TeachersFirst Collection: Fire Prevention and Safety Resources
Fire safety is a lesson that stays with students for life, and this collection offers K-12 classrooms resources to teach it effectively, whether during Fire Prevention Week or any time throughout the year. You'll find lesson plans, interactive games, videos, and activities that teach students essential fire safety practices, from home escape planning to understanding how fires start and spread. These engaging, age-appropriate tools make it easy to build a culture of fire safety awareness in your classroom and beyond.
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Stay Safe, Stay Smart: Fire Safety Tips For Kids! - Cowboy Jack
Grades
K to 5
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tag(s): fire (28), fire safety (21), safety (64)
In the Classroom
Have students watch the sections about smoke alarms and home escape plans, then draw a simple floor plan of a fictional home. Ask them to mark doors and windows and, when available, identify two possible exits from each room. Invite small groups to make a fire-safety presentation with Microsoft PowerPoint Online, reviewed here. Assign each group one topic from the video, such as smoke alarms, escape planning, household hazards, carbon monoxide alarms, or emergency preparedness, and have students teach the essential points to classmates. Ask students to complete an individual "3-2-1 Safety Check" after viewing. Have them record three fire-prevention facts, two emergency-preparedness actions, and one safety idea they want to share with their family.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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NFPA Home Fire Safety Lesson Plans - National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)
Grades
1 to 12tag(s): fire (28), fire prevention (19), fire safety (21)
In the Classroom
Have students analyze fictional situations involving cooking, fireworks, bonfires, electrical equipment, or other potential hazards. Ask them to identify the risk and propose a responsible choice that could reduce it. Invite students to practice explaining what they would do when a smoke alarm sounds. Have pairs role-play getting outside, going to a designated meeting place, and explaining when and how to call 9-1-1 from a safe location. Ask students to create a fire-safety infographic using Canva for Education, reviewed here. Students can focus each infographic on one NFPA lesson topic, such as escape planning, smoke alarms, responsible behavior, or emergency calls.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Living With Fire - Project Learning Tree
Grades
K to 8tag(s): fire prevention (19), fire safety (21), preK (348), STEM (378)
In the Classroom
Add these resources to your current materials for Fire Safety Week or when teaching about staying safe at home. Organize and curate lesson resources with Wakelet, reviewed here for easy access. As students learn about fire safety, ask them to use Animate Characters, reviewed here to create short, animated recordings that include fire safety tips. Share a new tip each day on your class website during Fire Safety Week.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Sparky School House - National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)
Grades
K to 6tag(s): fire (28), fire prevention (19), fire safety (21), preK (348), safety (64), STEM (378), women (195)
In the Classroom
Many of the site's activities integrate easily into different content areas, including math, spelling, and writing, offering opportunities to weave fire safety activities across the curriculum. Use any of the many Kahoot quizzes, reviewed here found on the educator page to engage students in learning about fire safety in many different ways, including the sounds of fire and the science of fire.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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UL Xplorlabs - Underwriters Laboratories
Grades
7 to 12tag(s): electricity (63), energy (137), fire (28), fire safety (21), heat (13), problem solving (283), STEM (378)
In the Classroom
You and your students will benefit from this site's free materials to include in your science lab activities to teach content, problem-solving, and scientific investigation techniques. As students begin activities replace paper and pencil and use a digital graphic organizer such as one found at LiveGap Charts, reviewed here, to organize questions and gather information. Upon completion of experiments, enhance learning and have students share their work using Printing Press, reviewed here, to create a one-page newspaper or brochure including images and text. At the end of your unit, have students use Google Slides, reviewed here, to redefine their learning and create an explainer video sharing and demonstrating the results of their lab activities.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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FireWorks Educational Program - US Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station
Grades
K to 12tag(s): biomes (97), fire (28), fire prevention (19), fire safety (21), forests (30), OER (53)
In the Classroom
Include materials from this site during your fire safety unit, Fire Prevention Week, or as part of your studies of North American biomes. Enhance learning by having students create free and easy websites using Carrd, reviewed here, to share information learned about fire safety, fire hazards, and fire prevention techniques. Extend learning by asking students to create an online book incorporating videos, images, and more using Book Creator, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The Great Fire of London - Museum of London
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6 to 12tag(s): 1600s (20), england (49), fire (28), fire prevention (19), fire safety (21), game based learning (335), gamified learning (89), great britain (14)
In the Classroom
This site is perfect for use on an interactive whiteboard (or with a projector) to understand the background and impact of the Great Fire of London as well as what life was like in 1666. Include this as part of any study of this period of time in Europe. Share this site during fire prevention week as an example of how society has learned about the dangers of fire and adapted building safety throughout time. Allow students to explore the site independently or in small groups, then compare and contrast life in London then to modern life. Improve and expand learning by having students create a multimedia presentation using Visme, reviewed here. Visme allows you to narrate your slides. Challenge students to find a photo (legally permitted to be reproduced), and then narrate the photo as if it is a news report.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Kids Fire Safety Guide - Home Advice Guide
Grades
K to 12tag(s): fire (28), fire prevention (19), fire safety (21)
In the Classroom
Share with students during Fire Safety Week. Swap out raised hands in class and create a quick poll (with no membership required) using SurveyRock, reviewed here, to find out how many students have discussed fire safety and an escape plan from their home. Redefine learning by having students create online multimedia posters using Adobe Creative Cloud Express for Education, reviewed here, with fire safety tips. Be sure to include a link to this guide on your class website for parents to view at home.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Fire Prevention Guide: Fire Kills - HomeAdviceGuide
Grades
K to 8This site includes advertising.
