Traveling Trunks
Squirt's Fire Safety
An Engaging Fire Safety Course for Preschoolers
You're never too young to start learning about fire safety! Now you can bring our Squirt's Fire Safety Class to your classroom. This trunk includes interactives, books, videos, and lesson plans to teach young children about four life-saving fire safety behaviors (Firefighters are Our Friends, Crawl Low Under Smoke, Tools vs. Toys, and Calling 9-1-1).
Fire Science and Safety
Fire science and fire safety for 3rd-5th Grade.
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.
Fire Science
Fire science and fire safety for 6th-8th Grade.
Our traveling trunks are designed to promote curiosity and learning at various age levels to reiterate fire-safe behaviors and help prepare students for emergency situations. This Fire Science Trunk will build on chemistry concepts students will be familiar with that explain why fire behaves the way it does and how we can use that knowledge to put fires out. Our trunk will also investigate how firefighting has evolved over time and what it may look like in the future as technology continues to develop.
Included in this trunk are several lessons that build on fire science and safety behaviors, along with physical artifacts, activities, and labs for exploration. Please review our helpful tips for using this trunk and inventory sheets before you get started.
Tools of the Trade
A Collections Based Discovery Program for 2nd-3rd Grade.
The Denver Firefighters Museum invites teachers of second to third grade to evaluate our objects-based history 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: Firefighters Today, Early Firefighting, Combustion Engines, and the Evolution of Firefighting. 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.
Finally, the trunk comes with a full week’s curriculum of fire safety and prevention activities, videos, books, web-based activities, and other supporting materials.