Good Health Starts at Home
Lesson Guide
Lead in Your Home
Segment Time / Full length program
  • 60 minutes to 90 minutes
Shorter program(s)
  • If you need to make the program shorter (ex. 30 minutes), you can go through slides 1-21 more thoroughly with the sugar packet exercise
  • If you need to make it even shorter, go through slides 1-12 without sugar packet exercise

Purpose / To educate the public on the health risks, screening guidelines, testing procedures, and prevention of childhood lead poisoning.
Learning
Objectives / Participants will accomplish the following:
  • KNOWLEDGE: Communicate the health risks of lead poisoning in infantsand young children
  • COMPREHENSION: Understand the sources of lead exposure, leadexposure mechanisms, screening guidelines for children, andtesting procedures for the home and consumer products
  • APPLICATION: Demonstrate lead-safe cleaning strategies in their own homes

Lesson
Materials /
  • Lesson Guide
  • Scripted PowerPoint presentation
  • Childhood Lead Poisoning Screening Questions (optional)
  • Help Yourself to a Healthy Home book

Participant
Materials /
  • Pre/Post Test
  • Evaluation
  • Pens/pencils/paper
  • Copy of PowerPoint slides
  • Childhood Lead Poisoning Screening Questions (optional)
  • Help Yourself to a Healthy Home book

Equipment /
  • Laptop
  • Projector
  • Extension cord and power strip (plus tape to secure cords)
  • Internet connection (to visit websites)

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Helpful
Websites / Please visit the following websites:
  • US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control:
  • US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA):
  • US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC):

REQUIRED
Materials /
  • Help Yourself to a Healthy Home (focus on lead poisoning chapter)

OPTIONALMaterials /
  • Protect Your Family From Lead in Your Home
  • Give Your Child the Chance of a Lifetime: Keep Your Child Lead-Safe
  • Renovate Right
  • Steps to Lead Safe Renovation, Repair, and Painting

OPTIONAL
Video / “Lead Away” – A Sesame Street production, introducing simple prevention strategies in the lighthearted educational (and musical!) style that appeals
to kids and parents. [Do note that the video depicts lead screenings
as venous, rather than capillary.] (15 minutes in length)

OPTIONAL
Demonstration / If the instructor has a relationship with a pediatric practice that uses the Lead Check II unit, he/she might invite a nurse to do an onsite lead screening, offering him/herself as the person to be tested.
Sample Demonstration Supplies / Some items to include:
  • Sugar substitute packets (one for each participant)
  • Tyvek suit, rubber gloves, painter’s hat, shoe covers, goggles, and N100 respirator for visual of personal protective equipment

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Preparing for the Lesson
Lead in Your Home
Preparing for this Lesson / This lesson guide assumes that an Extension educator will be the presenter. If another professional or co-presenter will be delivering the lesson,assure that the material has been reviewed and that the presenterunderstands that Extension is committed to delivering unbiased, research-based information.
Before the lesson:
Several weeks in advance—
  • If an alternate (other than Extension educator) professional will deliver the training, make those arrangements at least one month in advance, using Guest Speaker Confirmation Form
  • Invite a medical professional to demonstrate the Lead Check IIunit for screening, if desired and practicable
  • Identify training site
  • Determine training time
  • Publicize the training
  • Obtain copies of any desired materials
At least one week before the training—
  • Thoroughly familiarize yourself with the lesson guide and PowerPoint
  • Review Help Yourself to a Healthy Home
  • Preview the Sesame Street video and determine whether to include it with the presentation or to recommend it for further reinforcement
  • Make copies of any handouts you plan to use
  • Purchase and/or organize any demonstration items
  • Download the Sesame Street video to your computerif you plan to use it.
Day before the training—
  • Download all materials to laptop or jump drive
  • Assemble all equipment and materials
Day of the training—
  • Ready computer, projector, speakers, etc.
  • Tape down electrical cords
  • Organize participant materials and sign-in sheet

Instructor
Notes / Presenting the lesson
  • Encourage participants to ask questions and share comments throughout the presentation.
  • Share stories (anecdotal examples) asmuch as possible.
  • Emphasize the importance of prevention in lead poisoningand all healthy homes concepts.

