Emergency response plan

Overview

The students will learn how to handle an emergency situation by finding a community that has been hit by disaster. How will they help the areas in need? What measures should be taken first to ensure survival and safety?

Contributors: Bill Smith, Tina McPhee

Objectives

• To learn the impact on people in terms of transportation
• To design a government response initiative

Suggested grade levels and subject areas

Intermediate, Secondary
Geography – transportation or physical diversity

Materials

• ice storm maps 
• E-STAT census tract maps
• personal accounts (interviews)
• road maps.

Classroom instructions

1. Have students identify highways where travel was most difficult.
2. Have students identify centres between which travel was most difficult.
3. Have students discuss their response where they would focus their efforts, what efforts and identify the nature of their response.

Please e-mail comments or examples of how you used this exercise in your class.