In light of Hurricane Katrian and the next hurricane season, the teaching of natural disasters is as important as disaster recovery and assistance.
In most cases, the government offers help with a natural disaster. However, humanitarian organizations are often volunteer to help the community come to help victims of natural disasters in many ways. This article provides lesson plan idea how to teach this emotionally traumatic anddifficult subject for children.
Information On Natural Disasters
After the first lesson plan to help victims of natural disasters have important implications for the voluntary sector, has its advantages and aspects of community service.
Discuss with the class:
What do you think is the main purpose of the voluntary agencies? Who do you work for these organizations? How do you think these organizations get their projects funded?
In pairs, students list the qualities they think that an individualneeds if he or she wants to be a volunteer for an organization in case of disaster. Then you have to share with another couple and, finally, with the whole class. The ideas are gathered on the board.
Then the students ask a disaster-response card on the Internet looking for information. Ask students to choose an organization and think about how this organization helps people in times of natural disaster.
Fill in the form of natural disasters.
Name of organization:_________________________________ What the organization does not help_________________________ How a person can volunteer: ____________________________ What I know about the information that I found thought :_________________
FEMA For Kids (Federal Emergency Management Agency) is a wonderful resource for parents and teachers as "Young Americans: Becoming Disaster Ready", which includes disaster aid organizations sites and lesson plans.
Finally, in groups, a disasterOrganization and a message on a bulletin board to say in case of disaster on your organization and ask for volunteers.
Lesson Plan 2 - Introduction to Government student awareness and volunteer support
Take photos of people to help others during a natural disaster. Brainstorm what the volunteers are doing to each photo. The FEMA site has vivid pictures. In pairs, list of examples that show when the government helped people after a natural disaster. Even inCouples, describe how you or your partner and family has helped a person in need. How do you feel? Share your ideas with class. This could easily be in a discussion of the topic of volunteering in general, the advantages and disadvantages of the volunteers and the significance of giving help to others who need to open. Students can discuss what other ways are there to give.
Student presentations - summary of news briefs on organizations Disaster Relief
Brainstorm types of reliefand tools such as: doctors, medicines, donations of food and clothes, money, legal and emotional, engineers Take short messages of recent natural disasters in the class. Students an overview of information based on: Who? What? When? Where? Why? Make sure that their synthesis include basic information such as location and type of natural disaster that caused the damage and the relief that was necessary. Students will present their summary to the class.
Lesson Planning Tips - How to teach students about natural disasters
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