Horizontal Curriculum Map by 3-Week Block COURSE: LOC 9

Block / CACC Standard / Topic(s)/
Essential Question(s) / Content/Materials / Assessments / Academic Vocabulary
1A / 6 / What is my role in an emergency if I am a trained responder?
What steps should I take when I first come across an emergency situation?
What are universal precautions to take in emergency situations?
How do I check for consciousness, life threatening conditions, and shock? / American Red Cross Textbook: Responding to Emergencies Chapters 1-5 / Skills checks:
Removing gloves
Checking an injured child/infant
Checking an injured adult / Barriers to act, EMT, EMS, EMR, EMT-P, certification, lay responder, Good Samaritan laws, injury, life-threatening, non-life threatening, pre-hospital, sudden illness, stress, emergency action steps, abandonment, competence, direct contact transmission, indirect contact transmission, personal protective equipment, expressed consent, implied consent, standard precautions, refusal of care, anatomy, body system, cells, circulatory, digestive, genitourinary, integumentary, musculoskeletal, nervous, organ, physiology, respiratory, tissue, vital organs, aspirate, stoma, head-tilt/chin-lift,
1B / 6 / How do I recognize and treat cardiac emergencies?
How do I recognize and treat breathing emergencies?
How do I recognize and treat bleeding emergencies?
How do I recognize and treat for shock? / American Red Cross Textbook: Responding to Emergencies Chapters 6-9 / Skills Checks:
CPR Adult
CPR Child
CPR Infant
AED: Adult or Child
AED: Child or Infant
Assisting with an Asthma inhaler
Conscious Choking Adult
Conscious Choking Child
Conscious Choking Infant
Unconscious Choking Adult
Unconscious Choking Child/infant
Controlling external bleeding
Using a tourniquet / Angina pectoris, asystole, atherosclerosis, cardiac arrest, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, cholesterol, coronary arteries, coronary heart disease, defibrillation, heart attack, risk factors, ventricular fibrillation, ventricular tachycardia, airway obstruction, anatomical airway obstruction, cyanotic, mechanical airway obstruction, respiratory arrest, respiratory distress, asthma, arteries, blood volume, capillaries, clotting, direct pressure, external bleeding, internal bleeding, veins, tourniquet, pressure bandage, shock
1C / 6 / How do I recognize and treat various types of wounds?
How do I recognize and treat various degree burns?
How do I recognize sprains, strains, and broken bones and treat each of those circumstances? / American Red Cross Textbook: Responding to Emergencies Chapters 10-12 / Skills checks:
Wound care
Burn care
Sling and binder
Rigid splint
Anatomic splint
Soft splint / Bandage, burn, closed wound, critical burn, dressing, full thickness burn, open wound, partial thickness burn, soft tissue, superficial burn, wound, bone, dislocation, fracture, immobilize, joint, muscle, ligament, splint, strain, sprain, tendon, skeletal muscles, binder, extremity, forearm, lower extremity, upper extremity, lower leg, thigh, upper arm
2A / 6 / How do I treat injuries of the head, neck, and spine?
How do I treat injuries to the chest, abdomen, and pelvis? / American Red Cross Textbook: Responding to Emergencies Chapters 13-16 / Skills:
Responding to Head, neck spine injury
Responding to chest, abdomen, pelvis injury
Assisting with an Epinephrine Auto-injector / Concussion, manual stabilization, spine, vertebrae, abdomen, chest, pelvis, genitals, rib cage, sternum, absence seizure, aura phase, clonicphase, complex partial seizure, diabetes, diabetic emergency, epilepsy, fainting, febrile seizure, generalized tonic-clonic seizure, glucose, grand mal seizure, hyperglycemia, hypoglycemia, insulin, partial seizure, post-ictal phase, simple partial seizure, stroke, tonic phase, transient ischemic attack, absorbed poison, anaphylaxis, ingested poison, inhaled poison, injected poison, poison, poison control center
2B / 6 / How do I treat insect bites and stings?
What are the signs and symptoms of substance abuse and misuse and how would I treat someone suspected of substance abuse or misuse?
How do I treat heat related illnesses and cold related injuries? / American Red Cross Textbook: Responding to Emergencies Chapters 17-19 / Skills:
Treating bites and stings
Responding to heat illness
Responding to cold injuries / Antivenin, Lyme disease, rabies, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, addiction, cannabis products, dependency, depressant, drug, hallucinogen, inhalant, medication, overdose, stimulant, substance abuse, substance misuse, synergistic effect, tolerance, withdrawal, frostbite, heat cramps, heat exhaustion, heat stroke, hypothermia, hypothalamus
2C / How do I respond to water-related emergencies?
