I teach so many children who now travel abroad often on holidays to locations such as India, Pakistan, USA, Turkey, Iran etc and it struck me that they, and many other children are then at higher risk of falling foul hazards such as earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, flash floods etc and so last weekend, I locked my self away and built a web-site to deal with this. The result is currently in beta testing at:
http://www.geo-world.org/edu4hazards but if all goes well and I clear image rights etc I will launch on its own dedicated website. I sent it out to the JISCMAIL server and there have been some positive replies about its usefulness. More importantly is that children that I teach have been overwhelmingly positive (something that is quiet rare for teenagers!)
Following on from this I decided to mock up a book version to support it, I thought that a pocket sized book, with a wipeable pen could be a useful and fun educational tool as well. The book includes a checklist for putting together a hazards emergency rucksack, which children could take with them or encourage their parents to take, I reiterated the point to children that I taught, that they will now know more about how to survive these sorts of hazards than their parents and they should talk to them about it.
