Earthquake safety

Earthquake safety

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This task is about understanding how images and words are used to create meaning on a poster.
Earthquake safety poster
 
Use the pictures and the words on the poster to help you answer the questions.
 
a) What was the turtle doing before the earthquake?
   
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b) What was the girl doing before the earthquake?
   
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Text from the poster: in an earthquake...

c) How does the way these words are written remind you of an earthquake?
   
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Image from the poster showing a child being "turtle safe"

d) What has the girl in this picture done to be "turtle safe"?
   
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e) What is the same about what the girl and the turtle are doing in this picture?
   
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f) What do the two sets of dotted lines in this picture show?
   
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g) How does the zigzag line down the middle of this picture go with the idea of an earthquake?
   
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Task administration: 
This task can be completed with pencil and paper.
Level:
2
Curriculum info: 
Description of task: 
Students study a poster about being safe in an earthquake and then answer retrieval and inferential questions.
Answers/responses: 
 

Y4 (09/1999)

a) Any 1 of:

  • Standing in the sun/under an apple tree.
  • Going for a walk.
very easy
b) Reading a book.
[Accept also "painting".]
easy
c) The letters look like they are moving/shaking/cracking. easy
d) The girl is sitting under a desk. very easy
e) Any 1 of:

They are both:

  • under something hard.
  • hiding (under something).
  • keeping themselves safe/protecting themselves.
very easy
f) Any 1 of:

  • Things moving.
  • The apple/ball/glass falling.
moderate
g) Earthquakes make things crack/break apart.
[Accept also "the house/classroom is breaking".]
easy