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Introduce Vocabulary: Firefighters (Mitten)

For Teachers K - 3rd
Your budding readers know what it's like to get to a word and think, "What does that mean?" Expand their vocabulary in context using Christopher Mitten's nonfiction picture book Firefighters. Get them ready by pre-teaching the new words...
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Learn Not to Burn

Firefighters Are Community Helpers

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
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.
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Firefighters

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students read books, learn about the letter f, and eat ice cream all to learn about firefighters. In this fire fighters lesson plan, students also string beads to look like fire hose and visit a fire house.
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A Visit To The Station

For Teachers K - 1st
Students discuss the role of the firefighter. In this firefighter lesson, students visit a fire station and see the equipment that firefighters use. They complete a math page on numbers and write a journal entry describing their fire...
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Introduce Vocabulary: Firefighters

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students explore language arts by reading a book with their class. In this story vocabulary lesson, students read the book Firefighters and identify the use of specific vocabulary words. Students define the selected vocab words and...
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Firefighters: Community Helpers

For Teachers K
Students, after reading the book, The Fire Station Book, discuss how a firefighter helps people in a community. They also participate in songs and games about firefighting.
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Learning About Firemen

For Teachers K
Students explore the job of a fireman. In this career education instructional activity, students brainstorm what they already know about firemen and take a field trip to a fire station.
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Fireman

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students hold onto a pole in the pool that represents a fireman's pole. When they hear the ding, they go down under the water as far as they can blowing bubbles. They "put out" the fire when they have gone all the way down to the end of...
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Locations Within a Community

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Young scholars identify important locations within a community. In this communities lesson, students read the books Let's Visit the Police Station and Firefighter A to Z, and discuss the importance of these locations. Young scholars...
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Artist’s Challenge Coins

For Teachers K - 12th
Make 'em, trade 'em, share 'em. Kids create artist's challenge coins to celebrate personal achievements, as mementos, or as encouragement. Originally designed for service personnel, these coins are a great way to recognize achievement.
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Community Helpers

For Teachers K
Kindergartners learn who community helpers are and what contributions they make for the community. They will hear a story outlining various community helpers, their jobs, and tools, create a graphic organizer connecting community...
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The Adventures of Mr. Toss

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice with the underhand toss in a fun culminating activity. First, 4-5 students make a circle. All circles should be close enough to the instructor to easily hear the story. Explain that each group be given an object to toss.
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I Can Grow and Change

For Teachers K
Students explore activities done at various stages of life.  In this personal growth lesson, students are read All By Myself by Mercer Mayer and participate in a discussion about how they are growing daily, discuss what activities are...
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Inside Out!

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students use reasoning skills to understand the concepts of opposites, inside, and outside. In this early childhood lesson plan, students identify words that are opposites, particularly inside and outside. Students then apply their...
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Mapping Our Home

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore how communities participate in census counting. In this census activity, students recognize the absolute and relative location of a state and understand ideas about civic life and government.
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Community Helpers in our School and Town

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students create a PowerPoint presentation. In this community helpers instructional activity, students discuss community helpers and create a t-chart to list what each community helper does. Students watch a PowerPoint presentation,...
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Junk Sort

For Teachers K - 1st
Students analyze objects by one or more attributes. In this sorting lesson plan, students use manipulatives and string or yarn to create a sorting game. Students read books and items from the classroom to sort. 
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We Care About Fire Safety

For Teachers K - 3rd
Learners investigate the hazards of fires and how to best protect themselves and their family.  In this home safety lesson, students examine the importance of a smoke detector and discover how many homes are missing them among their...
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Men, Women, and Careers

For Teachers K - 3rd Standards
Teach young learners that they can have any job they want, no matter their gender! An elementary lesson emphasizes that while some jobs may be more closely associated with men or with women, people of either gender can complete them....
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Keeping Safe (911)

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Learners explore "emergency safety" rules through a series of activities led by the teacher. In this safety lesson, students practice dialing 911 on a paper or play phone after listening to the interactive book It's Time to Call 911:...
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Fire Chief

For Teachers K - 2nd
Pupils practice locomotor movements while pretending to be "firemen" at "fire stations". In this movement lesson, students stand in hoola hoops representing their fire station. They practice 8 different locomotor movements while...
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Fire Safety

For Teachers K
Students explore how to act in the event of a building they're in being on fire.
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Firemen Fighting For /F/

For Teachers K
Students complete a variety of activities related to the /f/ sound. As a class they recite a tongue twister, and trace and write the letter F. Students then listen to the book "One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish," and identify the...
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When I Grow Up - All By Myself

For Teachers K - 3rd
Learners listen to the book, All By Myself, then write sentences describing themselves now and when they are grown up. They create self-portraits of their current selves and what they be like in the future.

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