Thursday, 19 July 2012

Natural Disaster Unit - End of Unit Reflection Questions


Year 10 Social Studies – Natural Disasters

End of Unit – Reflection Questions
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.

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. 

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:

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.

 

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7 comments:

  1. Yeebo30 July 2012 at 00:10

    1) They are caused via weather effects or via human effects, they can hurt peoples homes and can effect the wildlife's natural habitat. Earthquakes can endanger homes in certain areas, Floods can also endanger homes and Tornadoes can render a home useless.
    2) Most people don't prepare for natural disasters and have no idea what to do during one.
    3) Floods and Earthquakes can occur here.
    4) People should plan a survival kit and ready needed supplies.
    5) My family is pretty prepared.
    6) I have gathered food and supplies
    7) Maybe I could gather some more survival items.
    8) As a Class? HAH! I laugh pitifully at that question…
    9) Ahh… I… Uhh… I created all the PowerPoint's while Michael gathered 90% of the information, I rewrote all of his research and organised all of it.
    10) Yeah, I'd attempt to improve PowerPoints next time.
    11) I would do attribute, check attribute, redo attribute if not right, check that attribute, next one.
    12) Identify: know who is who
    Recruit: find
    Manage: Take care of
    Planning: Coming up with a strategy to tackle the current situation
    Organise: Setting up supplies for the future
    Collect: Gather needed information
    Analyse: collect that certain information and study it
    Communicate: talk
    Receive: absorb in
    13) Improve the Attributes? I could say check them and add more on
    14) Yeah, Sure, I guess you could transfer the learning over to other topics
    15) Hmm… I guess the other topics didn't help me at all
    16) I could possibly explore the probability of natural disasters striking
    17) Well, the local council do have plans and thoughts listed out
    18) I could help others gather supplies around the community
    19) Some said they were too high for a major flood while others were on flatland and they were prepared

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  2. Michael Lagocki30 July 2012 at 16:13

    Question One:

    1) they are caused by very different things, floods, are caused by rain or tsunamis. Other disasters could cause floods because if a earthquake happens in the ocean that can cause a tsunami which can cause a flood. This can affect people dramatically by taking out their homes.

    2) First they create stronger houses to withstand an earthquake, and then they can change it so there are barriers around a city to stop flooding. To stop a tornado they can build a storm/tornado shelter.

    3) an earthquake could happen and shake Dunedin a small amount. However it could not cause large damage because Dunedin is not close to a fault. A flood may be able to happen if the sand banks at St Kilda and St Clair can't hold up a large wave. Dunedin is unable to have a tornado because it's air is too cold and no warm air can arrive at Dunedin quickly to cause a tornado to form.

    4) Stronger buildings to prevent an earthquake damaging buildings and a sort of flood protection system in the beaches to stop large waves from approaching and flooding Dunedin.

    5) Not very prepared, I do not have a survival kit and my family hasn't give it much thought because the chance of Dunedin having a natural disaster of a very large size is VERY unlikely.

    6) None Yet, Pending...

    7) First my family needs to sort out a survival kit, We also need to find a quick escape out of Dunedin. We could also strengthen our home to stop an earthquake destroying it. and choose what we need to take and what to leave behind IF a natural disaster was to happen.

    8) As a class? Well... I would say that we carried out this project very well and that this project seemed to have a positive effect on the class (not really). As far as I am concerned me and James as a group worked well. But we should probably not do another project like this because quite a few people became a bit immature around the presenting time.

    9) Me and James worked as a group quite well together, I think that I helped quite well and that we had a good time working on this project. But we carried out our roles well.

    10) No. It was fine but presenting should be changed because people become quite immature while others are presenting.

    Question 2)

    1) Working Well with james, recruit information, managed our resources well, we planned out the presentation, we collected the info and we communicated to sort out our ideas for the presentation.

    2)
    Working With Group: Finish PowerPoint, gathered information.
    Identify, recruit and manage: we found the right info, collected it and managed it into our own words.
    Planning: Sorted the presentation, how it was going to be presented etc.
    Collecting: Found info that we collected and changed into our own words for the project.
    Communicating: We found info over the holidays and told each other on Skype, and sorted it all out.
    3) try to plan out a bit more and communicate more. Collect and manage the info better.
    4) Well from the different resources James and I collected. Most people were NOT prepared for natural disasters and that if one was to happen in Dunedin, people would just panic and not know what to do first.

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  3. Carlos Reid30 July 2012 at 22:42

    1. Natural disasters are mainly caused by weather,it has a big effect on people because it can damage property and houses. It also has a big effect on the wildlife's habbitat.

    2. Reading books or looking on the internet to learn about disasters. Reading or looking at the news to see when a natural disaster is close. A big problem though is that people do not prepare for natural disasters and that is why there is many injuries and deaths in natural disasters.

    3. Natural disasters like Earthquakes, floods and tsunami's would be the most likely disasters to occur in Dunedin.

    4. Families should have a survival kit and a meeting place somewhere around the house, so you can meet there if there is a fire.

    5. My family is reasonably prepared we have a meeting place to meet if there is a fire, our house is wooden and pretty safe so it wouldn't fall down in an earthquake but we don't have a survival kit.

    6. My family have discussed and talked about what to do in an earthquake.

    7. I think that my family and myself need to make a survival kit.

    8. I don't think we worked as a class to much in this topic and when we did I don't think we that well.

    9. I think I carried out my role well, as i got quite a lot of information for Reece to create the powerpoint.

    10. Next time we could work on gathering a bit more information for our powerpoint.

    11. I worked with my partner Reece, We communicated at school. We planed what each of us was going to do. We collected good information.

