Year 10 Social
Studies – Natural Disasters
End of Unit – Reflection
Questions
Assessment of Values & Social Decision Making
Assessment of Values & Social Decision Making
1.
How do natural disasters occur and what impact do they have on people and
the environment?
2.
What steps do people take to protect themselves against natural disasters?
3.
What types of natural disasters can occur in your own community?
4.
What steps should people take to be ready for these kinds of natural
disasters?
5.
How prepared are you to deal with a natural disaster?
6.
What actions have you taken?
7.
What actions do you still need to take to be better prepared for a natural
disaster?
8.
How well did you work as a class to carry out our selected project?
9.
How well did I carry out my role/responsibility?
10.
Would we do anything differently next time?
Exploring what it
is to be innovative and enterprising
Generating, identifying and assessing opportunities.
• Working with others and in teams.
• Identifying, recruiting and managing resources.
• Planning and organising.
• Collecting, organising and analysing information.
• Communicating and receiving ideas and information.
Generating, identifying and assessing opportunities.
• Working with others and in teams.
• Identifying, recruiting and managing resources.
• Planning and organising.
• Collecting, organising and analysing information.
• Communicating and receiving ideas and information.
1.
What step/s were you doing when you
used each of the Enterprising
Attributes?
2.
Break each attribute (bullet pointed words above which are underlined) into its separate words and refine your answers.
3.
How could you improve on using the
Enterprising Attribute/s for next
time?
4.
Can you transfer this learning to
your other topics?
5.
This unit links knowledge and skills
from Science, Social Sciences and English. How has each of these subjects
contributed to your knowledge and how has that knowledge been used in this
learning? How did this help you to be innovative in this unit?
Exploring further future
focus issues:
1.
What else might you explore now about the risk
of community disasters?
2. How has the local council been innovative and
enterprising in managing
local risks? eg: flood protection schemes?
3. How can you help manage the risk of a community
disaster in the future?
4. Describe some differing viewpoints from people you surveyed on how prepared they are for a Natural Disaster.
4. Describe some differing viewpoints from people you surveyed on how prepared they are for a Natural Disaster.
Task: Copy the questions/text above and paste into an email or reply to this post on the blog with your answers. Provide full and detailed answers. The more detailed the better... as this is being assessed and you will be getting some questions on Natural Disasters in the exam at the end of the year. This is to be completed in class time only :)
Mitchell Sizemore's comments:
1. How do natural
disasters occur and what impact do they have on people and the environment?
A Snow storm occurs
when a huge lot of cold air moves away from artic areas. The cold collides with
the warm air. The cold air is forced down below the warm air and all the cold
air has the potential to snow a lot.
Earthquakes happen
because tectonic plates collide together. When they build up too much force for
the rock they snap releasing a huge amount of energy.
Floods happen when a
lot of rain falls over a long period of time or tsunami.
2. What steps do people take to protect
themselves against natural disasters?
In a tornado people
try to get as low as possible to the ground. In a snow storm they wrap up with
clothes and rugs to keep themselves warm. In tsunami or floods they go to
higher ground until the tsunami or flood passes over. In earthquakes you try to
cover themselves if you are in a building by getting under desks or supported
parts of the building. If you are outside you should run to open spaces like
parks of fields so nothing can fall on you
3. What types of natural disasters can occur in
your own community?
Snow storms, floods,
earthquakes, Tsunami, tornados, hurricanes.
4. What steps should people take to be ready
for these kinds of natural
disasters?
Have a first aid
kit. Have a meeting place outside your house encase a natural disaster caused a
fire in your house and you had to evacuate. Talk to your neighbours and you can
work together. If you have elderly neighbours talk to them and tell them how you
could help them.
5. How prepared are you to deal with a natural
disaster?
Our family isn't
prepared with the medical kits or talking to our neighbours but we do know what
to do in a natural disaster (duck and cover in an earthquake.
6. What actions have you taken?
We have spent time
on knowing what to do in a disaster
7. What actions do you still need to take to be
better prepared for a natural
disaster?
Talking to our
neighbours
8. How well did you work as a class to carry
out our selected project?
I think we work
alright. We didn't work as a class too much but we worked in groups, which was
good.
9. How well did I carry out my
role/responsibility?
I think I did my
role good but I could have spent more time researching some facts about snow
storms.
10. Would we do
anything differently next time?
We would work more
as a group.
Exploring what it is
to be innovative and enterprising
Generating,
identifying and assessing opportunities.
• Working with others and in teams.
• Identifying, recruiting and managing
resources.
• Planning and organising.
• Collecting, organising and analysing
information.
• Communicating and receiving ideas and
information.
1. What step/s were you doing when you used each
of the Enterprising
Attributes?
We planned out what
each of us was going to do
We got a task to do
each and if you got the task of researching you were going to collect and
analyse information.
We took the main
points from our resources and put them on a Google document so we could all
access it.
We picked the
important parts from our Google doc and put them into the power point .
We shared our
information on a power point.
2. Break each attribute (bullet pointed words above which are
underlined) into its separate words and refine your answers.
• Working with others and in teams.
How we worked
together to find information and organised what we were going to do.
• Identifying, recruiting and managing
resources.
Communicate with
your group and sort out what each person is going to do.
• Planning and organising.
How are you going to
collect information e.g. books, internet, other people.
• Collecting, organising and analysing
information.
