Teaching Themes
Fire Safety Resource Center: Everything You Need
Teach valuable lessons about fire hazards, fire safety, and fire prevention using these standards-based lessons and printables.
Which Fire Do We Fight?
Grades: 6–8
Using critical thinking, students participate in a model of the decision-making used by firefighters. Students evaluate criteria to determine how to use resources and manpower, and how to prioritize fighting a group of wildfires.
Fire Safety
Grades: Early Childhood, PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5
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 Fire Safety Resource CenterGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5 Lessons, printables, and online activities for grades PreK-5 |
 Listen and Read Activities Meet a Firefighter: A Community Club ActivityGrades: 1–2 What happens when the fire alarm rings? Early readers find out by reading along as a firefighter narrates this illustrated read-aloud book. |
 Wildfire Search!Grades: 6–8 Students use information gained through a "Wildfire Search" to develop a bulletin board wildlife chart. |
 Have Two Ways Out!Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5 Interactive games and student activities about fire safety |
 Blog Posts Fire Safety With Smokey, Sparky, and Sesame StreetGrades: PreK–K Talk about fire safety with your students with Smokey Bear, Sparky the Fire Dog, and the Sesame Street muppets' assistance. |
 Wildfires: Reporters on the SceneGrades: 6–8 Students conduct an online search to learn more about both wildfires and newspaper reporting. |
 Fire-Safety PuppiesGrades: PreK–K, 1–2 Learn what items are safe to touch during a fire with some of Clifford's close friends. |
 Help Sparky Get Out and Stay OutGrades: 1–2, 3–5 Help Sparky follow the escape plan and get safely to the family meeting place in this activity. |
 Smoke Jumper's DiaryGrades: 6–8 Students will research smoke jumpers and work together on an creative writing piece that demonstrates their new-found knowledge. |
Summer Safety Activity: Firefighter FriendsGrades: PreK–K Children become familiar with firefighters and their equipment while developing observational and social skills. |
Summer Safety Activity: Stop, Drop, and Roll!Grades: PreK–K Students practice fire safety measures, such as stop, drop, and roll, to further develop gross motor and listening skills in the process. |
Articles Teaching Fire SafetyGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5 Keep your students out of harm's way with these tips. |
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Book Resources, Lesson Plans Books for Teaching Fire SafetyGrades: 1–2 Teach about fire safety with some of these books from the Teacher Store. |
Collections Smoke Alarms: A Sound You Can Live WithGrades: PreK–K, 1–2 Teach kids about fire safety by having them create a fire safety plan to help them develop an understanding of important objects. |
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Writing Activities, Book Resources, Lesson Plans Let's Learn About Fire Safety!Grades: PreK–K, 1–2 Use this lesson to teach about fire safety, using the book Clifford the Firehouse Dog in your lesson plan. Kids make their own Clifford... |
Writing Activities, Book Resources, Lesson Plans Let's Learn About Firefighters!Grades: 1–2 Use this lesson to help you teach about fire safety and fire prevention through reading, writing, and brain storming sessions. |
Fire Safety Books for PreK-KGrades: PreK–K Allie Magnuson, a Scholastic teacher adviser, suggests fire safety books for PreK-K students. |
Sparky's Comic MakerGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5 Make your very own comic strip, where YOU decide what happens to Sparky and the Space Dogs. |
Seek and Find in the Natural History MuseumGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5 Can you help Sparky the Fire Dog and his friends find some important and silly items at the Natural History Museum? |
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