Lesson 6 Fire – Fire Safety and Evacuation?

Themes:
Knowing our Dangers / Subjects:
Social Studies, History, Geography
Life Skills / Year Level:
Early Primary
Late Primary
Time to teach: 1 hour- 1 hour and15 minutes. However this may last longer, especially the mapping exercise. Don’t rush this as accuracy and detail is important.

Purpose

To order understand how fires can be prevented by taking safety advice. To know that get out stay out is sometimes the best thing to do.

Learning Outcomes

  1. To learn how to starve one or more sides fire triangle so that fire doesn’t start.
  2. To know how to get out and stay out if a fire happens.

Materials & Preparation

  • Workbook and pen/pencil for each student.
  • Blackboard and chalk

Learning experience and organisation:

  1. Ask the students to turn to lesson six in their workbooks. Here they will find a series of pictures. Ask students to guess what each one of these images represent. Once they have guessed correctly, write this on the board so that they can copy onto the blank versions in their workbooks. (NOTE: Teachers have a copy with the words already printed on. Keep the words the same in order to keep the messages simple).Explain why you may need to crawl along the floor (if there is a lot of smoke which is heavier than air for instance) (20 mins)
  2. Next, students go outside in pairs and mime these actions to each other, with one child miming and the other guessing, then swapping over! Explain that no words can be use by the person miming! (10mins)
  3. Back in class, explain to students that next lesson they will lean more about fire prevention and response, but that sometimes it is best to get out and stay out when a fire happens.Explain that they are going to make a map of the school, its fire fighting equipment and make an evacuation map. Explain that this map shows everyone where to go.(15-20mins)

Evaluation

  1. Explain to students that this follows on from the home learning from last lesson, helping them and their families to reduce their risk of fire.
  2. Ask students at random to mime an action that they have learned to do with evacuation from a building when there is a fire. (5 mins)
  3. Explain that having a FIRE DRILL is a way of practicing leaving a building quickly and safely. Discuss where the children think the best MEETING POINT on the school grounds is (these should already be identified as part of the mapping exercise) If you have time, practice an informal fire drill now. Explain that this is NOT a game, and students should exit the building as quickly as possible WITHOUT running and they should line up in register order at the designated MEETING POINT! (5-10 mins)

Home Learning

  1. Ask the students to demonstrate or describe 1 meter in as many ways as they can. (Answers will vary, but may include—When Istretch my arms out, the distance from fingertip to fingertip is about I metre.If I jump three times, it is close to one metre.)(2mins)
  2. Have the students stand on a line in the front of the class and walk what they think is 1 meter. Mark where each student stops. Then, use a measuring stick to see who most closely estimated 1 meter. explain the One Metre Rule: Always keep fuels and heat sources at least 1 meter apart. This means that at least one side of the fire triangle is missing, (make links to last lesson) reducing the risk of fire! Have the students use this rule as they go on their safety checks at home or at school. Tell them to use a measuring stick or have them work on estimating 1metre lengths.(5-8 minutes)