Grades 3-5
Download any of the activities below to follow-up your Red Cross-instructed course, or to compliment your own lesson plans.
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Disaster Preparedness
Call 9-1-1
Practice making emergency calls and giving correct information using these guides...
WATCH vs WARNING
It is important to understand what emergency bulletins on radio and television mean and whether or not they apply to you.
Danger Signs
There are many dangers that can affect our community. Look at each of these symbols to talk about whether these disasters can happen here...
School Emergency Procedures & Drills
Children feel safer when they know and practice the right things to do in case of an emergency. Help students practice and update emergency safety drills by using this guide. Then evaluate the results of your drill...
Build a Classroom Emergency Kit
Help students prepare for an emergency at school, and help the school get ready as well, by using this guide to building an emergency preparedness kit...
Make a Family Disaster Plan
Your family disaster plan includes ways to reduce hazards, a family contact list and a supplies kit to meet the needs of everyone in case of an emergency situation...
Build a Family Disasters Supply Kit
One important step in any family disaster plan is to have needed supplies ready. Complete this list as a family...
Help is on the Way
A list of organizations ready to help in case of a disaster or emergency...
Pets & Disasters - a Story
Here's a true story about Scrappy, a skinny, scared dog rescued in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina by Pasado's Animal Rescue...
Fire Prevention & Safety
Helpful & Harmful Fires
Is this fire helpful or harmful? Create scenarios to answer the following questions about the fire in this barbecue grill...
Kitchen Fire Hazards & Safety
Determine the safest place to locate the following objects in the kitchen. Draw your decisions on the picture...
Find the Fire Hazards
List all the possible fire hazards shown in this house...
Fire Safety Equipment
Using an actual smoke alarm, identify each labeled part of the alarm pictured. On the back of this sheet, answer the following questions...
Firefighters in Action
Make a list of what the firefighters and the Red Cross workers are doing. Describe the reasons for their actions...
Interview with a Firefighter
Below is an interview with Chief John Brogan, 34-year veteran firefighter with the Fire Department in Chicago, Illinois...
The Secret Fire Message
Examine the secret message below. It is composed of words and pictures called rebus writing. Try to solve the puzzle and decode the secret message...
Korey's True Story
Thirteen year-old Korey Monahan of Dubuque, Iowa, signed up for an American Red Cross fire safety course. Just a month later, fire struck her home and Korey had to help her family survive...
Tornadoes
The Enhanced Fujita Scale of Tornado Intensity
The Enhanced Fujita Scale is a measurement of observed damage caused by tornadoes. Study the Enhanced Fujita Scale on the next page. Then, create scales to measure and compare the relative size or strength of other things: rivers, parks, buildings...
Tornado Strikes
Study the Map and Tornado Strikes worksheets to answer the following questions about tornadoes in the United States...
Tornado in a Bottle
Gather the following materials and follow the steps below to illustrate some of the concepts behind tornado formation...
Storm Cloud
Gather the materials and follow the steps below to illustrate how thunderstorm clouds form...
Hail Maker
Gather the materials and follow the steps to illustrate how hail forms within thunderclouds..
Floods
Soil Science - Infiltration Rates
Follow the steps below to find the infiltration rates of different types of soil, and to demonstrate why and how floods can occur...