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Alaattin Arikan; Mert Bilen; Elif Aladag – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
This research aimed to investigate the effect of a technology-supported 3E learning model on middle school students' knowledge of disasters and their attitudes towards disaster preparedness. To this end, it used an explanatory sequential mixed methods design. Quantitative and qualitative data were used to describe how the technology-supported 3E…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Middle School Students, Student Attitudes, Emergency Programs
Eva Quinonez – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The current study was a longitudinal quasi-experimental quantitative study conducted to determine whether or not targeted small-group intervention impacted learning loss relative to the COVID-19 pandemic at a North Texas Title 1 elementary school. Reading and math benchmark and practice test scores from a cohort of 38 fifth-grade students at the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Small Group Instruction, Intervention
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Yilmaz, Elanur; Yildirim, Ali – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2023
Earthquake preparedness is a critical part of developing a sustainable community concerning reducing vulnerability to earthquakes. This study focuses on reducing children's vulnerability, particularly through a school safety program, to increase their physical and emotional preparedness for children against earthquakes. A comparative case study is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Emergency Programs, Seismology, Natural Disasters
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Snodgrass Rangel, Virginia; Henderson, Jerrod A.; Martinez, Chelsea; Greer, Rick – Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic forced much of schooling online and limited students' access to informal learning opportunities such as afterschool programs. The purpose of this study was to investigate how fourth- and fifth-grade students engaged in an online engineering program and what factors influenced their engagement. We drew on a four-dimensional…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Learner Engagement, After School Education, Engineering Education
Durden, Brenda – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Since public schools began in the United States, there has been an academic gap between different groups of people. In normal face-to-face situations, the academic gap is not closing. In March 2020, schools closed worldwide due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This led to emergency remote teaching. Because of the uncertainty of the pandemic, educators,…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Grade 6, Grade 5, Grade 4
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Sharkey, Sonya; Denke, Linda; Herbert, Morley A. – Journal of School Nursing, 2016
To overcome barriers to improved outcomes, we undertook an intervention to teach schoolchildren how to detect a stroke and call emergency medical services (EMS). We obtained permission from parents and guardians to use an 8-min puppet show to instruct the fourth, fifth, and sixth graders about stroke detection, symptomatology, and calling EMS. A…
Descriptors: Intervention, Emergency Medical Technicians, Emergency Programs, Medical Services
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Savasci, Funda; Uluduz, Hatice – Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, 2013
This study intends to investigate the fifth grade students' conceptions of earthquakes. Twenty two grade 5 students (11-12 years old) from five different elementary schools in Istanbul voluntarily participated in the study. Data were collected from semi-structured interviews with each participant. Six interview questions were designed by…
Descriptors: Natural Disasters, Seismology, Grade 5, Elementary School Students
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Kim, Shin-Jeong; Kang, So-Ra; Lee, Seung-Hee; Kang, Kyung-Ah – Journal of School Nursing, 2014
The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of coping knowledge for emergency preparedness in Korean elementary school students. A school-based coping education program was provided seven times to 271 fourth- and fifth-grade students in two urban schools by researchers with the school nurses. The Process Model of Stress and Coping and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Coping, Emergency Programs, Elementary School Students
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Zhe, Elizabeth J.; Nickerson, Amanda B. – School Psychology Review, 2007
In response to calls to evaluate the effectiveness of school crisis drills, this study examined the effects of children's crisis drill participation on their knowledge, skills, state anxiety, and perceptions of school safety. Using a between-subjects, post-test only design, 74 students in the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades participated in an…
Descriptors: Intervention, School Safety, Drills (Practice), Anxiety
US Department of Homeland Security, 2006
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is working together with state and local government and private sector partners to prepare the nation and the nation's schools for emergencies of all kinds. This teaching guide includes lessons, reproducible worksheets, and a classroom poster that can be used to reinforce key curriculum concepts while…
Descriptors: Teaching Guides, National Security, Emergency Programs, Learning Activities