After the simulation: Group discussion

Contextual information

After studying natural hazards, and investigating the characteristics of the small island of Montserrat in the Caribbean, students completed a practice simulation prior to this lesson. Set within a large government co-educational school in metropolitan Melbourne, in the lesson under consideration, students are working in teams of five, with each student having an expert role. They have developed an evacuation plan which some teams have colour coded. This sample is taken from the middle of the 85 minute lesson where students are responding to a simulation in which a hurricane approaches Montserrat at the same time as volcanic activity occurs on the island. Heralded by a siren, new data are shown on PowerPoint slides every three minutes. Students analyse the data and decide if they should evacuate the population and if so, where it would be safe to move them. The teacher has told the students that they should not ask him for answers as they are the disaster response team who must make decisions. The teacher ‘found this activity on the Internet’ and has modified it extensively.

1. Lesson summary: Key lesson events
2. Teacher pre-lesson interview segment − 00.01.18 – 00.02.37

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Sample1 27.00-30.02 GEOG16-Mix-TS

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Sample2 51.54 – 53.04 GEOG16-S

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4. Teacher post-lesson interview segment − 00.17.56 –00.20.43 GEOG16-INT-T

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