Fire Safety
HEALTH EDUCATION - Safety - Lesson 6 - Week 6/8
Safety (5)
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Safety
Fire Safety
See below for the following:
Standard(s), Essential Question(s), Big Idea(s)
LEARNING TARGET / SUCCESS CRITERIA
I will explain how to prevent home fires.
I will recognize fire hazards in the home.
I will describe how to survive a home fire.
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PRE-INSTRUCTIONAL ACTIVITY
Vocabulary
flammable - materials that will burn if they are exposed to enough heat
OPENING (Engage)
Main Idea
You can take steps to prevent fires at home and to escape safely if a fire occurs.
Why Learn This?
What you learn can help you prevent a fire at home. It can also help you know how to escape a fire safely.
WORK PERIOD (Explore/Explain/Extend/Elaborate)
READ: Fire Safety
Your home is filled with many flammable things. Materials that are flammable (FLA-muh-buhl) will burn if they are exposed to enough heat. You can help prevent a fire in your home by acting responsibly with heat and fire, by correcting fire hazards, and by practicing fire safety.
What can you do to prevent fires?
The list below tells how to prevent some materials from catching fire.
Keep space heaters and lamps, especially halogen lamps, at least 3 feet from flammable things, such as curtains or blankets.
Don't overload electrical outlets. Heat can build up in the wiring and start an electrical fire.
Replace worn or frayed electrical cords, plugs, and wiring. Don't put cords under rugs. Cords wear out quickly and can start a fire.
Keep flammable things away from open flames such as candles, matches, and stove burners. Also keep flammable things away from lit cigarettes and fireplace ashes.
Use a spark screen on your fireplace, and put ashes in a metal container.
What are possible fire hazards in a home?
open gas can
paints and flammable, oily liquids near electrical outlet
oily rags and cardboard near heater
stove left on
furniture oil bottles near stove
overloaded outlet
heater near furniture
fireplace with no screen
unattended, burning candle
unattended, lit cigarette
appliances left plugged in and turned on
exposed lamp near curtains
iron left on
no smoke alarm
extension cord under rug
frayed electrical wires
loose clothes and papers in hot attic
How can you escape a fire?
Веер! Веер! Beep! In the middle of the night, you wake up to this sound. The smoke alarm is sounding. You smell smoke. Your home is on fire! What do you do?
You must act quickly, but don't sit up! You have to stay low. Smoke and dangerous gases from a fire rise toward the ceiling. If you breathe the smoke and gases, you might not be able to get out. The better air is near the floor. Roll out of bed and crawl on the floor quickly. The smoke might make it hard to see. You might need to crawl along, touching the wall, to find your way. Hold a cloth, damp if possible, over your nose and mouth. Breathe through the cloth to screen out the smoke.
If you have a whistle, blow it loudly. Bang on the walls. Yell "Fire!" as loudly as you can. Feel your bedroom door with the back of your hand. If it is cool, you may open it and crawl out as quickly as possible.
If the door is hot, leave it closed. Use another exit, such as a window, to escape. Every room in your home should have at least two exits, counting doors and windows.
Keep crawling until you are outside. Keep yelling to warn other family members.
A Family Escape Plan
When a fire occurs, you don't have time to plan. Your life depends on quick action. Plan escape routes, and practice fire drills with your family before a fire cl a man te these steps in your escape plan
Draw a map or floor plan of your home, like the drawing at the right. Show each exit, all escape routes, and an outside meeting place. Draw arrows showing two ways to escape from each room. Make sure everyone knows the escape routes. Be sure all doors and windows open easily.
Keep a whistle and a flashlight next to each bed. For upstairs bedrooms, keep an escape ladder next to each window.
Keep your bedroom and hall doors closed while you sleep. Closed doors slow the spread of a fire and can give you more time to escape.
Decide on a special signal, such as a whistle, to awaken and alert family members during a fire. Practice using the signal, pounding on the walls, and yelling to each other from different parts of your home. Practice crawling fast, and try to increase your crawling speed.
What should you do after you escape a fire?
It's important to have a plan for what to do after you escape a fire. Once you are outside, here's what to do:
Meet your family at the place you agreed on. It might be a tree or a streetlight. Your meeting place should be at least 30 feet from the house or building. It's important to go there right away! If you wander around, others might believe you are still inside the burning building.
Do not go back into a burning building once you are outside-not for anyone or anything.
After you meet outdoors, use a neighbor's phone to dial 911, 0, or the fire department.
The operator or dispatcher will want you to answer several questions.
What is the location of the fire? Give the street address and the nearest street intersections.
What type of fire is it? For example, is it a house, apartment, trash, or car fire?
Is anyone in danger? Is anyone still inside? Are pets inside?
How big is the fire? Can you see flames or just smell smoke? How much of the building is burning?
When reporting an emergency, don't hang up until the operator hangs up. The operator may need more information.
How can you stay safe when trapped by fire at home?
