Bucket Brigade
Ages 0 and up

Ringing bells, flashing lights and passing buckets. This is a fun tour of fire engines and firefighting history from the past 250 years. It includes a stop in the fire alarm office, a fire safety talk, and playtime in the Discovery Room where children can climb on a real fire engine. Tour guides modify the tour based on the age of the group. This program meets Voluntary Maryland State Curriculum Standards for Social Studies for students, pre-school through 4th grade.     (Click here for Suggested Lesson Plan)

Ropes to Radiators
Ages 5 and up

This two-part tour begins at the Fire Museum with the Bucket Brigade program. The group then tours one of several participating modern fire stations to meet fire fighters and to learn about modern fire fighting methods. The tour is often scheduled around lunch time. In good weather, area parks are available for brown bag lunches or, arrangements can be made to have lunch at the fire houseThe program must be booked as one package.

Digging Baltimore
3rd grade and up

Students tour the Fire Museum focusing on the Great Baltimore Fire of 1904. In a prepared archaeology unit, students examine primary documents and news accounts and do a simulated dig for clues to discover how Baltimoreans lived and worked at the time of the Great Fire. This tour meets Maryland State Curriculum for elementary archaeology.     (Click here for Suggested Lesson Plans)

Build the Engine!!
3rd grade and up

Learn about how fire engines work and actually build a kid-size working model. Students first tour the Fire Museum and discuss the arrangement and working parts of different kinds of fire engines. Next they work with adult facilitators to assemble a working fire engine based on a large toy wagon. Then the students cooperate as a team to operate the fire engine. This innovative program meets Maryland State Curriculum elementary science standards.

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Bus Subsidies

Ask about $100 Bus Subsidies provided by State Farm Insurance. Click here for more information.

Tour Lesson Plans

Tour	Lesson Plans Provided by Baltimore City Master Teachers Teaching American History Grant, U.S. Dept. of Education (Click plan title below to open PDF document.)
Digging Baltimore	1.  Koonce – Grade 4 Baltimore Fire 2.  Mabee – Grade 9-12 Fires
Bucket Brigade	Hyzer – Grade 6-8 A Real Baltimore Firefighter

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