Our Brand New Traveling Trunks are Here!

A Collections Based Discovery Program

The Denver Firefighters Museum invites teachers of preschool to third grade to evaluate our object-based discovery trunk. Your students will explore, through hands-on activities with actual firefighter equipment, a glimpse into the day-to-day life of a firefighter. Activities include: Dressing for a Fire, Tools of the Trade, Communicating Fires, Fire Stations, and the Denver Firefighters Museum. Along with the objects from the Museum’s educational collection comes a photo album of objects, such as fire trucks, that are too large to include in a typical truck program. 

And, the trunk comes with the “Great 911 Adventure” that teaches children how and when to call 911 through a video presentation.

Finally, the trunk comes with a full week’s curriculum of fire safety and prevention activities, videos, books, web-based activities, supporting materials, and a field trip guide of pre and post activities to the Denver Firefighters Museum. 

Grades 3-5 

One of the best ways to prevent fires is to know what causes them and understand how fire behaves. More than 3,000 people die in home fires every year in the United States, with the leading causes of fires being related to cooking, heating appliances, electrical malfunctions, and other unintentional causes.  Additionally, statistics reveal that intentional fires in both non-residential and residential settings have increased in recent years, and over 50% of arson fires are started by children under the age of 18. 

At the Denver Firefighters Museum, we believe that starting fire safety education from a young age and encouraging exploration of the science of fire in a safe setting will help promote fire safe practices among children and prevent future fire-related injuries and deaths.  

Included in this trunk are several lessons that build on basic fire science and safety behaviors, along with physical artifacts, activities, and labs for exploration.