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Rosanna Briggs added a discussionJune 22
Hi All Reading the latest news letter, I was interested to see the American Red Cross have created a colouring book. I have now created the What if strategy for my youth awareness programme on emergency planning in the UK (although its looking at...
Justin Sharpe added a videoJune 21
Two families are given ten minutes to evacuate their homes - But which one are you - What lessons can be learned from this video - And how can we get this message across - This video may be a good start...
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Using online surveys to evaluate the success of an education project 4 Replies

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youth awareness - products to use

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Educational Resources for Disaster Risk Reduction 7 Replies

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The following are some examples of lesson plans and resources. more will follow, but if you have more please add them!
Lesson plans for edu4hazards.org website Scheme of work and lesson plans for using the edu4hazards.org website - A series of four 1 hour lessons - Use all or just one or two!

shake table My shake table design using a variable speed drill

disaster_myths.doc Learn why people don't do anything to prepare based on 'what they have heard, rather than facts!

Earthquake epicenters exerciseA great exercise that allows students to work out earthquake epicenters from real data - better for older kids (14+)

A coloring Book! A coloring book for learning about preparedness for younger kids!

FEMA earthquake preparedness for children Excellent FEMA resource for teaching about earthquakes and carrying out drills with children -My favorite is the 'shimy-shake' song with younger kids! A series of lessons for a range of age groups.

Boy vs Brick movie (45 secs) Who will win...A great advert/resource...Why isn't this on youtube? Really great idea for engaging teenage age group...makes them laugh and think

How Big was that quake? A resource from Team Safe-T that helps students to investigate how large an earthquake was...

VERY simple shake table This shake table design is perfectly easy to make...you need cardboard drink trays, elastic bands, marbles, elastic bands and staples. Students build structures from marshmallows and cocktails sticks to see how it responds in an earthquake..suitable for ANY age group

What causes earthquakes? Film showing how earthquakes occur using simple visualizations

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Himadri Maitra

Disaster risk, development and the environment

Disasters are not random and do not occur by accident. They are the convergence of hazards and vulnerable conditions. Disasters not only reveal underlying social, economic, political and environmental problems, but unfortunately contribute to worsening them. Such events pose serious challenges to development, as they erode hard-earned gains in terms of political, social and educational progress, as well as infrastructure and technological development. The Millennium Declaration recognizes the ri… Continue

Posted by Himadri Maitra on June 6, 2009 at 3:44pm

Tania

Return of the IDPs (to the Places of their Orogin) living in Tent Villages after October 8th 2005 Earthquake in Hazara and AJK- IDP Children's Views on the Return

When government of Pakistan declared that all the camps will be closed by 31st of march and all the IDPs have to return back to their places of origin, All the IDPs including children showed mixed reactions. Our child protection monitors who as part of UNHCR and UNICEF monitoring team were collecting the information about EVIs tried to convince the IDPs to return to their villages if they do not belong to the category of people who find it impossible to go back to their villages due to different… Continue

Posted by Tania on May 24, 2009 at 5:05pm

Justin Sharpe

Dirty Bertie has revolting habits...



Great new resource from the NHS (National Health Service) aimed at getting younger children to wash their hands, these can be used as posters or as stories to share with the class! Good to see this here in the UK! BUT...Do you know of anything similar? If so upload it to this blog… Continue

Posted by Justin Sharpe on May 24, 2009 at 8:31am

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