Suppose you cannot escape. Your exits could be completely blocked by fire and smoke. Here's what to do if you become trapped.
Step 1 - Keep a closed door between you and the smoke. If the door is open, crawl quickly to it and close it to keep smoke out. Breathe through a cloth.
Step 2 - Stuff clothes or towels into the cracks under and around the door. Also close vents in the walls or floor.
Step 3 - Open a window to let in good air. If smoke or flames come in, close the window.
Step 4 - Stay by the window where you can be seen. Yell for help and signal by waving your hand, a flashlight, or a sheet.
REMEMBER...You can take steps to prevent fires at home and to escape safely if a fire occurs. What you learn can help you prevent a fire at home. It can also help you know how to escape a fire safely.
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Standard(s)
HE5.3a - identify characteristics of valid health information, products, and services
HE5.3b - access resources from home, school, and community that provide valid health information
HE5.3c - assess the characteristics of valid health information, products, and services
HE5.4a - apply effective verbal and nonverbal communication skills to enhance health
HE5.4c - demonstrate how to ask for assistance to enhance personal health and the health of others
HE5.5a - identify health-related situations that might require a thoughtful decision
HE5.5b - list healthy options and possible consequences to a health-related issue or problem
HE5.5c - predict the potential outcomes of each option when making a health-related decision
HE5.5d - analyze when assistance is needed in making a health-related decision
HE5.5e - choose a healthy option when making a decision
HE5.5f - describe the outcomes of a health-related decision
HE5.7a - practice responsible personal health choices
HE5.7b - demonstrate a variety of healthy practices and behaviors to preserve or enhance personal health
HE5.7c - model a variety of behaviors that prevent or decrease health risks to self and/or others
Essential Question(s)
What can you do to prevent fires?
How can you escape a fire?
What should you do after you escape a fire?
How can you stay safe when trapped by a fire at home?
Big Idea(s)
The list below tells how to prevent some materials from catching fire.
Keep space heaters and lamps, especially halogen lamps, at least 3 feet from flammable things, such as curtains or blankets.
Don't overload electrical outlets. Heat can build up in the wiring and start an electrical fire.
Replace worn or frayed electrical cords, plugs, and wiring. Don't put cords under rugs. Cords wear out quickly and can start a fire.
Keep flammable things away from open flames such as candles, matches, and stove burners. Also keep flammable things away from lit cigarettes and fireplace ashes.
Use a spark screen on your fireplace, and put ashes in a metal container.
In order to escape a fire you must act quickly, but don't sit up! You have to stay low. Smoke and dangerous gases from a fire rise toward the ceiling. If you breathe the smoke and gases, you might not be able to get out. The better air is near the floor. Roll out of bed and crawl on the floor quickly. The smoke might make it hard to see. You might need to crawl along, touching the wall, to find your way. Hold a cloth, damp if possible, over your nose and mouth. Breathe through the cloth to screen out the smoke. If you have a whistle, blow it loudly. Bang on the walls. Yell "Fire!" as loudly as you can. Feel your bedroom door with the back of your hand. If it is cool, you may open it and crawl out as quickly as possible. If the door is hot, leave it closed. Use another exit, such as a window, to escape. Every room in your home should have at least two exits, counting doors and windows. Keep crawling until you are outside. Keep yelling to warn other family members.
It's important to have a plan for what to do after you escape a fire. Once you are outside, here's what to do:
Meet your family at the place you agreed on. It might be a tree or a streetlight. Your meeting place should be at least 30 feet from the house or building. It's important to go there right away! If you wander around, others might believe you are still inside the burning building.
Do not go back into a burning building once you are outside-not for anyone or anything.
After you meet outdoors, use a neighbor's phone to dial 911, 0, or the fire department.
The operator or dispatcher will want you to answer several questions.
What is the location of the fire? Give the street address and the nearest street intersections.
What type of fire is it? For example, is it a house, apartment, trash, or car fire?
Is anyone in danger? Is anyone still inside? Are pets inside?
How big is the fire? Can you see flames or just smell smoke? How much of the building is burning?
When reporting an emergency, don't hang up until the operator hangs up. The operator may need more information.
Suppose you cannot escape. Your exits could be completely blocked by fire and smoke. Here's what to do if you become trapped.
Step 1 - Keep a closed door between you and the smoke. If the door is open, crawl quickly to it and close it to keep smoke out. Breathe through a cloth.
Step 2 - Stuff clothes or towels into the cracks under and around the door. Also close vents in the walls or floor.
Step 3 - Open a window to let in good air. If smoke or flames come in, close the window.
Step 4 - Stay by the window where you can be seen. Yell for help and signal by waving your hand, a flashlight, or a sheet.
RESOURCES / INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS
see below
DCSD Board-Approved Instruction Materials
Your Health: Teacher's Edition - Grade 5. Harcourt Brace & Company. 1999.
Technology
Chromebook
large video screens for whole-class viewing
sound system for sharing of audio