Music &
Videos
Firefighting’s Weird History & Fascinating Future
Did you know that firefighters used to use their beards as air filtration devices? Or that they used to compete for the right to fight a fire? Get all of the details about these strange legends and more.
Play VideoFirefighting’s Weird History & Fascinating Future
Lessons from History: The Great Chicago Fire
NFPA's Casey Grant teams up with bestselling author of the 'I Survived' series, Lauren Tarshis to talk about the fire safety lessons we learned from the Great Chicago Fire.
Play VideoLessons from History: The Great Chicago Fire
Firefighters are on their way
A firefighter song we can all sing along. Check. SteveSongs and NFPA's new music video is about the job of a firefighter and the role they play as community helpers. Best for grades PreK-1
Play VideoFirefighters are on their way
Little Rosalie
Sing and dance along with SteveSongs as Rosalie and her little brother learn the four key steps to follow when you hear the sound of a smoke alarm.
Best for grades PreK-1
Little Rosalie
What's That Sound?
Can Recess Monkey and their gang of pals brave Sparky's flying smoke alarm to learn what it takes to stay fire safe?
Best for grades 2-3
What's That Sound?
SteveSongs Moves!
Steve guides you through his dance moves step-by-step so you can also catch the rhythm. PBS Kids Star SteveSongs shows you how to dance along with his music video “Little Rosalie"
Best for grades PreK-1
SteveSongs Moves!
Walk Away? Stay and Play?
Play a game with Sparky and determine when it is safe to play, when to stay away from a hot object, and when to inform a grown up. This video supports the wrap-up activity described in the lesson plan.
Play VideoWalk Away? Stay and Play?
Hot, Not Hot, or Sometimes Hot
A great way for children to practice identifying items that are hot, sometimes hot, and not hot. Use the video to supplement the body of the lesson or to assess student learning.
Play VideoHot, Not Hot, or Sometimes Hot
Whose Hat is That?
This interactive 2 minute clip for the Learn Not to Burn Preschool Program lesson "Firefighters are Community Helpers" can be used to introduce the lesson if the suggested book is unavailable.
Play VideoWhose Hat is That?
The Gear Firefighters Wear
Designed to supplement the Learn Not to Burn Preschool Program "Firefighters are Community Helpers" lesson, this 3-minute video helps children understand that while a firefighter’s gear might look and sound scary, there is a community helper underneath.
The Gear Firefighters Wear
Read
& Play
Sparky's Brain
Busters
Sparky the Fire Dog's ® new free trivia app challenges students to work alone or team up with friends and classmates to answer questions on standards-aligned subjects like math, science, pop culture and fire safety.
Sparky's Firehouse
Sparky the Fire Dog's ® brand new app is loaded with games and activities perfect for teaching your early learner how to stay safe in case of a fire, plus early math, reading and literacy skills.
Sparky's
Birthday
Surprise
Teach kids important fire-safety skills with Sparky’s Birthday Surprise, a new free app jam-packed with games, activities, coloring pages, and even a sing-a-long. With bright graphics and kid-friendly tappable animations throughout, this free app is aligned to Common Core State Standards in English, Language Arts and Math.
The case
of the
Missing
smoke alarms
Sparky the Fire Dog® and his friends set out to solve a mystery in The Case of the Missing Smoke Alarms, a free app that teaches kids fire-safety skills with a compelling new story, standards-aligned materials and loads of fun tappable animations.
Sparky's Match Game
In this fun and original FREE app, children are shown by Sparky the Fire Dog himself what a smoke alarm looks like. They will learn the sound a smoke alarm makes, and what to do when they hear that sound. The app, designed for children ages three to five, combines a fun matching game with learning about smoke alarms. This message is especially important to small children, who may not recognize the sound or are unaware that hearing a smoke alarm means get outside and stay outside.
(Ages 3-5)
Available for iPad and iPhone
Rescue Dogs, Firefighting
Heroes, and Science Facts
Written by New York Times bestselling authors, this free eBook is ideal for reinforcing fire-safety messages with students while building critical skills in reading comprehension, fluency, vocabulary, and more. Rescue Dogs, Firefighting Heroes, and Science Facts meets Common Core State Standards in English, Language Arts, Social Studies, and Science through a combination of nonfiction, fictional stories, scientific diagrams, and poetry.
