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

Grade 6
Create a Safety Play for Peer Education

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 elementary schools in your community and at safety fairs.
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 to the elementary students
12. Perform the play.

Write an Article About Safety for Your School Newspaper

Lesson Plan:

1. Divide students into small groups to view the CD-ROM.
2. Discuss the information they have learned about disaster preparedness and response.
3. Discuss with the class how they might write a series of articles for the school newspaper about disaster safety.
4. Develop a survey to research what students in your school know and don't know about disaster safety. Use the results to guide your topic selection.
5. Have students research and write articles.