ACTIVITY: Survival 101—What

are disasters?
Instructions:
1. Your facilitator will divide the class into groups with 3 members each. These
groupings will be retained until the final presentation.
2. Your facilitator will assign each group one of the following disasters:
a. Natural Disasters
i. 1990 Baguio Earthquake
ii. 2006 Guinsaugon Landslide
iii. 2004 Phuket, Thailand Tsunami
iv. 1991 Mount Pinatubo Eruption
v. 2013 Typhoon Yolanda
vi. 2013 Haiyan Storm Surge in Tacloban
b. Man-made disasters
i. 2017 Battle of Marawi
ii. 1999 Columbine High School massacre
iii. 2020 Los Angeles Riot
iv. 2011 World Trade Center
3. Make sure that you know the topic assigned to your group.
4. Answer these guide questions individually. This will help you & your group
mates with your research. Focus only on the topic assigned to you:
a. What disaster was assigned to you?
● 1990 Baguio Earthquake
b. What type of disaster was assigned to you?
● Natural Disasters
c. Define in your own words what is that disaster?

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 ● When rock underneath abruptly splits around a fault,
earthquakes are normally induced. The seismic waves that
make the earth quake triggers this unexpected burst of energy.
They stick a little while two blocks of rock or two plates are
rubbing against each other.
d. What causes these to happen?
● A sudden slip on a fault triggers an earthquake. There is an
earthquake as the stress on the edge overcomes the tension
that releases energy into waves that move through the surface
of the earth and cause the shake we experience.
e. What happens during the disaster itself? When giving your
explanation, avoid using words that are too technical or scientific.
Your explanation should be easy enough to be understood by
everyone. It is best to use your own words. You may see an example
of what a non-technical explanation means here.
● As they travel through it, the seismic waves rock the ground,
and as the waves hit the surface of the earth, they shake the
earth and everything on it, including our houses and us!
f. What were the effects of these disasters on people? On the place?
You may research pictures to show the effects of these disasters on
people, and on the place.
● Destruction

g. What did the government and other institutions do to help during

this disaster? Was it effective?

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 ● They give some food to the people who are affected by the
earthquake.
h. Can this disaster happen where you live? Why? Why not?
● Yes, because there’s so many fault lines here and there's a taal
volcano here in batangas.

5. Meet with your group mates in your agreed conference call / video call
platform and discuss your findings.
6. Gather all information from your group mates and use all important data
and information from each one of you in creating your presentation.
7. Check the sample of the presentation that you have to create here.
8. Make sure that you apply the Basic Research Method when conducting
your research. Such research is needed, because this will be the basis for all
the succeeding activities, and introduction part of your Disaster
Preparedness Plan.
9. Properly name your file in this format: Section_LastName_FirstName
(example: D-12AM-1 STEM_HernaezRegina).
10. Once you are done, submit your work in the submission bin posted in your
Google Classroom.

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