Who Helps?
Grade Levels : K-2
Lesson Objective
Primary Subjects/Skills
Resources
Suggested Procedure
Additional Activity
Take-Home Activity
Lesson
Objective:
Help students identify roles and jobs in the community as
they learn that many people can take a role in fire prevention
and safety.
Primary
Subjects/Skills:
Social Studies (roles and jobs of people in the community);
English Language Arts (oral presentation); Art (creating a
display); Critical Thinking, Problem-Solving
Resources:
• Stop Drop &
Roll section of the Command Center
• 911 Emergency!
section of the Command Center
• 911
Download (for the take-home activity)
Suggested
Procedure:
Give students magazines, newspapers and brochures that contain
pictures of people who have different jobs and professions
in the community. Ask them to find and cut out (help younger
students with this task) pictures you can use for a "Gallery
of Helpers." The gallery should include firefighters,
doctors, dentists, telephone operators, business people, scientists,
city planners and builders who build homes with materials
that resist fires, people who work in stores or shops. Students
can also draw pictures of these various people. The objective
is to help students learn that ANYONE can be involved with
a fire. Post the pictures on a wall or board, under a headline
such as "Gallery of Helpers," or "Who Can Help."
Explain that certain people are more likely than others to
be involved in fire-related situations. Ask students for suggestions:
firefighters, doctors, emergency operators, etc. Then talk
about the importance of adults in general in a fire situation.
They should be informed of dangerous situations immediately.
What can your students do? They can also play a part by learning
to call 9-1-1, telling adults when there is a dangerous situation
and learning how to Stop, Drop & Roll so they can do it
and help others.
Additional
Activity
Reinforce the message that many different people can help
in a fire with a role-play activity. Assign students to play
different "members" of the gallery. Give them a
few minutes to think about how one person may help another
in a fire situation. Pick four of five at a time to act out
a brief scenario. You set the scene. Here are two suggestions:
1) A child may see a house on fire.
The child could call a telephone
operator who would call the firefighter
to help put out the fire.
2) A firefighter teaches a child to Stop, Drop & Roll
The child is at a family barbecue. The mother (or father)
is a business person or a medical
professional. The parent’s sleeve catches on
fire when they get too close to the hot coals. The child yells
for the parent to Stop, Drop & Roll.
Take-Home
Activity
Talk about how 9-1-1 operators help when there is a fire by
sending firefighters to the fire location. Tell students that
the operators need their help to do their job. Students should
know how to call and give the right information so the operator
can tell firefighters where they have to go. Have students
look at the 911 Emergency!
section of the Command Center and go through the call. Give
them a copy of the Emergency Info card to take home and complete.
Encourage them to also go through the 911
Emergency! page with parents.
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