MODULE __: UNDERSTANDING COMMON HAZARDS

I. Objectives:

At the end of the module, participants should be able to:

 Differentiate among the common hazards being experienced in the Philippines;

 Enumerate various hazard-specific early warning systems; and
 Discuss the What to Do before, during and after the hazard.

II. Materials

A. Activity and Presentation Materials

1. Powerpoint presentation
2. LCD Projector, laptop and sound system
3. LCD Screen
4. Museum Tickets/Gatepass
5. Metacards
6. Markers and Whiteboard/Manila Paper as scoring sheet for the preliminary activity
7. IEC Materials (Posters, flyers, handouts) needed for the Museum
8. Ribbons, colored papers, and other designing material for the museum
9. 3D props for the museum i.e. mini volcano, landslide, tsunami (if any)
10. Prizes for the winners

B. Preparations Needed

Before the session proper, the following must be prepared for the activity on Mini Museums:

1. Museum Tickets/Gate Pass must be readily available upon giving of prizes after the game.
2. Other necessary handouts, flyers, posters and documents for the museum must already be
reproduced and available for distribution to the participants during their visit to the museums.
3. The three mini museums must be set-up by the management team and respective resource
persons before the session proper starts. That is why, this module must be scheduled either first
in the morning or first in the afternoon.
4. There will be a main facilitator for this module. He/she must be aware and familiarized with the
overall flow of the module. He/she must also ensure that curators (resource persons invited) have
set-up their own museum on-time and appropriately. He/she must also ensure that the curators
are informed of their role in the module to avoid confusion.

III. Time Allotted:

2 hours and 30 minutes (150 minutes)

IV. Facilitator’s Process

1. Preliminary Activity (30 minutes)

DRRM Guessing Game

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For this activity, the participants will be divided into three non- purposive groups. Each group has
a maximum of five minutes to come up with a group name and a cheer, which they will yell during
their group’s turn.

After all groups have their names and cheer, the facilitator shall proceed to explaining the
mechanics of the game using the DRRM Guessing Game PowerPoint presentation. The four
categories are:

1. Everything under the sun – includes general information and definition

related to DRRM.
2. Handa ka na ba? – anything that can used or can be done before a disaster
or an emergency.
3. Pics and Phrases – participants will guess the set of words or phrases based
on the pictures presented
4. Enabling environment – this includes Policies, Frameworks and other
enabling factors to operationalize DRRM in different levels.

The series of questions will be determined through draw lots. Each question will be read twice
and the groups will be given 10 to 15 seconds to discuss and finalize their answers. Upon the
“go” signal of the game master, the group will write their answer on the metacard provided and
raise upon giving the second “go” signal. The group with the highest number of points wins the
game. It has to be noted, however, that corresponding points for each word have been decided
based on the word’s difficulty. The winning group will also have the privilege in the second game,
which will be explained further later.

2. Processing (5 minutes)

To elicit what the participants learned from the game, the facilitator can ask the following
process questions:

 What do you think of the game? Any insight?

 Do you have any idea about its connection to our succeeding activities?

In order to come up with an effective preparedness or response plan, it is very important that we
should first understand the basics of the hazards we are dealing with.

This involves knowing the different characteristics of each hazard and the use of specific early
warning system as well the things to do when these hazards occur (the general things to do by
the public and the things to do as DRRM Coordinators when a particular hazard occur). Upon
knowing all of these will be the starting point for us to prepare as early as now and response
immediately and accordingly.

3. Abstraction and Analysis (90 minutes)

DRRM Mini Museums

“In achieving one of the Key Result Area of DRRMS, the DRRM IS and Research, groups of
selected DRRM coordinators are invited to visit three mini-museums with exhibits about the
common hazards experienced by most schools in the country.”

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The groupings used in the preliminary activity will also be the same groupings for the mini-
museum visits. Each member of the group must have a ticket or passes to enter the museum.
Tickets will be provided after the DRRM Guessing game together with the awarding of prizes.
There will be simultaneous visitation for the groups of participants in the three mini-museum. The
visits will be accompanied by the curators (invited resource persons from PAGASA, MGB and
PHIVOLCS). The exhibits over the following topics:

Topics Concerned Remarks

Agency
Tropical Cyclones PAGASA The discussion will revolve around the
Flood definition of the hazard and its
respective Early Warning System
Storm Surge
(EWS)
Landslides MGB Discussion will include reading hazard
Reading Hazard Maps maps using the Geohazard Web
Portal
Earthquake PHIVOLCS Discussion includes definition and
Volcanic Eruption EWS
Tsunami

Each group has 30 minutes to visit and stay in each mini-museum. The winners from the first
activity have the privilege to choose which museum to visit first. A total of 1 hour & 20 minutes
will be spent in visiting the three museums. This must cover all the presentation of the resource
person and the questions and answer portion.

4. Application Activity (20 minutes)

The groups have the option to choose between hazard enumeration and DRRM story-making in
showcasing what they have learned from this session.

A. Application Activity (First Option)

Hazard Enumeration

For five minutes, each participant will list down all the hazards they know or they are experiencing
in their areas. Identify the corresponding and available early warning system. Given those, they
will also enumerate the preparedness measures or practice they are doing in dealing with the
hazards.

Upon listing down, another five minutes will be given to the group discuss their answers and write
in a manila paper what are the common answers from the group and what are the unique (see
template below). Each group will choose a presenter and will be given 3 minutes to report their
output.

Group XXX
Common Answers
HAZARDS EARLY WARNING SYSTEM PREPAREDNESS MEASURES
1. 1. 1.
2. 2. 2.
…. …. ….
Unique Answers
HAZARDS EARLY WARNING SYSTEM PREPAREDNESS MEASURES

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 1. 1. 1.
2. 2. 2.
…. …. ….

B. Application Activity (Alternative Option)

DRRM Story-Making

The three groups will be given a set of DRRM words and concepts. Each group will have to make
a story by using the words provided. It can be in English, Tagalog or both language. The theme
of the story will be determined through draw lots. It can be a comedy, horror or inspirational. The
story must be at least 1000 words.

HORROR COMEDY INSPIRATIONAL

Disaster Disaster Disaster

DRRM Coordinator DRRM Coordinator DRRM Coordinator
Before, During, After Before, During, After Before, During, After
Earthquake RADaR Typhoon/Super Typhoon
Early Warning System Flood School
Teacher School Head/Principal Learners
Tsunami Volcanic Eruption Storm Surge
MGB Color-coded Landslide
Geologic Hazards PHILVOCS PAGASA
… Forever Hydro-meteorological Hazards
… A thousand years
…

V. Key Learnings (5 minutes)

After this session, participants learned that:

 The various common hazards that we experienced are geological hazards such as
earthquake, liquefaction, volcanic eruption and tsunami; hydro-meteorological
hazards such as different classification of tropical cyclone, storm surge and
flooding and each hazard has its own characteristics and potential impacts.
 There are general things that the public must done before, during and after the
occurrence of a particular hazard, as well as with the things that must be done by
the DRRM Coordinators.
 There are relevant and hazard-specific early warning system which can be utilized
in order to minimize the impacts of the hazards.

VI. References

— Session 7. EWS and MH Planning from World Vision

— Basic Instructor’s Guide for CBDRRM, OCD-JICA
— http://www.gov.ph/crisis-response/government-information-during-natural-disasters/
— www.pagasa.dost.gov.ph
— www.unisdr.org/we/inform/terminology