Florida SC.5.E.7.7
The Standard
Design a family preparedness plan for natural disasters and identify the reasons for having such a plan.
Florida Next Generation Sunshine State Standards for Science
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify local natural hazards, choose safe actions, and organize contact, shelter, evacuation, and supply information for a household. They explain how planning ahead reduces confusion, injury, and delays during an emergency.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can create a clear plan with meeting places, emergency contacts, evacuation routes, shelter options, and needed supplies. The student can explain why each part helps a family respond safely.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think one plan works for every type of disaster. They may list supplies but leave out communication, evacuation, pets, or family members with medical needs. Some confuse actions taken before a disaster with actions taken during it.
How to Assess It
- Give students a sample family and a local hazard. Ask them to list four parts of a preparedness plan and explain how two parts reduce risk.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give groups a Florida hazard card, home map, and supply cards, then have them build an evacuation route and emergency kit.
Ask students to write: Why should a family choose two meeting places and an out-of-area contact before a disaster?
Play Preparedness Sort: teams place action cards under hurricane, flood, wildfire, or all hazards, then justify two choices.
Have students use a local emergency management website to find an evacuation zone, nearby shelter, and official alert source.
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Related Standards
- SC.1.N.1.1
Raise questions about the natural world, investigate them in teams through free exploration, and generate appropriate explanations based on those explorations.
- SC.2.N.1.1
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- SC.6.E.7.7
Investigate how natural disasters have affected human life in Florida.
- SC.2.E.7.5
State the importance of preparing for severe weather, lightning, and other weather related events.
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