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Training Agenda
Lead in Your Home
Segment / Time / Content / Materials/Notes
Sign-In and introductions / 10minutes /
  • Ensure that all participants sign in
  • Conduct class and self-introductions and/or “Get Acquainted” activity
/ Sign-in sheet
The Basics / 5minutes / What is lead, and why is itproblematic? / Slides 2-4
Lead Paint / 10-15minutes / The most common exposure to
lead is lead-based paint.
DEMONSTRATION ONE:
Between slides 7 and 8, provide each participant with aone-gram packet of sugar substitute. Ask them to sprinkle the contents on the floor or carpet.
This simulates two things:
  • The relative invisibility ofleaded paint DUST and how easy it would be to unknowingly inhale something this fine.
  • This one-gram amount, spread over 100 rooms, istwice the amount of leaddust that can poison a child.
DEMONSTRATION TWO (optional):
  • During slide 11, you may gothrough the EPA’s Danger Zone website or, alternatively,simply access the opening page and encourage the group to investigate on their own at a later date.
/ Slides 5-11
Sugar substitute packets; EPA Danger Zone Website
HealthRamifications ofLead Poisoning / 5-15
minutes /
  • The difference between leadpoisoning for adults/older children and infants/young children—one of the two most important parts of the presentation!
DEMONSTRATION (Optional):If a medical professional would bewilling to do the Lead Check IIscreening, it could be a powerful addition to the presentation. / Slides 12-16
Childhood LeadPoisoning ScreeningQuestions
Other Sources
of Lead andTesting / 5minutes / This is an excellent spot to includeanonymous case histories of individuals who were poisoned outside the “norm” of lead-basedpaint exposure. (Your state’s CLPP program may be willing to give you some examples.) / Slides 17-21
PreventionStrategies / 5minutes / The second of the two most important sections of the presentation; this is where the instructor re-emphasizes the preventive nature of lead poisoning—even in a pre-1978 home. / Slide 22
EPA Publication:
Protect Your Family from Lead in YourHome
Renovation/Remodeling / 10
minutes / Information for homeowners who need to hire a lead-safe firm or for DIYers.
DEMONSTRATION:
At slide #24, demonstrate personal protective equipment for DIYers. / Slides 23-27
EPA publications:
  • Renovate Right
  • Steps to Lead-SafeRenovation, Repair,and Painting

Review quiz/AdditionalResources: / 5-20minutes / Also, take significant time tomention the CLPP program (ifit exists) in your home state.
OPTIONAL:
Using the Sesame Street video would be an appropriate capstone,but it would add 15 minutes tothe workshop time. / Slides 28-32
Sesame Street video(Optional)
Evaluation / 5minutes / Administer pre/post testand workshop evaluation(Recommend printing formsback to back) / Pre/post testandEvaluation Form(s)

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Childhood Lead Poisoning Screening Questions

  1. Does your child live in or regularly visit a house built before 1950? (May include day care center, babysitter, or relative’s home)
  2. Does your child live in or regularly visit a house built before 1978 with recent, ongoing, or planned renovations or remodeling?
  3. Does your child have a sibling or playmate that has—or did have—lead poisoning?
  4. Does your child frequently come in contact with an adult who works with lead?
  5. Does your home contain any plastic or vinyl mini blinds?
  6. Have you ever been told that your child has low iron?
  7. Have you seen your child eating paint chips, crayons, and soil?
  8. Does your child live or visit with someone who lives near a lead smelter, battery recycling plant, or other industry that could release lead?
  9. Do you give your child any home or folk remedies that may contain lead?
  10. Does your child live within 80 feet (or one block) of a heavily traveled road or street?
  11. Does your home’s plumbing have lead pipes or copper pipes with lead joints?
  12. Does your family use pottery ware or leaded crystal for cooking, eating, drinking?

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GuestSpeaker Confirmation Form

Lead in Your Home

Speaker:
Presentation date andtime:
Location:
Location directions:
# and background ofanticipated participants:
Equipment: / Please specify any equipment or other needs that youmay require. Submit this information to the workshop coordinator at least one week in advance of the presentation.
Contact Information forthe workshopcoordinator:

Thank you for agreeing to share your expertise on lead poisoning prevention!

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