Taking what
information you got from your books, internet or people and sorting it into
important and not important.
• Communicating and receiving ideas and
information.
What tool you are
going to use to put your information out into the public
3. How could you improve on using the
Enterprising Attribute/s for next
time?
We could work
together and not leave it to the last minute. Work productively in class so we
don't have to do so much work in the holidays
4. Can you transfer this learning to your
other topics?
Yes. But mostly in
social studies because we don't work in groups often in other subjects
5. This unit links knowledge and skills from
Science, Social Sciences and English. How has each of these subjects
contributed to your knowledge and how has that knowledge been used in this
learning? How did this help you to be innovative in this unit?
Science helped me by
researching information on the internet because we have to research ourselves
in science a lot.
Social science helps
me collecting information and analysing it. Also it helps me break down big
paragraphs.
English help me take
the main points that I have got from the internet and put it into my own words.
This has been used
in my collecting a presenting my information. Knowing the steps for collecting
and presenting data makes these sort of tasks easy. The only thing you have to
do other than that is putting the finishing touches on a power point.
Exploring further
future focus issues:
1. What else might you explore now about the
risk of community disasters?
I would do more
research so I can get extremely accurate data and should make it easier to put
the data into your own words.
2. How has the local
council been innovative and enterprising in managing
local risks? eg: flood protection
schemes?
They haven't done so
much for snow storms but they seem to have snow plough on stand bye.
3. How can you help
manage the risk of a community disaster in the future?
Talk to my
neighbours because they are old and help them in a disaster (even if it's only
telling them what to do in a disaster).
4. Describe some
differing viewpoints from people you surveyed on how prepared they are for a
Natural Disaster. For snow storms no one was fully prepared for a storm to hit.
The main area I think that people should research is what to do if you are
stuck in your car in a snow storm because 0/5 knew what to do
Reece Stackhouse's comments:
Reece Stackhouse's comments:
1. How do natural
disasters occur and what impact do they have on people and the environment?
Natural disasters occur naturally, a earthquake occurs when the earth's
tectonics plates move together in some sort of way, a tsunami happens when a
earthquake usually out at sea creates a huge wave that can come ashore and
cause destruction. a flood happens when a large down pour of rain happens and
the natural waterways cant handle the overflow of water floods can also occur
when man made water structures collapse.
2. What steps do people take to protect
themselves against natural disasters? people prepare a survival kit, an
evacuation point for each type of disaster.
3. What types of natural disasters can occur in
your own community? in Ngapara, droughts can happen, floods can also. Ngapara
is no where near the sea so there is a minimal chance of a tsunami. earthquakes
are a risk. so are snowstorms as sheep and other stock will die.
4. What steps should people take to be ready
for these kinds of natural
disasters? they should prepare a
survival kit which has enough supplies to last 3 days.they should have an
established evacuation point.
5. How prepared are you to deal with a natural
disaster? I believe i am prepared enough, the hostel has a survival kit located
outside the hostel.
6. What actions have you taken?
i have a cellphone,
a blankett, at our home we have a survival kit and a evacuation point.
7. What actions do you still need to take to be
better prepared for a natural
disaster? Have food and water to last a
long amount of time. Have a vehicle ready to leave in a hurry.
8. How well did you work as a class to carry
out our selected project? As a class we worked pretty good, I think we all had
a say.
9. How well did I carry out my
role/responsibility? I think I did a very good job, Carlos and I both did quite
a bit.
10. Would we do
anything differently next time? Make our slideshow longer.
Exploring what it is
to be innovative and enterprising
Generating,
identifying and assessing opportunities.
• Working with others and in teams.
• Identifying, recruiting and managing
resources.
• Planning and organising.
• Collecting, organising and analysing
information.
• Communicating and receiving ideas and
information.
1. What step/s were you doing when you used each
of the Enterprising
Attributes? I worked with my partner,
Carlos. We communicated at school. We planed what each of us was going to do.
We collected good information.
2. Break each attribute (bullet pointed words above which are
underlined) into its separate words and refine your answers. Carlos and I
worked well together and we were efficient. We identified the disaster we were
studying and developed some questions. We searched the web and looked up books
for answers. We were well organized. And we knew how to appropriately organize
our information. Carlos and I communicated during school hours.
3. How could you improve on using the
Enterprising Attribute/s for next
time? We could communicate out of
school hours.
4. Can you transfer this learning to your
other topics?
yes, I now know how to analyse information in
a efficient way.
5. This unit links knowledge and skills from
Science, Social Sciences and English. How has each of these subjects
contributed to your knowledge and how has that knowledge been used in this
learning? How did this help you to be innovative in this unit? I knew the basics of weather from science
which helped me to learn about disasters quicker. English helped me to write my
power point without many mistakes.
Exploring further
future focus issues:
1. What else might you explore now about the
risk of community disasters? How likely they are to occur.
2. How has the local
council been innovative and enterprising in managing
local risks? eg: flood protection
schemes? The DCC is earthquake proofing the city soon I think.
3. How can you help
manage the risk of a community disaster in the future? Prepare yourself so
emergency services can focus on more important stuff like flooding and damaged
buildings.
4. Describe some
differing viewpoints from people you surveyed on how prepared they are for a
Natural Disaster. Some people had no
idea what they would do in a natural disaster while some people were well
prepared. Some people think Dunedin will never be effected by a natural
disaster.
