Students can recite "Drop, Cover and Hold On" and still run for the door when the ground actually moves. This natural disaster simulation puts your class inside one loud week of severe weather safety decisions - an earthquake that starts mid-sentence, a tornado warning on the walk home, a flooded underpass that looks like a shortcut, a wildfire evacuation order, and a generator running in the garage on the coldest night of the year. Every choice earns safety points or springs a trap, and students see exactly what happens next.

It is the same playable simulation format behind Phishing Lab, Privacy Lab, Password Lab and Spooky Inbox in this store: eight alerts, texts and group-chat messages, three choices each, 21 safety points and 3 ranked endings. One of the eight is a genuinely real district drill email, so students practise calibration instead of ignoring every alert - the half of safety education that usually gets skipped.

WHAT'S INCLUDED

• Playable web app - the 8-moment simulation with a live Safety Score, auto-save, 4-digit PIN resume and a teacher dashboard that writes one row per student into Google Sheets.

• Printable backup - student worksheet plus an answer key with the teaching notes, so the same lesson runs on paper with zero devices.

• Teacher quick-start - about five minutes with one free Google account, or double-click the HTML file and run it offline on any device you already have.

• 3 ranked endings - Storm Ready, Still Learning The Alerts, Caught Off Guard - replayable until the class clears 18 of 21.

• Seven hazards in one lesson - earthquake, lightning, flood, tornado, hurricane-force wind, wildfire and a winter-storm power outage.

THE 8 MOMENTS STUDENTS DECIDE

• The shake that starts mid-sentence: run for the field, stand in the doorway, or stay under the desk?

• "It isn't even raining" - thunder over the sports field with four minutes left on the clock.

• The flooded underpass that looks six inches deep and films great for the group chat.

• One REAL district shelter-drill email - the calibration message nobody expects.

• A tornado warning with a highway overpass and a store door 200 feet apart.

• The family group chat that swears you should open the windows before a hurricane lands.

• An evacuation order that says GO - and the yard that needs one last look.

• The generator in the garage with the door up, while the house cools toward 44 degrees.

THE GUIDANCE IS THE REAL GUIDANCE. Drop-Cover-Hold On and stay put until the shaking stops. Turn Around Don't Drown. When Thunder Roars Go Indoors, and stay in for 30 minutes after the last thunder. Inside, low, interior, cover your head and neck in a tornado warning. An evacuation order means leave now. The myths students meet are the ones their own families repeat - taped windows, opened windows, the doorway, and "the garage door is up so it's fine".

PERFECT FOR

• The week before your next drill - or the debrief in the week after one.

• Weather and earth-science units that need a decision-based activity, not another fill-in sheet.

• Sub plans, advisory, safety-week rotations and family-night demos.

• Grades 4-7: the classroom, the bus route, the ball field and the group chat are exactly their world.

Part of the simulation series: pair it with Phishing Lab (the bait), Privacy Lab (the share), Password Lab (the keys) and Spooky Inbox (the seasonal traps). A FREE Sampler of the engine is in this store if you want to try the format before you commit.

Two things to know first: the teacher-tracking dashboard needs a free Google account to deploy the app (the printable version needs nothing), and students type only a name, a class period and a made-up four-digit PIN - no accounts, no logins, nothing personal.

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