Did you know that between 1.7 and 3 million sports concussions happen each year? Around 300,000 of those are from football. What’s more, 2 in 10 high school athletes who play contact sports, including soccer and lacrosse, will get a concussion this year. In honor of Brain Injury Awareness Month, we want to highlight an interactive resource designed to help today’s students understand the importance of brain injury awareness: our Concussion Education Kit. Keep reading to learn how this new sports injury training kit can help you educate your students about the effects of concussions and how to treat and prevent them. You can even use it to facilitate a concussion simulation.
Meet our Concussion Education Kit
Open students’ eyes to the growing field of sports medicine with this ready-to-use kit. It includes a simulation that lets students experience the effects of a concussion, a poster set, a brain model and curriculum.
Make lessons “sticky” with concussion simulation stations
“Sticky” learning happens when students make connections that enable them to remember information for the long term. Research shows that active engagement helps with this. In the case of sports concussion education, what better way to make your lessons “stick” than by enabling students to safely experience a concussion for themselves? The tools that come with this program include Concussion Simulation Glasses, headphones and an mp3 player. When worn together, these components mimic common concussion symptoms such as double vision, ringing in the ears, loss of balance, confusion, dizziness and poor concentration.
Today’s Generation Z students learn best from experience. That’s why we made sure to include detailed facilitation instructions, plus a checklist and answer form, in the curriculum so you can create 10 concussion simulation stations:
- Interview a Classmate
- Poetry Reading and Review
- Math Time
- Writing Time
- Screen Time
- Play Catch!
- Walk The Line
- Power Nap.
- Workout
- Stand Up, Sit Down
This kit’s hidden gem: Standards-based lesson plans
Perhaps the best part of our Concussion Education Kit is the selection of lesson plans, presentation slides, student activities and assessments that accompany it. Aligned to National Athletic Trainers’ Association standards, the lessons contain about 6 hours of course content on traumatic brain injuries, concussion signs and symptoms and treatment and prevention.
Whether you’re reviewing concussion signs and symptoms or addressing treatment and prevention, you’ll find content, activities and hands-on resources for facilitating “sticky” lessons. Better yet, these lessons also meet standards of the CDC’s Heads Up program, the National Alliance for Youth Sports, the National Federation for High School Sports and the Brain Injury Association of America Crash Course.
Looking for more information on the curriculum that accompanies our Concussion Education Kit? Download a free lesson sample and curriculum overview to learn more.
Learn more
Looking for more resources on teaching lessons on sports concussions and related topics? Consider these:
- Learn more about Brain Injury Awareness Month and how you can participate by visiting Concussion.org
- Access free sports medicine career exploration lesson plans
- See the turnkey packages and hands-on learning aids we recommend for sports medicine programs
- Access a comprehensive guide about concussions in youth offered by Cordisco & Saile, LLC, here
