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Game
What's the Plan, Stan? New Zealand Civil Defence Game. The goal of this game is to educate children about how to be prepared in an emergency situation with tasks they can do or point out to their parents.
Links to resources
- What’s the Plan Stan? A free resource to support schools, teachers and students to develop the knowledge and skills to prepare for emergency events.
- Take a look at the What's the Plan, Stan? content here in this PDF
New Zealand disasters
with thanks to Christchurch City Libraries
Cyclones and floods
- Kopuawhara floods - Mahia Peninsula 1938
- Cyclone Giselle - New Zealand wide 1968
- Southland floods - 1984
- Cyclone Bola - East Coast, North Island, 1988
Earthquakes, landslides and volcanoes
- Wellington earthquake - 1855
- Mount Tarawera eruption - 1886
- Murchison earthquake - West Coast, South Island, 1929
- Hawkes Bay earthquake - 1931
- Inangahua earthquake - West Coast, South Island, 1968
- Abbotsford landslide - Dunedin, 1979
- Edgecombe earthquake - Bay of Plenty, 1987
- Christchurch and Canterbury earthquakes
Influenza
- Influenza epidemic - 1918
- Timeline of New Zealand disasters
- Licensed Creative Commons CC-NC-ND -reuse allowed in a non-commercial setting, no derivatives allowed.
Images of natural disasters from the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Please check individual photos for reuse information.
School journal resources
- Idea City (PDF)
- Earthquake (PDF)
- Monsoon Flood (PDF)
- Quake, Rattle and Roll (PDF)
- A Silly Story (PDF)
- Low Tide (PDF)
- The Big Dig (PDF)
Student self-assessments
- Your students can complete the online pre-test and post-test (link to come) student self-assessment forms for this field trip. Once completed you can email help@learnz.org.nz to have your class submissions extracted and emailed to you. It's OK if just some of your students have filled them in or if they have submitted either self-assessment rather than both.
Web conference resources
- Web conference activity: Students can work on this activity while they listen to live or recorded web conferences - PDF (118k) | Google Doc.
- Web Conference summary: The class web conference summary can be done in a format of your own choosing, but feel free to use the web conference summary sheet - PDF (78k) | Google Doc.
Contributions
- Video question sheet - Word (31k) | PDF (217k) | Google Doc. To use for each video (based on SOLO Taxonomy).
- EPIC: Through EPIC the Ministry of Education has paid a subscription on behalf of all registered New Zealand schools to access a range of quality, educational e-resources. For information about how to register with EPIC go to http://www.epic.org.nz/. More information is at https://www.tki.org.nz/epic2. If you are unsure if your school is registered ask your librarian or principal.
