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THE ROAR LEARNING GUIDE SERIES

Sto. Niño Academy of Bamban, Inc.
Rizal Ave., San Nicolas, Bamban, Tarlac

Learning Guide No. 5 Subject: Disaster Readiness and Risk Reduction

Lesson Title: Learning from Weakness Grade Level : 11
Coverage: Week Five
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“Knowing your weakness is as important as knowing your strenghts!.”

I. Prayer

Loving Father, come be with us today. Fill our hearts with joy. Fill our minds with learning. Fill
our lessons with fun. Fill our friendships with kindness. Fill our school with love. Help us grow in love with the
guidance of the Holy Spirit and in kindness to be more like Jesus everyday. Amen.

II. Objectives
a. Content Standard:
Define vulnerability
b. Performance Standard:
Identify some factors that contribute to vulnerability
c. Formation Standard:
Suggest ways on lessening vulnerability.
III. Meaning-making / Method
The previous lesson taught you about perspectives of disaster that you need to consider in
dealing with it. Specifically, perspectives of disaster such as physical, psychological, socio-cultural,
economic, political, and biological are necessarily predetermined before a hazard could strike in
order to know what to prioritize and lessen the impact of disaster. Furthermore, there is another
factor to consider in mitigating the impact of disaster. Everybody, including you must understand
also the role of vulnerability.
IV. Most Essential Learning Competencies
 Suggest ways on lessening vulnerability.
V. Activities / To-do list
Lesson 5: Concept of Exposure
Activity 1: Looking back to our lesson
1. Observe the picture below and answer the questions that follow.
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2. Select one natural hazard in the picture and suggest ways on how people must be prepared to face the
hazard in terms of the different perspectives given below
CHOSEN PHYSICAL PSYCHOLOGICAL ECONOMIC SOCIO POLITICA BIOLOGICAL
HAZARD CULTURA L
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Discussion
Knowing your weakness is like knowing how to become strong. Being unaware of your weakness is
equivalent to inviting more harm to yourself. Do you know your own weakness?
Before hazard will strike, it is necessary for us to be prepared in facing the effect of it and mitigate the
degree of disaster as its impact. Examining our respective house is a simple indication of determining your
weakness. Generally, there are two possible hazards that come into your life like natural and man-made as
mentioned earlier. Specifically, earthquakes, typhoons, fire, epidemic, liquefaction, etc., are some of these
hazards. Knowing these hazards, are you confident that you know your weakness to combat their effects?
Natural hazards are inevitable and because of this, it is also our duty to identify our weakness to deal with the
wrath of nature.
Exposure has three essential components:
1. People, property, systems and other elements.
a. Exposure involves specific elements which we must be able to identify and give a name to.
Elements may be tangible or intangible.
2. Present in hazard zones.
a. Elements should be located within an area and duration of time during which a specific hazard
event or set of hazard events can occur.
3. That are thereby subject to potential loss.
a. Elements should have value or importance assigned to them for it to be subject to potential loss.

The UNISDR defines exposure as people, property, systems and other elements present in hazard zones that are
thereby subject to potential loss. (UNISDR, 2009) The term susceptibility is often used to indicate that an
element is exposed to a hazard.

Activity #2: (Group Activity)

 Read the section on Guide Book Session 4: Elements at Risk by Cees van Westen, Nanette Kingma and
Lorena Montoya.
 http://drm.cenn.org/training_materials/Session%2004%20Elements%20at%20risk.pdf
 Answer the following:
o How are elements at risk defined in the above reference?
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o The reference defines systems for classifying elements at risk. In the Philippines, the one used by
the Asian Disaster Preparedness Centers (ADPC) is the one most widely used. In this system,
elements at risk are classified into four types namely: Physical, Societal, Economic and
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Environmental Elements with examples of for each type of element at risk. Can you give at least
three (3) other examples for each type.
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o Based on the reference, what is the difference between tangible and intangible elements at risk?
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o An element that can be quantified but not mapped indicates that its position is not fixed with
time. How does this affect the exposure of this element?
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VI. Suggested Resources

 Learning package found in Genyo.
 Commission on Higher Education. Teaching Guide for Disaster Readiness and Risk Reduction. 2016;
(June).
 https://www.scribd.com/document/367377113/Disaster-Readiness-and-Risk-Reduction
 Government of Trinidad & Tobago. Vulnerability and Risk | Office of Disaster Preparedness and
Management - ODPM. Off Disaster Prep. 2016.
http://www.odpm.gov.tt/node/32%0Ahttp://www.odpm.gov.tt/node/162.

VII. Parent’s/Guardian’s Comments and Suggestions

VIII. Teacher’s Feedback

Prepared by: Noted by:

JEROME NEIL M. DAYRIT __________________________

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Subject Teacher RONALD D. DAVID

OIC – Office of the Principal