    12. Reece 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.

    13. We could have done more work out of school time.

    14. Yes, because it has helped me to learn how to get good information.

    15. I know things about weather from science which helped me to learn about how disasters occur. English helped me to write my power point because I am so good at English so that means i made no mistakes.

    16. I could do more researching so that all of my data that i get is correct.

    17. They have not done too much for things like flooding but they are going to proof the city for earthquakes.

    18. I could try and talk to a few old people that i know around the city and tell them what to do in a disaster.

    19. From mine and Reeces survey we found that a few people have no idea what to do in a natural disaster where as others were very prepared for a natural disaster to occur in Dunedin.

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  4. Oli Chignell31 July 2012 at 01:47

    1. How do natural disasters occur and what impact do they have on people and the environment?
    Earthquakes-by the shifting of the plates, they devastate the earths structure
    Tsunamis-by underwater earthquakes, they can sweep away anything in their path if powerful enough
    Snow Storms-hot air and warm air collide-the cold air comes from the arctic, it can kill because of icy cold temperatures
    2. What steps do people take to protect themselves against natural disasters?
    having a disaster kit ready, know what to do and where to go at what time
    3. What types of natural disasters can occur in your own community?
    tsunami, earthquake, snowstorm-possibly a tornado or hurricane
    4. What steps should people take to be ready for these kinds of natural
    disasters?
    make sure they have a full 3 day disaster kit ready, know who to listen to-like civil defence in Dunedin, and know where to go especially in the case of a tsunami.
    5. How prepared are you to deal with a natural disaster?
    not very-don't have a disaster kit, i just know what to do and where to go-just common knowledge.
    6. What actions have you taken?
    i haven't, but i would like to put together a disaster management kit
    7. What actions do you still need to take to be better prepared for a natural
    disaster?
    only make sure that i have a 3 day disaster management kit
    8. How well did you work as a class to carry out our selected project?
    i thought i did well, i contacted my expert very early so they had an elongated amount of time to answer back, and all the information i collected was useful and intriguing
    9. How well did I carry out my role/responsibility?
    very well i thought, i did the majority of the work and i did not copy and paste at all, and everything was reworded from my original info
    10. Would we do anything differently next time?
    no, i think that me and Hamish did a very good job, worked well together, and faced no hiccups along the process, we also finished a week early.
    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?
    -breaking up the work evenly
    -using a range of internet, books, articles, and mainly my experts advice
    -i put all of my answers and resources words into my own words and only used what i needed
    -i talked to hamish and we worked together to decide what info would and wouldn't be used
    2. Break each attribute (bullet pointed words above which are underlined) into its separate words and refine your answers.
    -identifying, recruiting, managing: identifying the resources used, recruiting the new ideas and other sources, and managing the workload
    -planning when i am going to do my work and organising how much to do
    -collecting the correct info, organizing the info into slides and analyzing it into the right slides and how much to put in
    -communicating with Hamish about the overall powerpoint, and what we could do to make it better and receiving ideas from Hamish and listening to his ideas

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  5. Oli Chignell31 July 2012 at 01:48

    3. How can you help manage the risk of a community disaster in the future?
    by trying to make dunedin more aware of potential disasters
    4. Describe some differing viewpoints from people you surveyed on how prepared they are for a Natural Disaster.
    some are not prepared at all for a disaster but there were more than i expected to be completely prepared.

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  6. hamish burrow31 July 2012 at 14:21

    1.They can hurt peoples homes and can effect the wildlife's natural habitat. Earthquakes can endanger homes in certain areas, Floods can also endanger homes and Tornadoes can render a home useless.
    2. Most people don't prepare for natural disasters only a little number do.
    3. Floods and Earthquakes can occur
    4. People should plan a survival kit
    5.we are pretty prepared.
    6.our family has spent time on knowing what to do in a disaster
    7. Maybe we could get some more survival items in our cars and our house
    8. We didn't work as a class too much but we worked in groups, which was cool.
    9. I could have done a bit more work with oli
    10.yes maybe work a bit more with oli
    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. I worked with oli. We planed what each of us was going to do and our person had some good info
    2.
    3.we could have done some more at school

    Exploring further future focus issues:
    1. How likely they are to occur around use
    2. The DCC is earthquake proofing most of the old buildings in Dunedin
    3. I could see my neighbors because they are old. And I could tell them what to do in a disaster.
    4. Most people had no idea what they would do in a natural disaster while only some people were well prepared.

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  7. Anonymous2 August 2012 at 22:11

    Year 10 Social Studies – Natural Disasters

    End of Unit – Reflection Questions
    Assessment of Values & Social Decision Making

    1. How do natural disasters occur and what impact do they have on people and the environment?
    Hurricanes: they form in warm air and warm water in thunderstorms .They can destroy people homes and can kill people,
    Earthquakes: Are caused by faults in rocks under the earths surface .Can damage buildings and collapse them, people can be trapped under falling objects.
    Floods: can be caused by lots of rain, can endanger people’s lives and houses, floods can kill animals so they can be a problem for farmers.
    2. What steps do people take to protect themselves against natural disasters?
    Make sure they have food and water and find a safe place to go in case there is a disaster.
    3. What types of natural disasters can occur in your own community?
    Floods
    4. What steps should people take to be ready for these kinds of natural
    disasters? Make sure they have food and water and find a safe place to go in case there is a disaster.

    5. How prepared are you to deal with a natural disaster?
    Not very because most people in Dunedin don’t expect a big natural disaster.
    6. What actions have you taken?
    none
    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?
    well
    9. How well did I carry out my role/responsibility?
    ?

    10. Would we do anything differently next time?
    No?


    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?

    1. What else might you explore now about the risk of community disasters?
    Research more.
    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?
    If there was a disaster I would try and help as many other people as possible.
    4. Describe some differing viewpoints from people you surveyed on how prepared they are for a Natural Disaster.

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