Learn not
to burn®
Learn Not to Burn Preschool
NFPA created the Learn Not to Burn® Preschool Program in 1991 to address the high risks children under the age of five face in regards to fatal home fires.
The updated program integrates literacy, movement, music, and dramatic play to provide a developmentally appropriate learning experience for preschool-aged children.
Five lessons tap into varied learning styles to reinforce the safety concepts for young children. The behaviors and strategies addressed in the revised program are guided by research related to fire and life safety messaging and young children including the use of positively-framed messages, opportunities for active engagement and encouragement of family involvement.
The Learn Not to Burn Preschool Program lessons are intended for 3-5 year old children.
Available in English and Spanish.
Learn Not to Burn Kindergarten
Learn Not to Burn® (LNTB) Kindergarten presents six fire-safety messages using classroom lesson, activities and home connections. It can be taught as a stand-alone fire safety unit or easily integrated in language arts core curriculum lessons. The fire department can be invited to the classroom throughout the program to support the fire-safety messages taught. LNTB is an easy to use flexible guide for teachers to respond to the needs of the classroom. Make time for fire safety in your classroom.
Learn Not to Burn Grade 1
Learn Not to Burn Grade 1 presents six fire safety messages using classroom lessons, activities and home connections. It can be taught as a stand-alone fire safety unit or easily integrated in language arts core curriculum lessons. The fire department can be invited to the classroom throughout the program to support the fire safety messages taught. Learn Not to Burn is an easy to use flexible guide for teachers to respond to the needs of the classroom. Make time for fire safety education in your classroom.
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Lessons
What a Character!
Teach your students about character traits while they learn how to stay fire safe. (Meets CCSS Standards for 1st and 2nd grade.)
Smoke Alarm Sounds
Show your students proper punctuation along with the proper reaction to the “beep, beep, beep” of a smoke alarm. (Meets CCSS Standards for 1st and 2nd grade.)
Fire Prevention Week: Parent Letter
Teachers: Help your students stay safe at home! This printable PDF guide will show students and parents how to check their smoke alarms at home. Print out a copy and send it home in your students’ backpacks today.
Birthday Party Phonics
In this lesson, students will learn to navigate their way to safety, solve the clues to reveal the hidden birthday party characters, drag-and-drop the dogs at their Outside Meeting Places, and more. Download the White Board and the Flip Chart lessons for your classroom.
Firehouse Coloring Math
Tongue Twisters & Riddles
Choose Your Outside Meeting Place
Sparky Word Scramble
Escape Plan Grid
Bookmark Bonanza
Origami Dog
Sparky's Home Safety Check List
How To Draw A Fire Dog
Sort It Out
Kitchen Safety Hidden Pics
What a Character Worksheet
Perfect Punctuation Worksheet
1-2-3-4 Order
(Grades PreK-1)
Teach kids to sequence the steps to fire safety! As part of this lesson, you can play the “Little Rosalie” music video to bring the 4 key steps for responding to a smoke alarm to life in your classroom.
Safety Search
(Grades PreK-1)
Get fire-safe with this fun matching game. Spark your students’ interest through singing and dancing along to the “Little Rosalie” music video by SteveStongs.
You’re a Star
(Grades PreK-1)
This lesson will turn your students into fire-safety superstars, especially if they practice the 4 fire escape movements in the “Little Rosalie” music video by SteveSongs.
Hula, Hula Relay
(Grades 2-3)
Jump, skip and hop your way to fire safety lessons learned from the “What’s That Sound?” music video by Recess Monkey. Pair the lesson plan featuring message cards and questions with the video for optimal learning.
Data, Data Everywhere
(Grades 2-3)
Using a data collecting activity, students will work in pairs to learn the concept of
recording data and create bar graphs, using information they gather from the “What’s that Sound” music video by Recess Monkey.
In My Opinion
(Grades 2-3)
Let your students’ fire-safe voices be heard! Teach them the facts of fire safety with the “What’s That Sound” music video and let them express themselves through their own opinion paragraph.
The Great Chicago Fire
(Grades 3-5) Help your students understand the risk of injury from a fire, and partake in community responsibility through the Great Chicago Fire lesson plan and handouts. Use the video along with the activity!
