Helping My Child With Module 4

 

*Discuss why it might be important to have instruments to measure the wind

 

• List the reasons

• What sort of organizations do we have to cope with serious wind storms?

  • List them and research together what each one does

    • State Emergency Services

    • Fire

    • Police

    • Ambulance

    • Air rescue

    • Coast Guard

  • What would happen without these services?

I*  How do natural disaster affect people?

 

• Read a variety of recounts of disasters from books at the local library

  • Pompei

  • Mt St Helens

  • San Fransico Earthquake

  • Sydney bushfires

  • PNG Tsunami

* Parents and children can simulate models or replicas after reading and learning about them.  Great websites to use could include: 

 

• http://www.kidzworld.com/article/21300-science-project-idea-amazing-natural-disasters-hurricanes

• http://www.neok12.com/Natural-Disasters.htm

 

* Hold oral discussions with their children about natural disasters.

 

• Should we send aid to disaster victims in other countries?

  • What is our country’s responsibility?

  • What is the individual’s responsibility?

  • How is money raised?