Firestation

1. Independent Dramatic Play Center
Essential Characteristics Non-essential Characteristics
Introduction to Center:
 This week is Fire Safety Week
 Have the firefighters visit the school to show the children the firetruck as well as talk to
them about fire safey
 You can also have a video prepared of a virtual field trip of a fire department
 After the virtual field trip and the presentation by the local fire department review with
the children what the job of the fire firghters are as well as what we should to keep
ourselves safe in the event of an emergency
 Have items available for the children to set up the dramatic play center like a fire
department
 Have the children split up into small groups and create different things to complete
their fire station
 Have the small groups use the items available to make a fire hydrant, paper fire flames,
a fire truck, buildings, neighborhood maps, dispatch center, air tanks, etc.
 Let the children name their fire department
 The teachers will model for the children the roles of the firefighters, dispatch, and
callers
 Allow the children to split up again into groups and take turns playing out each role
 The children will dramatize the following: dialing phone numbers, teaching fire safety,
saving people and animals, putting out fires, driving a fire truck, following a map,
Materials:
Firefighter hats
Red and orange paper
Markers
Posterboard
Flashlights
Cardboard boxes
Tool box
Spray bottles filled with water
Cut garden hose
Driving wheel
Telephone
Note pads
Laptop
TTC Student Name: Amber Smith
Objective: The children will create a fire department and dramatize what
happens during a fire emergency.
Assessment:
. Describe what action will you take to assess the students as they work
independently in this center or after they have worked in this center?
The teacher will supervise and monitor the children as they build
the dramatic play center. She will guide the children when needed
and ask open ended questions.
Guiding/open ended questions:
What do you think a firefighter would do right now?
What are you working on?
How would you handle this?
What would you teach people about fire safety?
Age(s) of Children: 4
SCELS Standard Goals:
APL-4: Children demonstrate creativity, imagination, and inventiveness.
APL-7: Children demonstrate initiative.
LDC-15: Children use writing skills and conventions.
Developmental Indicator:
• Expand the variety of roles taken during dramatic play and add more actions, language,
or props to enact roles. APL-4m
• Set simple goals that extend over time, make plans and follow through (“Let’s make a
rocket ship. We need blocks.”). APL-7m
• Use a variety of writing tools and materials with increasing precision. LDC-15i
Independently identify and seek things they need to complete activities or tasks (gather
supplies and make brick houses)
Fire Safety Dramatic Play Center