CCMEC02.4 SAFETY IN THE AG SHOP, Ag Mechanics Curriculum

TL;DR: Safety isn’t just a rule — it’s a culture. And this lesson makes it stick.

Some safety lessons feel like a checklist. This one builds a mindset.

Your students will:

• See how a single lapse in focus can have lifelong consequences.

• Spot hazards before they become dangers.

• Learn the “language of safety” through color codes, PPE, and OSHA basics.

• Understand why safety rules exist — not just memorize them.

Best of all, you’ll start the semester with a clear safety-first culture that makes the rest of your year smoother, calmer, and less accident-prone.

What’s Inside

1. Interactive Interest Approach — “Never Have I Ever…”
Kick things off with a discussion-based bellringer that gets students actively thinking about hazards and safe practices. It’s the perfect bridge into your full safety lesson.

2. Complete Safety Lesson
Step-by-step talking points + slideshow cover:

• Human error and how to avoid it

• Hazard vs. danger (and why it matters)

• Common shop hazards and how to prevent them

• Safety color codes

• PPE: your shop “armor”

• OSHA standards in the shop

• Shop safety checklist

• Building a safety culture

3. Skill Application Activity — “Safety Meme Mania”
Students design their own shop safety memes and signs — the kind that actually get noticed. They’ll take ownership in the rules while giving your shop safety reminders that don’t fade into the background.

4. Shop Safety Student Contract
Wrap it up with a ready-to-use contract your students sign to acknowledge the rules. Use it as-is or customize it to match your exact shop policies.

Why You’ll Love It

• Covers required safety content without feeling like a lecture

• Encourages discussion and ownership of safety practices

• Keeps students engaged from the first minute to the final slide

• Leaves you time to retest students who need a safety retake — without losing momentum

• Gives you a documented record that every student has reviewed and agreed to your safety expectations

What's in those PDF & PPT downloads?

• Lesson Overview. A one-page summary with your Learning Objective, Materials List, and Essential Question
• Stuff to Make Your Admin Happy. Check the boxes with Standards Alignment, Contextual Vocabulary, Learning Targets, etc.
• Teacher's Resource. An outline with talking points and slide views for teaching the lesson and step-by-step guides for implementing the activities.
• Slideshow and Guided Notes. All the essential lesson information in easy-to-follow chunks and matching fill-in-the-blank student notes which make it easy for the students to review before the test/quiz.
• Lesson Assessment. A written exam that uses the same language as the student notes. It has several sections with different response types. You can even use the Matching and True/False sections as a Pre-Test and the Multiple Choice and Short Essay as the Post-Test.
• Student Instructions and Information Handouts for Activities. Our student pages are so simply to follow that you may not even need the Instructor's Guide. We also include reflection or analysis questions for when they finish.
• Answer Keys for Everything. Personal Pet Peeve - when I would have to make my own answer key for a resource. So we even include Suggested Responses for short essay questions that could have variable answers from students.
• Grading Rubric. Giving feedback and evaluating projects is so much faster (and less subjective) with a rubric for that specific activity. You can even let students self-evaluate.
• Spanish Version. If you have ESL students, they can participate in the lesson better with our student handouts in Spanish. All the notes, activity handouts, and written assessment are in Spanish. We include answer keys in Spanish as well (when we say "answer keys for everything" we mean everything).
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