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Overview

Because young children are often the victims of fatal fires, fire safety is one of the first things about safety we should teach our children. Can you guess how many fires are started by kids every year? Two? Or, maybe 200? Every year, children start nearly 100,000 fires. Stop, Drop and Roll is the technique taught by fire personnel if your clothing catches fire. Stop, Drop and Roll saves lives.

New York State Standards in Health Education

Unintentional Injury Prevention

UI.E.14 Individuals know and practice fire safety rules including evacuation plans and how to “stop, drop and roll”.

Lesson Objectives

• Students will expand their understanding of fire safety.

• Students will learn how to react in case their clothes catch fire.

• Students will demonstrate "stop, drop, and roll".

• Students will reinforce what they’ve learned by instructing their family members to do the same.

Lesson

1. Read the class a book that connects with fire safety (such as Stop Drop and Roll by Margery Cuyler, Arthur Howard, Illustrator) and will be your starting point for a fire safety discussion.

2. Briefly review the book with students, highlight ways to prevent fires and protect ourselves, and about firefighters.

3. Discuss ways that someone’s clothes could catch fire. (Standing too close to a campfire, grill, candle, or other open flame. Sitting too close to a heater, wood stove or fireplace, etc.)

4. “Today you’re going to learn a way to put out a fire if your clothes catch fire. It’s called ‘stop, drop, and roll’. Stop what you’re doing – don’t try to run away, drop to the ground and roll and roll and roll until the fire is out. Remember to cover your face and mouth (so you don’t scrape your face or breathe in smoke). If you roll into something (like a wall or furniture) roll the other way. If you see someone whose clothes have caught fire, yell “Stop, Drop and Roll”, find an adult and call 911*.

5. Use simple props to illustrate the technique, such as flannel board or paper cutouts of children or a doll or stuffed animal.

6. Demonstrate or ask for a student volunteer to demonstrate the correct way to stop, drop, and roll.

7. To reinforce that “victims” need to continue rolling until the flames are extinguished, try one of these follow up activities:

• Attach pretend felt flames (cut out red, yellow or orange flame shapes). Put shapes (felt should temporarily stick) on a child’s back.  Students each take a turn stopping, dropping, and rolling. The "flames" should come off of their clothes as they roll around on the floor.

• Tape an inflated balloon onto the back of their shirt. Students take turns "Stop, Drop, and Roll!" either until their balloon breaks or you blow a whistle. Best done outside or on a mat.

8. To reinforce the correct order of Stop Drop Rolll, have students color and glue pictures of stop, drop, and roll pictures in the correct order.

9. Coloring sheet available:

10. Students will reinforce what they’ve learned by bringing the paper home to teach everyone in their family this technique.

11. Discuss with the class the next day how successfully their family learned.

Integration

This lesson integrates well with the following subject areas:

• Geography – mapping skills

• Health – safety

Assessment:

Assessment takes place throughout this guided process and includes:

• Student involvement throughout classroom discussions.

• Student ability to complete the steps accurately.

• Student’s success teaching family members to stop drop and roll

• Ensure that they did as instructed

• Ask if they learned anything new from their family about fire safety.

Additional Resources:

• State Farm Insurance has a Stop, Drop & Roll info. for student “Smoke Detectives”

• The Student Awareness of Fire Education (S.A.F.E.) Program () provides resources to local fire departments to conduct fire and life safety education programs in grades K-12. The program teaches 23 Key Fire Safety Behaviors in developmentally appropriate ways.

• National Safety Council, 444 N. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60611-3991.

• "Teaching Little Ones to be Firesafe."; National Fire Protection Association, Batterymarch Park, Quincy, Massachusetts 02269.

• Your Home Fire Safety Checklist. - Consumer Product Safety Commission

Additional Fire Safety Lessons for Young Children:

• Teach young students how and when to call 911.

• - While geared to pre-school students, this lesson/site has information and links that can be utilized for older students, too.

• Learn their home telephone number and address.

• Fire Safety Song and Pictures to go along with each verse. This is an excellent song for young children (k-2).

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