|
Lesson plan: Investigating needs
From the Tsunami
in Asia online resource
Aims
To help pupils understand the needs of communities affected by the
Indian Ocean tsunami in the short, medium, and long term.
You will need
Media coverage of the Indian Ocean tsunami (either online or print
versions).
What to do
Ask pupils to draw a large version of the Impact
Circles diagram. Ask them to use media coverage of the Indian
Ocean tsunami to research the needs of affected communities, and
to record them on the diagram according to whether the needs will
be experienced in the short, medium or long term. Pupils may find
it helpful to focus on coverage of one specific region, although
this is not essential as the effects will be broadly similar in
all affected areas
Checklist of needs (not exhaustive)
You can use the following checklist to add any needs to the discussion
that your pupils have missed. Alternatively, for differentiation,
you can discuss items from the list and then ask pupils to sort
into short, medium and long term needs.
- Safe removal of dead human bodies and animal carcasses
- Clear and repair airport runways
- Temporary shelter for people who have lost homes
- Clean, safe water supplies
- Emergency food supplies
- Medicines and medical equipment
- ‘Family kits’ of cooking and hygiene supplies
- Clothes
- Blankets
- Find missing people
- Temporary hospitals
- Sanitation facilities
- Fuel
- Mosquito nets
- Clear debris
- De-salinisation of water supplies
- De-salinisation of farmland
- Counselling for dealing with people's trauma and grief
- New farm tools
- New cooking equipment
- Restock farm animals
- Rebuild homes
- Rebuild and equip schools
- Rebuild and equip hospitals
- Rebuild roads and railways
- Improve tsunami early warning systems
- Train local people in emergency relief work
- Restoring people’s livelihoods (e.g. new fishing boats, developing tourism)
- Digging tools like spades, shovels, mattocks
- Opening road/transport access through the debris to
where people may be trapped or buried
- Provide farmers and smallholders with seeds
From the Tsunami
in Asia online resource
|
Cool Planet for Teachers has moved
