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October 2011 Blog Posts (3)
New Resource in curriculum area with emphasis on experiential learning!
Adding a new curriculum guide for interactive teaching of DRR in Georgia, but could be applied in any classroom for younger students, most of lessons are aimed at grades 5-9 and the aim is for student participation and understanding rather than didactic teaching of curriculum, which is definitely a step forward. What is most useful from the point of view of our members who…
Added by Justin Sharpe on October 23, 2011 at 13:26 — No Comments
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ContinueAdded by Justin Sharpe on October 19, 2011 at 9:42 — No Comments
NEW RESOURCE: Why Don't People Prepare for and React to Earthquake Hazards?
This set of resources is aimed at students in the 14-19 age range. The first consists of a mp3 file which are the 911 calls taken at the time of the 1989 San Francisco earthquake. This is used as a starter to set the scene and to encourage students to listen to the calls which…
Added by Justin Sharpe on October 4, 2011 at 13:00 — 5 Comments
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- Getting through to your community - Top Seven Preparedness Tips that can be put into place now!
- Here is Silly Timmy Disaster Comic Strip in its entirety. Come back for updates!
- Using comic strips to get across a disaster preparedness
- NEW RESOURCE: Why Don't People Prepare for and React to Earthquake Hazards?
- Edu4hazards.org site with new teachers resources
- Translation of edu4hazards.org site - more help wanted!
- Disaster management - awareness and preparedness in schools.
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- How to communicate better to stop disasters occurring
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- Disaster management - awareness and preparedness in schools.
- Here is Silly Timmy Disaster Comic Strip in its entirety. Come back for updates!
- NEW RESOURCE: Why Don't People Prepare for and React to Earthquake Hazards?
- Using comic strips to get across a disaster preparedness
- Teaching of Tendenko saved lives of school children in Japan
- Silly Timmy Disaster comic in German - or - Dummer Timmy Auf Deutsch!
- Silly Timmy adapted for use in Pakistan
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Full Collection on Children and Disasters Now Available
Posted by Justin Sharpe on September 6, 2019 at 13:44 0 Comments 0 Likes
This collection, made possible with support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, focuses on…
The story of Silly Timmy Disaster Comic - What happened next?
Posted by Justin Sharpe on August 17, 2019 at 13:57 0 Comments 0 Likes
An initial comic strip was developed that could be used either in newspapers or via the Internet to help younger children access DRR messages. 52 episodes of the comic strip were completed and initially distributed on the edu4drr.org…
Tackling Systemic climate risks - Some possible approaches
Posted by Justin Sharpe on July 22, 2019 at 8:30 0 Comments 0 Likes
This blog post outlines some of the issues of systemic climate risk, possible approaches to dealing with it that aren't necessarily being utilised (around learning that is meaningful and actionable) and is driven from my knowledge and…
ContinueSilly Timmy Disaster Comic in Russian - Неразумный Тимофей!
Posted by Justin Sharpe on February 26, 2018 at 19:30 0 Comments 0 Likes
The original versions of these are almost four years old now, but after some being translated into major European languages that are spoken globally I wanted to be inclusive of other languages. This relies on meeting the right people and for this…
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