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|type= Teacher Education
|attribution={{British Cartographic Society}}
|title= Restless Earth  
|title= Restless Earth  
|image=ruffledmap.png
|tagline= How would you respond? Using maps to model disaster support and recover exercises.
|topic= Maps  
|topic= Maps  
|subject=Teacher Education
|subject=Teacher Education, Cross-curricular
|resourcenumber= TE00105
|resourcenumber= TE0122
|age= Secondary, Year 10
|age= Year 10, Secondary, Higher
|content= Simulating how maps are used by Disaster Recovery Agencies to support the rescue and recovery effort. Delivered as a workshop that supports both Edexcel and AQA Physical Geography modules entitled The Restless Earth, specifically the following key ideas: <br />• Earthquakes occur at constructive, destructive and conservative plate margins: features of earthquakes – epicentre, focus, shock waves. <br />• The effects of earthquakes and responses to them: primary and secondary effects; immediate and long term responses. <br />• Tsunamis are a specific secondary effect and can have devastating effects in coastal areas: a case study of a tsunami – its cause, effects and responses.  
|content= Simulating how maps are used by Disaster Recovery Agencies to support the rescue and recovery effort. Delivered as a workshop that supports both Edexcel and AQA Physical Geography modules entitled The Restless Earth, specifically the following key ideas:  
|strategy=This is a free workshop offered by the British Cartographic Society (BCS). It involves small groups of students assigned roles to represent various disaster recovery agencies. Learning and teaching focuses around small group work, co-enquiry, exploring ideas alongside negotiation, enquiry-based learning as well as a final whole class dialogue. The overall aim of the workshop is for each group to produce a map suitable to meet the needs of the various disaster recovery agencies. <br /> BCS organise and supervise the event on the day. They run the workshops throughout the year at a variety of locations. Schools can host their own event or attend an organised one elsewhere. The only proviso is that BCS have access to a large hall with Internet available.<br />If you would like to host or attend a Restless Earth workshop please contact the British Cartographic Society via the following link: http://www.cartography.org.uk/default.asp?contentID=982 
* Earthquakes occur at constructive, destructive and conservative plate margins: features of earthquakes – epicentre, focus, shock waves.  
|Learning Objectives= By the end of this workshop students should be able to: <br />Understand how different roles in disaster mapping have conflicting needs and how suitable resolution requires problem solving skills, <br />Appreciate that team work is crucial in disaster recovery including sharing knowledge and resources,<br />Describe the basic elements of good mapping for disasters.
* The effects of earthquakes and responses to them: primary and secondary effects; immediate and long term responses.  
* Tsunamis are a specific secondary effect and can have devastating effects in coastal areas: a case study of a tsunami – its cause, effects and responses.  
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|Learning Objectives= By the end of this workshop students should be able to:  
* Understand how different roles in disaster mapping have conflicting needs and how suitable resolution requires problem solving skills,  
* Appreciate that team work is crucial in disaster recovery including sharing knowledge and resources,
* Describe the basic elements of good mapping for disasters.
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|other= BCS, Restless Earth event: http://www.cartography.org.uk/default.asp?contentID=982  
|other= BCS, Restless Earth event: http://www.cartography.org.uk/default.asp?contentID=982  
MapAction http://www.mapaction.org  
MapAction http://www.mapaction.org  
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|format=The materials provided are a sample of those used in an organised workshop delivered by the British Cartographic Society (BCS), the Defence Geographic Agency (DGA) and MapAction. The scenario is based on the Sendai region of Japan.
|resources= The materials provided are a sample of those used in an organised workshop delivered by the British Cartographic Society (BCS), the Defence Geographic Agency (DGA) and MapAction. The scenario is based on the Sendai region of Japan. Files are: <br />Restless earth flier.pdf outlining the event 366kb, <br />Letter_Teachers.doc BCS info for teachers before the event & brief outline of how day operates 2 pages, <br />Restless Earth Presentation before event.ppt Workshop Intro – to be used by teachers before the event 2.1mb, <br />Restless Earth Workshop Role Descriptions before event.doc Brief description of roles & event 7 pages, <br />Restless Earth Teacher Notes.doc More detailed information about the event including web resources and outline of student roles in teams.  
|resources= Details for the event and what it is about can be [[Restless Earth/Document|viewed as WikiText here]]
* Restless earth flier outlining the event (366kb) [[File:Restless_earth_flier.pdf]],  
* BCS info for teachers before the event & brief outline of how day operates [[File:BCS_info_for_teachers_before_the_event.doc]],  
* Restless Earth Presentation before event (2.10 MB) [[File:Restless_Earth_Presentation_before_event.ppt]]
* Restless Earth Workshop Role Descriptions before event [[File:Restless_Earth_Workshop_Role_Descriptions.doc]],
* Restless Earth Teacher Notes (more detailed information about the event including web resources and outline of student roles in teams) [[File:Restless_Earth_Teacher_Notes_before_event_2012.doc]].
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== About the event ==
 
