Mother Nature Enraged: QEP connections

How does this learning situation connect to the QEP?

Broad Areas of Learning:
Citizenship and Community Life

Focuses of Development:
To have the student see the interdependence of individuals, generations and peoples,  and also to familiarize him/her with situations of international cooperation.

Pedagogical Aim
To have the student  identify various natural hazards and assess their consequences in an urban environment. To demonstrate that level of development has a great influence on the consequences of a natural hazard. Finally, to have the student define the concept of natural hazard management in a context of international solidarity:  saving life and reducing economic disruption.

Cross-Curricular Competencies:
Uses information and communication technologies

Subject-Specific Competencies and Relevant Key Features:

Competency 1:  Understands the organization of a territory

• Deconstructs landscapes in the territory:  Explores the feelings these landscapes arouse
  
• Grasps the meaning of human actions with regard to the territory: Looks for the reasons underlying human actions

Competency 2:  Interprets a territorial issue

• Considers how the territorial issue is dealt with: Looks for the collective interest
• Describes the complexity of the territorial issue: Specifies the role of certain natural and human factors of the past and present

Competency 3:  Constructs his/her consciousness of global citizenship

• Shows the global nature of a geographic phenomenon: Observes that a given geographic phenomenon occurs in many territories
• Examines human actions in terms of the future: Identifies implications of these actions for the planet from the perspective of responsible management and sustainable development
  Evaluates solutions to global issues: Recognizes possible solutions