Download Education for Hazards Scheme of Work and

Education for Hazards Scheme of Work and Lessons Plans
Age Range: 11-14 (although these plans can be adapted by teachers of younger
children!)
Overall Aims: For children and youth to know and understand that they can
prepare themselves for hazards and that this knowledge can also be used to help
other children and youth prepare.
Curriculum Links: Strong links with geography, science and citizenship.
This short scheme of work is intended to be carried out over three to five one
hour lessons, and the timings in the lesson plans reflect this. However these are
flexible and will be adapted easily by a confident teacher.
Lesson One – How to survive hazards on holiday
Lesson Aims:
1. To know what hazards may occur
2. To know how to respond in the event of a hazard
3. To know what makes up an emergency kit
Resources:
 Computers linked to the Internet or a copy of the site
(http://www.edu4hazards.org) on the local school network.
 One pc or apple mac to be linked to a whiteboard or projector for teacher
led activities.
Activities:
1. Log onto school network or laptops and type http://www.edu4hazards.org
in the browser. Let children explore the site and examine the materials for
themselves for 15 minutes. (20 min task)
2. Stop the computer activity and replace lap-tops and log off leaving only
teacher laptop or computer linked to projector or whiteboard. (It is
important that these are not left out because of a later activity) (5 mins)
3. Ask the children for feedback.:
What was the website for?
How did you know what to do?
Why were suitcase labels chosen?
Explain that as more and more children travel abroad on holday or to visit
family they are visiting places that are at a much higher risk of hazards
such as earthquakes(Pakistan, India, S. America, LA, etc), hurricanes
(Florida) or tornadoes (worldwide including the UK) and so knowing how to
survive and prepare for these is more important. (5 mins)
4. Choose one or two pages to look at in detail. The most effective page to
examine is the earthquake page – click on the earthquake label from the
frontpage of the site. Slowly go through the instructions and get children to
act out duck, cover and hold advice. You could also throw in an
“Earthquake!” warning at some point later in the lesson – It will keep them
on their toes and concentrating while you go through the advice while also
acting as a practical exercise. (15 mins)
5. PLENARY: Click on the travel kit link and ask the students why each item
might be needed. If you can have your own one made up this will help
children to visualize what they need. At this point set homework task:
(15 mins)
HOMEWORK: To make up your own emergency kit and bring to school.
Take a photograph of the kit and put on USB memory stick to share with
class.
(IMPORTANT: Many of the items to be included in a kit are found around the
house but strongly encourage students to talk to their parents about this before
removing items to bring into class!)
Lesson Two: Emergency Travel Kits
Lesson Aims:
1. To be prepared for a hazard event
2. To know how to protect yourselves and others.
3. To develop planning skills.
Resources:
 Computers linked to the to a whiteboard or projector for teacher led
activities.
 A2 Blank pieces of sugar paper and colour pens for thinking exercises.
Activities:
1. Review what the students learned last lesson. Students to use sugar
paper and colour pens to mind map what they learned in the previous
lesson. Try and encourage input from all in the groups of two-six students.
(10 mins)
2. Emergency Kits. You will probably have a range of kits which will vary in
quality and content. The idea is for students to explain what they have and
why they chose them to go in their kits. It is also important to discuss what
NOT to put in kits…a PSP for example or lots of heavy items –
REMEMBER the idea is for a travel kit! (30 mins)
3. Returning to the website (http://www.edu4hazards.org) assign a hazard to
a group of students (5 max) that they need to research further using the
website outside of the classroom. Explain that they are going to help other
children and youth around the world by making short films based n the
advice from the website. If there are fluent speakers of another language,
they could be encouraged to write a script based on the advice on the web
pages and their film could be narrated in this language, but this needs to
be decided at this point! The homework task is to complete a storyboard
for their next lesson when they will be filming. A blank A4 story board has
been added to this pack. (15 mins)
4. Films can be sent to me:[email protected] and added to the
youtube, teacher tube sites as well as being made available as part of the
edu4hazard video podcast (vodcast) and thereby available for the world to
access. It is important for students to understand that they can make a
difference with their films, but that this means that they must be of a high
standard. To inspire them click on this link from one of the videos added to
teacher tube. It is in French, but is easily understandable!
Lesson Three: Filming – How to survive a geo-hazard
Lesson Aims:
1. To know how to respond in the event of a hazard.
2. To share your knowledge with others.
3. To develop a range of media skills, such as film-making and sound recording.
Resources:
 DV video cameras with a tape or Hard Disc Drives.
 PC’s or Apple Macs to use software to extract the film onto a hard-drive so
that it is digitized and can be edited using available software.
NB: It is best if student films are pre loaded onto a mac or pc before the next
lesson lesson,
Activities:
1. Students to write name of their group onto blank video cassette label so it
can be transferred onto a mac or pc hard-drive after the lesson in
preparation for editing next lesson (5 mins)
2. Briefly examine each groups story board and script when giving out videocamera, to ensure that they have a reasonable shooting schedule and
know what they are shooting where. Reiterate that only the best films will
make it onto websites such as teacher tube and that their video’s can
make a real difference! (15 mins)
3. Students go and shoot films around school. While they are doing this
check on progress and help with suggestions if you think they need
practical help! (35 mins)
4. Students return DV-cameras to you! (5mins)
Lesson Four: Editing and compressing- How to survive a
geo-hazard films
Lesson Aims:
1. To share your knowledge with others.
2. To develop a range of media skills, such as film-editing and compression for
web streaming!
Resources:
 Apple mac or PC’s with video-editing software.
 Demonstration computer linked to a projector/whiteboard.
NB: It is best if student films are pre loaded onto a mac or pc before this lesson!
Activities:
1. Pupils assigned to computers or laptops where their films have been
uploaded onto. (3 mins)
2. The demo computer linked to a projector or whiteboard is used to show
how to edit the movies. You could show how to do this yourself or ask a
media or ICT technician to show the class – Remember: They will listen to
an ‘expert’ and are likely to be very engaged in the media and technical
side of this project! (10 mins)
3. Pupils to edit by dragging clips into timeline, using Apple T (command and
T) to split at play heads (spliiting scenes) and deleting scenes that are not
usable or of a high quality). When this has bee completed save and then
add transiaitions between scenes – a simple fade as well as titles. NB
These instructions are for using i-movie on an apple mac
computer(40 mins)
4. Save films. Then export for web streaming – This may be best left to a
technician if you are unsure!
5. Send films to me to put on teacher tube etc. [email protected]