"The Notagains": A Disaster Preparedness and Response CD-ROM for Children

Grades 4-5
Emergency Signal Activity

Objectives:

• Each student will be able to identify emergency signals.
• Each student will know how to respond to emergency signals.

Lesson Plan:

1. Present the section on emergency signals to the whole class.
2. Discuss each signal.
3. Invite a representative from the Red Cross to discuss how emergency signals may vary from what they’ve heard in their particular area.
4. Divide the students into small groups.
5. Have each group view the CD-ROM to research a particular type of disaster, i.e., tornado, fire, flood, thunderstorm, chemical emergency and how to prepare for and respond to it.
6. Have each group report to the class what they have learned.

Emergency Bulletin Board

Objectives:

• Each student will know how to prepare and respond to a variety of disasters.

Lesson Plan:

1. Demonstrate the CD-ROM and discuss the information it contains
2. Discuss the creation of an emergency bulletin board and what it should contain.
3. Designate a place in the classroom where students can exhibit articles they find in newspapers and magazines about disasters around the world.
4. Invite a representative from the Red Cross to talk about disasters that have occurred in their community or region.
5. Divide students up into small groups to view the CD-ROM
6. Have each group report on a particular type of disaster and the correct procedures for response and preparedness for this disaster.
7. Apply this information to the disasters they are reading about.

Create a Safety Play for Your School

Objectives:

• Know what to do in a variety of disaster situations.
• Be able to use this information in a situation.
• Be able to communicate this information to others.

Lesson Plan:

1. Describe the project to the class. Tell the students that the class is going to write, direct, and produce a safety play to be performed for the lower grades in your school.
2. Divide the students into small groups depending upon their particular interests, writing, acting, props, public relations, etc.
3. Have each group view the CD-ROM.
4. Conduct a class discussion and identify the elements from the CD-ROM that the students want to dramatize and how.
5. Have the group that is interested in writing the script do research using the CD-ROM.
6. Have this group write a script.
7. Assign parts.
8. Rehearse.
9. Create the settings in which the drama occurs.
10. Publicize the play.
11. Create educational materials to be distributed in your school.
12. Perform the play.

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