Fire Drill Routine Visual Schedule Cards

About this resource

A posted, numbered sequence for practicing a fire drill routine that comes with its own data. Most routine-sequence sets stop at the pictures; this one adds a completion log, a weekly roll-up and a phrase bank behind it, so a step that stops needing a prompt turns into a line on a page a case manager can bring to a meeting.

The Routine

• Fire Drill (5 steps) — alarm sounds, line up, walk outside, stand and wait, walk back inside

This is a general classroom-transition sequence for practicing an already-established routine, not a fire safety procedure: it states no evacuation route, meeting-point location, timing rule or required drill count — those come from your building's own fire safety plan and get a blank line on the hand-off page. An actual alarm is rare, so most of the times this routine runs will be a practiced walk-through with no alarm at all; both count the same way on the completion log, and this file sets no schedule or required number of either one.

Every picture was chosen to be named in one word by a young child, in color AND in the black-and-white set: a rotating warning light, two people in a row, a tree, a clock, a door. All were checked directly at card size in both art sets before this file was built and read clearly with no substitute picture needed. Cards are 2 inches square. One word choice is disclosed on the strip page itself: the tree for step 3 stands for arriving at the outdoor assembly point, not for quiet — so the card's own printed word is "Walk outside," not "Walk outside quietly." "Quietly" stays the spoken instruction on the how-to page and the phrase bank; it is simply not printed onto a picture that cannot show it.

The Strip

A quick-reference view of the whole routine in numbered order on one page, in color and in ink-saver, so the fixed order is visible at a glance without cutting anything apart. The number prints on every cut-apart card too, so a dropped or reshuffled set can always be put back in order.

What This Is, And What It Is Not

It is a fillable PDF: type into the log, the roll-up, the family update page, the hand-off page and the blank cards, or print and use a pen. The card and strip pages print on cardstock or plain paper and cut along dashed lines. It works offline with no account or subscription. It is NOT an editable online slideshow or word-processor document.

It is a posted, numbered picture sequence for one everyday transition routine, and a place to record whether each step needed help. It is not a fire safety or evacuation procedure, a behavior plan, or a program of any kind, and it promises no outcome. It carries no prompt hierarchy, fading schedule or mastery rule; how it is used with a student, and for how long, is what your team's plan says. The goal line and the criterion field are blanks for your district's own wording and your team's own number, and your building's own fire safety plan detail gets a blank line of its own on the hand-off page. The log counts one thing per step: whether help was needed, not what kind or in what order to remove it.

Who This Is For

Special education teachers, paraprofessionals and specials teachers who teach everyday transition routines to early, pre-reading or emerging-language students, case managers who need that teaching to show up as data, and the families who get the update sent home.

More In The Collection

This is part of the Visual Supports Collection, alongside Hallway Routine Visual Schedule Cards, PE and Gym Routine Visual Schedule Cards, and School Arrival Routine Visual Schedule Cards; more picture-card sets — routine strips, choice boards, calm-down cards — are being added to the collection regularly, all on the same cards-plus-data shape.

Pictures (color pages): Noto Emoji by Google, Apache License 2.0. Pictures (ink-saver pages): Fluent Emoji, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, MIT License.