Firefighting Team! Lesson Plan

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Academic Standards

 

Reading Objective:

Children will describe ways that firefighters cooperate on the job.

 

Social-Emotional Learning Focus:

 Cooperation

 

Social Studies Focus:

Firefighters and communities

 

CCSS:

SL.1.2 Discuss a video; L.1.4 Clarify words and phrases; RI.1.1 Key details; W.1.3 Writing narratives; I.1.7 Use visuals; RI.1.10 Read and discuss first-grade texts, L.1.1 Conventions of English when writing; L.1.1.I Use prepositions

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  • Before watching Firefighters Suit Up, ask children to share what they know about firefighting gear. What do firefighters wear?
  • After watching, ask children to name a piece of firefighter gear they learned about and tell how it protects the firefighter. (SKILL: SL.1.2 Discuss a video)
  • Play the vocabulary slideshow. This issue’s featured words are crew, steady, and gear.
  • Read the issue together. 
  • Then play the Dance Break video and move like firefighters!
  • Then project and discuss the reading checkpoint skill sheet. Later, children can fill in their own copies. (SKILL: RI.1.1 Key details)

Play the online game Dress the Firefighter to build firefighting gear vocabulary. (SKILL: L.1.4 Clarify words and phrases)

  • With this skill sheet, kids connect how firefighters work together to how they’ve used teamwork in their own lives. (SKILL: W.1.3 Writing narratives)
  • Kids label a diagram showing the different parts of a firefighter’s gear. (SKILL: RI.1.7 Use visuals)
Example of a completed paper firetruck

Objective: Children will follow prepositional directions to make a fire truck out of paper shapes.

Materials: crayons, glue, craft sticks, and pre-cut paper shapes: one red rectangle, two black circles, one red square, and one white square per fire truck

  • Kids can glue shapes to paper to make a fire truck. Use positional words to direct them:
    • Glue the rectangle to the middle.
    • Glue the circles under the rectangle.
    • Glue the red square next to the rectangle.
    • Glue the white square inside the red square.
  • Let kids draw themselves in the white square. If you like, they can also glue two craft sticks on the side and draw lines between to make a ladder!
  • Finally, have kids write a fire safety rule on the paper to complete the project. (SKILLS: L.1.1 Conventions of English when writing; L.1.1.I Use prepositions)