Geologic Hazard Community Action Plan (Capstone Presentation)
Summary
When people play a proactive role, communities can achieve greater community resilience to earthquake hazards. This activity empowers learners to use their knowledge of geoscience and preparedness planning to engage community stakeholders in ways to prevent, mitigate, respond to, and recover from the hazards and risks posed by earthquakes. Participants will prepare an informativepresentation where they will "ask" an agency or entity to respond to an issue or concern with a specific action affecting earthquake community preparedness.
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Context
Audience
Skills and concepts that students must have mastered
Students should have at least started learning on plate tectonics and geologic hazards.
How the activity is situated in the course
This activity is a culminating project for an entire unit on plate tectonics or geologic hazards. In addition to science learning, activities such Engaging With Earthquake Hazard and Risk or Geologic Hazards and the Built Environment. This activity requires 2+ class periods.
Goals
Content/concepts goals for this activity
Learners will:
- Understand basic hazards and risks due to earthquakes
- Demonstrate and communicate relevant geoscience understanding of the factors affecting their community preparedness capabilities
- Identify a specific preparedness vulnerability in their community and interpret the challenges and constraints related to the issue
- Identify and communicate possible solutions for taking action to resolve the challenges and constraints
- Construct an argument about how challenges and constraints impact decision-making and implementation of best practices in seismic safety preparedness
Higher order thinking skills goals for this activity
- Evaluating and prioritizing information
Other skills goals for this activity
- Synthesizing information from multiple sources
- Communicating findings
Description and Teaching Materials
Activity
See attached file for instructor guide, NGSS alignment, and links to supporting resources.
Geological Hazards Community Action Plan Activity ALL.pdf (Acrobat (PDF) 781kB Feb13 22)
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Supporting presentation/audiovisual
- Presentation: Community Resilience and Built Environment (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 12.1MB Feb16 22)
- Video: Buildings in Earthquakes - Construction affects the intensity
Supporting files
- Editable version of student file: Community Action Student Team Planning Guide (Microsoft Word 2007 (.docx) 19kB Feb13 22)
Teaching Notes and Tips
- Preceding this activity with Geologic Hazards and the Built Environment will provide learners with a structured research task that prepares them well for this capstone project.
Assessment
Student teams will give a presentation to another student team (or class) who will act as an official agency, community council, or school board to advocate for a particular solution to an identified community need that will improve earthquake resilience and preparedness. Use the provided rubric to evaluate the presentations (see Instructor Guide).