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Description
These materials were developed through the generous support of a U.S. Fire Administration and the resources of the American Red Cross.
Masters of Disaster®: helps teachers prepare students for weather-related and geological
disasters, structure fires, wildland fire, and the effects of terrorism and other tragic
events. Called Home Safety, the series now also covers preventing disasters at home.
The Home Safety curriculum not only leads students to an understanding of safe behaviors,
it also helps them figure out and then internalize ways to prevent accidents in the home.
The curriculum covers general injury prevention; burns, breathing emergencies; slips, trips, and falls;
and poisoning and integrates important safety instruction into your regular core subjects-
language arts, math, science, social studies, and health. It supplements the lessons you are already
teaching, while providing students with specific information to help them and their families
watch out for unsafe behaviors and prevent accidents from happening.
The curriculum's hands-on activities, demonstrations, and individual group projects are
not sequential. You can use the national Education Standards Chart (included in this
book) to select only those lesson plans that fit your curriculum needs and classroom
schedule, as well as your students' interests and abilities. All of the materials were
written by teachers and educators like you.
Lessons are aligned with national science, mathematics, language arts, social studies, and health standards.
The lesson plans and activities in these materials are arranged in five sections:
- General Injury Prevention:
Identifies hazards and behaviors and responsibilities for staying safe.
- Burns:
Determines the differences of temperature and illustrates ways to stay away from hot things.
- Breathing Emergencies:
Identifies the basic needs of life, then determines why breathing emergencies occur and how to prevent them
- Slips, Trips and Falls:
Investigates the causes of slips, trips and falls and how to prevent them.
- Poisoning:
Fire behavior and what to do during and after a fire
The printed form of the curriculum will soon be available from your local
American Red Cross chapter. To find your chapter, visit www.redcross.org.
Lessons and activity sheets can be downloaded.
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