Broad General Education (BGE)
Second Level: People, Place and the Environment
I can describe the physical processes of a natural disaster (extreme weather event)
and discuss its impact on people and the landscape.
- Describes the causes of a natural disaster such as a volcano, earthquake or extreme weather event.
- Describes the impact of the natural disaster giving at least three examples for people and one for the landscape. Impact can be positive or negative.
Suggested Lessons: The Beast from the East
“…and they stood in the city streets on Christmas morning, where (for the weather was severe) the people made a rough, but brisk and not unpleasant kind of music in scraping the snow from the pavement in front of their dwellings, and from the tops of their houses, whence it was mad delight to the boys to see it come plumping down into the road below, and splitting into artificial little snow-storms.” From Dickens “A Christmas Carol”
This graph shows the total amount of volcanic material in the upper atmosphere. This sort of material can cool the climate. 