Facing Fear: Helping Young People Deal with Terrorism and Tragic Events

The national benchmarking format was used when creating the Facing Fear curriculum alignment charts. This format breaks the courses up among three grade groups: K-4, 5-8 and 9-12.

Lessons for Grades K-2
Lessons for Grades 3-5
Lessons for Grades 6-8
Lessons for Grades 9-12

Facing Fear is designed to help children cope in uncertain times. The curriculum is a supplement to Masters of Disaster. The format and components are similar, including ready-to-go lesson plans, activities and demonstrations that can be incorporated within core subject areas. Lessons are aligned with national health, social studies and language arts standards.

The lesson plans and activities in these materials are arranged in three chapters:

Chapter 1: Feelings, includes lessons and activities that are timely immediately following a tragic event. Lessons in this chapter address dealing with feelings of loss, sadness and anger.

Chapter 2: Facts and Perspectives, gives information on how the media plays a role in conveying information and how to be able to discern facts as reported in the media coverage, yet not continue to frighten children. This chapter also covers the important fundamental principles of the Red Cross.

Chapter 3: Future, provides positive ways for children and their families to respond to past events and plan for the future in uncertain times.

Course hours: Varies