FireSmart BC Education Program – Grades 4-6
Below you’ll find the FireSmart BC Education Program lesson guides and lesson plans for Grade 4 through 6. 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.
Theme: Fire Science
Lesson one: How can we best use understanding of our local ecozone to make an area FireSmart?
Theme: Fire Science
Lesson two: What are the most important lessons about using fire to care for the land that we can learn from First Peoples?
Theme: Safety
Lesson three: What helpful habits could improve wildfire safety and prevention?
Theme: Fire Science
Lesson four: How related are climate change and wildfires?
Theme: Safety
Lesson five: How can people in communities best share responsibility for wildfire safety?
