Restless Earth: Difference between revisions

|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   

|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.

|useful information=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.

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