Name: Amy Winter & Erin Joyce
Date: April 26, 2009
Unit Topic: Safety and Prevention
Grade Level: second grade
Lesson Topic: Fire Safety
Lesson Objectives:
-The
students will know to call 9-1-1 9 in any type of emergency, especially fire.
-The
students will know that matches can cause fires and they shouldn’t play with
them.
-The
students will be able to talk to their families regarding issues on fire
safety.
Instructional
Techniques:
-Demonstration
-Travel Quest website, Question and answer website
Instructional
materials needed:
-Fire Engine Man by Andrea Zimmermann and David Clemesha
-Fire Fighters by Paulette Bourgeois
-Mats for the gymnasium
-glitter
-glue
-construction paper
-scissors
-markers
-computer/ lap tops will be given
out if the child doesn’t have one at home to borrow
Theoretical
Perspective:
This unit is important for student
s to grasp and learn because teachers are supposed to teach children how to
understand the importance of safety.
Children can experience a fire situation any day in their lives and they
need to be ready for any of these situations.
Procedure:
A.) Introduction Activity:
Children will gather on rug and have a discussion about what they already know about fire safety. Have the students sit in a circle and each student has to say one word that comes to mine when they think fire safety. After each student expresses their concerns read the books, Fire Engine Man by Andrea Zimmermann and David Clemesha and Fire Fighters by Paulette Bourgeois. This is an important opening activity because it teaches the children the importance of fire fighters.
B.) Outline of the Activity:
1.) Ask the students if they have ever seen smoke from a fire. Most students have seen smoke before in their lives from campfires. Ask students what they notice about the smoke they’ve seen. Usually the students will understand that smoke rises and eventually evaporates. Explain to students the smoke can really affect a person’s health if they inhale too much of the substance and that they should always be careful when around smoke. Read the two books about firefighters to acknowledge the idea of when there is smoke there is always a firefighter near by.
2.) Have students close their eyes and imagine that they are around smoke. Ask them what they should do. Students should be able to realize that they should be below the line of smoke. Lay several mats on the floor and have students get down on their hands and knees and begin to crawl. If the teacher pats a child on the back they are to “stop, drop and roll” because they’re on fire. Every child at some point in the simulation will be tapped on the shoulder. Explain this before they begin crawling so every child knows. Have students pretend that they are escaping from a fire and need to stay below the smoke line. Students need to crawl from one mat to the other until they reach the end of the gym or classroom by the door.
3.) Children need to understand
that if the door is closed
in this situation they need to feel the door and if they door is hot
you wont
be getting out that way. If the door is
hot there is a likely hood of fire being on the other side of the door. The child should then try and find the
nearest exit to a window. There will be
a new line of mats leading to a window.
Once each child gets to a window they have to scream, “Help, Fire” out
the window. Children should have
families know that they need to make escape routes and plan a place to meet
outside of their home. This could be a
neighbor’s front porch or a patch of grass across the street. The place to meet needs to be far away from
the burning house. If someone in the
family doesn’t meet at the meeting place it could help the firefighters know
that someone else is in the house.
4.) The students and children will have a discussion about what to do if they see a fire. The drill is to call “911” and have the firefighters come and rescue the house. Children should understand that you can’t play with matches because it could ultimately start a fire. When children go home and ask about escape routes with their families they should also ask about smoke detectors within the household.
C.)
Closure:
The students will go to their centers and begin a project that is based around the activity that they just previously learned. They will be making a Fire prevention rule book that looks like a book of matches. The paper will just have cut lines where the children need to cut in order to make it look like matches. The children will pick out five rules they have learned from the activity and write them horizontal on the different paper. On the bottom of the paper they will put glue circles and put red sparkles on the glue. The sparkles will represent what matches look like. This activity will show the teacher the important facts that children learned from the activity and will be a good source for children to look back to for safety tips.
D.) Adaptations:
If the gym isn’t acceptable you can always do this activity in your classroom also. If a child is unable to crawl on the floor for any reason you can make a map of the classroom and have them use their finger and go to the different exits. If a child needs help on the assessment for any reason you can offer help for that child. The child should at least be able to come up with two out of the five rules.
E.) Homework:
The homework is the fire safety question and answer web site. This is a fun way to have the students engaged in the activity that the learned in school and to remember the information. This way the students can have an engaging talk with their family about the issues on fire safety. The student needs to print out the last page of the website to make sure that they completed the whole test. The student has to hand in a note saying that the family was involved with the fire safety question website and that they looked at some of the websites provided for additional information that can be learned.
F.) Evaluation:
The teacher will understand if the students have learned the objectives by the closure part of this lesson. The teacher will also understand if they have met the objectives by the homework website that the children should do. Each group from the closure activity should get a minus, check, or check plus based on the information provided for each prevention rule they created. The test in this case for this lesson is finishing the website questionnaire at home.
G.) Concerns or questions:
1.) Will all students have access to computers or a lap top
2.) Will all the students engage in the activities?
3.) Will the parents engage in the website questionnaire?
4.) Will the students learn all of the objectives?