Students are to open the link on their classroom science
webpage on natural disasters by using Microsoft Access. The database has a set template and blanks for Tsunamis, volcanic
eruptions, cyclones, tornadoes and other natural events. Take not that earthquakes has been done for you. Students are to
research death tolls of natural events and place them in the database. Throughout the year students should add to the database and capture the
information once a natural event has occurred over the year. Students can
determine an average of deaths per natural disaster each year and a total death
toll per year. Students can use the database in order to distinguish the most
detrimental natural event to human life and the natural event with the least
death toll. This tool can be used as a part of a wider topic on natural events
encompassing plate tectonics, components of the universe and the big bang
theory. Students can discuss why death tolls in some events are larger than
other areas, due to the location of disaster or surrounding population. The
database itself can be saved and uploaded to the website and edited as their
will be constant new data which will be inputted once per month.
Outcome 5.9: A
student relates the development of the universe and the dynamic structure of
the Earth to models, theories and laws and the influence of time.
5.9.4 Natural Events:
f) Explain some
impacts of natural events including cyclones, volcanic eruptions and
earthquakes on the atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere and/or biosphere.
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