Florida Kids are Prepared, Not Scared, for Hurricane Season
My students need a class set of supplies to make hurricane preparation kits for a usually anxiety-filled hurricane season here in Florida. These include radios, duct tape, and first-aid kits.
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Do you remember storms when you were little? The feeling of terror during a bad thunderstorm or the anxiety that used to overcome you when there was a storm warning? Here in Florida, our kids deal with this every hurricane season. This year, I want my students to be prepared, not scared.
My second graders attend a fully public charter school in Florida.
Our school is founded on the principles of doing whatever it takes to individualize instruction and ensure that each child is getting what she or he needs to succeed. My students are engaged, inquisitive, and insatiably curious.
My Project
My class will use the donated resources during an emergency response unit in science. The students will create a hurricane preparedness kit with the supplies. Each student will be taught about the NOAA weather radio: how to use it and what the different warnings/watches mean. Students will learn about simple wound care/first aid by a local nurse and taught how to use the contents of their first aid kits.
The requested resources are only a small part of what it takes to be fully prepared as a family for these sometimes horrendous storms, but the NOAA radios alone can be enough to save the lives of entire families if a severe storm were to hit. In addition to creating the hurricane kits, students and parents will participate in creating family emergency plans, and will be rewarded at the end of the unit with a "Certificate of Readiness" from the FEMA website.
This project will help ease the hearts and minds of both parents and students alike this coming hurricane season.
While we hope it doesn't come down to it, this project could save lives. Don't get scared, get prepared!
More than a third of students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
iLive - WeatherX AM/FM/Weather Band Radio with Hand Crank
• Best Buy for Business
$24.99
18
$449.82
First Aid Kit, Personal, People Served 1, This Kit is Just the Right Size to Go Inside a Purse, Luggage, Golf Bag, or Laptop Case. Contains Antiseptics, Ointment and Assorted Bandages to Treat Cuts and Scrapes. Practical in Size, the Fold-Up Mini Kit
• Grainger
$4.37
18
$78.66
Duct Tape, Material Polyethylene Over Cotton Cloth and Natural and Synthetic Rubber, Shape Roll, Thickness 17 mil, Width 1 In., Length 30 ft., Color Black, Adhesion Strength 80 oz./in., Tensile Strength 50 lb./in., Temp. Range 40 to 150 Degrees F, Pe
• Grainger
$3.50
18
$63.00
Whistle, Material ABS Plastic, Color Orange, Includes Wire Key Ring
• Grainger
$2.61
18
$46.98
Materials cost
$638.46
Vendor shipping charges
$12.00
Sales tax
$0.00
3rd party payment processing fee
$9.58
Fulfillment labor & materials
$30.00
Total project cost
$690.04
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
$121.77
Total project goal
$811.81
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal
$811.81
17 Donors
-$321.43
Donations toward project cost
-$274.12
Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
-$47.31
Matching donations from our partners
-$489.31
Match offers toward project cost
-$415.91
Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
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