People, Get Ready Lesson Plans

These People, Get Ready lessons will help your Year 8-10 students to develop their understanding of emergency management issues and the best ways of communicating with their community.

These lessons celebrate diversity and encourage students to share their life experiences with each other.

Lesson overviews

Me and My Community

These activities encourage students to consider individual and community perspectives and explore their sense of belonging as a citizen of the world. Working individually and together, students will develop their understanding of the sensitivities of communicating with different communities, strengthen the similarities and devise a communications strategy for a target community audience.

Duration: 5 – 10 periods

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Take the Communication Mission

Following on from Me and My Community, these activities place students in the role of advertising executives whose brief is to research, design and make a television or radio advertisement to help newly arrived people and those in their community with lower level English language skills to be better prepared for emergency situations. With real purpose and for a real audience, the students will explore the use of text, symbols and key messages in conveying their point of view.

Duration: 5 – 10 periods

Experiences of Emergencies

How do people cope in an emergency? Students will interview and collect stories from people in their family or local community and report back about their experiences.

Duration: 2 – 4 periods

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Families Preparing Together

What disasters are relevant to your area? Where would you go to for help? Would you know what to do?

Students will create an evacuation plan for their own home and help their family to prepare for a possible emergency.

Duration: 2 – 4 periods

Suggested learning activity sequence

As you know, students in this age group need to consider how abstract concepts could potentially impact on them and their own situation.

The flow chart below presents you with a suggested sequence of lesson plans, starting with Me and My Community.

Suggested Sequence of Lessons