Children's Safety Network Newsletter includes link to NFPA’s Learn Not to Burn® Preschool Smoke Alarm Lesson

The Children’s Safety Network eNewsletter serves as a forum for sharing information about child and adolescent injury and violence prevention. It provides weekly listings of events, news items, and reports on specific injury-related topics. The April 5 issue included new resources and tool kits for April’s National Child Abuse Month.

In addition, the newsletter’s fire and burn safety piece in this edition discusses NFPA’s Learn Not to Burn Preschool Program’s new smoke alarm lesson: “When You Hear a Smoke Alarm, Get Out and Stay Out.” The smoke alarm lesson includes objectives, background information for the teacher, three lesson plans that teach the behavior in different ways, two newly recorded upbeat smoke alarm songs in MP3 files, new art for coloring to go with the songs, and a letter to send home to parents.
- Sharon Gamache

Comments

[Fernando Severns]

This brought me back to my teenage years. Back then I was such an active teenager. In middle school, I learned about basic first aid and served as a marshal during school fire drills. It was a lot of fun, and at the same time, I was able to acquire knowledge about quick response or aid in the case of an emergency. I’m pretty sure the kids also enjoyed this program, as it has a more child-friendly approach which definitely would not bore them.