DIPLOMA IN EDUCATION PROGRAMME

SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES, ST. AUGUSTINE

GEOGRAPHY LESSON PLAN

TEACHER

MEERA RAMPERSAD

DATE

FRIDAY 06th NOVEMBER, 2015

CLASS

TIME

10:40 a.m.

UNIT

NATURAL HAZARDS AND NATURAL DISATERS

TOPIC

Difference between natural hazards and natural disasters.

period(s)

minutes 30

PRE-KNOWLEDGE
Students know what are volcanoes and earthquakes and how they occur.
Living on a coastal island students have been exposed to floods and landslides.

OBJECTIVES:
Pupils will:

Classification

Differentiate between a natural hazard and natural disaster.

Construct a table categorizing major natural hazards into its types.
Appreciate the effects natural hazards at a personal and regional level.

Cognitive
Cognitive/

Psychomotor
Affective

SET INDUCTION Time allotted: 2 minutes

Students will play a game called 4 pics one word. They will view four pictures projected from a PowerPoint presentation and are expected to guess the theme associated with these pictures.

SECTION 1- Time allotted: 4 minutes

Define what a natural hazard is.
A natural event such as a landslide, flood, hurricane, earthquake or volcanic eruption that has
resulting risk or impact (or threaten to have an impact) on individuals or human activities

METHOD

Teaching Strategy

Student Activity

Resources

Brainstorming

Students from observation will offer

Whiteboard, marker,

Analysing set.

suggestions. They will use photographs from

worksheets, pictures

the brainstorming activity to construct a

on Power-point

definition describing a definition of natural

presentation and multi-

hazard and writing it on their worksheets.

media projector

SECTIONAL REVIEW and feedback (formative assessment strategies) Time allotted: 3 minutes

Students ideas are written on the board and a formal definition will be produced by the teacher.

SECTION 2- Time allotted: 4 minutes

Content:

Teaching points:
Define what a natural disaster is.

METHOD
Teaching Strategy
Photographs would be shown on

Student Activity

Students will observe these and describe what

the PowerPoint presentation and they see. They will list the characteristics they
observe.
similarities are to be observed. A definition of natural disasters will be
constructed through the brainstorming activity
Brainstorming a definition

Resources
Pen, pencil,
notebooks,
PowerPoint,
multimedia projector,
whiteboard and
marker

SECTIONAL REVIEW and feedback (formative assessment strategies) Time allotted: 2 minutes

Students will offer their answers and teacher will formalize. A definition will be given and students will
copy.

SECTION 3- Time allotted: 6 mins

Content:
*hurricanes
*droughts

Teaching points: Construct a table categorizing major natural hazards into its types.
*volcanoes
*forest fires

*earthquakes *landslides *floods

*tsunami
*pests
*tornado
*malaria/cholera
*lightning
*meteor impact

METHOD
Teaching Strategy
Brainstorming
Guided Discussion

Student Activity
Students will suggest examples of natural
hazards.
Using their worksheets they will construct a
table and categorize at least ten (10) natural
hazards into either: lithosphere, biosphere or
atmosphere.

Resources
Worksheets, pen,
notebooks,
whiteboard, markers

SECTIONAL REVIEW and feedback (formative assessment strategies) Time allotted: 2 minutes

A slip of natural hazards will be given to students and teacher will visually assess tables constructed.

CLOSURE Time allotted: 2 minutes

Students will be made aware that natural hazards and disasters have effects- long term and short term.

FINAL EVALUATION
Time allotted 5 mins

Reasonable level of achievement:

Students are paired and given a specific natural hazard.

Related Objective

They are to discuss and suggest at least ONE short-term and ONE long-term effect on
the physical and human landscape.

FOLLOW-UP ACTIVITIES
On a regional map, find at least four (4) examples of natural disasters in the Caribbean and the statistics
such as amount of lives lost and buildings destroyed.

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