Risk Watch is an injury prevention program targeting children from preschool to eighth grade. It was created to help children and families create safer homes by teaching the knowledge and skills they need in order to make safe and positive choices about their well-being. Risk Watch wants to prevent the unintentional injuries that endanger children.

Children will learn about motor vehicle safety; fire and burn prevention; choking, suffocation and strangulation prevention; poisoning prevention; firearms injury prevention; bike and pedestrian safety; and water safety. Children can learn to be safer by being provided education and by being motivated and supported by the teachers and caring adults in the community.

Risk Watch is the first comprehensive injury prevention course accessible and available to be used in schools. This program was developed by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) and Lowe's Home Safety Council. Risk Watch has been successfully implemented in the United States and Canada. There are five teaching modules that have lessons directed toward the eight risk areas that cause the greatest number of injuries and deaths of children each year. Each module has been designed so that each unit may be taught by itself or may be integrated into a school's core curriculum subjects. For example, Risk Watch could be integrated into health, language arts, or physical education.

The best part of Risk Watch is that it is fun! The modules not only educate the children, but encourage them to use their imagination. Children practice making safer daily choices, and to resist falling to peer pressure which can steer them toward taking unsafe chances.

Throughout the curriculum, the teachers have the opportunity to call in local experts to strengthen the lessons the children are learning in the classroom. These experts provide a "real world" perspective for the students.

Each Risk Watch module has a set of warm-up exercises and suggestions to allow the students to get into character roles that were designed for each age group.

Preschoolers and kindergartners have the character role of storytellers. They share their experiences while they learn new injury prevention skills. Grades 1-2 become detectives. They explore the relationship between cause and effect, and how it applies to making safe decisions. When a student reaches Grades 3-4, their role turns to a reporter. They apply critical-thinking skills to examine situations and forewarn others of potential risks. Students in Grades 5-6 are promoters, and need to use advanced communication skills to research and "market" practices that encourage injury prevention to their family members, community, and peers. The last module, for Grades 7-8, students become coaches. These students become role models and proponents for safety in their own community.