Haitian Relief & Red Cross

Since the devastating earthquake in Haiti in January, more than 430 Red Cross and Red Crescent workers from around the world are in there supporting thousands of local volunteers. Of that, more than 100 represent the American Red Cross. (Find out more about Haiti and view a pre-earthquake slideshow of images at ProQuest.)

Each Red Cross team has its own roles and expertise, and that is a very powerful engine for relief. For example, Red Cross responders from eight countries are treating approximately 500 people a day at medical facilities throughout the capital city. An additional 100-bed Red Cross field hospital arrived this weekend and has been set up in the Carrefour soccer stadium. Others specialists are focused on purifying the local water supply and also delivering donated bottled water to over 400,000 people each day.

Local Haitian Red Cross volunteers are providing first aid support as well as emotional support for traumatized survivors. A special area has been set up at each medical center where volunteers are comforting children, many of who are too young to understand what happened.

This is already the largest single-country relief operation in global Red Cross history. The number of emergency response teams in or en route to Haiti equals those that responded to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, an emergency that spanned 14 countries.

Students can learn more about the challenges of disaster relief across the globe through the BookCart learning activity, "Red Cross and Red Crescent."

ProQuest model BookCarts (quick start guide PDF and short video introduction) inside eLibrary provide teachers and students with a one-stop learning activity designed to integrate critical thinking.

Essential questions + student directions + editor-selected articles and websites provide everything that students need to complete 21st Century inquiry-based learning assignments. This BookCart, and all ProQuest Carts, can be edited. Teachers and librarians can customize content and directions to meet their students' interests, experience, and reading levels. Learn more about creating learning activities for your students with the eLibrary BookCart tool.

To copy this BookCart for your students:

• Logon to the eLibrary CE TEACHER EDITION.
• Click the BOOKCART ADMIN tab at the top of the Teacher Edition.
• Click the PROQUEST CARTS tab.
• Type "Red Cross and Red Crescent" in the SEARCH box
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• Click the new BookCart TITLE with the prefix "COPY OF".
• Delete "Copy of" and then type your name in the AUTHOR boxes and your initials in the EMAIL box (required info).
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March is also Irish American Month. Assign students to research the "Celtic Revival" in literature. Students should write a report of at least 150 words, or a presentation of at least seven slides, that cites at least three resources. Students should use one of the Select Study Questions listed at the bottom of the Celtic Revival section.

Click the Study Pages tab > Literary Movement Pages > Celtic Revival

Use our custom ProQuest models for written and PowerPoint-style reports.

You can also use History Study Center content to focus on this month's most critical observance: Women's History Month. Students should write a report of at least 150 words and cite at least three sources. The report should address at least three of the following essential questions for critical thinking (you can add or substitute others):

• Who were three of the most famous women in the feminist movement and what did they do?
• What is the National Organization for Women and why is it important?
• What is the Equal Rights Amendment and why did it fail?
• What are the most significant reasons that women have not been afforded equal rights?
• Why is birth control a key factor in women's rights?
• What are three areas that are most important in the current women's campaign for equal rights and why?

Click the Study Units tab > Type "Women" in the Study Unit box > Women in America, 1919-