🧯 Emergency Helpers & 911

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Pre-K (ages 3–4)

Representative lesson facts

Emergency helpers include firefighters, police officers, paramedics, doctors, nurses, and trusted grown-ups.
If someone is badly hurt or in danger, a grown-up or emergency helper should be called right away.
Kids can learn their name and where they live so helpers can find them.

Sample check-for-understanding

Who can be an emergency helper?

Paramedic or trusted grown-up
A toy
A snack
A cloud

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Kindergarten (ages 5–6)

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911 is the emergency number in the United States for urgent fire, medical, or safety emergencies.
A child should call 911 only for a real emergency, then answer the helper's questions as best they can.
Knowing your address, grown-up names, and phone number can help emergency helpers arrive faster.

Sample check-for-understanding

What is 911 for in the United States?

Real emergencies
Ordering pizza
Practicing jokes
Asking homework questions

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Early elementary (ages 6–8)

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Emergency calls work best when the caller says what happened, where it happened, who needs help, and whether the scene is safe.
Dispatchers are trained helpers who ask questions and may give simple instructions while help is coming.
Non-emergency problems still need adults, but 911 is for immediate danger, serious injury, fire, crime in progress, or life-threatening illness.

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What should an emergency caller say?

What happened, where, who needs help, and scene safety
Only a nickname
Only the weather
Only a guess

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Upper elementary (ages 8–10)

Representative lesson facts

Emergency communication should be calm, specific, and location-first because responders cannot help if they cannot find the scene.
Good emergency literacy includes knowing local emergency numbers, address details, medical alerts, allergies, locked gates, pets, and safe meeting points.
Calling emergency services is appropriate when delay could risk life, safety, fire spread, severe bleeding, breathing, consciousness, poisoning, or major injury.

Sample check-for-understanding

Why should location come early in an emergency call?

Responders must find the scene
It makes the call shorter only
It replaces all details
It is optional

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Make, explain, or reflect

Lesson artifact prompt: Make an emergency helper card with 911, a trusted adult, home address practice, and one safe place to wait for help.

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