Thinking about a Tsunami

Thinking about a tsunami

What’s the story?

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Thinking about disasters

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Thinking about disasters

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Learning Objective To be able to understand what caused the Tsunami in Japan

Thinking about disasters

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Learning Objective

To be able to explain the effect of the Tsunami on JapanTo be able to understand what caused the Tsunami in Japan

Thinking about disasters

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Learning Objective

To be able to explain the effect of the Tsunami on JapanTo be able to understand what caused the Tsunami in Japan

Key words:EarthquakeTectonicSeismicTremorTokyo

TSUNAMI: or “harbour wave”. A series of waves that can be up to 10 metres high, caused by an underwater earthquake.

Watch! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceym2c18OQM&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BOi2HkR0LY

Are you ready to think?

Explain the events of the last 24 hours

Where would you go?

What would you rescue if this was your house?

What would you buy, if you only had five minutes?

Who would you phone, and what would you say?

Are they lucky or unlucky?

What are they going to need in the next six days?

Well done!

Your task is to explain what caused the tsunami

Watch! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cseQBkZimyo&feature=related

Explain what happened in exactly 50 wordsNo more, no less!

Explain what happened in exactly 50 wordsNo more, no less!

Your key words: Earthquake, Tsunami, Tectonic, Seismic, Tremor, Tokyo, Crust

Explain what happened in exactly 50 wordsNo more, no less!

Learning Objective:To be able to understand what caused the tsunami in Japan.To be able to explain the effect of the tsunami on Japan.

Your key words: Earthquake, Tsunami, Tectonic, Seismic, Tremor, Tokyo, Crust

Use the ‘word-cloud’ to develop your answer

On Friday March 11th, 2011 at 2.46pm..

Thinking about disasters

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Learning Objective

To be able to explain the effect of the Tsunami on JapanTo be able to understand what caused the Tsunami in Japan

Key words:EarthquakeTectonicSeismicTremorTokyo

Your task is to explain the effects of the tsunami

Your task is to explain the effects of the tsunami

MiyakoLocation: Honshu, Japan

Population: 57,874

Watch! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuznJOCw_Nw

401 people from Miyako lost their lives in the Tsunami

Be as creative as you can...

in as much detail as you can...

Tell the story of the tsunami

in as much detail as you can...

Title: “The Day the Earth shook!”

Tell the story of the tsunami

Learning Objective: To be able to explain the effect of the tsunami on Japan.

..from her point of view!

Learning Objective: To be able to explain the effect of the tsunami on Japan.

..from her point of view!

My name is Miffy, and this is my story...

Learning Objective: To be able to explain the effect of the tsunami on Japan.

Well done!

Now you have the knowledge, take a challenge!

Be a designer...

Create a poster to explain what to do when a tsunami strikes.

Create a poster to explain what to do when a tsunami strikes.

...without using words!

Example

Thinking about disasters

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Learning Objective

To be able to explain the effect of the Tsunami on JapanTo be able to understand what caused the Tsunami in Japan

Key words:EarthquakeTectonicSeismicTremorTokyo

Thank You

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Image Credits:Thank you to...Everyone from Flickr who contributed imagesThe Big Picture/Boston GlobeMacLeoddesignersforjapanand Wordle

Contact:simon_jones_2@hotmail.com

Simon Jones 2012