Students investigate how they can help their school stay safe during a fire by learning to notice alarms, exits, and meeting places and by practicing calm, safe actions with classmates. Through stories, pictures, a firefighter-led walk-through, and repeated practice, they build shared habits that protect their own wellbeing and the wellbeing of others. They use drawing, dictating, speaking, and collaboration to create a class fire safety picture book and teach their learning to guests at a school expo. The project helps students see how their actions affect the classroom community and how they can contribute to collective safety.

Students will identify fire alarms, safe exits, and the school meeting place, and explain how safe choices help protect themselves and others. They will practice shared safety routines by moving calmly, respecting space and directions, and demonstrating stop, drop, and roll during walk-throughs and small-group practice. Students will communicate what they learn by discussing fire safety stories and signs and by contributing drawings, dictation, or writing to a class fire safety picture book. They will use feedback from teachers, peers, and a firefighter to improve their safety actions and help the classroom community prepare for emergencies.

Students will create anchor charts of safe exits, alarm sounds, and the school meeting place after reading and discussing simple fire safety stories, signs, and pictures. In small groups, they will make practice station signs and illustrated safety tip cards to use during the firefighter-led walk-through, critique, and revision of calm exit routines and stop, drop, and roll. The final product will be a class-made fire safety picture book with student drawings, dictations, or simple sentences that teach how to move safely, find exits, and go to the correct meeting place. Students will also prepare a short demonstration and display materials for the Little Firefighter Expo so guests can learn one key safety step from them.

Begin with a Spark Start Day led by a local firefighter who guides students on a short safety walk-through of the classroom and hallway to notice exits, alarms, and the school meeting place. Then rotate through simple stations where students practice stop, drop, and roll, listen for an alarm sound, and act out moving calmly with their class. Close in a circle by asking each child to name one place they would go if they heard the alarm and one way their actions help keep others safe. This shared experience gives students common language and firsthand practice they can use as they create the class fire safety picture book.

Host a Little Firefighter Expo in the school library where small groups share the class-made fire safety picture book with families, classmates, and school staff. Students can rotate through simple stations to teach guests how to identify safe exits, explain what an alarm sounds like, point to the school meeting place, and demonstrate stop, drop, and roll. Give each child a short speaking role, such as sharing one safety tip or showing a page they helped create, so every student participates. End with a gallery walk of the book pages and a class celebration of how students help keep the school community safe.