Surviving Earthquakes

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The Effects of Earthquakes and

Volcanoes

The Effects of Earthquakes and

VolcanoesThursday 19th JanuaryThursday 19th January


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Learning Objective

To understand what the primary andsecondary effects of volcanoes and

earthquakes are

To assess the impact of an earthquakein Java


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Success Criteria

A*: be able to assess the impact of earthquake

survival strategies on cities prone to earthquake

B: be able to explain the difference between primary

and secondary effects of earthquakes and

volcanoes

C: be able to list the major primary and secondary

effects of an earthquake


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Starter Primary effects are

effects which happen

directly because of an

event

Secondary effects are

effects which arecaused indirectly

because of an event

Buildings collapse, fires,

bridges collapse,

businesses close,homelessness, cracked

roads, insurance costs

rise, tsunamis, falling

electricity pylons, disease,

broken water pipes, floods

Sort these effectsSort these effects

of an earthquakeof an earthquakeinto two listsinto two lists --

secondary andsecondary and

primary effectsprimary effects


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Primary Secondary

Buildings collapse Fires

Bridges collapse Businesses close

HomelessnessCracked roads

Insurance costs rise

Tsunamis

Broken water pipes

Disease

Floods

Falling electricity pylons


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Research Time

You will have ten minutes to read

through pages 62 and 63 of the

textbook


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Key Words

Copy the Key Words on page 62 into

your books


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Individual Work

Write a list of the consequences of theearthquake in Yogyakarta

When you have done this, identify all of

the primary effects of the earthquakeand the secondary effects


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Success Criteria

A*: be able to assess the impact of earthquake

survival strategies on cities prone to earthquake

B: be able to explain the difference between primary

and secondary effects of earthquakes and

volcanoes

C: be able to list the major primary and secondary

effects of an earthquake


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Pair Work

Working in pairs, read pages 68 and 69

Complete a draft of an earthquake

preparedness poster that could be

displayed around the school


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Individual Work

Complete activities 1-4 on page 69


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Plenary 1

How effective do you think the thingswe have looked which are designed to

help survive earthquakes are?

Which of the success criteria are weaiming to get with this question


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Independent work

Complete the extension activity on page

69


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Olympics

What would you say are the most

important things you have learned

today?

Imagine you had to award a gold,

silver and bronze medal to three

facts/opinions, which would you give

gold to? Which would get silver?

Which bronze?

Write down three facts/opinions

about todays work in order of most

important to least

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