The problem with being an expert on one disaster is that other disasters might strike your family. Your task is to create a disaster manual for your family that will help your family prepare for any disaster.

Directions: Combine the ideas of fire, flood, and tornado into a list of common preparedness stepps.

Before you begina: what would your teacher and teacher librarian need to teeach you about analysis and syntesis?

How to log on.

How to use good keywords. 

How to know good information.

Now, make a list of points that would be in your family disaster manual?

Have a plan before.

Have a checklist.

Practice

     Escape route

     Tornado safety

Know the conditions that create disasters.

Listen to the information presented on the news, radio, weather radio.

Have some emergency supplies.

Know where the flashlights are.  (Extra batteries)

Clean drinking water.

Contact information.

Have the phone numbers of emergency contacts and your own phone numbers in one place. (written down)

Ideas for sharing this manual with your family so that you can get credit for creating it:

Print it.

Post it in the house (laminate).

Give it to neighbors, family.