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Grade Levels : K-2
Lesson Objective
Primary Subject/Skills
Resources
Suggested Procedure
Lesson
Objective:
Students use simple math calculations and word comprehension
skills as they identify safe and hazardous items.
Primary
Subject/Skills:
English Language Arts (word comprehension; knowing letters);
Math (counting; simple addition and subtraction); Problem-Solving
Resources:
• Helpers
and Hazards sheets
Suggested
Procedure:
Print out sheets. Paste the sheets on to cardboard and cut
out along the dotted lines to make cards. Show all the items
to students to make sure they know what they are and if they
are a helper or a hazard.
• Math Challenges
Set out six items including a mix of hazards and helpers.
Ask students to count the number of each.
What is the total number of cards?
Tell students to take away the hazards (or
helpers). How many cards are left?
For older students, set out all six helper
cards and ask students: How many are clothing items (2)? and
how many help put out fires (3)?
Set out all the hazards and ask students:
How many have flames? How many would you find outside the
home? Which ones would you find in the kitchen?
How many total hazards are there? If you took
away the hazards that had a flame how many would be left?
• Word Games
Set out all the helper cards. Can students name them? For
younger students: Which one starts with a B (boots), an H
(hat, hose, hydrant). For older students: Ask them to write
out the names of clothing items – boots and hat.
Set out the hazard cards. Have students select
the ones you might find on a holiday (firecracker, jack-o-lantern).
Ask students to name four things with a flame and two things
that are liquid.
• Which One Doesn’t Belong?
Set up cards in groups of three. Mix up Fire Hazards and Fire
Safe objects. Ask students to tell you which one doesn’t
belong and why. For younger students, you can make it as simple
as two fire hazards and one non-hazard, or vice versa. For
older students, you can make the choices harder by putting
in a hat, boots and a smoke alarm. In this group, two are
things a firefighter wears, one is not. Or a fire hydrant,
hose and boots. Two are things that get water to the fire;
one is not.
• Storytime
This may be most appropriate for first graders. Assign a hazard
or helper item to each student and ask them to write a short
story or give an oral presentation that completes one of the
following sentences:
1) ______ is a fire hazard because ______________.
When I see this, I should ___________
2) ____________ is a helper because __________________________.
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