tag(s): fire (28), fire prevention (19), fire safety (21)
In the Classroom
Using this easy to follow website, students can gather information about fire safety, prevention and what to do if a fire occurs. Create an authentic audience by having older students extend their learning by creating a cartoon strip depicting the different tips and suggestions to share with younger students. First, have students create printed comics (or rough drafts) using Canva Comic Strip Templates, reviewed here, then students can create an online comic strip by using Make Beliefs Comix, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Fire Prevention Week - National Fire Protection Association
Grades
2 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): fire prevention (19), fire safety (21), homes (4)
In the Classroom
Try pair teaching after introducing the important facts available on this page. Have the first of a pair give the other student the facts and then have the second add to what the first has missed. Have your class make their own posters using this year's campaign logo. Have students replace paper and enhance learning by creating online posters using a tool such as Web Poster Wizard, reviewed here, or PicLits, reviewed here. Have your class create check sheets they can take home and do their own domestic assessment. Ask if they know any members of the population that might be higher at risk for fires, and see if they can think of ways to make contact and help this group.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Stop Disasters - United Nations Office for Disaster Reduction
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4 to 12tag(s): disasters (35), earth (188), earthquakes (51), fire (28), fire prevention (19), fire safety (21), floods (11), hurricanes (36), natural disasters (21), sun (87), tsunamis (15)
In the Classroom
Create groups of students to run scenarios. Student groups can analyze and determine best scenarios and courses of actions for prevention. After play, groups can analyze past disasters for real life perspectives as well as current conditions in the world for current disaster prevention measures. Use an interactive map to plot locations students find for each disaster. Have students use a mapping tool such as MapHub, to create a map with stories, pictures, and video included! Student groups can create a conventional or multimedia presentation on the different types of disasters and possible locations around the world.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Investigates Arson - BBC
Grades
7 to 12tag(s): fire (28), fire prevention (19), fire safety (21), safety (64)
In the Classroom
Share this link as one of several project topics for health, current events, or a criminal justice elective. It could also be a good source for background information in a debate class or club.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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ReadyKids - U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Grades
2 to 6tag(s): fire (28), fire prevention (19), fire safety (21), floods (11), hurricanes (36), safety (64), sun (87), terrorism (40), tornadoes (17), tsunamis (15)
In the Classroom
Get an interactive whiteboard (or use a projector) and help your class prepare for severe weather, terrorism and more. Most activities are interactive, educational and fun! Replace the paper and pen journal and enhance learning by having students to write blogs sharing information learned using a site like edublogs, reviewed here. edublogs offers tools for creating class and individual blogs. Check out the "Parents and Teachers" link for lesson plans, standards, activities and more.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Sparky the Fire Dog - NFPA
Grades
1 to 4tag(s): fire (28), fire prevention (19), safety (64)
In the Classroom
You may want to introduce this site to students starting with the four minute video Storytime about Sparky the fire dog. Share a fire prevention game as a center on your classroom computers. Towards the end of your fire prevention unit, have students complete the entertaining activities for becoming a member of Sparky's Fire Safety Club. These activities would be ideal for use with computer stations.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Smokey Kids - USDA Forest Service
Grades
1 to 6tag(s): fire (28), fire prevention (19), fire safety (21), forests (30), safety (64)
In the Classroom
Use the PDF activities in a learning center as part of a unit or lesson on fire safety and prevention. Have students complete the activities in pairs, letting them pick which of the games they want to play in the given time. If you are looking for an easy way to integrate technology and check for understanding, challenge your students to extend their learning by creating a blog using Seesaw, reviewed here, to share their learning and understanding with peers and parents.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Fire Safety for Parents - FEMA
Grades
1 to 5tag(s): fire (28), fire prevention (19), fire safety (21), safety (64)
In the Classroom
Share this link with parents on your class web site or in your newsletter during National Fire Prevention Week. Use the Kids Activities toward the bottom of the main page for beginning of class transition or for station rotation. Enhance learning by challeging older student groups to create their own "Pictograph" using an infographic creator such as Canva Inforgraphic Maker, reviewed here, with easy to use templates.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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FireWise
Grades
6 to 12tag(s): ecosystems (115), environment (246), fire (28), fire prevention (19), fire safety (21)
In the Classroom
As your students study about safety or environmental issues, include this site as a resource. Ask students to create a fire pro and con list as they discuss the more obvious safety issues of fire and the balancing role that fire can play in renewing habitats and nature's cycles. Extend learning by using an online graphic organizer tool such as bubbl.us, to map out the many impacts that wildland fires can have.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Fire Safety Vocabulary - Myvocabulary.com
Grades
K to 1tag(s): fire prevention (19), fire safety (21), vocabulary (258), vocabulary development (112)
In the Classroom
Share the puzzles on your interactive whiteboard or projector or make them available as links on your teacher public page. Modify learning and have students (or groups) create their own illustrated dictionaries of terms using a tool such as Bookemon, reviewed here. As you add more vocabulary lists during the year, have them select their favorite 6-10 terms from each list to add to their "book."Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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DLTK's Crafts For Kids: Fire Safety Section - DLTK
Grades
K to 2This site includes advertising.
tag(s): fire (28), fire prevention (19), fire safety (21), songs (50)
In the Classroom
During Fire Prevention week, use these songs or crafts to teach students fire safety. Have students create greeting cards for their families. Print out the coloring pages for students to work on as they enter the classroom. Create a bulletin board displaying your crafts, coloring pages, and more.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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