National Building Museum
 

Designing for Disaster Educator Workshop
National Building Museum

Taipei 101 Under Construction

FREE. Workshop for teachers at accredited K-12 schools.

The Designing for Disaster Teaching Kit is recommended for teachers of students in grades 7-9.

Registration required.

Learn how to bring resilient building techniques and basic city planning concepts into your classroom at this educator workshop. Examine the effects of natural disasters on the built environment and learn how building professionals, homeowners, and planners use design to mitigate damages. 

Museum staff will model lesson plans, demonstrate teaching tools, and explore materials from Designing for Disaster, the National Building Museum’s newest classroom-ready teaching kit.

Each participating teacher will receive a Designing for Disaster Teaching Kit ($110 value) at no cost. Workshop participants will also receive admission to the Museum and experience the Designing for Disaster exhibition during the workshop.

The goals of the Designing for Disaster Teaching Kit are to:

  • Introduce students to the people, processes, and choices involved in designing and constructing disaster resilient buildings and communities.
  • Increase student awareness of the relationship between people and the built environment, including how people affect their surroundings and how their surroundings affect them.
  • Increase student awareness of the relationship between the natural environment and the built environment and how these are interdependent.

The National Building Museum’s Designing for Disaster Teaching Kits are supported by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Please direct any questions regarding this event to Tim Wright (twright@nbm.org).

Date:
Time: 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Address:
401 F Street NW
Washington, DC 20001

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