Familiarize your youngsters with firefighters. They may look scary with all their gear on, but this plan will teach your kids that firefighters wear the gear to stay safe, and help the community by putting out fires.

Concepts

firefighters, fire safety, safety equipment

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Additional Tags

college and career readiness

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Classroom Considerations

• The plan references the book Whose Hat Is This? by Sharon Katz Cooper; you'll need to buy or borrow a copy of the book
• If you have access to actual gear worn by firefighters and other community helpers, this will help to enrich the lesson

Pros

• Provides several extension ideas
• Comes with a letter to send home with your pupils to inform their parents about the lesson and encourage kids to practice talking about community helpers
• Includes images of community helpers to show your class as you talk about gear and special jobs

Cons

• There is a typo in the letter to send home to parents; it reads topic instead of topics