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Ouch, a Broken Leg!

Learning values
• Learning about health and safety
• Exploring roles within a hospital
• Expressing feelings about being injured
• Showing empathy for a friend who is injured

Recommended materials
• 9209 Community Services Set

Vocabulary
Encourage the use of these words during the activity:
• Hospital
• Doctor
• Nurse
• Ambulance
• Wheelchair
• Cast
• Crutches
• Accident
• Injury

Connect
• Ask the children to remember their last visit to the doctor. What did the
doctor and nurse say and do? Have children share with a friend one
action the doctor or nurse performed on their last visit.

• Facilitate a discussion about hospitals. Ask the children if they have ever Use the illustration to support
the Connect story
seen a hospital or been inside one. If so, what was it like? Who goes to
hospitals? Who works in hospitals? Encourage children to think about all
the different responsibilities of doctors and nurses.
Use the illustration to support
the Connect story
• Tell the children about a character named Mrs. O’Neil. She was on her
way to the library to find a book she really wanted to read. She was in a
hurry because the library was closing in 15 minutes. Mrs. O’Neil began to
cross the road but was in such a rush that she did not look both ways.
A car ran right into her! The driver of the car called emergency services
immediately and the medics told Mrs. O’Neil she would be alright, but
probably had a broken leg and needed to go to the hospital.

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Construct
• Have the children create and build a scene where Mrs. O’Neil is being
taken to the hospital in an ambulance and examined by a doctor and Check for evidence
nurses. Share the scene with friends. of learning
Have the children:

• Name or demonstrate one

or more actions performed
by doctors and nurses.

• Describe or show one or

more reasons a person
would go to the hospital.

• Demonstrate or describe
one or more emotions
related to a person being
injured.

Suggested model solution

Contemplate
• Ask the children how they think Mrs. O’Neil felt when she got hit by the
car. Encourage them to use vocabulary to describe her emotions and
thoughts. How did she feel once the doctor and nurses made her feel
comfortable?

• Talk about the healing process. What will Mrs. O’Neil need to help her
move around if her leg is in a cast? What could be some problems she
will have while her leg is healing? Encourage the children to think of
solutions to these problems.

• Discuss the role of doctors and nurses. What tools do they need for
their jobs? Depending on the responses, discuss items like x-rays,
stethoscopes, bandages, etc. What kind of information do doctors and
nurses need to know? Why do we need them in our community?

Continue
• Discuss other reasons someone might need to go or stay in a hospital.
Create a different scene where someone needs an ambulance to take
them to the hospital.

• Sometimes people stay in hospitals for a long time. It becomes a second

home to them. Have the children brainstorm ways to make a hospital a
fun and happy place to stay and build these solutions.

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