Firefighting’s Weird History & Fascinating Future
(Grades 2-5) Download a standards-aligned classroom lesson plan that includes an informational text reading and related discussion questions to use alongside the Firefighting’s Weird History & Fascinating Future video.
All
Lessons
Learn Not to Burn Preschool
NFPA created the Learn Not to Burn® Preschool Program in 1991 to address the high risks children under the age of five face in regards to fatal home fires.
The updated program integrates literacy, movement, music, and dramatic play to provide a developmentally appropriate learning experience for preschool-aged children.
Five lessons tap into varied learning styles to reinforce the safety concepts for young children. The behaviors and strategies addressed in the revised program are guided by research related to fire and life safety messaging and young children including the use of positively-framed messages, opportunities for active engagement and encouragement of family involvement.
The Learn Not to Burn Preschool Program lessons are intended for 3-5 year old children.
Available in English and Spanish.
Learn Not to Burn Kindergarten
Learn Not to Burn® (LNTB) Kindergarten presents six fire-safety messages using classroom lesson, activities and home connections. It can be taught as a stand-alone fire safety unit or easily integrated in language arts core curriculum lessons. The fire department can be invited to the classroom throughout the program to support the fire-safety messages taught. LNTB is an easy to use flexible guide for teachers to respond to the needs of the classroom. Make time for fire safety in your classroom.
Learn Not to Burn Grade 1
Learn Not to Burn Grade 1 presents six fire safety messages using classroom lessons, activities and home connections. It can be taught as a stand-alone fire safety unit or easily integrated in language arts core curriculum lessons. The fire department can be invited to the classroom throughout the program to support the fire safety messages taught. Learn Not to Burn is an easy to use flexible guide for teachers to respond to the needs of the classroom. Make time for fire safety education in your classroom.
What a Character!
Teach your students about character traits while they learn how to stay fire safe. (Meets CCSS Standards for 1st and 2nd grade.)
Smoke Alarm Sounds
Show your students proper punctuation along with the proper reaction to the “beep, beep, beep” of a smoke alarm. (Meets CCSS Standards for 1st and 2nd grade.)
Fire Prevention Week: Parent Letter
Teachers: Help your students stay safe at home! This printable PDF guide will show students and parents how to check their smoke alarms at home. Print out a copy and send it home in your students’ backpacks today.
Birthday Party Phonics
In this lesson, students will learn to navigate their way to safety, solve the clues to reveal the hidden birthday party characters, drag-and-drop the dogs at their Outside Meeting Places, and more. Download the White Board and the Flip Chart lessons for your classroom.
Fire-Safety Math
In this lesson, students will assess how many smoke alarms are needed in various homes, practice factoring through word problems, calculate averages, and more. Download the White Board and the Flip Chart lessons for your classroom.
The Science of Fire and More
Students will play on teams to answer a series of fire-safety questions and connect the dots, learn to distinguish among sentence types, discover how fires burn and how they can be extinguished, and more. Download the White Board and the Flip Chart lessons for your classroom.
1-2-3-4 Order
(Grades PreK-1)
Teach kids to sequence the steps to fire safety! As part of this lesson, you can play the “Little Rosalie” music video to bring the 4 key steps for responding to a smoke alarm to life in your classroom.
Safety Search
(Grades PreK-1)
Get fire-safe with this fun matching game. Spark your students’ interest through singing and dancing along to the “Little Rosalie” music video by SteveStongs.
You’re a Star
(Grades PreK-1)
This lesson will turn your students into fire-safety superstars, especially if they practice the 4 fire escape movements in the “Little Rosalie” music video by SteveSongs.
Hula, Hula Relay
(Grades 2-3)
Jump, skip and hop your way to fire safety lessons learned from the “What’s That Sound?” music video by Recess Monkey. Pair the lesson plan featuring message cards and questions with the video for optimal learning.
Data, Data Everywhere
(Grades 2-3)
Using a data collecting activity, students will work in pairs to learn the concept of
recording data and create bar graphs, using information they gather from the “What’s that Sound” music video by Recess Monkey.
