SUBJECT ENRICHMENT ACTIVITIES

CLASS IX

GUIDELINES FOR PROJECT ON DISASTER MANAGEMENT

Roll No Topic

1- 4 2008 Sichuan earthquake

5-8 2019 and 2020 Australia wildfire
9 - 12 2017 Hurricane Maria
13 - 16 1986 Lake Nyos eruption
17 - 20 2010 Haiti earthquake
21 - 24 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
25 - 28 2023 Turkey-Syria earthquake
29 - 32 1986 The Chernobyl disaster
33 - 36 2010’s Deepwater Horizon incident
37 - 42 1984 Bhopal Gas Tragedy

The presentation should be in digital format and done in the following order:

Acknowledgement
Content
Unit I- Introduction – What is Disaster?
Unit II- What is Disaster management?
Unit III- Students will have to explain any single Disaster assigned to them
(Earthquake, Flood, Drought, Tsunami, land slide)
Unit IV- How disasters affect humans’ life in multiple ways? (Newspaper clippings
related to this topic should be added)
Unit V- Interview your parents, Relatives or Neighbours about their real life experience
of any disasters and document it.
Unit VI- Questionnaire (Sample questions will be given to students. Each student has
to interview 10 people about their understanding of disaster and disaster
management. The answers should only be in yes or no. The survey result should be
compiled in a tabular form.)
Unit VII- Analysis of the survey result using pie diagram, bar graphs or histograms.
Each presentation should have Q no.
Unit VIII- Role of communities in dealing with Disasters.
Unit IX- Disaster management Act 2005.
Unit X- Conclusion
 Questionnaire on Disaster management
1. Is there a disaster management or emergency plan for the area you stay in?
Yes No Don’t know
2. Are there laws or policies that deal with disaster management in your country?
Yes No Don’t know
3. Has the community created its own laws or policies for disaster management?
Yes No Don’t know
4. Have you or your family even been affected by a disaster?
Yes No Don’t know
5. Is there another person in your family who can carry out the emergency plan, apart
from you?
Yes No Don’t know
6. Do you live in an area which is heavily crowded?
Yes No Don’t know
7. Have you ever attended any safety or mock drill in your life?
Yes No Don’t know
8. Are you aware about the Apex body (NDMA) that deals with the disaster
management?
Yes No Don’t know
9. Have you ever spoken to any disaster management representative of your area?
Yes No Don’t know
10. Do you have emergency survival kit at your home?
Yes No Don’t know
11. Have you ever taken any emergency classes for disaster?
Yes No Don’t know
12. Have you ever participated in any community service activity?
Yes No Don’t know
13. Have you ever volunteered to spread awareness about disaster management in your
locality?
Yes No Don’t know