Mobile Education Unit
The Mobile Education Unit (MEU) is an exciting education experience
on wheels. This specially designed teaching unit focuses on home
fire safety and travels to primary schools throughout Victoria.
Onboard is a trained CFA presenter who delivers the fire safety
program to students.
The program involves an activity filled one hour lesson that teaches
students important life saving messages about fire.
This highly sought after program is kept very busy, visiting over
10,000 students in approximately 200 schools across Victoria each
year. The interactive presenter-based program is enhanced with
multimedia and other exciting displays and activities.
THIS IS A FREE SERVICE PROVIDED BY CFA
Target Audience
The program is targeted at middle primary students in Grades 3
and 4 but also caters for a wider range of student ages in smaller
rural schools.
The Session Content
The MEU is integrated with and complements CFA’s Fire Safe Kids (FSK).
The MEU is set up to resemble a home. Students move through the
MEU learning about different aspects of home fire safety in each
room of the house focussing on the high risk areas of the kitchen,
laundry and lounge room.
Inside the MEU the students will:
- recognise and explain how to remedy home fire hazards
- discuss the science behind fire through understanding the fire
triangle
- identify and discuss the dangers of flammable liquids
- learn personal survival strategies to extinguish clothing fires and to cool
burn/scald injuries
- identify the need to make a home fire escape plan
- rehearse home fire escape procedures
Outcomes of the MEU:
- Increasing students’ understanding of fire safety around
the home;
- Promoting fire safety to students in the comfort of their school
learning environment;
- Alerting the community to the need for fire safety at school and
home;
- Alerting the community to CFA’s role in saving life and
property;
- Students are encouraged to take the fire safety messages home and
discuss them with family and friends.
Booking the MEU
The MEU travels around Victoria each day of the school term. If
you are interested in having the MEU come to your school and to
find out when it is your area, contact
your local CFA Community Education Coordinator.
The MEU is fully self contained and doesn’t require an external
power supply.
Parking Requirements
The MEU is a semi-trailer measuring 17.5m in length, 3.9m in height
and 2.5m in width. That is 4 cars long and 1.5 cars wide. It needs
a large enough site in your school grounds to park and operate
safely (21m by 7m minimum).
NOTE: Alternative parking arrangements may be possible.
Program
Design & Curriculum Links
The program is designed to enable students to demonstrate strategies that deal with unsafe or emergency situations. This is strongly aligned to the learning outcomes in the Victorian Essential Learning Standards (VELS) and Curriculum Standards Framework II (CSFII). The lesson covers aspects within three key learning areas of Health and Physical Education, SOSE and Science.
At the end of the session teachers will receive a free CD Rom
with a range of follow up activities for the classroom.
To find out more contact your local Region office.
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