In My Opinion
(Grades 2-3)
Let your students’ fire-safe voices be heard! Teach them the facts of fire safety with the “What’s That Sound” music video and let them express themselves through their own opinion paragraph.
The Great Chicago Fire
(Grades 3-5) Help your students understand the risk of injury from a fire, and partake in community responsibility through the Great Chicago Fire lesson plan and handouts. Use the video along with the activity!
Firefighting’s Weird History & Fascinating Future
(Grades 2-5) Download a standards-aligned classroom lesson plan that includes an informational text reading and related discussion questions to use alongside the Firefighting’s Weird History & Fascinating Future video.
Firehouse Coloring Math
Tongue Twisters & Riddles
Choose Your Outside Meeting Place
Sparky Word Scramble
Escape Plan Grid
Bookmark Bonanza
Origami Dog
Sparky's Home Safety Check List
How To Draw A Fire Dog
Sort It Out
Kitchen Safety Hidden Pics
What a Character Worksheet
Perfect Punctuation Worksheet
Music & Videos
Firefighting’s Weird History & Fascinating Future
Did you know that firefighters used to use their beards as air filtration devices? Or that they used to compete for the right to fight a fire? Get all of the details about these strange legends and more.
Play VideoFirefighting’s Weird History & Fascinating Future
Lessons from History: The Great Chicago Fire
NFPA's Casey Grant teams up with bestselling author of the 'I Survived' series, Lauren Tarshis to talk about the fire safety lessons we learned from the Great Chicago Fire.
Play VideoLessons from History: The Great Chicago Fire
Firefighters are on their way
A firefighter song we can all sing along. Check. SteveSongs and NFPA's new music video is about the job of a firefighter and the role they play as community helpers. Best for grades PreK-1
Play VideoFirefighters are on their way
Little Rosalie
Sing and dance along with SteveSongs as Rosalie and her little brother learn the four key steps to follow when you hear the sound of a smoke alarm.
Best for grades PreK-1
Little Rosalie
What's That Sound?
Can Recess Monkey and their gang of pals brave Sparky's flying smoke alarm to learn what it takes to stay fire safe?
Best for grades 2-3
What's That Sound?
SteveSongs Moves!
Steve guides you through his dance moves step-by-step so you can also catch the rhythm. PBS Kids Star SteveSongs shows you how to dance along with his music video “Little Rosalie"
Best for grades PreK-1
SteveSongs Moves!
Walk Away? Stay and Play?
Play a game with Sparky and determine when it is safe to play, when to stay away from a hot object, and when to inform a grown up. This video supports the wrap-up activity described in the lesson plan.
Play VideoWalk Away? Stay and Play?
Hot, Not Hot, or Sometimes Hot
A great way for children to practice identifying items that are hot, sometimes hot, and not hot. Use the video to supplement the body of the lesson or to assess student learning.
Play VideoHot, Not Hot, or Sometimes Hot
Whose Hat is That?
This interactive 2 minute clip for the Learn Not to Burn Preschool Program lesson "Firefighters are Community Helpers" can be used to introduce the lesson if the suggested book is unavailable.
Play VideoWhose Hat is That?
The Gear Firefighters Wear
Designed to supplement the Learn Not to Burn Preschool Program "Firefighters are Community Helpers" lesson, this 3-minute video helps children understand that while a firefighter’s gear might look and sound scary, there is a community helper underneath.
The Gear Firefighters Wear
The Case of the Missing Smoke Alarms App Trailer
Sparky the Fire Dog® and his friends set out to solve a mystery in The Case of the Missing Smoke Alarms, a new free app that teaches kids fire-safety skills with a compelling new story, standards-aligned materials and loads of fun tappable animations.
Play VideoThe Case of the Missing Smoke Alarms App Trailer
Sparky’s Birthday Surprise App Trailer
Sparky’s friends are throwing him a surprise party! Help them bake a cake, prepare his presents and even prepare the fire house for a big crowd, all while learning to stay safe in a fire.
Play VideoSparky’s Birthday Surprise App Trailer
Sparky's Firehouse App Trailer
Sparky the Fire Dog's ® brand new app is loaded with games and activities perfect for teaching your early learner how to stay safe in case of a fire, plus early math, reading and literacy skills.
Play VideoSparky's Firehouse App Trailer
