Scouts Meeting Schedule: Week 1
Emergency Preparedness Theme: What is an Emergency? Time
Activity
Program Details
15 minutes
Gathering Activity: Emergency!
5 minutes
Opening Ceremony
45 minutes
Theme Activities: Identifying Natural Emergencies & Natural Emergencies in Your Community
15 minutes
Game: High Sea Weather Charades
20 minutes
Talk/Discussion: Preparing an Emergency Survival Kit
15 minutes
Game Does it Belong in the Kit Relay Game
20 minutes
Talk Special Emergency Survival Kits
5 minutes
Closing Ceremony
15 minutes
Leader Discussion Time
Leader Responsible
Introduction: An emergency is a situation that poses an immediatethreat to human life or serious damage to property. In our technologically advanced society, we are able to turn on our television and watch emergencies unfold before our eyes, often in real time. We must not forget that children often see these images too. This program has been developed to help Scouts understand what emergencies are and how they can prepare for them before they occur. This program is not meant to “scare� but rather to alleviate some of the fears that children have about emergencies by demonstrating how they, and their families, can prepare for an emergency before it happens. Scouts will learn that when people know what to do before and/or during an emergency, they are better able to react appropriately and reduce the likelihood of injury or death. While emergencies are rare in Canada, they do occur and can happen at any time. For background information on Natural Emergencies, please refer to the Emergency Preparedness Program Resource Book, Page 5. March 2009
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Scouts Meeting Schedule: Week 1
15 min.
Gathering Activity: Emergency!
Objective: To have Scouts recognize the difference between an emergency situation and a non-emergency situation and realize that emergencies can be classified differently
Equipment: • Emergency Cards (See Week 1 Support Materials) • 3 Hula Hoops (one labeled “Natural Emergency”, one labeled “Technological Emergency”, one labeled “Not an Emergency”) • Scissors
Instructions: 1. Provide each pair of Scouts with eight Emergency Cards (more or less depending on the number of Scouts in the troop) and ask them to cut out their cards. 2. Set up the three labeled hula hoops at the other end of the room. Once the Scouts have finished cutting out their cards, ask them to place each of their Emergency Cards in the correct hula hoop. 3. After five minutes, the Scout leader should bring the Scouts together and review what ended up in each hula hoop.
Thank you to the Canadian Red Cross for use of their graphics on pages 3, 17 and 18.
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Scouts Meeting Schedule: Week 1
15 min.
Theme Activity
Identifying Natural Emergencies.
What is it?
Objective: To introduce the Scouts to various types of natural emergencies
Equipment: • Copies of the “What Is It?” Worksheet (See Week 1 Support Materials). • Pencils or pens
Instructions: 1. Have the Scouts sit in a circle and hand out a copy of the “What Is It?” worksheet and a pen/pencil to each of them. 2. Read the instructions for the page aloud and select a Scout to read off the list of natural emergencies. 3. The Scout leader should read each statement and then ask for a Scout to provide the fill-in-the-blank answer from the list of natural emergencies above. Thank-you to the Canadian Red Cross for permission to use this activity.
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Scouts Meeting Schedule: Week 1 30 min.
Natural Emergencies in Your Community Objective: To introduce Scouts to two types of natural emergencies that can happen in their community and provide some basic safety tips for dealing with these types of emergencies
Option #1: Leader Lead Discussion Instructions: 1. The Leader should choose two natural emergencies that have occurred in the past in your community. Please refer to the Emergency Preparedness Program Resource Book (Page 5) for information about preparing for natural emergencies and for assistance with determining what natural emergencies have occurred in your community in the past. 2. Make sure to talk about how to stay safe before, during and after each of the selected emergencies. Where possible, have drills to practice the behaviours recommended at your meeting location (e.g., go to the basement in a tornado). Encourage the Scouts to adapt these drills so they can be used at home.
Option #2: Survivor Visit Instructions: 1. The leader may wish to invite an individual in your community who survived a natural emergency (e.g., ice storm of 1998 in eastern Ontario and Quebec) and invite them to come to a meeting and speak to the Scouts about their experience. As Scouts need to learn about two natural emergencies that could happen in their community, a leader may want to invite two speakers who can speak to two different natural emergencies. 2. Alternatively, the leader may opt to lead the discussion on one of the two natural emergencies to be discussed.
Option #3: Visit from Local Member of Emergency Services or Local Emergency Management Coordinator Instructions: 1. The leader may wish to invite a local member of Emergency Services or your local Emergency Management Coordinator to speak to the Scouts about the types of natural emergencies that could happen in your community and how to prepare for these natural emergencies. In many municipalities, your local Emergency Management Coordinator can be contacted through your local municipal office.
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15 min.
Game: High Sea Weather Charades (Using the Battleship Game Theme) Objective: To have the Scouts practice some of the actions they should take when faced with various natural emergencies
Instructions: 1. Provide the Scouts with each of the natural emergencies listed in the example below and ask them to define each. 2. Ask the Scouts to explain a protective action they could take for each of the emergencies and to come up with an action that they can act out for each of the emergencies. Examples: • Lightning Storm: Crouch into a leap frog position and protect your head • Tornado: Lie flat (pretend you are in a ditch so you do not get hurt by flying debris) • Flash Flood: Pretend to climb up a hill (get to higher ground immediately when river and streams swell due to heavy rain) • Heat Wave: Fan yourself with your hand and pretend to drink water • Wind Storm: Grab a partner so that one Scout stands still like a shield and the other Scout crouches down sheltered by the other person 3. Label room with the four sides of a ship (Bow, Stern, Port, Starboard). Explain that when a direction is called, Scouts are to run to that wall. Explain that when you call out an emergency they are to stop immediately and do the correct action.
