Lincoln Public Safety
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Help Yourself!
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Team Members
| Name | Subject | Bio Page | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Toya Profit | History | mailto:tprofit@sandi.net | http://www.blog.com | |
| Frank Alardi | English 3/4 | mailto:falardi@sandi.net | http://www.blog.com | |
| James Monday | Medical Occupations/First Responder, Health Care Essentials | mailto:jmonday@sandi.net | Class Website | |
| Barbara Adams | Tools for the Digial Age | mailto:badams@sandi.net | ||
| Jorge Hernandez | Fire Technology | mailto:j23hernandez@sandi.net | ||
| Roberta Hobson | US History | mailto:rhobson@sandi.net | ||
| Marnie Rogers | Chemistry | mailto:mrogers@sandi.net |
Projects
Help Yourself!
This project will take place at the Public Safety Academy at Lincoln High School. The 10th grade students of the academy will promote awareness and readiness for first response situations by giving informative and persuasive presentations to the 9th grade classrooms using videos and pamphlets as instructional tools. Often during a natural disaster, it is the people from social and economical disadvantaged areas that suffer the most due to a lack of education and resources. Beyond that, accidents and illness are a constant part of our everyday lives, and are often preventable when people are educated on appropriate first response. Therefore, we plan to have students study appropriate first response actions and educate the community on them.
Curriculum Map
Lincoln High School, Center for Public Safety
Project Journal
Summer Institute Update
Prompt: Beyond the project, how will your PBL Summer Institute experience impact your classroom during the 2009-2010 academic year?
First Quarter Update
1. What challenges did you encounter while trying to launch the project?
• If the project has not begun: What challenges are you expecting to encounter as you prepare to launch the project?
The project has not begun yet. We were supposed to all have the same students and there was a problem with the master schedule. Therefore we plan on starting this project during the second semester.
2. How did you overcome the challenges? • If the project has not begun: How do you expect to overcome the challenges?
We have been meeting with our principle about rectifying the class schedule. We have been assured that all the changes will be in place by next semester. We have also started going to training's as a group and meeting regularly.
3. What revisions have you made to the project since the Summer Institute?
Our focus is now more toward fire protection. We are also now incorporating Biology and Computer Applications.
4. What is it like working with your PBL team?
Very good. People are working well together and sharing ideas.
5. Has the plan for the Culminating Event/Public Exhibition changed? If, yes, please explain.
There is no change.
6. How have the students responded to the project?
We have generated quite a bit of interest. Our students must volunteer to be apart of the academy.
Second Quarter Update
1. What are you doing to address the diverse needs of your students (differentiated instruction, learning styles, assessments)?
In order to meet the needs of all our students, we plan to use differentiated instruction in our lesson plans and our assessments. This ranges from offering alternate assessments for those students with IEP's to multi-layer scaffolding. We have also started an after school tutoring program twice a week to help support the needs of the students. This has had a great turn out.
2. Of the 6 A’s, which one has been the most challenging to incorporate into the project? The most difficult of the 6 A's has been the Assessment. The other A's are all naturally apart of how our program works.
2A. What are you doing to solve that challenge? In the Fire Pro class, the students have been deciding the grading elements and presentation criteria for their assessments. The students receive feedback on their presentations and must discuss with their peers what they could have done to improve their performance. Then complete a write-up on that information.
3. What do students say has been the most difficult part of the project so far? The most difficult part had been keeping up with their content area classes.
4. As a team, what surprises have you encountered? We were surprised how much work this was. I don't think anyone foresaw the major time commitment this would become for all of us.
Please upload four recent project-related photos. Include a caption for each photo.
Third Quarter Update
Fireman Jorge Hernandez, although it his first year at Lincoln, has engaged his students teaching them the elements of Communication, Discipline and Teamwork! What better way to do that than to create home-made gas masks. Student's learned the history of respiratory protection in Mrs. Profit's World History class, and were asked to research how to construct their own masks. Mr. Alardi provided scaffolding in vocabulary and research, as Mr. Hernandez tested each group's mask in his Fire Tech Pro classes. Mr. Hernandez gave suggestions for improvements and modifications before their final evaluations, as Ms. Profit continued to have students further research and reconstruct their projects. Once completed, several masks were of comparable quality to the filtration masks used by the fire department. As an end activity to the project, students wrote reflective essays in Mr. Alardi's English 4 class that asked them to discuss their successes, needed areas of improvement, and how History, Fire Tech Pro, and English tied together in their efforts.
