Student Activity Sheet Y8 Tsunami

Student Activity Sheet Learning Outcome: Students identify the causes and the consequences of a Tsunami and present their findings to the class. Student Task: 1.

Select, Tsunamis as a type of natural disaster to research.

2. Create a power point presentation including all the information in the sub-headings that follows.

3. Try and create at least one slide per sub-heading. Sub-headings: • • • • • •

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1.

What causes it? Where do they occur? How much warning would it be possible to have? How could people prepare for it? What sort of damage does it do to people and the environment? List the ways different people (eg school child, subsistence farmer, day laborer, transport worker, large business operator) could be affected? Who would be most affected? What support might affected people need to rebuild their lives? Why might people live in an area affected by this type of disaster? Develop a plan for what you might do if you lived in an area affected by such a hazard.

2.

Present your information in an interesting format (photo report, interview, dramatization, power point presentation etc) to the rest of the class.

3.

Save your slideshow to the correct folder for assessment.