The Workshop has been designed as an interactive exercise that encourages students to study the aftermath of a major earthquake and how disaster response organisations react. There is a need for a detailed map of the affected area to be used by a variety of organisations, each of which will require different information to be shown. Students are assigned to different roles and will need to work collaboratively in order to arrive at a consensus in their final product.
Currently, the Workshop looks at the earthquake and tsunami in eastern Japan that occurred in March 2011, with the exercise based in and around the city of Sendai. Students are provided with a range of source maps, many of which only have text in Japanese, which they can use to extract the necessary information. They are also provided with a laptop to access Internet resources to supplement the information on the mapping. Finally they are given two outline maps on which to add their information – they can use one or both, it is their job as a team to decide this.
The Workshop runs for 2 hours, at the end of which we ask each group to explain to a BCS co-ordinator what they have done, the sources they have used and what were the major factors that influenced their final product. The BCS co-ordinator will offer a constructive critique of the product and if time permits we will collectively identify a ‘winner’ from the finished products.
 
'''Further details about the Restless Earth Workshop for Year 10 students'''
 
The British Cartographic Society (BCS) is extending its Outreach Programme to schools by running FREE to attend workshops for Year 10 secondary school students on mapping natural disasters.
 
The theme of the workshop is ‘Restless Earth’ with specific reference to post disaster mapping and focuses on the earthquake disaster in Japan. It will involve a series of practical activities that will integrate good map design with GIS technology.
 
The workshop supports both Edexcel and AQA Physical Geography modules entitled The Restless Earth, specifically the following key ideas:  
 
• Earthquakes occur at constructive, destructive and conservative plate margins<br/>
- Features of earthquakes – epicentre, focus, shock waves.<br/>
• The effects of earthquakes and responses to them<br/>
- Primary and secondary effects; immediate and long term responses<br/>
• Tsunamis are a specific secondary effect and can have devastating effects in coastal areas<br/>
- A case study of a tsunami – its cause, effects and responses.<br/>

Latest revision as of 15:45, 28 September 2012

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How would you respond? Using maps to model disaster support and recover exercises.

About. Simulating how maps are used by Disaster Recovery Agencies to support the rescue and recovery effort. Delivered as a workshop that supports both Edexcel and AQA Physical Geography modules entitled The Restless Earth, specifically the following key ideas:

  • Earthquakes occur at constructive, destructive and conservative plate margins: features of earthquakes – epicentre, focus, shock waves.
  • The effects of earthquakes and responses to them: primary and secondary effects; immediate and long term responses.
  • Tsunamis are a specific secondary effect and can have devastating effects in coastal areas: a case study of a tsunami – its cause, effects and responses.

Pedagogical content. This is a free workshop offered by the British Cartographic Society (BCS). Students are assigned roles for group work(ta) tasks to represent various disaster recovery agencies. Learning and teaching focuses around small group work, co-inquiry(ta), exploring ideas alongside negotiation, enquiry-based learning as well as a final whole class(ta) dialogue(ta). The overall aim of the workshop is for each group to produce a map suitable to meet the needs of the various disaster recovery agencies.

BCS organise and supervise the event on the day. They run the workshops throughout the year at a variety of locations. Schools can host their own event or attend an organised one elsewhere. The only proviso is that BCS have access to a large hall with Internet available.

If you would like to host or attend a Restless Earth workshop please contact the British Cartographic Society via the following link: http://www.cartography.org.uk/default.asp?contentID=982 (edit)

Resource details
Title Restless Earth
Topic [[Topics/Maps|Maps]]
Teaching approach

[[Teaching Approaches/Dialogue|Dialogue]],  [[Teaching Approaches/Whole class|Whole class]],  [[Teaching Approaches/Group work|Group work]],  [[Teaching Approaches/Inquiry|Inquiry]]

Learning Objectives

By the end of this workshop students should be able to:

  • Understand how different roles in disaster mapping have conflicting needs and how suitable resolution requires problem solving skills,
  • Appreciate that team work is crucial in disaster recovery including sharing knowledge and resources,
  • Describe the basic elements of good mapping for disasters.
Format / structure

The materials provided are a sample of those used in an organised workshop delivered by the British Cartographic Society (BCS), the Defence Geographic Agency (DGA) and MapAction. The scenario is based on the Sendai region of Japan.

Subject

[[Resources/Teacher Education|Teacher Education]],  [[Resources/Cross-curricular|Cross-curricular]]

Age of students / grade

[[Resources/Secondary|Secondary]],  [[Resources/Higher|Higher]],  [[Resources/Year 10|Year 10]]

Additional Resources/material needed

NA


Other (e.g. time frame)
Files and resources to view and download

Details for the event and what it is about can be viewed as WikiText here


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