The teaching resources include a presentation and a lesson plan with suggested individual and group activities. By the end of the lesson, your students will:

  1. understand what a foreign object is

  2. know how to recognise when someone has a foreign object in their eye, ear, or nose

  3. know how to help someone who has a foreign object in their eye, ear, or nose and when to take them to hospital.

Who can deliver this first aid lesson?

The lesson plans can be delivered by teachers, higher-level teaching assistants, school nurses and youth leaders who have a current first aid qualification. The first aid qualification must cover the topic you are teaching.

All the information from the resources can be found in the current edition of the First Aid Manual.

Teaching resources

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