Burn Prevention Foundation - Programs and Services

The Great Escape

Target Audience:

Students in grades 5 through 8 and their families.

Goals / Objectives:

To instruct students on the importance of planning and practicing an escape from their home in case of a fire.
To provide audio visual examples of diagramming an escape plan, and providing the necessary tools to complete the plan.
To encourage students to share the plan and practice it with their families at least twice a year.

Methodology:

"The Great Escape" consists of a lesson plan; student worksheet with instructions and a grid for diagramming escape routes from the home; a 12 minute video or DVD that details the components of an escape plan. This is a teacher/instructor directed lesson. The lesson plan offers suggestions for extended activities to reinforce fire and burn prevention messages, and ideas for integrating the lesson into other subject areas.

Program Length

40-60 minutes. The lesson can be taught in the classroom, or can be self-taught by providing access to audio-visual equipment, and providing the student worksheet that contains detailed instructions for planning an escape from the home and a corresponding grid for drawing a house floor plan with escape routes indicated. Students can be referred to the Burn Prevention Foundation site to complete an interactive escape plan that can be printed and saved to use for practice with the family.