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Notes for a primary school assembly or classroom
work
From the Tsunami
in Asia online resource
Please note that you are unlikely to be able to cover
all of the following material in an assembly lasting 10–15
minutes. You may need to select and edit the material according
to the needs of your pupils and the time available. For very young
children, you may wish to only use the story and think about the
immediate needs people would have. However, it is important that
you read all the material in this section, and keep in mind the
following:
- Be sensitive to the fact that some of your pupils
may have been directly affected.
- Avoid stereotyping people affected by the disaster
as helpless 'victims', dependent on western aid (much of the relief
and reconstruction work is done by local people themselves).
- Emphasise the long-term development issues for
the affected communities and the fact that we can all make a difference
to those issues through exercising our rights and responsibilities
as active global citizens.
Aims
To allow pupils the space to explore the short- and long-term consequences
of the Indian Ocean tsunami for the affected communities.
To develop an understanding of how aid agencies, such as Oxfam,
work in a disaster situation and of how donated money is used.
To build empathy and encourage pupils to think about the benefits
of co-operation.
To encourage pupils to think about how they can make a difference.
What to do
Read all of the materials below to get a
sense of the issues, before selecting and editing materials for
use in your school. Even if you choose to focus on one part of this
section, it is important to bring in elements of the other parts.You
can select materials to use in an assembly or in the classroom from
the list below:
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