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Scouts Meeting Schedule: Week 1
20 min.
Talk/Discussion Preparing an Emergency Survival Kit Objective: To demonstrate how to prepare an Emergency Survival Kit
Equipment: • One complete Emergency Survival Kit (See Week 1 Support Materials) • Chart Paper • Markers
Instructions: For background information on Emergency Survival Kits, please refer to the Emergency Preparedness Program Resource Book (Page 15) 1. Explain to the Scouts that in some emergencies families may have to evacuate their homes or may be stranded in their homes for days at a time. Explain that in these cases it is important to have a kit with the items that can keep a family safe and healthy for about three days. 2. Ask the Scouts to tell you what they think should go into an Emergency Survival Kit and record their answers on the chart paper. 3. Bring out a prepared completed Emergency Survival Kit and go through each of the items explaining why each of them is necessary. If an item in the kit matches an item listed on the chart paper, put a checkmark next to it. See how many items the Scouts were able to come up with on their own. 4. Explain that an Emergency Survival Kit should be stored in a container or bag that can be carried, in the event you have to evacuate your home. Also explain that an Emergency Survival Kit should be kept near a door to the outside of the home and everyone needs to know where it is located. 5. Explain that an Emergency Survival Kit needs to be refreshed twice a year to ensure food, water and other items are still fresh.
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10 min.
Game: Does it Belong in the Kit? (Relay) Objective: To reinforce the information presented to Scouts about how to prepare an Emergency Survival Kit and to encourage teamwork
Equipment: • 1 Complete Emergency Survival Kit in a Duffle Bag or Large Plastic Tote Container (Add 10 other items that don’t belong in an Emergency Survival Kit — e.g., fresh fruit, radio with electrical cord, remote control, hair dryer, DVD etc.) • 2 Pens/Pencils • 2 Pieces of Paper
Instructions: 1. Place the duffle bag/tote with the items inside at one end of the room. Divide the Scouts into two groups at the other end of the room and provide each group with a piece of paper and a pen/pencil. 2. Explain that the duffle bag/tote at the end of the room contains a variety of items and that some belong in an Emergency Survival Kit and some do not. 3. One by one (in relay style), have one Scout from each team run to the duffle bag/tote and select an object that does not belong in an Emergency Survival Kit (each team member may select a different item). The Scouts are not to return with the object, but are to run back to their team and write down the name of the item. If a Scout is not sure of the name, they should describe the object and work with their team to identify it. 4. The first team to list the ten items that do not belong in an Emergency Survival Kit wins.
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Scouts Meeting Schedule: Week 1 20 min.
Talk: Special Emergency Survival Kit Objective: To have Scouts consider how the contents of an Emergency Survival Kit might differ for someone with special needs or a disability
Equipment: • • • • • •
Pair of Glasses* Medic Alert Bracelet* Formula* Cane* Glucose Monitor* Markers
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Hearing Aid* Baby Bottle* Diapers* Epipen* Sippy Cup* Chart Paper
** Copy of the Emergency Preparedness Guide for People with Disabilities and Special Needs available at: www.emergencymanagementontario.ca/english/prepare/specialneeds/specialneeds.html
Instructions: 1. Explain that an Emergency Survival Kit has to contain all of the essential items that you and your family would need in order to remain safe and comfortable for at least three days. Explain that while the list of items discussed in a good start for everyone, there may be additional items needed in an Emergency Survival Kit if someone in the family is a baby/ young child, a senior, has a medical condition and/or has a disability that affects their mobility, vision or hearing. 2. Have the Scouts sit in a circle and place the items listed in the equipment list with asterisk next to them in the centre of the circle. 3. Place three pieces of chart paper on the wall. On the first write “Babies/Little Children”, on the second write “Seniors”, on the third write “Person with Severe Allergy”, on the forth write “Person with Diabetes”. 4. Ask the Scouts to identify each of the items in the circle. As each item is identified ask them who may need to add this item to their Emergency Survival Kit and refer to the chart paper. Write the name of the item under the heading/headings that are appropriate. Remind Scouts that every person and situation is different and some of the items listed may or may not be required by that individual.
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Support Materials: Week 1 Gathering Activity: Emergency Cards
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Emergency Survival Kit The Emergency Survival Checklist below outlines the basic items every individual should have:
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Flashlight and batteries
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Radio and batteries or crank radio
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Spare batteries (for radio and flashlight)
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First-aid kit
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Telephone that can work during power disruption
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Candles and matches/lighter
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Extra car keys and cash
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Important papers (identification)
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Non-perishable food (ready-to-eat items that do not require refrigeration)
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Manual can opener
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Bottled water (4 liters per person per day)
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Clothing and footwear
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Blankets or sleeping bag
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Toilet paper and other personal items
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Medication
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Backpack/duffle bag
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Whistle (to attract attention, if needed)
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Playing cards
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