Slide outline for Lesson 4.2. Fourteen slides, one day. The six room slides are the review slides before the Home Safety and Conservation Quiz. [Sal: photos of real rooms with the hazards circled work better than drawings; stage them at home or use the FACS room.]
Home Safety Hunt
- Lesson 4.2
- Today: hazards by room, the two detectors every home needs, and a plan for the night something goes wrong
- Poison Control: 1-800-222-1222 (this stays on the board all unit)
Teacher notes
Image: a two-story house at dusk with one window lit.
Do now
- Where is the smoke detector closest to where you sleep?
- "I do not know" counts as an answer
- When was it last tested?
- Two minutes
Teacher notes
Hand vote on both. The "I do not know" count is your pre-assessment. Then the fact: about three in five home fire deaths are in homes with no working smoke alarm. [Sal: confirm the current NFPA number.]
Kitchen
- Pot handles turned out
- A towel or paper near the burner
- Knives in the sink
- Cleaners and medicines where a child can reach
Teacher notes
Image: a kitchen with a pot handle sticking out over the edge, a towel on the oven door, and an open cabinet under the sink; each hazard circled.
Students fill the kitchen row in Part 1. Remind them: this was Lesson 1.1, same eyes, new room.
Bathroom
- Wet tile floor, a mat with no rubber back
- No grab bar in the tub
- A hair dryer plugged in near water
- Medicine in reach
Teacher notes
Image: a bathroom with a hair dryer on the sink edge, a bath mat, and an open medicine cabinet; each hazard circled.
Introduce GFCI outlet in one sentence: the outlet with the two buttons, made to shut off near water. Not tested.
Stairs
- Anything on the steps
- A loose rug at the top
- No railing
- Dark
Teacher notes
Image: a staircase with a shoe basket on the bottom step, no railing, and a rug at the top with a curled corner.
Ask: who falls on stairs most? Answer: the youngest and the oldest. Both live in the house you get today.
Bedroom
- A space heater within three feet of the bed or a curtain
- Cords under the rug
- A candle
- A window that does not open, or a crib under a window
Teacher notes
Image: a bedroom with a space heater a foot from a hanging blanket, and a cord running under a rug.
Three feet is the rule for anything that heats.
Garage and outside
- Gasoline near a water heater or any flame
- A car running with the garage door closed (carbon monoxide)
- A ladder left standing
- A pool with no fence or gate; ice on the steps
Teacher notes
Image: a garage with a red gas can beside a water heater, and a car inside with the door down.
This slide sets up the CO detector on Slide 8 and the hazard nobody finds in the hunt.
The two detectors
- Smoke detector: every level of the home and every sleeping area; test monthly; new battery yearly; replace at ten years
- Carbon monoxide (CO) detector: near the sleeping areas; CO has no smell and no color
- A chirp once a minute means the battery is low. It is not a bug.
Teacher notes
Image: a round smoke detector and a plug-in CO detector, side by side, with the test buttons marked.
Pass both detectors around. Press test once. Find the date on the back.
Cords, outlets, poisons
- One plug per outlet; a power strip is not a wall
- No cords under rugs or through doorways
- A space heater always plugs straight into the wall, alone
- Poisons and medicines: up high and locked; Poison Control 1-800-222-1222
Teacher notes
Image: a power strip with six plugs and a space heater cord in it, with a red X.
The hunt
- Teams of three
- Read the Delacroix-Nwosu home: a mother, a toddler (age 2), a grandmother (age 74, uses a cane)
- Highlight every hazard, then table it: room, type, one fix
- Fifteen are hidden
- Twelve minutes
Teacher notes
Answer no questions about whether something counts. Circulate with the clipboard checklist.
A plan has three parts
- Two ways out of every bedroom: a door and a window, or two doors
- One meeting spot outside that everyone can reach; never the driveway, where the fire trucks park
- Who to call: 911, Poison Control, one trusted adult outside the house
Teacher notes
Image: a simple floor plan with two arrows leaving each bedroom and a star at a mailbox.
Ask before they start: how does the grandmother get down the stairs? Who carries the toddler? Both go in the plan.
Make the plan
- Fill Part 3 for the Delacroix-Nwosu family
- Draw the exits on your floor plan sketch
- One sentence: why your meeting spot works for a grandmother with a cane
- Eight minutes
Teacher notes
Common weak answer: "the front yard." Push for a fixed object.
Debrief
- One reporter per team: the worst hazard for the toddler, and the worst for the grandmother
- The ones nobody found
- Two teams: where is your meeting spot and why
Teacher notes
Reveal the running car in the closed garage last. It is the reason CO detectors go inside the house, near the bedrooms.
Exit card
- 3 hazards from the home you found today
- 2 parts of a family emergency plan
- 1 thing in your own home you want to check tonight (no address, no names)
Teacher notes
Three students read line 3. Sort before the next period.