Non-Fiction Book – Earthquake Emergency Preparedness

Title: Earthquakes

Author: Franklyn M. Branley

Illustrated by: Megan Lloyd

Publication Date: 2015

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

 

Description: In Earthquakes the author talks about how the earth is moving all the time, but that it moves so little we don’t usually notice it. It teaches how earthquakes have a center and teaches many earthquake vocabulary words like seismic waves and magnitude. The book also encourages students to conduct their own experiments with classroom materials to help better understand seismic waves. The book talks about where in the world earthquakes happen, and a few large earthquakes in history. The book also talks about what you should do if you are in an earthquake, as well as things you can do to be prepared in the event of an earthquake.

 

I think this is a good selection because it incorporates so many different things. Not only can you read the book, but it also encourages scientific experiments, as well as introducing a plethora of new vocabulary words. The book also talks about different areas that earthquakes occur, which could be incorporated into a geography lesson, where is the school and where do earthquakes happen? There are many different ways you could add this book into different lessons.

 

Core Topic: I would integrate this book into a geography lesson. The book talks about different regions that earthquakes happen and have happened, it would be a great time to look at maps and perhaps have the children circle or different areas, even look at the relationship of those places to the school.

 

Standards: 

NHES 1: Students will comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance health.

• S1.2.5 Describe how injuries can be prevented.
  • HBO 4: Apply safety rules and procedures to avoid risky behaviors and injury.
  • HBO 5: Avoid safety hazards in the home and community.
  • HBO 6: Recognize and void dangerous surroundings.
• S1.2.8 Identify safety hazards in the home.
  • HBO 4: Apply safety rules and procedures to avoid risky behaviors and injury.
  • HBO 5: Avoid safety hazards in the home and community.
• S1.2.10 Identify safety hazards in the community.
  • HBO 5: Avoid safety hazards in the home and community.
  • HBO 8: Support others to avoid risky behaviors and be safe.
• S1.2.11 Identify people who can help when someone is injured or suddenly ill.
  • HBO 7: Get help for oneself or others when injured or suddenly ill.

 

NHES 3: Students will demonstrate the ability to access valid information and products and services to enhance health.

• S3.2.1 Identify trusted adults at home who can help promote safety and injury prevention.
• S3.2.2 Identify trusted adults and professionals in school who can promote safety and injury prevention (e.g., school principal, facility and maintenance staff).
• S3.2.3 Identify trusted adults and professionals in the community who can promote safety and injury prevention (e.g., police, firefighters).

 

NHES 5: Students will demonstrate the ability to use decision-making skills to enhance health.

• S5.2.1 Identify situations that need a decision related to safety and injury prevention.
• S5.2.4 Describe when help is needed and when it is not needed to make a decision related to safety and injury prevention.

 

NHES 7: Students will demonstrate the ability to practice health-enhancing behaviors and avoid or reduce health risks.

• S7.2.1 Identify practices that promote safety and reduce or prevent injuries.
• S7.2.2 Demonstrate safety and injury prevention practices.

 

NHES 8: Students will demonstrate the ability to advocate for personal, family, and community health.

• S8.2.1 Make requests to others to promote safety and avoid or reduce injury.
• S8.2.2 Demonstrate how to encourage peers to be safe and avoid or reduce injury.

 

Social Studies Standards

•  3.1.1 Understands and applies basic mapping elements such as compass rose, labels, and key to read and construct maps that display information about neighborhoods or local communities.
• 3.1.2 Understand they physical characteristics of places in the community.