Final Update
'Teacher Reflection
When we initially developed the “Help Yourself” project, we envisioned the strongest cross-curricular connections to be between Science and Fire Tech Pro, and History and English. Surprisingly, there were significant relationships between each of the subjects that we didn’t predict, particularly between English, History, and Fire Tech Pro. We also got to a very late start, because we didn’t get our students recruited into the program until the second semester, and the unit was intended to be yearlong. Despite these circumstances, the project was successful in itself, as it truly embodies the attributes in the Fire House Code, “Discipline,” Communication,” and “Teamwork.” These qualities were pressed upon our students throughout the semester, as our academy faculty team came to embody them as well.
Our greatest challenge in making “Help Yourself” happen was the shortage of time. This negatively impacted our progress and end product, because we didn’t have enough time to coordinate the elaborate lessons needed in teaching the students how to produce a video. As a result, we had to settle for PowerPoint presentations, which are effective, but not as exciting. To help compensate for the less influential form of media, we asked students to hype up their presentations by engaging their audience in an activity. Some students had the ninth graders practice the proper way to “duck and cover” during an earthquake, others plotted fire escape routes for their homes, as well as escape routes to higher ground during flashfloods. Should we continue “Help Yourself” next year, it would be wise to make it an exclusively 11th grade project. 11th grade is a more ideal level for this type of assignment, because most of them will be taking Tools for the Digital Age with Mrs. Adams, so even if there are time restraints, they will have the tools necessary in using digital media.
Although the year was filled with unpredictable challenges, our students pulled through in giving their presentations to the ninth grade, and exceeded our initial expectations in community involvement. With the addition of Fireman Hernandez to our team, most of our academy students have far surpassed the community service requirements needed for graduation. His routine beach clean ups and community outreach activities is cultivating a strong relationship between our students their community, while instilling a new sense of pride. Our students not only shone in their presentations, but in a mock "Mass Casualty Incident," where they practiced rescue and triage procedures, with feedback from local and state firefighters. It's been an amazing year, and we're looking forward the what we will accomplish next year in two full semesters.
Student Reflection
STUDENT 1: The reason why it is important that the community is prepared for any disaster is to inform about what can go on in our daily life. I believe it is important to be prepared for any disaster, why is because it can happen at anytime throughout life. It is highly important to prepare for any future disaster. For example, the incident in Haiti, Chile, and Katrina. Through out the year, I have been preparing for many disasters. Such as flash floods, fire damages, earthquakes, and ECT. In this course I have learned all the ropes and preparedness how to help myself and anybody who is around me. In addition, learn how to respond to any disaster. How I have helped the community with my teammates is by many things. For example; we all have gone to go change batteries at nursery home, beach clean up, teaching mentally challenge students about fire safety and inform students/community/parents about being prepared and how to respond to a situation. Another type of community service projects I have done is present to the students at Lincoln High School. It was to tell people about the different incidents that can happen if you are not prepared. How my English, History, and Fire Pro class has helped myself for my properness is that all of them taught me; Discipline, Communication, and Team Work. In English, I have learned how to write many essays and prepare how to make a preparedness plan. In History, I have learned about the history of many things from the fires in the pass to the Vietnam War to many incidents that happens now. In Fire Protection, I learned skills and ready preparedness plans on how to get ready for any incident that can happen in the future. Many of the things we have done in this course that we have also done is to have fun. We do our part and we also have fun in our spare time. One of my favorite trips and activities that I enjoyed the most was the beach clean up. The beach clean up for me was to work out our strengths and our body to stay fitted. In addition, to help out the world we live on. We cleaned the beach as a team and try to help out the world smell and look much better. We picked up a lot of trash and unnecessary things that shouldn’t be at the beach. That was one of many activities we have done.
