40/45 minutes
Possible activity 1:
Watch the first Napo clip provided with this lesson: Risks to Skin
Protect Your Skin – introduction and an edited selection of scenes.
Danger, Chemicals – Corrosive and Irritant scenes
Discussion about our skin and how it is vulnerable to damage. Extend the discussion to heat, cold, sun damage and chemicals, including detergents. Consider other dangers such as insects, plants that can cause skin-irritation (e.g. nettles) etc. Consider ways we can protect our skin.
Organise a game where the children should discover what could be danger- ous to the skin in their outdoor and indoor environment (e.g. the children have to investigate if there are some plants that cause skin-irritation, spine- bushes or insects that sting).
Possible activity 2:
Draw round their hands on a piece of plain paper; in each finger write a way to protect your skin from risk, such as wear gloves, don’t touch, apply sun cream and wear a hat (to protect from the sun).
EXTENSION WORK-Napo’s Hazard Holiday
Write or act out a story about when Napo goes on a holiday and learns about the risks to his body with specific reference to the skin.
This could include:
- Sunbathing without cream
- Getting bitten by a jelly fish
- Changing the oil in his car
