Student materials: Index card, writing utensil
Educator/Parent materials: List of safe cooking tips printed and cut into strips and numbered. Container to collect thumbs up tips.
Student will listen, view, read and speak about safe cooking practices to prevent accidents and fire.

• 3-5 min. Intro: Ask students what they think is the number one cause of fires in the home. Have students write their answer down on a white board or a slip of paper as provided prior to lesson. Share answer(s) and discuss. Acknowledge answers but now tell students that according to the NFPA, the number one cause of house fires is cooking in the home. Today we are going to learn some tips for cooking safely at home to minimize your fire risk.
• 8-10 min. Thumbs Up-Thumbs Down Game: Pass out kitchen safety tips or put in a stack to share if only small group. Take turns reading tip out loud. The group must vote thumbs up or thumbs down on the tip. If this is a tip that will prevent an accident or fire in the kitchen, it’s thumbs up and gets put into the keep container. Thumbs down means that tip is thrown out. When all tips are processed, can quickly orally review top tips.
• 5 min: Pass out index cards. Student needs to think of the tip they thought was best. Student needs to write down the tip they thought was best on their index card and be prepared to present their tip to their family that evening.

Safe Cooking Practices Lesson will use the following standards and objectives:
Utah State Core Curriculum
3rd Grade
Health Education:
Standard 2: The student will adopt health-promoting and risk reducing behaviors to prevent substance abuse.
Objective 2 Determine how building relationships with helpful people can be beneficial. (SS)
a. List and classify helpful people; e.g. within family, neighborhood, community.
Objective 3 Demonstrate ways to avoid, manage or escape risk.
Standard 5: The students will adopt behaviors to maintain personal health and safety and develop appropriate strategies to resolve conflict.
Objective 1
a. Describe procedures to follow in case of fire, flood, earthquakes, and electrical shock.
Objective 3
b. Define the role of each service. (firefighter service)
Speaking and Listening (S&L)
Standard 1: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 3 topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
S&L Standard 2: Determine main ideas and supporting details of… information presented orally.
S&L Standard 3: Ask and answer questions about information from a speaker, offering appropriate elaboration and detail.
Conventions of Standard English
Language Standard 1: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
Language Standard 2: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.