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Youth Emergency Preparedness Unit PlanYouth Emergency Preparedness Unit Plan
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Grade
6th - 8th
Subjects
Science
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Unit Plans
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Duration
14 days
Instructional Strategy
Inquiry-Based Learning
Unit Plan

Youth Emergency Preparedness

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This Youth Emergency Preparedness unit plan also includes:
  • Disaster Factsheets
  • Map Locator
  • FEMA Website
  • Youth Emergency Kit Checklist
  • Get Tech Ready
  • Emergency Alerts
  • Make a Plan
  • Assessment
  • Graphic Organizer
  • Lesson Plan
  • Project
  • Vocabulary
  • Worksheet
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What is an emergency, why is preparing for one important, and how can your pupils help others prepare for an emergency? Answer these questions and more with a short unit. Learners will participate in a variety of collaborative, inquiry-based, and hands-on activities to learn about disaster preparedness. Your charges will feel confident in their abilities to handle emergency situations after completing this unit and their own emergency preparedness graphic novels!

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

critical thinking, information literacy, emergencies

Additional Tags

emergency preparedness, back to school, disaster preparedness, 21st Century Skills, information literacy, Media Literacy, critical thinking, Problem Solving, classroom support

Classroom Considerations

  • The unit includes three lessons, which each take about an hour and a half, or three thirty-minute sessions

Pros

  • All included worksheets can be printed out and written on, or typed into
  • Comes with printable cards for a vocabulary game, a vocabulary puzzle homework assignment, graphic organizers to help pupils prepare their final projects, a rubric, and more
  • The activities and lessons are well-sequenced and cover plenty of information about disaster preparedness
  • See the materials tab for links to even more additional materials mentioned in the plan

Cons

  • None

Common Core

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