Fire Hall – Field Trip

Name: Mikayla Wagner

Grade Kindergarten Topic Career Education/Language Arts

Date April 23, 2019 Allotted Time 120 minutes

Cite sources used to develop this plan:

- Nanaimo Fire Rescue Station 4
- 1425 Cranberry Rd, Nanaimo, BC V9R 6Z7

1. Rationale: Why is this lesson relevant at this time with these students?
- Students are visiting their local fire station as part of their community unit. They will meet
some local community helpers, see the tools that firefighters use and hear about a
firefighter’s roles and responsibilities.

- I can meet a local community helper and listen to their roles and responsibilities.

2. Curricular and Core Competencies: What outcome(s) does this lesson develop?
Curricular: BIG IDEA:
Socials
-Our communities are diverse and made of individuals who have a lot in common

Career Education
-Communities include many different roles requiring many different skills

CURRICULAR COMPETENCIES:
Socials
-Use Social Studies inquiry processes and skills to ask questions; gather, interpret, and analyze ideas;
and communicate findings and decisions

Career Education
-Recognize the basic skills required in a variety of jobs in the community
-Identify and appreciate the roles and responsibilities of people in their schools, families, and
communities
Language Arts
-Use developmentally appropriate reading, listening, and viewing strategies to make meaning
-Engage actively as listeners, viewers, and readers, as appropriate, to develop understanding of
self, identity, and community
CONTENT:
Socials
-Our communities are diverse and made of individuals who have a lot in common.
-rights, roles, and responsibilities of individuals and groups
Career Education
-roles and responsibilities at home, at school, and in the local community
-jobs in the local community
 Language Arts
-oral language strategies
-reading strategies

Core: COMMUNICATION
- Connect and engage with others (to share and develop ideas)
- Acquire, interpret, and present information (includes inquiries)
CRITICAL THINKING
- Question and investigate
PERSONAL & SOCIAL
- Contributing to community and caring for the environment
- Solving problems in peaceful ways
- Building relationships
- Personal values and choices
- Personal strengths and abilities

3. Lesson Development
CONNECT:
1. State learning intentions “I can meet a local community helper and listen to their roles and
responsibilities.
2. I will have students gather on the carpet so I can review expectations:
~Stay together
~Respectfully listen to the speaker
~Raise your hand if you have a question
3. I will ask students to use the bathroom if they need to.
4. I will give parents their list of students.
5. We will leave by 8:50
PROCESS:
6. Arrive at the Fire Hall and follow directions 9am-11am
TRANSFORM:
7. Arrive back at the school just after 11am
8. Review the field trip while having a snack
9. Ask students to share their favourite part of the trip.
PLAN B
10. If there is an emergency call out and the trip cancelled, we will watch a short video about
firefighters and think of things we would like to know about firefighting. Then we will watch a
short video about firefighters and think of things we would like to know about firefighting.
Hopefully we will be able to reschedule.
11. If the trip is cut short due to an emergency call out, we will walk back to the school as long
as the weather is fair.

4. Resources, Material and Preparation: What resources, materials and preparation are required?
- Parent drivers
- Red Safety Backpack
- Class list
5.Diversity
-Paying close attention to Grady, Owen, Liam, Declan, Damon, and Ada as they may wander off

6. Classroom Management Strategies

- Reinforcing expected and unexpected behaviour
- Cues to get attention
- Setting clear boundaries