Students learn how their actions help keep themselves and others safe during a fire emergency by practicing classroom routines, using fire safety vocabulary, and talking about safe choices with care and clarity. Through a visit with firefighters, hands-on exit practice, and a Brave Choice Circle, they build shared expectations for safety, respect boundaries, and identify ways they can help their classroom community. They show their learning by creating and revising an illustrated fire safety booklet and sharing drawings of fire-safe actions during a Brave Steps Gallery Walk for classmates, families, and firefighters.

Students will identify and use key fire safety words such as emergency, exit, alarm, smoke, and firefighter as they talk, draw, and write about safe actions. They will explain how their choices affect their own safety and the safety of others, practice shared safety routines and boundaries, and name ways they can help the classroom community during an emergency. Students will collaborate during the fire department station rotation, listen and respond during Brave Choice Circle and reflection, and revise their booklet pages after questions from classmates or firefighters. They will create and present an illustrated booklet and a labeled drawing that clearly teaches one fire-safe action to classmates, families, and visitors.

Students will create practice drawings and labeled cards showing fire-safe actions such as listening for the alarm, lining up, finding an exit, and stop-drop-and-roll. They will use these drafts during peer and firefighter feedback, then revise their pictures or labels to make each safety idea clearer. By the end, each student will contribute to a small illustrated booklet with one page for each fire-safe action they can explain to visitors. The class will also prepare a Brave Steps Gallery Walk display of their final drawings for sharing with classmates, families, and firefighters.

Begin with a quick, calm classroom mystery: play the sound of a fire alarm, show a hallway exit map, and ask, “What should our classroom do to stay safe during a fire emergency?” Students practice lining up, spotting the nearest exit, and acting out stop-drop-and-roll before meeting firefighters in a short station rotation to rehearse safe exit paths. Close with a Brave Choice Circle where each child shares one safe choice they can make during a fire and one feeling they noticed while practicing. This shared experience gives students ideas and vocabulary they can later use in their illustrated fire safety booklets.

Host a Brave Steps Gallery Walk where students display their illustrated fire safety booklets and action drawings around the room for classmates, families, and visiting firefighters. In small groups, students present one page from their booklet, explain the fire-safe action using words like alarm, exit, and smoke, and answer one simple question from a visitor. Include a short classroom route demonstration so students can point out safe exit paths they practiced with the fire department. End with a celebration circle where students share one brave, safe choice they will remember and one feeling they had during the project.