ALEXANDRIA, KY (FOX19)- Kentucky Emergency Management (KYEM) and the Campbell County Office of Emergency Management will honor 2011 Earthquake Awareness Poster Contest winners on Tuesday, May 31, 2011, at Grant's Lick Elementary in Alexandria, Ky.
In 2009, KYEM and the Kentucky Center for School Safety (KCSS) worked together with two Kentucky elementary school teachers to develop a KYEM Earthquake Awareness Educational Program and Earthquake Instructional Unit for third through fifth grades. This five-hour educational awareness unit is designed to educate both children and adults in Kentucky communities and is available for download on the KYEM Earthquake Program website at www.kyem.ky.gov/earthquake/
This unit is taught each year during Earthquake Awareness Month in February. As part of the unit, students across Kentucky were given the opportunity to create a classroom poster promoting earthquake aw