Kids Helphaiti Worksheets
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Name: Many lives were lost and many people need help following Haiti’s earthquake. Kids everywhere are saying: There are LOTS of ways kids like you can help. This special Kid Scoop page tells you how! An earthquake is one of the most powerful forces on earth. On January 12, 2010 a major earthquake near Haiti’s capital city of Port-au-Prince destroyed buildings throughout this tiny nation. Thousands of lives were lost. 1. On a table place a small toy car on a piece of paper. 2. One person holds a pencil with the lead lightly resting on the paper. 3. The other person moves the paper back and forth very slowly. What kind of line does the pencil make? Does the car move? 4. Now move the paper so that the car starts to slide around. What kind of line does the pencil make now? Scientists use an instrument called a seismograph to measure earthquakes. Try this activity with a friend to find out how a seismograph works. Haiti is an island nation located in the Caribbean Sea, south of the United States.
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Many lives were lost and many people need help followingHaiti’s earthquake. Kids everywhere are saying:
There are LOTS of ways kids like you can help. This special Kid Scoop page tells you how!
An earthquake is one of the most powerful forces on earth. On January 12, 2010 a major earthquakenear Haiti’s capital city of Port-au-Prince destroyed buildings throughout this tinynation. Thousands of lives were lost.
1.On a table place a small toy car on a piece of paper.
2.One person holds a pencil with the lead lightly restingon the paper.
3.The other person moves the paper back and forth veryslowly. What kind of line does the pencil make? Doesthe car move?
4.Now move the paper so that the car starts to slidearound. What kind of line does the pencil make now?
Scientists use an instrument called aseismograph to measure earthquakes. Trythis activity with a friend to find out howa seismograph works.
Haiti is an island nation located in the CaribbeanSea, south of the United States.
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When you crack the shell of a hard-boiled egg, you get a lotof separate pieces or plates of shell. The crust of the earth islike the shell of a hard-boiled egg. It is broken up into plates,too. But, unlike the pieces of a hard-boiled egg, the plates ofthe earth’s crust move.
Ask an adult if there are some chores around homeyou could do to raise a little money for Haiti earthquakevictims. You’ll be helping two places at once!
Following Hurricane Katrina, Kid Scoop readers came up with creative ideas to raise a lot of money,a little at a time. A student in Pennsylvania told us …
“We helped with a game called PENNYWARS! In Penny Wars, each class competesagainst other classes. Each class tried tohave the smallest amount of money in itsclass bin at the end of the week. How?Students donate money to another class'sbin to make the amount in the other binshigher than the home class bin. We hopedto raise $400 in the week-long competition.Thanks to generous donations, we raised 5times our goal, a total of $2,184,60!”
Justin, 6th gradePennwood Middle SchoolYardley, PA
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The American Red Cross provides help to victims ofdisasters and helps people prevent, prepare for, andrespond to emergencies.www.redcross.org1-800-HELP-NOW
UNICEF is helping in Haiti by providing childrenwith clean water, food and emergency securityservices.www.unicef.org1-800-FOR-KIDS
CARE is providing emergency food, shelter andmedical aid following the largest earthquake to strikeHaiti in 200 years.www.care.org1-800-521-2273
After a disaster like the Haiti earthquake, disease canspread quickly without proper sanitation and cleandrinking water which Oxfam helps to provide.www.oxfam.org1-800-776-9326
Above are just some of the many agencies rushingto assist in Haiti. Look for more in your newspaperor at your newspaper’s Web site.
What if you could understand kindness with allof your senses? Look through the newspaper for
pictures that show what kindness:
Can you find an example for all five?
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hen the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers flooded in 1884, a group of six children put on a play,raised money and sent it to the American Red Cross. The money helped a family that sufferedgreatly from the flood.
To find out how much money the children raised, add up all of the even numbers on the redcrosses below.
Newspapers provide more than just news about disasters. They also bring peopletogether to help those suffering from disasters like Haiti’s earthquake. Newspapershelp people support each other in their own communities.
As you complete this special newspaper page, look around and get to know howyour paper delivers news and hope. Newspapers make the world a better place.
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Send us a letter or an e-mail telling us what you did to help people affected by the earthquake inHaiti. How did helping make you feel? We may even share your letter with other Kid Scoop readersat kidscoop.com in the weeks ahead.
Find volunteer opportunities in the newspaper in your area. Identify the value, both personally andto the community, of doing a “good turn” in this situation.
How I Helped
Send your letters to: Kid Scoop/How I HelpedP.O. Box 1802
Sonoma, CA 95476
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