1. Watch the video above to understand what to do. You may find it is helpful to turn on the closed captions (CC) feature.
2. Go to the and click on and read about strategies to keep children safe in outdoor settings that are shared in each of the four elements of the S.A.F.E. Framework for Playground Safety. These four elements are:
   • S = Supervision
   • A = Appropriate Environments
   • F = Fall Surfacing
   • E = Equipment Maintenance
3. Create an initial post that is 100-250 words in length to answer the following four questions:
   • How you will apply one strategy you learned about from each of the four elements of the S.A.F.E. acronym to ensure playground safety for the children in your care?
   • What specific examples from the pages of the helped you to select these strategies?
   • What ecological system(s) of Bronfenbrenners Ecological Systems Theory is/are affected in the strategies that you selected from each of the four elements of the S.A.F.E. acronym? Provide specific examples from Bronfenbrenners Ecological Systems Theory to demonstrate why you selected the specific ecological system(s). Use the information in section 2 of the (Best Start Resource Centre, 2015).
   • How do each of your strategies address the needs of the whole child?
4. Write your initial post using the
5. Use the free to automatically double-check your spelling, grammar, punctuation, usage, and spacing.
6. Use the to maintain Academic Voice.
7. Use at least one paraphrased in-text citation formatted in APA 7th style to support your claims.
8. Include an APA-formatted Reference list for only the authors you actually named in the in-text citations. Put this Reference list at the end of your post.
9. Submit your initial post by 11:59 PM (Pacific) on Friday.