Games that Teach: Classroom Activities on Individual and Community Disaster Preparedness for Elementary and Secondary Schools

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1971 - Civil defense - 100 pages
 

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Page 3 - Civil defense" is defined, for this purpose, in accordance with section 3(b) of the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950. Pub. L. 920, 81st Congress as follows: The term "civil defense" means all those activities and measures designed or undertaken (1) to minimize the effects upon the civilian population caused or which would be caused by an attack upon the United States. (2...
Page 11 - emergency" means a combination of circumstances or the resulting state that calls for immediate action before the next regularly noticed meeting or closed session.
Page 3 - An integral part of the dam age -limiting defense structure of the United States is a system of civil defense. The basic goal of civil defense, most simply stated, is the survival of the American population in the event of nuclear attack on the United States. This is not to say that civil defense, even in combination with other elements of strategic defense, could prevent widespread death and destruction in the wake of an all-out nuclear attack. Millions of Americans would die, and there is no point...
Page 78 - The children hold onto their pairs: the player with the most cards at the end of the game is the winner...
Page 11 - ... of communications facilities normally available or which require the temporary establishment of communications facilities beyond those normally available. (b) Disaster. An occurrence of such nature as to involve the health or safety of a community or large area, or the health or safety of any group of individuals in an isolated area to whom no normal means of communications are available, and include, but are not limited to, floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, explosions, aircraft or train wrecks,...
Page 4 - Fun, sport" — with sport suggesting a physical activity combined with an entertaining mental one. "A procedure for gaining an end," as in playing a waiting game. "A field of gainful activity," like the newspaper game. "A physical or mental competition conducted according to rules with the participants in direct opposition to each other," a general but misleading definition since the participants need not be in direct opposition.
Page 11 - ... facilities beyond those normally available. (b) Disaster. An occurrence of such nature as to involve the health or safety of a community or large area, or the health or safety of any group of individuals in an isolated area to whom no normal means of communications are available, and include, but are not limited to, floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, explosions, aircraft or train wrecks, and consequences of armed attack. (c) Disaster station. Any government or non-government radio station able...
Page 11 - ... restoration of vital utilities and facilities destroyed or damaged by any such attack; (4) to deal with disaster conditions resulting from natural or nuclear causes.
Page 1 - Many of the games require the use of a game board or game cards. All of these materials are provided in the book and the pages are arranged so that these materials may be cut out to use in playing the game. If the reader wishes to keep the book intact...
Page 2 - A major objective of education is the development of the thinking citizen who is aware of his responsibility in societal obligations, yet at the same time fulfilling his needs as an individual. Social studies has a very special role in this development. Social studies might be...

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