Year 1 – 2 | Spot SunSmart

Protecting My Skin full resource download  |  Concept 4: Keeping Your Skin Sun Safe download

Background

The purpose of the Spot SunSmart activity is to consolidate the key messages of being SunSmart and the five ways to
protect our skin from harmful UV rays. It also provides examples of Slip, Slop, Slap, Seek and Slide. The Spot SunSmart can
be used in two ways, part of a SunSmart learning centre or as an individual activity sheet.

Key messages

• There are five ways to protect your skin from UV radiation from the sun.
• Slip on a shirt, Slop on sunscreen, Slap on a hat, Seek shade and Slide on sunglasses.
• The sun produces 3 things, light that we can see, heat that we can feel and UV radiation that
  we cannot see or feel. It is invisible.
• Skin damage is caused by ultraviolet (UV) radiation, not temperature. A cool or overcast day can have similar UV levels
  to a warm, sunny day.
• UV and heat are not the same thing. We do not only need to use sun protection when it is hot. The UV Index can be 3 or
  above when it is cool and cloudy too.

Resources

• Resource sheet: Spot SunSmart (laminate colour version for durability/reusable)
• You’ve Gotta Be SunSmart by Jay Laga’aia song
• Glue
• Scissors

Instructions

Colour Version: Create a Learning Centre

1. Create a SunSmart Learning Centre for children to visit regularly throughout the day.
2. Include items such as, a mirror, SunSmart hats, sunscreen, QR codes to SunSmart videos, stories,
   adverts, SunSmart posters, brochures, diagrams and Spot SunSmart game.
3. Print colour version and cut out five ways to protect your skin cards. Laminate for durability and to
   create a reusable activity.
4. Students look carefully in the picture for examples of the children protecting themselves from the sun, such as
   the boy is playing in the shade. Place the matching card ‘Seek’ on that behaviour in the picture. Repeat until all
   cards have been placed on the picture.

Black and White Version: Find and Cover

1. Distribute Spot SunSmart worksheet.
2. Students cut along the dotted line and cut out the five ways to protect your skin cards.
3. Look carefully at the pictures and discuss what the children are doing to be SunSmart.
4. After discussing the different sun protection behaviours and examples, students glue the matching card onto
   the picture, such as the girls is wearing a broad-brimmed hat, glue the ‘slap’ card onto the picture.
5. Draw Sid the Seagull playing in the playground and colour in.

Key questions

• Why is it important to use sun protection?
• What does it mean to Slip, Slop, Slap, Seek and Slide? Can you give an example?
• What is the best way we can protect our skin?