Lightning Safety Pack

A fact-checked lightning safety pack for ages 6–11: learn the golden rule, sort safe and unsafe shelters, decide what to do indoors and outdoors, bust common myths, make a family storm plan and count down the 30-minute wait, with an answer key and a certificate.

What’s inside:

- The golden rule: when thunder roars, go indoors (four facts to remember)

- Safe shelter or not? 12 cut-and-sort cards

- Safe inside: OK now, or wait? (8 indoor situations)

- What should you do? 6 outdoor storm scenarios

- Five ways lightning hurts people: a matching page for older readers

- Lightning safety myth busters (8 myth-or-fact statements)

- Our lightning plan: a family storm plan for the fridge

- If someone is struck: help fast, and it’s safe to touch them

- Count down the storm: a 30-minute wait tracker

- Answer key

- Lightning Safety Expert certificate

- Credits, licence & sources

Pages: 13 (including cover and credits). Sizes: A4 (210 × 297 mm) and US Letter (8.5 × 11 in), both PDFs included in one zip.

Printing: Print at 100% / actual size on A4 or US Letter. Inside pages use light backgrounds and print well in black and white; covers are dark, so start from page 2 to save ink.

Every fact is checked against Met Office, NOAA/National Weather Service and NASA web pages (checked 27 Oct 2026) and the sources are listed on each pack’s credits page. Facts that can change, such as yearly counts and averages, are printed with that date. Where two official pages give different figures, both are shown with their source. Photos are public-domain images from the NOAA Photo Library and NASA (the 1902 Eiffel Tower photo, by Gabriel Loppé, is from the NOAA Photo Library), via Wikimedia Commons; drawings, puzzles and layouts are REALLYBYTE’s own work. Not endorsed by the Met Office, NOAA or NASA. This is an educational resource, not official safety advice: always follow your local weather service’s warnings.

Licence: personal and single-classroom use. You may print as many copies as you need for your own family or your own class, and share it with your class through a password-protected platform. Please don’t resell, re-upload or share it publicly. For school-wide use, please email info@reallybyte.com.

Made by REALLYBYTE, the team behind lightning.storms.im. Questions: info@reallybyte.com

This is a digital download: no physical item will be shipped.