SCHOOL SHOOTINGS: A NATION-WIDE PROBLEM
Helping students to gain an understanding of the importance of school drills and safety protocols
http://officeofpublicwitness.blogspot.com/2013/04/gun-proposals-fall-short-of-common.html
Introduction
Why are so many innocent people dying due to senseless U.S. school shooting? For this project, you are an administrator—more specific, you are our school’s principal. Having witnessed the recent rise in school shooting across our country, you and your administrative team have decided that it is imperative that you shore up—tighten up our school’s safety procedures. Your goal is to keep the children in our school community safe—to get every child home safely every day.
Task
Step 1:
Each group will develop and write a five-paragraph essay relaying the importance of following safety protocols during those necessary moments—drills, shelter ins, evacuations, or during an actual emergency.
Step 2:
You will transform the five-paragraph essay into an oral/visual presentation to relay the found information surrounding school safety to an audience. (…said audience will represent the school board and or the superintendent and her think tank/committee.)
Process/Resources
The Public Policy Analyst
Each group will use the six-step public policy analyst as an outline for completing both the web quest five-paragraph essay and the oral presentation. Each step should be included somewhere in your process. Each group must complete all six of the worksheets. They are linked below for access. Click on the “MS Word” worksheet link at the bottom after reading the web page. The “groups” must complete these sheets.
Process
Worksheet 1
Worksheet 1 EXAMPLE
Worksheet2: "Gathering evidence of the problem"(MSWORD)
Worksheet3: "Identifying the cause of the problem"(MSWORD)
Worksheet4: "Evaluating Existing Public Policies"(MSWORD)
Worksheet5: "Developing public policy solutions"(MSWORD)
Worksheet6: "Selecting the best public policy solution" (MSWORD)
Resources
Becoming Numb to School Shootings Won’t Save Anyone
http://time.com/5160556/mass-school-shootings-outrage-numbness/
School shootings in the United States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_shootings_in_the_United_States
Evaluation/Rubrics
Informational/Explanatory Rubric
https://www.npd117.net/cms/lib/IL01001910/Centricity/Domain/431/Informational%20grade%205.pdf
Oral Presentation Rubric
file:///Users/lilliethskyers/Downloads/FreeBIEs_3-5_Presentation_Rubric_CCSS.pdf
Conclusion
From completing this project, you should have gained a deeper understanding about the importance of school safety drills and protocols. It is our hope that having had this hands on, interactive experience, you will walk away
Standards
Common Core State Standards for Oral Presentation
Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.5.4
Report on a topic or text or present an opinion, sequencing ideas logically and
using appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details to support main ideas
or themes; speak clearly at an understandable pace.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.5.5
Include multimedia components (e.g., graphics, sound) and visual displays in
presentations when appropriate to enhance the development of main ideas or
themes.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.5.6
Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks, using formal English when
appropriate to task and situation. (See grade 5 Language standards 1 and
3 here for specific
expectations.)
Common Core State Standards for ELA
Key Ideas and Details:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.1
Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and
when drawing inferences from the text.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.2
Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and
information clearly.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.2.A
Introduce a topic clearly, provide a general observation and focus, and group
related information logically; include formatting (e.g., headings),
illustrations, and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.2.B
Develop the topic with facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or
other information and examples related to the topic.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.2.C
Link ideas within and across categories of information using words, phrases,
and clauses (e.g., in contrast, especially).
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.2.D
Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain
the topic.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.2.E
Provide a concluding statement or section related to the information or
explanation presented.
Production and Distribution of Writing:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.4
Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development and organization
are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations
for writing types are defined in standards 1-3 above.)
Milan Hamm (C-R), 17, joins hundreds of community members at a prayer vigil at Parkridge Church, in Parkland, Fla. on Feb. 15, 2018. Giorgio Viera—EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
Elementary school students take part in a simulated shooting at the Felipe Carrillo Puerto school in Acapulco, on November 12, 2010. GETTY IMAGES
Kristi Gilroy (R), hugs a young woman at a police check point near the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School where 17 people were killed by a gunman yesterday, on February 15, 2018 in Parkland, Florida. Police arrested the suspect after a short manhunt, and have identified him as 19-year-old former student Nikolas Cruz.
Mark Wilson—Getty Images
National Review
This map, which purports to show that there are have been 74 “shootings at schools” since the abomination at Newtown, is currently doing the rounds.
74 “School Shootings” since Sandy Hook. Really?
I saw a posting from the Examiner posted that school shootings are on the rise. Here is their chart: When I see a chart this far out of skew, I start to wonder. Are the numbers being charted the same as previous numbers. In other words, what are we calling a school shooting?
https://gregorybeamer.wordpress.com/2014/06/11/74-school-shootings-since-sandy-hook-really/
After Tuesday’s Shootings, America Has Witnessed 86 School Shootings Since Sandy Hook
By Justin Baragona on Tue, Sep 30th, 2014 at 5:50 pm
The Latest Research on Rampage Shootings Shows Gunmen Rarely Target Gun-Free Zones
https://www.thetrace.org/2016/11/gun-free-zones-campus-carry-research/