3 To Burn
Grade Levels : K-1
Lesson Objective
Primary Subject/Skills
Resources
Preparation
Suggested Procedure
Lesson
Objective:
Students learn what makes fires burn so they can help adults
spot potential fire situations.
Primary
Subject/Skills:
Science ( the fire triangle), English Language Arts (vocabulary),
Cause and Effect
Resources
• Stop, Drop &
Roll section of the Command Center
• Home Hazard Hunt
game
Preparation:
Discuss and practice Stop, Drop & Roll
Suggested
Procedure:
This activity presents the Fire Triangle – the three
things a fire needs to start and burn. If your class has learned
the Stop, Drop & Roll technique, they have already found
out that fires can be stopped when the oxygen (air) is taken
away (smothering the flames).
Explain that there are three things needed for a fire to happen.
Tell the class you are going to create a fire triangle. Prepare
sets of three equal lengths of light colored construction
paper (each about 8-10 inches long and 2 inches wide). Give
each student a set of three and tell them to lay the strips
down so they form a triangle shape. Show them how to do this.
(The ends should be touching).
Next, instruct them to draw a picture or copy letters onto
each strip that represents the following elements:
1. FUEL: Something to burn: Wood, clothing, paper
2. OXYGEN: The air for the fire to “breathe” and
grow
3. HEAT: Something hot or already burning such as a candle,
match or flame
Depending on the skill levels of your students, you may want
to give them cards with pictures or words that they can paste
onto their triangle strips. Using the completed triangles
as reference talk about the three things you need to start
a fire. You can write the three words on a board as headers
and then build lists of different kinds of fuel and heat sources.
Now explain that there are three ways to stop
a fire.
1. Take away the oxygen. Use the example of
Stop, Drop & Roll.
2. Cool the heat, as people do when they pour
water or spray foam on a fire. This also cuts off some of
the oxygen.
3. Remove the fuel. This happens in forest
fires when the fire has become too big to stop by smothering
it or cooling it. Forest firefighters sometimes have to cut
down trees in front of the fire so it will have nothing to
burn.
Tell students to remove any one side of their
triangles. Ask for volunteers to tell you how they stopped
the fire by telling what happened when they removed a specific
leg of the triangle.
(“I took away the oxygen.” “I cooled the
heat.”)
Come back to this lesson
periodically over the semester to reinforce the message.
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