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Big Picture: Why did so many people die in

the Haiti Earthquake?

Identify the causes of the Haiti earthquake.

Classify the effects of the earthquake.

Explain why so many people died in the Haiti

earthquake

CONNECT

Watch the news clip and write down some

questions you have about the Haiti earthquake. • http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8455629.stm

Background

•Haiti is a small Caribbean country in South America.

• A large scale earthquake took place on the 12th January 2010.

• It measured 7.0 on the Richter scale.

•It is a LEDC. This means less economically developed country (poor country).

Activate: Your

mission today!

You are working as a journalist to find out why so many people died in the Haiti earthquake.

How will I be able to find this out?

• 1. By reading news articles written at the before, during and after the disaster.

• 2. Analysing photographs taken of the area at the time.

• 3. Recording your findings onto the correct category on your mindmap.

What does each category mean on my

thinking map? • Background information about Hati:

-What is Haiti as a country like?

-Is it a rich (MEDC) country or poor (LEDC)?

-What is the climate like here?

-What do you think people do for work here?

• What were the impacts caused by the disaster?

-What happened?

-Dates about the disaster.

-What did the earthquake destroy?

-How many people did the earthquake kill?

-In what ways did it effect people?

• How did people respond to the disaster?

-What did people do to help after the disaster?

-Can you name any charities that helped in the disaster response?

-Do you think enough was done?

Demonstrate: Code your mind map to show social, economic and environmental effects.

Recap:

• 1. Social (s): How will it affect people in their daily lives?

• 2. Economic (e): How will this have an impact on money and wealth?

• 3: Environmental (env): How will this have an impact on the nature?

Message from your

magazine editor…

• Try to include as much detail as you can.

e.g. dates that events took place, numbers

of people hurt, names of locations.

• Use your success criteria to help remind

you of the different pieces of information you

need!

Good luck!

Report back to your editor… Using the information gathered from your

thinking map make answer the question.

Why did so many people die in the Haiti

Earthquake?

Reflect: Why did so many

people die in the Haiti

Earthquake?

• I think that the reason(s) so many

people died in the Haiti earthquake

was because ……………………

…………………………………………

…………………………………………

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…………………………………………

………......

Reflect

Now go back to your original questions from

the start of the lesson.

• How many can you now answer?

• Fill in the answers on your question grid.

Homework: GCSE Practise Question

How do the effects of earthquakes and responses to them differ due to constraints in levels of wealth?

• Use your success criteria to help you get the highest mark possible!

• To be in …

Success criteria • 1. I have stated that wealth impacts the effects and

responses to earthquakes and briefly said why I think this.

• 2. I have given an example of a LEDC (poor country) that suffered an earthquake and a MEDC (rich country) that suffered an earthquake and said when these earthquakes occurred.

• 3. I have explained what the impacts and responses where to the earthquake in the LEDC.

• 3. I have explained what the impacts and responses where to the earthquake in the MEDC

• 5. I have compared the two case studies and said how the level of wealth made these two case studies different.

• 6. I have written my answer using the key geographical terms (e.g MEDC, LEDC, impact, response) and formed a confident, well structured answer.