Project Earthquake!: An Eclectic Exercise in Rescue and Recovery

by D. Ed Hoggatt

This practical book outlines, in tremendous detail, all the parts of an amazing role play activity recommended for Grades 3 through 8. Your students will be as engaged as you want them to be as they reenact the rescue and recovery efforts following an earthquake in your classroom. This is one activity they will remember for years to come!

This book is available on Amazon.

90 pages, Paperback

First published March 16, 2012

About the author

Dale Hoggatt is the 2021 Missouri History Teacher of the Year and a Master Teacher with the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.  In his spare time, he teaches fourth-graders in Joplin, Missouri.

He taught in Oklahoma City during the terrorist bombing of 1995, and in Joplin, Missouri, during the tornado and recovery of 2011. His experiences at these locations are reflected in two of his books - Crumbling Spirit and Out of the Wind (available on Amazon).

An educator for 32 years, former newspaper editor, and part-time preacher, Hoggatt shares opinion, reflection, and vision to help teachers improve their craft and thrive in the stressful world of education in his book for educators,  There's No Busyness Like School Busyness.