Grade 2
Theme: Today children will review everything they learned about fire safety and prevention. The children will also do a few fun activities to bring an end to the unit.
Materials:
· Poster board
· Marker
· Crayons
· Coloring sheet
· Pictures from Winona Historical Society
· 4 sets of the matching game
Goals: The children will understand the importance of fire safety and prevention.
Objectives:
·Each student will demonstrate their understanding of fire safety and prevention by explaining one thing they have learned from the unit.
·The students will properly match the pictures when playing the memory game.
Procedures:
A. Introductory Experiences: (15 minutes)
·The teacher will tape the piece of poster board on the chalkboard so all children can see it, at the top of the poster board it will state “What I learned….”
·The teacher will ask each student what they have learned throughout the unit.
·After the student has explained what he/she learned, the teacher will write it on the poster board.
·When all children have described something they learned the class will review all topics covered throughout the unit. Such as: evacuation plans (what they are and why are they important), fire alarms (why they are important and where should they be located in a home), firehouse tour (what they learned and liked about the tour), Dalmatian dogs (how they become the dogs for firefighters), causes of fires (what causes fires such as candles something being too hot), and ways to prevent them (blow out candles, watch food that is cooking, don’t play with fire).
·Children can ask questions or get any clarifications they may need about content covered in the unit.
B. Developmental Experiences: (20 minutes)
·Show students the pictures of firefighters from the Winona Historical Society so they can see firefighters in action. (5 minutes)
·Pass pictures around so all students can see them. (The pictures will also be part of the memory game, but in a smaller version) (5 minutes)
·Explain to the students they are going to play a matching game in groups.
·Cards will be distributed to each group and they must flip them over so picture is face down.
·Students will take turns trying to find matches.
·After explaining what the children are going to do, break the students up into four groups.
·First pass out the cards to each of the groups, and they can then begin to play. (10 minutes)
·Remind children the game is not a competition, it is just a fun game to play.
C. Culminating Experiences: (10 minutes)
·As a way to wrap up the unit, teacher will hand out a coloring page of “Do you have a working smoke detector in your home?”
·Teacher will have students color the page as a relaxed way to end the unit.
·After children are done coloring the teacher will hang everyone’s picture up in the room.
Assessment: The teacher will assess the children by having the students describe one thing they have learned throughout the unit. This will present the teacher with an opportunity to notice if the children really have taken in the information and understood it.
The following are pictures that will be used in the memory game!
