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Impact Newspaper Project Letter to Teachers Back to Safe Schools Directory | Home Page 71,000 newspapers distributed | Curriculum Guide | Questions March 1, 2002 Dear K-12 Teachers: You are receiving class sets of the "Be Ready News" (K-6th grades) or "Project Impact News" (6th-12th grades). This has been a collaborative effort among a number of agencies and individuals from Nevada and California. The newspapers provide information and activities relating to the theme of disaster preparedness. In this era of standards and accountability, it is essential that curriculum serve to enhance students’ abilities to demonstrate grade-level competencies. As a result, you are being provided a standards correlation for the newspaper content. Disaster preparedness is an important topic and vital to the safety of our students and their families. The newspapers are not only timely in their distribution but provide opportunities for quality instruction in the standards. "Be Ready News" and "Project Impact News" can be used as part of a thematic approach to math, language arts, science, and social science. For example, one of the exercises is to put together a disaster kit in case students must leave their homes. Students could calculate weight and placement as part of a math exercise. They could make health-related decisions about what to take. Students could write narratives about surviving outdoors in language arts class, and they could research techniques used by earlier cultures in a history lesson. Hopefully, teachers will find the information useful while the students benefit from an informed approach to disaster preparedness. "Be Ready News" and "Project Impact News" are attempts to take a proactive approach to ensure the safety of everyone in our communities. Thank you for your support and assistance.
___________________________ If you have any comments, please e-mail Dee Beaugez, Chairman of the City of Sparks Project Impact Safe Schools Committee. She is also the coordinator of the Project Impact Newspaper project. You can also contact the City of Sparks Project Impact Steering Committee Chairman Ben Hutchins at bhutchins@ci.sparks.nv.us. Please contact Gil Folk at the Washoe County School District with any questions. (GFOLK@washoe.k12.nv.us) Curriculum Guide Questions To the Top The curriculum guide for the "Project Impact News" and the "Be Ready News" was written by John McCann, Jr., Curriculum Coordinator, Sierra County Office of Education. If you have questions, please email John at jmccann@sierra-coe.k12.ca.us. To the Top | Back to Safe Schools Directory | Home Page Distribution of more
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