Public Safety

Learning Objects

Dive into Wisc-Online’s rich collection of learning objects — bite-sized, interactive, and designed for real learning. These modular digital tools include animations, drag-and-drop exercises, quizzes, videos, and more. You can explore topics across STEM, arts, humanities, career skills, and beyond. Each learning object is crafted to help learners actively engage with content—reviewing, applying, self-checking—in a way that’s flexible and self-paced.

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Alcohol and the Job
Learners evaluate and respond to excuses for not reporting alcohol-related behavior they have observed on the job. This activity has audio content.
Choosing the Right Fire Extinguisher
Explore the different types of fires and the extinguishers used for each type.
Clothing and Safety Equipment for the Machine Shop
This document lists the safety equipment to be used in the machine shop.
Collecting Biological Evidence
Explore how to collect a fresh or dry blood specimen and prepare it for the crime lab.
Collection of Entomological Evidence
Learners view the scene of a suspicious death and select the evidence that needs to be collected.
Main Category
Marketing & Sales
Collection of Entomological Evidence Test
A crime scene photo for determination of time since death. The student will need to collect the evidence into the correct item.
Directionality and Amount of Broken Glass (Screencast)
Visualizes direction and quantity of glass particles as the glass is impacted by a force.
Dusting for Fingerprints
Discover how to select the correct fingerprint powder, the proper dusting and collecting techniques, and how to fill out an evidence card.
Forensic Lamp Examination (Screencast)
This learning object is designed to assist students in understanding and interpreting collision evidence found in automotive lamps. In particular, the concepts of Hot Shock, Cold Shock, Hot Break, and Cold Break will be visually addressed.
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Formation of Radial and Concentric Fractures in Glass (Screencast)
in this screencast, learners examine the formation of radial and concentric fractures as an object breaks a pane of glass.
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GTAW Defects and Discontinuities
In this activity, we'll examine some common discontinuities associated with GTAW welding and review ways to prevent these problems from happening.
General Machine Safety Considerations
This text document lists 27 safety items to consider in a machine shop.
General Safety - Ears and Face
In this learning activity you'll review the safety equipment used to protect a worker's face and ears.
General Shop Safety - Hazardous Materials Safety (SDS)
In this learning activity you'll review the hazardous materials safety document which display an example of a SDS or MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheet).
General Shop Safety - Housekeeping
In this learning object you'll view a list of ways to keep the area around the machine shop safe.
General Shop Safety - Rigging & Lifting
In this learning activity you'll review rigging and lifting as well as signals for crane movement.
General Shop Safety - Safety Rules
This document provides a list of shop safety rules.
General Shop Safety Test
This general shop safety test assesses the student's knowledge of acceptable safety practices associated with the machine shop.
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Ground Fault Circuit Interrupters (Screencast)
In this animated activity, learners examine how ground fault circuit interrupters work and why they are an important safety feature.
Main Category
Construction
Introduction to Safety in the Chemistry Lab (Video)
Learners read about lab equipment and basic safety measures. In a quiz, they view photos and determine if the lab technicians pictured are using safe practices.
Ladder Safety and Fall Protection
Explore how to prevent injuries caused by falling from ladders or elevated heights by looking at the parts of a ladder, ladder safety rules, and personal fall protection systems.
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Lathe Safety
In this document you'll review lathe safety rules.
Lathe Safety - Review
The student takes a quiz on lathe safety.
Protected Classes
In this activity, you'll identify what constitutes harassment and discrimination of a protected class member.
Seatbelt Evidence
This Learning Object is designed to identify the various components of a vehicle's seatbelt system, and to show evidence of seatbelt use following a collision.
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Sequencing Impacts Using Radial and Concentric Fractures (Screencast)
Learners examine radial and concentric fractures in glass to determine the sequence of the impacts.
Spatter Drop Dynamics on Impact (Screencast)
In this screencast, the student will learn that regardless of the surface onto which a blood droplet is falling, the angle or velocity at which it does so, or the volume of the droplet, there are four distinct phases involved in the reaction of a moving droplet with impact against a surface.
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Stain Measurement & Calculating Angles of Impact (Screencast)
In this learning object the student will learn how to measure a stain and calculate angles of impact. Determining the angle of impact for bloodstains takes advantage of the trigonometric functions (Sine function).A mathematical relationship exists between the width and length of an elliptical bloodstain which allows for the calculation of the angle of the impact for the original spherical drop of blood.Given well formed stains we can accurately measure the width and length by simply dividing the stain along it’s major and minor axis. The opposite halves would be generally equal to each other which aids in establishing the impact angle.
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Summary of Bloodstain Evidence Documentation (Screencast)
This activity will summarize the bloodstain evidence documentation process.
Surface Tension of a Blood Drop (Screencast)
This screencast shows how blood droplets are held together by a strong cohesive molecular force that produces surface tension in each drop and on the external force. Surface tension pulls the surface molecules of a liquid toward its interior, decreasing the surface area and causing the liquid to resist penetration.
Treating Electrical Shock Victims
Explore the step-by-step procedures to rescue and care for electrical shock victims.
Understanding the Safety Data Sheet (SDS)
The learner will understand the structural organization of the SDS and be able to find pertinent safety information using the SDS.
Main Category
Construction
Using Fire Extinguishers
By the end of this learning activity, you’ll know how to understand, use, and maintain different types of fire extinguishers.
Using an Evidence Bag
Explore how to use an evidence bag including how to open it, place items inside, and seal it for the crime lab.
Main Category
Marketing & Sales
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