Overview | What are the effects of the earthquake in Haiti? What issues, problems and questions has the disaster caused and raised? How are students responding personally, and how can they help? In this lesson, students either participate in a personal response activity or engage in an in-depth teach-in project, researching topics related to the earthquake and presenting their findings to the community. They then develop proposals for a community service plan and choose one or more to implement.
NOTE: Anyone can use this lesson to make sense of all the reporting on Haiti, as it provides essential questions, guiding questions and Times resources in five categories: infrastructure, human toll, history and demographics, aid and international response, and media coverage. It also provides a structure for deciding how to respond to the disaster, whether you can devote one class period or several.
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