STUDENT 2: Knowing what to do during a disaster can be helpful and can save lives. For a community to be prepared for a disaster is so important. For example, people living in “Tornado Valley” in the central states know exactly what to do when a tornado comes. They go under ground and don’t have to be told to do so. Disasters to be prepared for are earthquakes and fires. During Fire Protection during May 12th we prepared for a Mass Casualty Incident (M.C.I) where all fire academy students were preparing for a real life incident. Students had mock injuries and fire fighters, E.M.T’s, and first responders arrived at the scene located in Public Safety and helped out injured victims. It was fun and gave student the knowledge of what to do during a big disaster. How I helped the community during this year was changing smoke alarms or detectors in nursing homes. In addition, I have also participated in beach clean ups at both Mission Beach and La Jolla Shores. I also gave a presentation to under classmen, community, and parent night with my group. My English, History, and Fire Protection Classes help me prepare easily because they all relate to the same kind of subject such as projects about gas mask, history of fires and gas mask, and defining fire terms and names of what a fire fighters use to protect them selves and save others. Some of my favorite trips or activities are the M.C.I because of many people joining in and having fun. Another activity is Physical Training (P.T); is after school on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Participating student workout, advanced fire training, where we can improve our team skills as being a fire fighter. Such as repelling off building, running, and carrying 180 pound manikins with fire fighter turnouts. This activity is very fun but also very tiring.
STUDENT 3: It’s important for people to be prepared for a disaster because they’ll be safer. Besides its better being safe than sorry, and get injured or killed. People in the community ready for a disaster wouldn’t have much to worry about because they’ll be prepared. At the center of Public Safety the fire pro class did a Mass Casualty Incident (M.C.I.). For the MCI we prepared for an earthquake. Students in the fire protection program were assigned to be the rescue crews. They had rescue people with mock injuries inside the building. The rescue crews had to drag or carry the injured people out through the closes exit. Students were also EMT’S and First Responders. This made it feel like a real life experience. We helped the community by going to elderly homes and fixing there smoke alarms. Twice we got the chance to do beach clean ups. We gave presentations to the community and our families. We also went to another center to present to the underclassmen. The other classes English, Fire pro and History helped by doing things that relate to fire protection class. History class we learned about how threw out the years fire protection developed. English class we wrote down the words and definitions that relate’s to fire protection. In fire protection we also do hands on activities and discuss how to use it. My favorite activity in fire pro was when we did the MCI on 5/12/10. The other activity that I really like is P.T. after school three days a week because we get to work out and get fit. The trip that was cool was when we went to the U.S.S Midway. The other trip that I liked was the Museum of Tolerance; it’s been a good experience. In the museum of tolerance we learned about the concentration camp.
STUDENT 4:
It is important for the community to be prepared for these disasters just incase there are other incidents like Katrina and most recently the earthquakes in Haiti and Chile. The disasters we prepared for were fires and earthquakes. We had an event called a Mass Casualty Incident (M.C.I.). Which occurred 5/12/10 at the center of Public Safety at Lincoln High School. The students were prepared to act as Fire Fighters, E.M.T.’S, and First Responders, mocking real life incidents. For example, students had mock injuries making it seem like a real life incident. This program has helped the community by replacing smoke alarms and detectors in nursing homes, we had two beach clean ups, we gave presentations to our families, the community, and the underclassmen. My English, History, and Fire Pro classes have helped me because they all relate to each other. For example my English class I define the fire terms and names. In History class we learn about how over time fire protection has developed and improved. In fire protection we put the skills together and discuss it. My favorite trips were the beach clean ups because besides cleaning up the beach we did physical training (PT). The activities I liked the most are staying after school and doing PT. I like PT because we don’t only work out we also learn about nutrition and how to eat right. Other things we do that I like about PT is that we learned how to rappel. I like rappelling because it makes me feel like I’m flying.
Roadtrip Nation
American Red Cross
Who’s On First?
The American Red Cross (ARC), you’re probably thinking cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training, handing out food, blankets and Band-Aids during disasters. They must be everywhere whenever you want them, but how? How does this system work? Who works or volunteers for this private, nonprofit organization? It’s people like Holly Martin.
