOSH-funded project presents developmentally-appropriate agricultural work guidelines to assist parents and other adults in assigning safe farm jobs for children aged 16 years and younger. The core content includes the identification of 62 jobs and job hazard analysis dealing with specific tasks that make up those jobs and the level of supervision required. "Best Practice" guidelines aimed at parents/employers, written in lay language, are bound separately.
Contact: National Children’s Center for Rural and Agricultural Health & Safety, Marshfield Clinic, 100 North Oak Ave., Marshfield, WI 54449
Available at Gempler’s by calling (800) 382-8473 or on-line at: http://www.nagcat.org/publications.htm

Play it Safe: The farm safety challenge game
New York Center for Agricultural Medicine and Health, 1995
This curriculum helps to reinforce farm safety practices in a fun, competitive atmosphere. Topics include machinery safety, chemical safety, animal handling, emergency management, personal protective equipment and other farm/rural health issues.
Contact: NYCAMH, One Atwell Road, Cooperstown, NY 13326, (607) 547-6023

Teens working in agriculture-an ESL curriculum for high school students
Labor Occupational Health Program, 1998
This curriculum covers basic agricultural health and safety concepts designed to be incorporated into high school intermediate level ESL classes in rural communities. Includes a video, ‘Teens Working in Agriculture.”
Contact: LOHP, University of California, 2223 Fulton Street, 4th Floor, Berkeley, CA 94720-5120, (510) 642-5507 or view on-line catalog at: http://www.lohp.org

Toxics on the job: protecting your health. A curriculum for teaching workers about toxics and tobacco
American Lung Association and the Labor Occupational Health Program, 1992
This curriculum is designed for vocational education instructors. It includes units for welders, machinists, auto repair workers, and construction workers, and a general handbook for students in other trades.
Contact: LOHP, University of California at Berkeley, 2223 Fulton Street, 4th Floor, Berkeley, CA 94720-5120, (510) 642-5507 or view on-line catalog at: http://www.lohp.org

TUG of WAR with GRAIN: A grain safety curriculum
Farm Safety 4 Just Kids, 1997
This curriculum, developed by Iowa State University, teaches middle and high school students to explore science and math applications while learning about an important farm safety issue, grain entrapment.
Contact: Farm Safety 4 Just Kids, 110 S. Chestnut Ave., PO Box 458, Earlham Iowa 50072, (800) 423-5437or (515) 758-2827 or order on-line at: http://www.fs4jk.org

Workplace safety with an emphasis on ergonomics as it relates to computers
University of Washington, 1998
The purpose of this curriculum is to introduce and study workplace safety with a focus on repetitive stress-related injuries that are related to computer usage.
Contact: HERE program, University of Washington, 4225 Roosevelt Way NE #100, Seattle, WA 98105-6099, (206) 616-2643