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Middle
Senior
What is an earthquake?
What is an earthquake?
What is an earthquake?
If there is an earthquake
while we are at school,
what are the hazards to life
and property?
If there is an earthquake
while we are at school,
what are the hazards to
life and property?
If there is an earthquake
while we are at school,
what are the hazards to life
and property?
What is a safe or
dangerous place in an
earthquake?
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Homework ideas
1. Walk with an adult around
your house and decide on the
areas that would be safe in
an earthquake (green areas)
and those that would be
dangerous in an earthquake
(red areas).
Classroom activities
Middle
Senior
What is a tsunami?
What is a tsunami?
What is a tsunami?
Homework ideas
1. Ask an adult at home if a
tsunami could affect your
house.
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Junior
Classroom activities
Middle
Senior
What is a volcano?
What is a volcano?
What is a volcano?
What should we do in a
volcanic eruption?
What should we do in a
volcanic eruption?
What should we do in a
volcanic eruption?
What is a lahar?
What is a lahar?
What is a lahar?
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Homework ideas
1. Take home your picture
of the bag containing the
emergency items.
2. Tick the items in your bag that 2. Check if you can find all the
you and an adult at home can
emergency items in your
find in your house.
house. List any that you
cannot find, and describe
3. Draw or make a list (with help
what your family could do to
from an older person) about
get them.
anything in your bag that you
cannot find in your home.
3. Discuss with an adult at home
what happens to pets during
an evacuation. Write an
emergency plan for looking
after your pet in an eruption,
or for an imaginary pet if
your family does not have an
animal.
1. Become an investigative
reporter. Write a newspaper
article about the readiness of
your house for an eruption.
For example, have you got
emergency items and an
emergency plan?
2. Interview an adult at home
as part of your article. You
may want to tape or video it.
Find out if they are prepared
for a volcanic eruption or
emergency evacuation.
Junior
Classroom activities
Middle
Senior
What is a storm?
What is a storm?
What is a storm?
Homework ideas
1. Identify safe and dangerous
areas in your home with help
from an adult at home.
2. Ask an adult at home if they
have ever been in a storm.
With their help, write a
sentence about what it was
like for them.
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Junior
Classroom activities
Middle
Senior
What is a flood?
What is a flood?
What is a flood?
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Homework ideas
1. Identify what would be
affected by a flood in your
home.
Junior
Classroom activities
Middle
Senior
2. Read a story about a nonnatural disaster (eg the nonnatural disasters story on the
CD-Rom).
Homework ideas
1. Show an adult at home the
civil defence section in the
Yellow Pages.
2. Use the Yellow Pages or
www.whatstheplanstan.govt.
nz
to find out what to
do in the type of disaster you
have been studying.
3. Write a sentence or draw a
picture to show what you
have learned to do in that
type of disaster.
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What is a tsunami?
Tsunami is a Japanese word meaning harbour
wave. A tsunami is a series of fast travelling waves
caused by a large disturbance in the sea or on
the ocean floor, such as an earthquake, landslide,
volcanic eruption or meteorite. The waves can be
separated by as much as an hour apart, and can
travel many thousands of kilometres across the
oceans at great speeds of up to 800 kilometres per
hour.
A tsunami may pass unnoticed as it crosses deep
oceans, but it loses speed and gains height when
it reaches shallow water. Large waves up to 15
metres or more in height can come crashing onto
the land. The effects may become worse in narrow
bays and inlets.
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What is a volcano?
Stay together.
Do not go sightseeing.
Take your outer layer of clothing off before
entering a building volcanic ash is difficult to
get rid of.
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What is a storm?
A storm is a disturbance of the atmosphere that
can cause strong winds, rain, thunder, lightning,
heavy snow and rough seas. A strong wind
warning is issued by the MetService when winds of
more than 87kph are expected over land.
New Zealand is particularly prone to storms,
as it lies in the Roaring Forties, between 40
and 50 degrees latitude south, where mild air
temperatures from the north meet cooler air from
the south.
Tropical cyclones (called hurricanes in the Atlantic
and east Pacific, and typhoons in the north-west
Pacific) are large revolving storms which develop
in the tropics, with a sustained wind-speed of more
than 120kph.
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Wildfire
Make sure that garden hoses are connected to
taps and reach all areas of your property.
Keep your driveway clear so that fire appliances
can reach your house.
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Pandemic
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