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Description
Masters of Disaster® helps teachers prepare students for weather-related and geological disasters, home fires, wildland fire, and the effects of terrorism and other tragic events. Called In the Aftermath, the series now also helps students understand and cope with the effects of disasters to help them recover.
The In the Aftermath curriculum leads students to an understanding of their own feelings and those of others affected by disasters. It also helps them figure out ways to counteract those affects and move beyond their feelings of loss to foster hope and resilience. The curriculum covers sections on grief to help understand loss and related feelings, caring for oneself to maintain physical health and a healthy outlook, reaching out to others to encourage new relationships, and building back better to enhance understanding of community development and growth. The curriculum is rich with opportunities for students and their families to interact with each other to understand and internalize ways that they can recover from a disaster that affected them or to reach out to others they see affected by disasters.
You can also integrate important safety instruction into your regular core subjects- language arts, mathematics, social studies, and health. These activities supplement the lessons you are already teaching, while providing students with specific information to help them and their families understand the effects of disasters, whether it has happened in their own community or one far away.
The curriculum's hands-on activities, demonstrations, and individual group projects are not sequential. Select only those lesson plans that fit your curriculum and classroom needs, as well as the needs of your students. The materials were written by teachers and educators like you with help of experts who respond to disasters everyday.
The lesson plans with accompanying activities are arranged in four chapters:
- Life, Loss and Grief
- Memories and Growth: Move through cycles of loss and grief by focusing on good memories.
- Feelings and Reactions: Share and accept one's own and others' changing feelings.
- Mind-Body Connection: Understand that feelings can have a direct impact on one's body and how to manage and reduce stress.
- Hope: Maintain an optimistic viewpoint and use healthy ways to remember past events.
- Take Care of Yourself
- Set Routines: Establish and follow routines to improve health and attitudes.
- Change: Discover and use a variety of tools to help cope with change.
- Health: Discover and develop healthful eating, sleeping and exercise habits.
- Reach Out to Others
- Home Sweet Home: See ways to fit into unfamiliar surroundings and/or welcome newcomers to school or the community.
- Connections: Make connections with others, find similarities, accept differences and support communities affected by disasters.
- Build Back Better
- What Needs to Be Done?: students identify the difference between needs and wants and apply this understanding to a needs assessment.
- New Town, USA: Understand that rebuilding occurs after a disaster and to help students make plans for building back better.
- Curriculum Components
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