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?

Searching skills.

Evaluate web sites for accuracy and currency. 

How to compare and contrast.

How to find commonality?

Using graphic organizers

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

1. Know weather channels.

2. Have family phone list and contacts.

3. Family meeting place in case of emergency.

4. Safe places to go and how to get there.

5. Practice.

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

Talk to my family.