For this assignment, you will begin by briefly summarizing how emergency management has developed from 1900 to the
present.
Next, you will select one of the focusing events we have covered so far in our readings. Then, you will prepare a PowerPoint
presentation summarizing the following details about the event.
What happened during that focusing event?
Which focusing event characteristics pertain to that event?
What are some lessons learned from that event?
How did collaboration between emergency management stakeholders play a role in the outcome of that event?
You will also examine how the selected disaster has contributed to changes in federal policy and procedures for emergency
management and how disaster and emergency management has changed during the past 100 years for that type of
disaster (hurricane, earthquake, etc.).
your name.
The following must be incorporated into your PowerPoint presentation:
Include a minimum of five images that support the content of the slides.
To provide additional context and amplify the information on each slide, you must use the Notes feature of PowerPoint
(The notes section is not where you place references, though you should place citations in the notes as well as on the
slides. Your notes should be similar to a script of what you would say if you were actually giving the presentation to a
group of people.)
Use at least three scholarly sources for your information, and cite and reference any information from those sources in
APA Style.