Outdoor Safety provides information, tips, activities, and guides to help kids and teens learn about being safe during outdoor activities.
Sites listed in this category offer information on swimming, boating, hiking, and camping safety; sunburn, insect bites, and pool safety; avoiding frostbite and hypothermia; and safe encounters with wildlife.
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- Lids On Kids Talks about helmet safety and answers questions about helmet use while skiing and snowboarding. Includes games and puzzles, articles, and information about how to get started in snow sports.
- How to Be Safe When You're in the Sun Learn about safety in the heat and sun. Includes how sunburns happen, what SPF means, drinking enough water, and heat exhaustion.
- Camping and Woods Safety Learn how to have a safe camping trip. Includes packing tips, bugs and poison ivy, campfires, wild animals, and what to do if you get lost.
- Keeping Your Cool in the Cold and Snow Find out how to protect yourself from cold-weather hazards. TeensHealth article includes frostbite, hypothermia, and carbon monoxide poisoning.
- Camping Basics TeensHealth offers survival tips and camping necessities. Includes what to pack, what to wear, and keeping the campsite safe.