FireSmart BC Education Program – Grades 2-3

Below you’ll find the FireSmart BC Education Program lesson guides and lesson plans for Grade 2 through 3. The lesson guides are designed to help educators bring wildfire awareness and preparedness into the classroom in a flexible, accessible way. Each guide offers a modular approach, allowing lessons to be taught as stand-alone activities or as part of a broader learning sequence. They also include suggestions for adapting content to different learning environments, whether in traditional classrooms, outdoor spaces, or through land-based learning connections, so educators can tailor the lessons to best support their students and community context.

Lesson One: What important lessons can we learn about fire from First Peoples?

Theme: Safety

Lesson two: How can we best use understanding of our local ecozone to make an area FireSmart?

Theme: Fire Science

Lesson three: What important ideas from fire science can we use to help us build a safe campfire?

Theme: Fire Science

Lesson four: How FireSmart is this park?

Theme: Mitigation and prevention

Lesson five: How FireSmart is this home?

Theme: Safety