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NowYouKnowIt,CanYouShowIt?
The concluding unit of this curriculum offers a
variety of summing-up and assessment activities.
Students will feel pride in their accomplishments
after a pair of high-pressure simulations, a fast-
paced quiz game, and finally, a reprise of the
writing activity in Unit 1. The appendix to this unit
provides materials from an intensive, community-
wide simulation developed by Vermont teacher
Sean Cox and adapted with his permission. You
can use these materials to enrich your students’
experience of Lesson 6.2.
Students who have developed relationships with
people responsible for emergency preparedness
will particularly enjoy the opportunity to role-play
in the first two lessons. In the first they will enact
a meeting of a crisis team charged with developing
a comprehensive local earthquake preparedness
plan. In the second, Earthquake Simulation, they
will put that plan into practice.
How much your students and your community
benefit from Lesson 2, in particular, depends on
how much you and they have invested in the
curriculum up to this point. With the full
involvement of community disaster officials and at a
locale outside the school, this activity can be
incredibly realistic and dramatic, as the experience of
Sean Cox and his community makes clear.
After the excitement of Lesson 2, students will
welcome the purely intellectual stimulation of Lesson
3, Test Your E.Q. I.Q. The questions are designed to
test attitudes as well as information, and to reinforce
knowledge by repetition.
Both you and your students will be pleased to see
how much information they can add to their Unit 1
compositions in the final postassessment activity.
This process reinforces essential writing and thinking
skills.
Now that students have completed this series of
lessons, encourage them to continue to read and write
about earthquakes and disaster preparedness. Some
of the topics that have been introduced in these units
may lead to science projects, college majors in
related topics, and future careers. The information
students have gained may even save their lives.
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