Resources

Oxfam's catalogue for schools

Children and diversity

Countries and continents

Disasters and emergencies

Earthquake in South Asia

Tsunami in Asia

Dealing with disasters

Food, trade and globalisation

Peace and conflict

Rights and social justice

Sustainability

Water

Welsh language

Dealing with Disasters

	Photo: Howard Davies/Oxfam

Why do disasters happen? Can they be prevented? What can be done to help? Dealing with Disasters makes it easier for teachers to tackle and explore some of these questions in the classroom. It provides case study material, focussing particularly on Bangladesh.

In particular, this material supports the teaching of Geography, Citizenship, PSE/PSD, and English.

The background information on disasters and natural hazards includes extensive background information on earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, and famine.

These pages have been adapted from Oxfam's print publication, Dealing with Disasters, which you can order online.

Resources for use in the classroom

Resources for use in the classroom – a series of ready-to-use lesson plans

• Lesson plan: Disasters: Raising the issues – raises initial ideas about disasters and explores preconceptions

• Lesson plan: What is a disaster? – explores pupils' current understanding of disasters

• Lesson plan: Disaster Strikes – what needs to happen immediately when disaster strikes, and can this help development in the long term?

• Lesson plan: Exploring a cyclone shelter – how those affected by disasters cope

• Lesson plan: A causes web – causes of and solutions to disasters

• Lesson plan: Activities using the media – range of activities exploring the ways in which disasters are presented by the media
  

• Lesson plan: Whose ideas? – awareness of long-term responses to tackling disasters

Online on Coolplanet for Children

• World – detailed information about different countries of the world; includes introduction to Oxfam's work

• What is Oxfam?