Disaster Resilience - Local Advice About Hazards

This lesson can be done in class or as an excursion to a local community emergency response group. Students begin by brainstorming who they can go to in the local community to find advice about local natural hazards, what questions they would ask and what hazard information they have seen already in the community. If on an excursion, students will listen to local advice and then reflect on their learning and their family’s preparedness. If in class, they will conduct a website review about natural hazards and then write a letter or monologue to inform their family of what they learnt and convince them to prepare for the natural hazard.

Alternatively, students will write a letter to the community emergency response group’s website with recommendations for improvement.

The lessons in this unit are designed to inform students about natural hazards in the local environment and ways to reduce risk, prepare, respond and recover from a disaster or emergency.