Choose a safe hazard response

Supplied materials

• All measurements and observations below are supplied classroom examples. They are not data from actual learners or a claim about a particular real site.
• Paper, drawing space or a browser document.
• Reference card A: use the supplied official shelter instruction. Reference card B: stay out of moving or unknown water.
• Assessment case 1: Which scientific label fits the specifically described step or feature? Supplied case: Warning names an indoor shelter.
• Assessment case 2: Which scientific label fits the specifically described step or feature? Supplied case: Road is covered by floodwater.
• Assessment case 3: Which scientific label fits the specifically described step or feature? Supplied case: Adult plans a storm kit.
• Assessment case 4: Which scientific label fits the specifically described step or feature? Supplied case: Forecast may change later.
• Assessment case 5: Which scientific label fits the specifically described step or feature? Supplied case: Official alert gives a safe-location instruction.
• Assessment case 6: Which scientific label fits the specifically described step or feature? Supplied case: New warning information is available.

Learn the idea

Use supplied official-response cards, not personal risk-taking. Weather warnings call for trusted-adult and local-authority guidance. Never enter floodwater or approach a storm to complete learning.

Follow warning means use the supplied official shelter instruction. Avoid floodwater means stay out of moving or unknown water. Prepare indoors means plan supplies with a trusted adult. Check updates means read later official information.

For follow warning, look for the clue “use the supplied official shelter instruction.” For avoid floodwater, look for “stay out of moving or unknown water.” More than one process can happen in a real situation. Answer about the one described in this question.

1. Read or listen to the four science words and what each means. Say how the first two differ.
2. Choose two of the short cases. Point to the clue that helps you choose a science word for each one. You may draw or say your answer.
3. Answer each practice question. Say which clue helped you, then check the explanation.
4. Use the extra task to make two examples that show different science words. Draw or say what makes each one fit.

Check your reasoning

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Take it further

Create one new case showing follow warning and one showing avoid floodwater. Expected: the first explicitly shows “use the supplied official shelter instruction”; the second explicitly shows “stay out of moving or unknown water.” Explain the distinction by drawing, speaking or writing. A label without a matching feature is incomplete.

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