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Lesson plan: A causes web

From the Dealing with Disasters online resource

Age group: 11 - 14

Aims:
To identify different causes of, and solutions to, a disaster.
To help pupils realise that there is seldom one single cause of a disaster.

The causes web can be a useful way of beginning to look at a disaster and its causes. It can show how the root causes need to be addressed before any long-term solution can be found.

What to do:
Divide pupils into pairs.

Download and photocopy the worksheet so that you have one copy for each pair. Download and photocopy the individual testimonies (two pages), and cut them up so that each pair of pupils has one testimony.

Ask pupils to read their testimony, agreeing on and noting any questions that they would like to ask the teacher or further information that they will need to look up (difficult words, etc). Now ask them to fill in the worksheet, noting down what they think the disaster is in the central bubble and the causes and solutions that they can identify in the outer circles. Ask each pair to share their diagram with another.

As a class, discuss the following: which causes do they feel are most significant? How do these causes interact to cause a disaster? How can these causes be tackled?

Curriculum links:

England

Scotland

Wales

Geography:
- Analyse and evaluate evidence and draw and justify conclusions; study issues of topical significance; effects of environmental planning and management on people, places and environments; causes and effects of a hazard and human responses to it.

Citizenship/PSHE:
- How to empathise with people different from themselves.

Environmental Studies; Society:
- Human-physical interactions.
- Developing informed attitudes - interaction of people with their environment.

English:
- Listening in groups; talking in groups; talking about experiences, feelings and opinions.

PSD:
- Social development.

Geography:
- Analyse and evaluate evidence and draw and justify conclusions; study issues of topical significance; effects of environmental planning and management on people, places and environments; causes and effects of a hazard and human responses to it.

PSE:
Empathise with others' experiences and feelings.


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