Restless Earth
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]] 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[[:Template::Property "Teaching approach" (as page type) with input value "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. 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[[:Template::" contains invalid characters or is incomplete and therefore can cause unexpected results during a query or annotation process.982| ]]982]] |
| Learning Objectives | By the end of this workshop students should be able to: |
| 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]]
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| Other (e.g. time frame) | BCS, Restless Earth event: http://www.cartography.org.uk/default.asp?contentID=982 MapAction http://www.mapaction.org |
| Files and resources to view and download | 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:
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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
- 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.
