Responding to a natural disaster

Year level: Lower secondary Learning Outcome: Students develop an understanding of the general response to natural disasters Read about the response to the Gujarati earthquake in India http://www.globaleducation.edna.edu.au/globaled/page1248.html or a current natural disaster using news and web reports. What happened? How many people were affected? How was property affected? How was the environment affected? Who responded and how? What obstacles to the response might have been encountered? What lessons might have been learned that could make the response to future disasters more effective? Develop a dramatisation based on your research of interactions between people affected by the disaster and those involved in the response: survivors, search and rescue, medical personnel, distribution of food, shelter and clothing, government official, media personnel etc Compare the similarities and differences in responses to different disasters. Disaster Particular needs for this disaster Common needs for all disasters Earthquake       Tsunami     Drought     Flood     Eruption     Cyclone     Assessment task Make a statement about what kind of natural disaster it would be most difficult to recover from and why.