Fire Safety

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5TH GRADE VIRTUAL HEALTH

L1: School Bus Safety| L2: Preparing for the Unexpected | L3: Practicing Safety & First Aid | L4: Safety & Bicycling | L5: School Bus Safety | L6: Fire Safety | L7: Preventing Violence | L8: Organizations That Protect Public Health | EXTRA: Handling Community Emergencies | Assessment

Safety

Fire Safety

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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 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 carboard near heater

• loose clothes and papers in hot attic

• frayed electrical wires

• appliances left plugged in and turned on

• exposed lamp near curtains

• iron left on

• no smoke alarm

• unattended lit cigarette

• extension cord under rug

• stove left on

• furniture oil bottles near stove

• overloaded outlet

• unattended, burning candle

• heater near furniture

• fireplace with no screen

How can you escape a fire?

Beep! Beep! 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. The pictures show a boy practicing what to do in case of a fire. What is he doing in each step?

To Escape a Fire

Step1 - Stay near the floor in a crawling position, where there is less smoke.

Step 2 - Breathe through a damp cloth. Crawl to the door. Feel if it is hot.

Step 3 - if the door is cool, open it. If the door is warm or hot, use a different escape route.

Step 4 - Continue crawling until you get outside. Keep yelling to warn others.

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 occurs. Include 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. upstairs bedrooms, keep an escape ladder next to each window.

• Keep your bedroom and hall doors closed while sleep. Closed doors slow the spread of a fire and 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.

1. What is the location of the fire? Give the street address and the nearest street intersections.

2. What type of fire is it? For example, is it a house, apartment, trash, or car fire?

3. Is anyone in danger? Is anyone still inside? Are pets inside?

4. 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. The girl in the pictures on the next page is showing you 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 that 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.

CLOSING (Evaluate)

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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)

1. What should people do to prevent fires in their home?

2. What might homeowners do to make their home safe in case of fire?

3. Why do you think it is important to know and practice the steps for escaping a fire?

4. In case of a fire, what should you do if you are crawling along your first escape route and you find yourself surrounded by smoke?

5. What should you do if you escape a fire in your home, but then realize that your pet is still inside?

6. How can you stay safe when trapped by fire at home?

Big Idea(s)

1. People can prevent fires in their home by doing the following: Keep space heaters and lamps, especially halogen lamps, at least 3 feet from flammable things, such as curtains and 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 thing away from lit cigarettes and fireplace ashes; Use a spark screen on your fireplace, and put ashes in a metal container.

2. Homeowners should install smoke and heat detectors; keep a fire extinguisher on hand; and have fire drills to make their home safe in case of fire.

3. It is important to know and practice the steps for escaping a fire so that it is easier to remain calm and do the right thing because you are prepared. Knowing and practicing the steps will help you be prepared.

4. In case of a fire, if you are crawling along your first escape route and you find yourself surrounded by smoke, use the second escape route.

5. If you escape a fire in your home, and then realize that your pet is still inside, do not go back into the house. Let the firefighters rescue your pet. Either tell the operator or dispatcher that your pet is trapped inside when you report the fire, or tell the firefighters when they arrive.

6. You can stay safe when trapped by fire at home by: 1) keeping 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. 2) Stuff clothes or towels into the cracks under and around the door. Also close vents in the walls or floor. 3) Open a window to let in good air. If smoke or flames come in, close the window. 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

• Google Sites - HPE website

• Chromebook

• large video screens for whole-class viewing

• sound system for sharing of audio

• BrainPOP Jr. - Fire Safety

• BrainPOP - Fire

• BrainPOP - Wildfires

• BrainPOP - Bicycle Safety

• BrainPOP - Concussions

• BrainPOP - CPR

• BrainPOP - First Aid

• BrainPOP - Food Safety

• BrainPOP - Lab Safety

• BrainPOP - Online Safety

• BrainPOP - Water Safety