Oklahoma Weather: Are You Ready

Teaching Outline

Prepared by:

Gina Peek, Ph.D., Assistant Professor & OCES Housing and Consumer Specialist

Barbara Brown, Ph.D., Associate Professor & OCES Food Specialist

Lesson focus:

This lesson will help participants learn about the connections between Oklahoma’s weather, natural disasters, and disaster preparedness. This program encourages learning through reading, listening, discussion, and hands-on activities.

Program objectives:

After completing this program, participants should understand:

·  Resources including the Oklahoma Mesonet can measure weather events and provide information important to personal and public safety

·  There is a connection between preparedness and survival in emergencies

·  There are simple low and no-cost actions that individuals and families can take to be prepared

·  OCHE members have several resources to help get ready for emergencies; there are three OHCE 15-minute leader lessons dedicated to disaster preparedness

o  Build a kit on a budget

o  Ready, set, go!

o  Safe rooms and shelters

Program materials:

·  Teaching outline

·  PowerPoint designed to take about 15 minutes

Suggested activities:

CHOICE #1

·  You can present the 15-minute leader lesson “Oklahoma Weather Are you Ready” to your group and briefly review and remind club members of the other existing 15-minute leader lessons:

o  Build a kit on a budget

o  Ready set go

o  Safe rooms and shelters

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CHOICE #2

·  You can choose one the following OHCE 15-minute leader lessons to present:

o  Build a kit on a budget

o  Ready set go

o  Safe rooms and shelters

Preparation:

Please prepare for your program by doing the following activities:

·  Review the lesson carefully

·  Print and read any handouts before the program:

1.  Build a kit on a budget

  Handouts: (1) pledge, (2) certificate

2.  Ready set go

  Handouts: (1) FEMA Family communication plan for parents; (2) Family emergency plan

3.  Safe rooms and shelters

  Required reading: Taking shelter from the storm: Building a safe room for your home or small business

Lesson evaluation:

·  We will evaluate the success of disaster preparedness efforts by the number of disaster kits developed

·  Please help track behavior change using the forms:

o  PLEDGE: Take the Get Prepared for Emergency Challenge

o  CERTIFICATE: Build a Kit on a Budget

References:

•  Federal Emergency Management Agency. (2008). Taking shelter from the storm: Building a safe room for your home or small business. Retrieved July, 2015, from http://www.fema.gov/safe-room-resources/fema-p-320-taking-shelter-storm-building-safe-room-your-home-or-small-business

•  Federal Emergency Management Agency. (2013). Family communication plan for parents. Retrieved July, 2015, from http://www.fema.gov/media-library/assets/documents/34330

•  Federal Emergency Management Agency. (2014). Individuals with disabilities or access and functional needs. Retrieved July, 2015, from http://www.ready.gov/individuals-access-functional-needs

•  Federal Emergency Management Agency. (n.d.-a). Disaster declarations by state/tribal government. Retrieved July, 2015, from https://http://www.fema.gov/disasters/grid/state-tribal-government

•  Federal Emergency Management Agency. (n.d.-b). Family emergency plan. Retrieved July, 2015, from http://www.ready.gov/sites/default/files/documents/files/Family_Emegency_Plan.pdf

•  Mesonet. (n.d.). Mesonet. Retrieved July, 2015, from http://mesonet.org/

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