How do I respond to pediatric, older adult, and special first aid situations?
How would I respond to an emergency childbirth situation?
How do I respond in unique wilderness situations? / American Red Cross Textbook: Responding to Emergencies Chapters 20-23 / Skills:
Water related emergencies
Pediatric emergencies
Older adult emergencies
Wilderness emergencies / Distressed swimmer, drowning, reaching assist, throwing assist, wading assist, Alzheimer’s Disease, child abuse, child neglect, disability, hearing loss, impairment, mental function, motor function, motor impairment, sensory function, sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), vision loss, disaster, remote, wilderness
3A / 6O / How can I apply the skills I have learned in Basic First Aid and CPR to a variety of field scenarios? / Students will spend six days having field tests of all major skills taught in the basic first aid/CPR course / Students will spend six days having field tests of all major skills taught in the basic first aid/CPR course / No new academic vocabulary
3B / 6O / What can I do to personally prepare myself and my family for likely emergencies?
What can I do to mitigate negative consequences of emergencies for me and my family?
What is the Chemistry of fire?
How can I mitigate fire risk?
How can I suppress small fires and decide how big is too big a fire to attempt to suppress? / FEMA Community Emergency Response Team Participant Manual Unit 1
Unit 2
IS100a on FEMA independent study / Family Emergency Plan
Roles in School Emerg Plan
Hazard Mitigation Activity
Fire Suppression activity
IS100A / Hazard mitigation, preparedness, infrastructure, emergency operations plan, suppression, emergency, sheltering, structural, impact, operations, logistics, personal protective equipment, preparedness, intentional, technological, natural, sizeup, precautions, utility, extinguishing, evacuation, fire triangle, exothermic chemical reaction, Class A/B/C/D/K fires, placards, hazardous materials,
3C / 6O / How do I triage multiply victims in a disaster situation?
What is the I-D-M-DEAD triage system?
How do I maintain sanitary conditions in a disaster situation and ensure water purification?
How do I conduct a search and rescue sizeup?
When and how should I go about conducting search and rescue operations as a teen CERT member? / FEMA Community Emergency Response Team Participant Manual Unit 3
Unit 4
Unit 5 / Triage scenario using flowchart on page 133 of CERT participant manual
Unit 5 scenario / I-D-M-DEAD triage system, sanitation, purification, triage, morgue, centralized, decentralized, immediate, delayed, minor, accessible, expandable, head-to-toe assessment (DCAP-BTLS) acronym, inhalation, amputation, impaled, dislocation, displaced, structures, terrain, stable, priorities, resources, masonry, reinforcing, construction, utilities, recessed, disorientation, collapses, void, search markings, evaluate, triangulation, grid search, leveraging, crib, extrication, carry
4A / 6O / What is the structure of CERT teams within the larger Incident Command System? What is the Incident Command System? How does the ICS link to how NVMI will respond to emergencies?
What documentation is required when I am activated as part of CERT?
What are the protocols I should follow when reporting as part of CERT to an incident?
What is the psychology associated with disaster situations? How should my knowledge of disaster psychology shape my response to disasters? / FEMA Community Emergency Response Team Participant Manual
Unit 6
Unit 7
IS 317: FEMA CERT
NVMI Emergency Plan / Tabeltops on NVMI-likely scenarios for CERT deployment
IS 317 completion / Tabletop, disaster psychology, documentation, Incident Command System, structure, disaster psychology, trauma, physiological symptoms, stress, Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD), impact phase, inventory phase, rescue phase, recovery phase, cognitive functions, mediating factors, traumatic. trauma
4B / 6O / How do I respond to Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, or Explosive device terrorist situations?
How can I recognize the signs of possible terrorism?
What is sheltering in place?
How can I prepare my home and community/school for possible terrorist attacks? / FEMA Community Emergency Response Team Participant Manual
Unit 8
Unit 9
FEMA Terrorism Course / CERT Manual Unit 8 scenarios
CERT Written Final Exam
CERT Final Simulation / Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, explosive, terrorism, shelter in place, contamination, decontamination, hot zone, warm zone, cold zone, simulation
4C / 6O / How can I apply and demonstrate the skills I have learned this year to school emergency situations? / Cadets will have six different scenarios based in the NVMI emergency plan and do both tabletop and field exercises on their response to those situations / Cadets will have six different scenarios based in the NVMI emergency plan and do both tabletop and field exercises on their response to those situations: Earthquake, Chemical Spill, Active Shooter on Campus, Fire, Flood, Bomb Threat / No new Academic Vocabulary