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Resilient Australia - The Body's Response To Natural Hazards
Lesson1 of 2 in this unit
SecondaryYear 7 - 8Health and Physical EducationEnvironmentalClimate ChangeDisaster resilience
Lesson Summary
Students investigate how the body responds to natural disasters and analyse the factors influencing their emotions in situations where the human body triggers a fight, flight or freeze response. Students will be asked to reflect on their own experiences of when this response may have been triggered, further requiring students to identify the physical reactions their bodies experienced during this time.
Learning intentions
Students will:
- investigate how the body responds to natural disasters before/during and after the event
- understand how their body responds in a fight, flight or freeze response.
Success criteria
Students can:
- discuss possible physiological responses to natural disasters
- identify and discuss how the body responds to a natural hazard or stressful situation
- identify ways to manage their response to a natural disaster.
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